WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to JAMES BRADLEY, "Tap tap tap..."

 -> that through a floppy
 -> panel. Nothing a Dremel couldn't fix. 

 WC> My kind of tinkering.

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 ->  -> Figured as much. My Spaniel-Terrier had a busted tenon
 -> [...]
 -> was like a cinder block on four legs.

 WC> And you think a Pit Bull isn't 

I said *a* cinder block, not three or four.  As a terrier, he wouldn't
always listen if he wanted to stay where he was. I had to pull a few tricks on
him to teach him the importance of listening to what I said. (He was often
off-leash while I was landscaping in the front yard.) When I started to walk
away, he knew that meant he might be left on his own, and would charge after
me. Quite a few times, he would clip the back of my knee with his shoulder, and
pass me while I was on my way to the dirt. I had to laugh every time, as even
as an old man, he put the effort into it quite heartily.

 WC> You can do baked potatoes in a pressure cooker in 30 minute
 WC> that'll fall apart at the touch of a fork.
 WC> Energy efficient too, high heat for a few minutes until
 WC> pressure builds, turn it way back down than depressurise with
 WC> the burner off when done and you're good to go.
 WC> I like the Presto brand for their fail safe safety system.
 WC> Never had a problem with one.

Here, we are rather hight in altitude, so cooking anything takes longer unless
we use a pressure cooker. Presto... What sort of release valve (Suspecting this
is what you speak of.) do they use? Dad has one that uses a bobbling weight. I
always though that was a pretty foolproof way to do it.

 WC> Same here, standing preferable to sitting but neither is much
 WC> fun.

...And how many times do you have to refuse an offer of a seat? If I take a
seat, I have to at least take the weight on my left elbow, so that makes
anything less than a love-seat trying. Few tend to "Get it."

 ->  WC> Bet I'm harder to fit than you, size 15's 
 -> You'd have to custom order then?

 WC> Used to buy from King Size Corp in Brockton Mass but now
 WC> they're available in many shops.
 WC> Got the last two pair at Payless.

What a relief for you, then. They would tease a fellow in my home-town that he
was size 13 in grade 9. His nickname was "Finish" as they
finished the footwear
lines at size thirteen, IMS.
 ->  ->  WC> Saw a B&W LASER printer somewhere for 200 new.

 WC> I think it's a real printer that does postscript, if it does
 WC> that it'll do DOS and Linux.

Last time the LED was warming up here, it taxed the UPS so much it overheated
the gel-cell. Have to pull out an extension cord next time I wire it up. The
lit tells me not to plug a laser/LED printer into a UPS of  Well, we tend to owe a great thanks to Bill Gates
 -> really. If it wasn't for the
 -> Blue Screen of Death, we might NEVER upgrade. [-;

 WC> Seen the last of that, thanks Linus T.

Just had another Windows box go down on me. Funny thing is, I was slating it to
go to a dual-boot, and had just come home with two copies of Fedora to do it
with. Coincidence... I say MS detected the proximity of a *NIX, and scrambled
the FAT! 

 -> Hitachi. The other is an NEC.

 WC> Hitachi is well made, I'll spare you my views on NEC.

Ya, the "Multi-Sync" was all the rage off the shelf, but try to
fix one... One
Multi-Sync here is suffering from only a loose connection at the plug end, the
next is a real quandary as to why the V. refresh is outa step, and the 21"
seems fine. The 21" is an older one though, so I suspect it'll be an easier
troubleshoot to reverse engineer.
 WC> Hit, might be worth the effort to remove the case and see if
 WC> the foam pad on the back of the circuit board mounted CRT
 WC> socket is distorting the shield. ( caused lethal shorts)
 WC> I lost one that way but cut the pad in half on the second
 WC> saving it. You'll need a long reach phillips screw driver.

Never had any yoke problems to date. You say that the High Tension was arching
to the case? That could be lethal, no? (Oh, I just re-read the above.) But
isn't it the red wire directly attached to the tube, with the rubber boot? Just
what I need, another thing to be paranoid about. 

The cases: I've found quite the difference between vintages. (I suspect that's
what the long Phillips would be for?) As the age of the machine approaches the
current, the disassembly gets more difficult exponentially.

... Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.
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