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[oosik]

It make me happy to see that our avatars are of good times and memories. I grew up in a small town where timber and lumber were king - Omak, WA. I can still hear the roar of the Jake brakes as a loaded log truck rounded the corner and came down Main St. One left turn - over the bridge on the Okanogan river - Biles-Coleman lumber mill was in sight.

I'm sure that the rattle of the Jake brakes, like my turn-out straight pipes on my Harley - irritated some. That sound and you know exactly what is coming - you NEVER pulled out ahead of a log truck. In all my years in Omak - there never was an accident involving a log truck. My Harley has brought many a driver to full attention as I passed by.

 

[bunyip]

Finally put one up, my mentor, well, one of them...

 

[B7510HSD]

Wow! Does that bring back memories that I had just about forgotten!
I was a system manager for an HP1000 running under HP RTE-IVB,
and the disc drive was very similar and one of those disc packs held
a whoppin 25 MB of data if my memory serves me right (and it doesn't
always do that - memory that is).

Getting back to the original thread, my user id came from a sign that
my dad had on his camp in Enfield NH from about 1945 until 2008.
He purchased some land at the end of a road by Crystal Lake and
than moved a small hunting shack that he bought onto the land.
Since it was the last camp on that road at the time, he made a sign
with 'Trails End' on it and hung it from the porch by the roadl When
he passed in 2008, I was cleaning out his house and found the sign
in the cellar, still in good shape but faded a bit. I cleaned it up and
repainted it with the same colors that he had used, and it now hangs
on the front of my garage.
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That photo was taken in February of 2014. No snow here at the moment,
just bare ground.

Nice looking Yagi on that tower!!

 

[Trails End]

Nice looking Yagi on that tower!!

That antenna is a Tennadyne T6 six element log periodic - a great antenna covering
20, 17,15,12 and 10 meter amateur bands.

 

[B7510HSD]

That antenna is a Tennadyne T6 six element log periodic - a great antenna covering
20, 17,15,12 and 10 meter amateur bands.

Nice Log periodic are great antenna's!!!

 

[MossRoad]

I have thousands of hours keyboarding on those exact DEC terminals. We bought tons of them surplus to use in every PBX installation as input/output terminals They would sit there for years without incident 24/7/365 spitting out the error codes and traffic from the PBX and ready for you programming input. Just change the ribbons once in a while, and keep it fed with fanfold paper, and you were good to go at 300 baud!.

We had DEC service contracts on all of our DEC hardware. Man, that was GREAT service! :thumbsup: Then they got bought out by Compaq. Compaq bought DEC to get ahold of their RAID array technology and service network. Then they had to let go most of DEC's service techs, and down the tubes they went and HP ate them.

 

[goeduck]

We had DEC service contracts on all of our DEC hardware. Man, that was GREAT service! :thumbsup: Then they got bought out by Compaq. Compaq bought DEC to get ahold of their RAID array technology and service network. Then they had to let go most of DEC's service techs, and down the tubes they went and HP ate them.

Amazing how many times this scenario has happened in US businesses.

 

[dodge man]

Weird I have what I thought was an ivory cribbage board. Maybe it is an Oosik?

My first computer experience was in high school, probably 1979. It was very cutting edge. We wrote programs on computer cards in basic to do very simple things. We also had an early computer game called kingdom, where you had to feed the people, plant crops etc. After every year it would tell you if your population grew, people died, or they all hated you and overthrew you. All the feed back was threw a type writer style keyboard and printer with the little ball that had the letters on it. Very slow by todays standards.

 

[oosik]

Hmmm......could be there, Dodge Man. Generally speaking - ivory is cream colored - - an oosik is light to light medium grey.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

Never thought I would "come out." I have a General class license. And my wife does as well.

I have been picking away at the technician's class book for a year or so. Sooner or later, I will take the test.