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bruce bowser <bruce2bowser@gmail.com>: Jan 01 04:14AM -0800 On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 at 11:18:29 AM UTC-4, Fox's Mercantile wrote: > And, as expected reacted exactly as predicted.   > First off though, I'd have to value his opinion before he > could insult me.   No. Historically during the decay of institutions if they aren't too far gone, scape goated minorities have had to play the chameleon for a few extra dollars.

"ohg...@gmail.com" <ohger1s@gmail.com>: Dec 31 09:15AM -0800 > bought the grinder in real time, used it for a couple years, posted a > question about it here and now I have a new cap coming. > Eric   If you get that time machine working, go back to 1964 and tell Ford to use galvanized sheetmetal on the Mustang. Thanks.

Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll>: Dec 31 08:15PM +0100 On 31.12.20 15:48, bruce bowser wrote: >> bought the grinder in real time, used it for a couple years, posted a >> question about it here and now I have a new cap coming.   > Good stuff with orange juice and 2 or 3 banana liquors. I wonder what an 80 year-old gin bottle would fetch today.   How do you teach a gin bottle to fetch?????

RosemontCrest <rosemontcrestwinery@post.com>: Dec 31 03:02PM -0800 On 12/31/2020 11:15 AM, Sjouke Burry wrote:   >> Good stuff with orange juice and 2 or 3 banana liquors. I wonder what >> an 80 year-old gin bottle would fetch today.   > How do you teach a gin bottle to fetch?????   You can't teach an old gin bottle new tricks.

John Robertson <spam@flippers.com>: Dec 31 10:25AM -0800 I'm seeing a number of EOLs on (for us) rather standard pins and plugs!   Digikey just sent me this:   Manufacturer MOLEX, LLC Description CONN 22-30AWG CRIMP TIN Manufacturer Part Number 0008500114 Digi-Key Part Number WM1114-ND Customer Reference Number STOCK Status End Of Life Last Time Buy Date 06/21/2021   You'd think a 50 year old design would just keep going and going...we use a lot of these in repairing arcade games!   John :-#(# -- (Please post followups or tech inquiries to the USENET newsgroup) John's Jukes Ltd. MOVED to #7 - 3979 Marine Way, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5J 5E3 (604)872-5757 (Pinballs, Jukes, Video Games) www.flippers.com "Old pinballers never die, they just flip out."

"peter...@gmail.com" <peterwieck9@gmail.com>: Dec 31 01:21PM -0800 My guess is what is rather a lot for you is probably a few minutes of run for Molex. And tooling up for short runs is no longer economical for a 'just in time' era. Similarly resellers keeping items in stock. Look at your future, and order accordingly. Expect more of this. Manufacturers are learning just how lean they can be, and just how few people they need to survive - and very likely just how sloppy were their operations prior to this crisis. Those jobs are NOT coming back, guys and gals. My guess is that there will be a surge in productivity per worker, but substantially fewer of them.   Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

John Robertson <spam@flippers.com>: Dec 31 10:21AM -0800 On 2020/12/31 2:21 a.m., Mike wrote:   > cat /dev/zero | tr '\000' '\377' | dd of=combined.bin bs=1 count=8192   > Omitting the "if=/dev/zero" takes input from stdin, and tr swaps > 0 for 377 (Octal)/255(Dec)/0xFF(hex)   Nice work!   I wasn't really worried about the speed, more changing FFs to 00s seemed a bit pointless in the grand scheme of things, plus any unused space (FFs) in the EPROM could still be used if the OP needed something else in the future.   Or just erase and start over...which we've all done I'm sure!   John ;-#)#   -- (Please post followups or tech inquiries to the USENET newsgroup) John's Jukes Ltd. MOVED to #7 - 3979 Marine Way, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5J 5E3 (604)872-5757 (Pinballs, Jukes, Video Games) www.flippers.com "Old pinballers never die, they just flip out."

mjb@signal11.invalid (Mike): Dec 31 08:56PM In article <5MidnRQ0y7wJi3PCnZ2dnUU7-TfNnZ2d@giganews.com>, >> are 0xFF (the default blank chip state).   >> Otherwise, there's no speedup there.   >I wasn't really worried about the speed,   Well, some programmers do optimise by "not-programming" 0xFF, which may not make much odds on a decent programmer. I added this step to the custom software for my EPROM programmer which talks over a 4800 baud RS232 serial link, where every byte matters! :)   Same for a "Rapid blank check" (check 1024 bytes spaced through the chip to check if they come up blank) for quick-sorting of blank vs programmed.   >plus any unused space >(FFs) in the EPROM could still be used if the OP needed something else >in the future.   Yes, that's actually a good point -- I've used 27512 parts where I really needed only a 27128 (with two spare high address lines tied to jumpers to ground/pullup resistors) to allow four goes at programming the chip before having to chip-swap or erase!   >Or just erase and start over...which we've all done I'm sure!   Too many times :( -- --------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Mike Brown: mjb[-at-]signal11.org.uk | http://www.signal11.org.uk

bruce bowser <bruce2bowser@gmail.com>: Dec 31 01:07PM -0800 On Tuesday, August 4, 2020 at 5:41:10 PM UTC-4, Trevor Wilson wrote:   > **Don't forget the most terrifying ones:   > 87% believe in the existence of God. > 62,979,879 Americans voted for Trump. [Shakes head]   After Nov 2020, it was at 74.2 million but then Biden had something for 'em.

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