On 2016-11-16, Larry Jaques wrote:
On 16 Nov 2016 05:39:30 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote:
On 2016-11-15, Larry Jaques wrote:
On 15 Nov 2016 03:01:39 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote:
On 2016-11-14, Larry Jaques wrote:
On 14 Nov 2016 03:11:36 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote:
[ ... ]
Yep -- 80=90 VAC 20 Hz (or 20 CPS in the old days. :-)
Yeah, I grew up with Cycles Per Second, too.
Or -- for short, '~' on some data plates. :-)
Right. I had forgotten those. That's probably how it ended up on the
QWERTY keyboard in the first place. I use it now to approximate.
Maybe -- but it also belongs above certain letters in Spanish
and Portuguese to modify the pronunciation. Spanish it is 'n' and 'ñ'
(pronounced "ennye".
I had to learn those (Alt-0139 originally, it changed with different
fonts) early on since I tossed French, Spanish, and German words in my
BBS posts very early on.
And any idea what they looked like on other systems reading
from your BBS? I tended to avoid anything outside the 7-bit ASCII
character set just so everyone would see the same thing. (I also stick
with fixed-pitch fonts for the same reason -- very helpful when posting
ASCII graphics. You can never bet what the proportional pitch fonts
will do to graphcs -- even if you post in a proportional pitch font.
The character width play games between systems and fonts. :-)
I would probably have been reading BBS postings with either an
ASR-33 Teletype, or a Lear Seigler ADM-3A CRT -- both very fixed pitch
fonts, and no choices to change fonts. :-)
I'm not quite sure what the effect of it being
over an 'a' is in Portuguese. :-)
Maybe it's pronounced with a Suthuhn accent "ayund" The-yus a-yund
tha-yat. :-/
"São" as in "São Paulo" in Brazil. I sort of guess at something
like "saaao" (sort of a stretched "sow") but I am probably way off.
I'll have to ask my neighbor -- she is from Brazil.
[ ... ]
I didn't have wheels back then -- or a MGA, which really did not
have the creature comforts for properly enjoying a drive-in. :-)
A friend drove us to work in a floor-holey MGTD one winter. Granted,
SoCal ain't frozen tundra, but it was a mite chilly. I wouldn't have
considered it a model car for the drive-in, either, despite the vast
advances and upgrades from your MGA. 
Huh? The TC and TD (as well as the TF) all preceded the MGA.
Only the MGB and MGC (MGB with a 6 cylinder engine instead of the
traditional 4 cylinder one.
Oh, I didn't know that. So, did the Brits start with an MGZ?
The sports cars were not all of their line. I think the sedans
at the time of the MGA were the "PB", but I'm not sure.
They were all evil, sporting that Prince of Darkness symbol on their
electrical systems, so I didn't follow them. (Yes, "Lucas")
Actually -- things were pretty good for the MGA -- other than
the electric fuel pump, which was *not* Lucas, but rather "SU" -- same
people who made the carbs. :-)
The T series cars were all rather boxy, with the MG-TF the least
so (the headlights were faired in the the fenders (wings) in the TF,
while they were in bullets above the fenders in the earlier ones.
The MGA was the first of the swoopy body designs for the sports
cars, and I always thought looked nicer than the MGB line.
(googling to refresh memory) My dad ran an Austin Healey 100/4 in
gymkhanas and autocrosses in me yout. I grew up/teethed on tuning his
spoked wheels. They were quite similar to the MGA, wot?
The Healy (at least the one which I knew) was a six-cylinder one
otherwise similar to the MGA. More HP, but also a much heavier engine,
and the weight of the engine was a big part of the overall weight of the
car. On the MGA, the floorboards were plywood.
I think I prefer the look of the MGB, and the performance of a Sunbeam
Tiger, a Shelby Cobra, or the lines and performance of a McLaren P1
GTR, TYVM. vbg
I started with a 1500 CC MGA (my father's car left when he moved
with a job up to New York City, where car ownership was prohibitive
anyway). From that (after an accident) to a Hudson Hornet, and from
that to a MGA 1600 Mk II (1622 CC). Later in its life, I swapped in an
1800 CC engine from a MGB, and I think that was peppier than the Austin
Healy.
It was certainly fun to drive, anyway. :-)
My sister had a 1973 BLMC MGB GT. (say that 3 times real fast)
O.K. IIRC, the GT models were ones with a hardtop, but I may be
wrong.
Yes, as was my first car, a '57 Chebby BelAir 4-dr Hardtop.
O.K. I really liked the convertible nature of the MGA, though
there was a model which was hardtop -- I never had that. I also once
saw at an autocross a MGA Twin Cam (original 1500 CC engine, but with a
different head -- dual overhead cams, and higher compression. That was
impressive -- except that it was hard to keep con rods in it. :-(
Enjoy,
DoN.
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