On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 12:58:41 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sat, 19 Nov 2016 06:47:01 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
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DoN. Nichols wrote:

On 2016-11-18, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On 18 Nov 2016 04:09:34 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"


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. :-)

Was that one of the old green 3" CRTs? g

Nope! a B&W CRT about 12" diagonal. 80x24 characters.
(Actually, as built from a kit it was 80x12 characters, and
needed
extra
ram to get to the 24 line capability. It was also all upper
case,
until
an extra character generator ROM was installed, and an extra RAM
to
store the case-selection bit from the ASCII set.


I still have an ADM-3 terminal, along with some color Tektronix
terminals. None have been used in over 15 years.

I still have my ASR-33 for the post-EMP Internet.

Do you think they'll survive it? I guess the ASR-33 may, because
they
are purely mechanical with NO switches. Not so, the ADM-3.

The button on the print hammer softens from homebrew ink so I made a
mold to hot-press replacements from scrap rubber. When a drop of 60/40
solder on the outside melts the mold is hot enough.

Does rubber remelt OK? Thinking back, I don't recall ever even trying
it. It wasn't a preferred maker material as I was growing up, IIRC.


I bought extra dozens of 5x8 and 8.5x11 lined note pads for post-EMP
times. Those and extra mechanical pencils. They could double as
gifts from the primitive race to the aliens in exchange for an
AutoDoc
and a ton of medical nannites, whenever that happens.

Tomorrow's kids won't know how to use them.

I doubt that today's kids do, either. sigh


I'm hoarding butane lighters. While hiking I found a rusted one in the
water at the edge of a pond, plucked it out and it LIT!

That's amazing. Usually, a wet flint/striker combo won't work at all.
I couldn't believe it when I was reading the survival group info so I
tried it to prove it to myself. I couldn't get a wet one to work
until it was quite dry.

--
I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you
have earned, but it is not greed to want take someone else's money.
--Thomas Sowell