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GE stops making its iconic bulb in the U.S.
http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...conic-bulb-in/
-- Bill In Hamptonburgh, NY In the original Orange County. Est. 1683 To email, remove the double zeroes after @ |
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On 10/1/2010 12:10 PM, willshak wrote:
http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...conic-bulb-in/ Also look at the link the http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/po...103727674.html GE pushed for the legislation for bulbs and are sending production to Mexico and China. I would think that bulb making would be highly automated, a job that could have stayed here with our higher worker wages. For those that think we should buy American, look at GE. |
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On 2010-10-01, Frank wrote:
Mexico and China. I would think that bulb making would be highly automated, a job that could have stayed here with our higher worker wages. Sure, pal! I think Rusk should be able to dump his old car crankcase oil in the storm drain, throw his broken tv's and refrigerators on the side of the road, and burn witches at the stake. fortunately, not everyone is equally as stupid. While I have few illusions about GEs motives, the end result is for the better and allowing ppl to adhere to outdated energy wasting technologies does us no good in the long run. Rusk wants to make his own incandescent light bulb, no one is stopping him. Edison did it. But, supplying the lazy self-indulgent masses with highly detrimental technologies, like polluting cars, should not be allowed jes cuz it may preserve someone's freedom of choice. nb |
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notbob wrote the following:
On 2010-10-01, Frank wrote: Mexico and China. I would think that bulb making would be highly automated, a job that could have stayed here with our higher worker wages. Sure, pal! I think Rusk should be able to dump his old car crankcase oil in the storm drain, throw his broken tv's and refrigerators on the side of the road, and burn witches at the stake. fortunately, not everyone is equally as stupid. I strain my dirty crankcase oil and pour it in my household fuel oil tank. I also dump my old TVs and other items on the side of the road, but only twice a year in the spring and fall. The highway department picks them up in their regularly scheduled cleanup program. Which reminds me, I have to get the stuff out before next week, so the 'pickers' get first dibs on it.. While I have few illusions about GEs motives, the end result is for the better and allowing ppl to adhere to outdated energy wasting technologies does us no good in the long run. Rusk wants to make his own incandescent light bulb, no one is stopping him. Edison did it. But, supplying the lazy self-indulgent masses with highly detrimental technologies, like polluting cars, should not be allowed jes cuz it may preserve someone's freedom of choice. nb -- Bill In Hamptonburgh, NY In the original Orange County. Est. 1683 To email, remove the double zeroes after @ |
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"Frank" wrote in message ... On 10/1/2010 12:10 PM, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...conic-bulb-in/ Also look at the link the http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/po...103727674.html GE pushed for the legislation for bulbs and are sending production to Mexico and China. I would think that bulb making would be highly automated, a job that could have stayed here with our higher worker wages. For those that think we should buy American, look at GE. what would edison do? |
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WWED. That's profound. I think he would reccomend lower taxes, and a
severe reduction in the government meddling. -- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "Bob Sauerbraugh" wrote in message ... For those that think we should buy American, look at GE. what would edison do? |
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On 2010-10-01, Bob Sauerbraugh wrote:
what would edison do? Lie like a rug and screw everyone within a 5 mile radius. nb |
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"A. Baum" wrote in message news On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...an-light-bulb- ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/ I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day. I really doubt it. The CFLs keep getting better and they are cheaper to operate. Keeping your head in the sand is your option though. How is that 8088 computer working for you? DOS makes it so simple to use. |
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On 10/2/2010 7:52 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
"A. Baum" wrote in message news On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...an-light-bulb- ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/ I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day. I really doubt it. The CFLs keep getting better and they are cheaper to operate. Keeping your head in the sand is your option though. How is that 8088 computer working for you? DOS makes it so simple to use. Hey! Watch your mouth! I still have one of those over in the corner, there. (Really need to light it up some day, and see if the hard drive still spins...) -- aem sends... |
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On 10/2/2010 6:30 AM, A. Baum wrote:
On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...an-light-bulb- ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/ I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day. The light bulb police will show up and confiscate them. Just wait and see, someday a neighbor or brainwashed family member will turn you in. TDD |
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On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:30:31 +0000 (UTC), A. Baum wrote:
On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...an-light-bulb- ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/ I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day. Do you have room? Isn't your investment storage unit filled to the ceiling with CRT monitors/tvs, phonograph players, betamax vcrs, and circuit city divx players? |
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On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:49:57 -0400, aemeijers wrote:
On 10/2/2010 7:52 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote: "A. Baum" wrote in message news On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...an-light-bulb- ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/ I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day. I really doubt it. The CFLs keep getting better and they are cheaper to operate. Keeping your head in the sand is your option though. How is that 8088 computer working for you? DOS makes it so simple to use. Hey! Watch your mouth! I still have one of those over in the corner, there. (Really need to light it up some day, and see if the hard drive still spins...) wanna buy a 56K modem for it? I still have a 56K *real* (not winmodem) ISA modem. Looks like I should have put it up for sale while it was still worth anything. |
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On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:17:33 -0500, The Daring Dufas wrote:
On 10/2/2010 6:30 AM, A. Baum wrote: On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...an-light-bulb- ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/ I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day. The light bulb police will show up and confiscate them. Just wait and see, someday a neighbor or brainwashed family member will turn you in. The DEA cops will see his unreasonable electric bill on a database query and bust down his doors thinking he's growing weed. |
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AZ Nomad wrote:
wanna buy a 56K modem for it? I still have a 56K *real* (not winmodem) ISA modem. Looks like I should have put it up for sale while it was still worth anything. I've still got a 9600 baud USR modem, serial connection. Well, I did, but it went to the dump a few months ago during one of the purges. Still have a 28.8 hardware faxmodem around here somewhere, though. Shame it won't work on my Comcast phone line, though. *******s. Jon |
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AZ Nomad wrote:
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:30:31 +0000 (UTC), A. Baum wrote: On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...an-light-bulb- ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/ I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day. Do you have room? Isn't your investment storage unit filled to the ceiling with CRT monitors/tvs, phonograph players, betamax vcrs, and circuit city divx players?\ All joking aside, I am seriously considering stockpiling at least 100 boxes of bulbs. Probably get 70 boxes of 60W, 30 boxes of 40W. That'd give me 400 bulbs, for about a hundred bucks. Should last the rest of my life. Would take a bit of space to store them, though. I wonder how they would do in an attic? Jon |
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On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 14:41:54 +0000 (UTC), A. Baum wrote:
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:10:01 -0500, AZ Nomad wrote: On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:30:31 +0000 (UTC), A. Baum wrote: On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...an-light-bulb- ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/ I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day. Do you have room? Isn't your investment storage unit filled to the ceiling with CRT monitors/tvs, phonograph players, betamax vcrs, and circuit city divx players? I'll build a pole building with 20 foot tall electric fences covered with razor wire. Yeah, but you're still using DC. Being 1/2 mile from the power plant is expensive. |
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On 10/2/2010 9:41 AM, Jon Danniken wrote:
AZ Nomad wrote: On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:30:31 +0000 (UTC), A. wrote: On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...an-light-bulb- ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/ I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day. Do you have room? Isn't your investment storage unit filled to the ceiling with CRT monitors/tvs, phonograph players, betamax vcrs, and circuit city divx players?\ All joking aside, I am seriously considering stockpiling at least 100 boxes of bulbs. Probably get 70 boxes of 60W, 30 boxes of 40W. That'd give me 400 bulbs, for about a hundred bucks. Should last the rest of my life. Would take a bit of space to store them, though. I wonder how they would do in an attic? Jon i think they'd do just fine. I'm stacking mine on shelves in the barn. I figger about 2020, they'll be worth about $5 a piece or more on ebay. -- Steve Barker remove the "not" from my address to email |
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On Oct 2, 7:49*am, aemeijers wrote:
On 10/2/2010 7:52 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote: "A. Baum" wrote in message news On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...an-light-bulb- ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/ I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day. I really doubt it. The CFLs keep getting better and they are cheaper to operate. Keeping your head in the sand is your option though. How is that 8088 computer working for you? DOS makes it so simple to use. Hey! Watch your mouth! I still have one of those over in the corner, there. (Really need to light it up some day, and see if the hard drive still spins...) -- aem sends... I have a original IBM PC AND a VCR, will make someone a real deal if they want 1 or both |
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On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:49:57 -0400, aemeijers
wrote: On 10/2/2010 7:52 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote: "A. Baum" wrote in message news On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...an-light-bulb- ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/ I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day. I really doubt it. The CFLs keep getting better and they are cheaper to operate. Keeping your head in the sand is your option though. How is that 8088 computer working for you? DOS makes it so simple to use. Hey! Watch your mouth! I still have one of those over in the corner, there. (Really need to light it up some day, and see if the hard drive still spins...) I've got four 1/4 meg RAM sticks, would they fit or is your RAM built on-board.. G |
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A. Baum wrote the following:
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:05:38 -0700, gnu / linux wrote: On Oct 2, 7:49 am, aemeijers wrote: On 10/2/2010 7:52 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote: "A. Baum" wrote in message news On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...merican-light- bulb- ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/ I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day. I really doubt it. The CFLs keep getting better and they are cheaper to operate. Keeping your head in the sand is your option though. How is that 8088 computer working for you? DOS makes it so simple to use. Hey! Watch your mouth! I still have one of those over in the corner, there. (Really need to light it up some day, and see if the hard drive still spins...) -- aem sends... I have a original IBM PC AND a VCR, will make someone a real deal if they want 1 or both BAH! I own 2 working IBM PS/1 models. An Everex 286, a DEC terminal, a working Sony Betamax and a working Atari 2600 so there neener neener I have a Commodore 64 stored away. But the earliest video game player I have stored away is a Magnavox Odyssey video game console still in its original box That was the one where a clear plastic sheet was placed over the TV screen for various video games, like "Pong" and skiing. Very primative compared to now, but real fun when first introduced back in 1972. -- Bill In Hamptonburgh, NY In the original Orange County. Est. 1683 To email, remove the double zeroes after @ |
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willshak wrote: I have a Commodore 64 stored away. I still use my TI 99-4A from time to time. I like to hear the guy from the mountain climbing game scream when one of the boulders hit him (g). But the earliest video game player I have stored away is a Magnavox Odyssey video game console still in its original box That was the one where a clear plastic sheet was placed over the TV screen for various video games, like "Pong" and skiing. My first one was the original Pong game with the controller you both had to use. Very primative compared to now, but real fun when first introduced back in 1972. -- I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS. Robert Bakker, paleontologist |
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A. Baum wrote the following:
On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...an-light-bulb- ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/ I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day. Just like in the liquor prohibition age, organized crime will take over the trafficking of illegal incands. The gubmint will have to create a new anti-crime force, the Bulb Enforcement Agency, or BEA. -- Bill In Hamptonburgh, NY In the original Orange County. Est. 1683 To email, remove the double zeroes after @ |
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On 2010-10-02, willshak wrote:
That was the one where a clear plastic sheet was placed over the TV Winky-Dink!? nb |
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On 10/2/2010 10:11 AM, AZ Nomad wrote:
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:49:57 -0400, wrote: On 10/2/2010 7:52 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote: "A. wrote in message news On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...an-light-bulb- ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/ I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day. I really doubt it. The CFLs keep getting better and they are cheaper to operate. Keeping your head in the sand is your option though. How is that 8088 computer working for you? DOS makes it so simple to use. Hey! Watch your mouth! I still have one of those over in the corner, there. (Really need to light it up some day, and see if the hard drive still spins...) wanna buy a 56K modem for it? I still have a 56K *real* (not winmodem) ISA modem. Looks like I should have put it up for sale while it was still worth anything. Chuckle. That is why I never bothered to sell it. Kaypro suitcase machine, which was actually born as an 8086, but I upgraded to a V20, maxed out the ram when I found a card at a hamfest, replaced one of the 360 5.25" floppies with a then state-of-the art 720 3.5", and even found a way to shoe-horn an MFM 10mb hard drive in there. Pretty hot stuff in 1986. By 1990, not worth a damn thing on the open market, and it had enough sentimental value to me, that as long as I have a spare corner, I'll keep it. If my 4 YO niece gets into computers when she grows up, maybe I'll stick her with it, to eventually show to HER kids. All my later computers of the 286/386/486/early pentium era are long gone, but you always have a soft spot for the first one you played with the guts of. No room inside for a modem, by the way. I used a 1200 external with it, and my first cable was rat shack ribbon cable, paper clips, and masking tape. Kaypro did NOT use a standard cable for their serial port, and it took me months to find where to order one. But the damn thing did come with full docs, just like the test equipment that was obviously the source of the parts they used. Very 'old school' inside. Even has an external fuse socket on the back, just like an old stereo amp. -- aem sends... |
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On 10/2/2010 12:59 PM, Oren wrote:
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:49:57 -0400, wrote: On 10/2/2010 7:52 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote: "A. wrote in message news On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...an-light-bulb- ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/ I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day. I really doubt it. The CFLs keep getting better and they are cheaper to operate. Keeping your head in the sand is your option though. How is that 8088 computer working for you? DOS makes it so simple to use. Hey! Watch your mouth! I still have one of those over in the corner, there. (Really need to light it up some day, and see if the hard drive still spins...) I've got four 1/4 meg RAM sticks, would they fit or is your RAM built on-board..G Individual socketed chips, 9 chips per bank. Max 640k, once you found the daughter board that fit in an ISA slot. Remember those long plastic tubes the chips came in? I still have a couple full tubes stashed at work, leftover visual aids from a class I used to teach once a year. Some idiot threw out all the later memory chips, and the CPUs, that went with it. I used to set them up on the front table in timeline fashion, to explain Moore's law to these non-techies, and how the hardware they were supporting for end-users had changed. Some of those later 486 and early pentium chips could have been made into jewelry- those rows of gold-plated pins were downright pretty. -- aem sends... |
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On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 17:25:51 +0000 (UTC), A. Baum wrote:
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:29:05 -0500, AZ Nomad wrote: On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 14:41:54 +0000 (UTC), A. Baum wrote: On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 09:10:01 -0500, AZ Nomad wrote: On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:30:31 +0000 (UTC), A. Baum wrote: On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...merican-light- bulb- ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/ I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day. Do you have room? Isn't your investment storage unit filled to the ceiling with CRT monitors/tvs, phonograph players, betamax vcrs, and circuit city divx players? I'll build a pole building with 20 foot tall electric fences covered with razor wire. Yeah, but you're still using DC. Being 1/2 mile from the power plant is expensive. There is a company in Japan that builds atomic powered AC generators down to about one megawatt. I'll sell the bulbs and buy one. Wait,, if I sell the bulbs I won't need AC. Nah. Go with a diesel generator, if you're sticking to 19th century technology. |
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On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:52:32 -0400, aemeijers
wrote: On 10/2/2010 12:59 PM, Oren wrote: On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:49:57 -0400, wrote: On 10/2/2010 7:52 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote: "A. wrote in message news On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...an-light-bulb- ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/ I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day. I really doubt it. The CFLs keep getting better and they are cheaper to operate. Keeping your head in the sand is your option though. How is that 8088 computer working for you? DOS makes it so simple to use. Hey! Watch your mouth! I still have one of those over in the corner, there. (Really need to light it up some day, and see if the hard drive still spins...) I've got four 1/4 meg RAM sticks, would they fit or is your RAM built on-board..G Individual socketed chips, 9 chips per bank. Max 640k, once you found the daughter board that fit in an ISA slot. Remember those long plastic tubes the chips came in? I still have a couple full tubes stashed at work, leftover visual aids from a class I used to teach once a year. Some idiot threw out all the later memory chips, and the CPUs, that went with it. I used to set them up on the front table in timeline fashion, to explain Moore's law to these non-techies, and how the hardware they were supporting for end-users had changed. Some of those later 486 and early pentium chips could have been made into jewelry- those rows of gold-plated pins were downright pretty. I've opened plenty of the "old machines" and marveled at them. Seems like the hard drives weighed 10 lbs. and would make a good door stop. Never started working PC's until the 286, just before the 386. Been building my own machines ever since. I've seen different items made from parts. Peoples imagination can be funny. Here are two "bugs". http://www.snipe.net/wp-content/uplo...09/10/bugs.jpg |
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"Jon Danniken" wrote All joking aside, I am seriously considering stockpiling at least 100 boxes of bulbs. Probably get 70 boxes of 60W, 30 boxes of 40W. That'd give me 400 bulbs, for about a hundred bucks. Should last the rest of my life. Would take a bit of space to store them, though. I wonder how they would do in an attic? Jon It will work, but makes no sense at all. I'd have agreed with you some years ago, but I've been changing to CFL and like the light output now. Not the sickly green of the past. And they save energy. If you get rid of your old notions and try new bulbs, you may be surprised. |
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On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 09:05:38 -0700 (PDT), "gnu / linux"
wrote: On Oct 2, 7:49*am, aemeijers wrote: On 10/2/2010 7:52 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote: "A. Baum" wrote in message news On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...an-light-bulb- ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/ I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day. I really doubt it. The CFLs keep getting better and they are cheaper to operate. Keeping your head in the sand is your option though. How is that 8088 computer working for you? DOS makes it so simple to use. Hey! Watch your mouth! I still have one of those over in the corner, there. (Really need to light it up some day, and see if the hard drive still spins...) -- aem sends... I have a original IBM PC AND a VCR, will make someone a real deal if they want 1 or both I have an original ("first day order") PC with expansion unit (with a whopping 10MB disk drive) and a "new" VCR. |
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GE stops making its iconic bulb in the U.S.
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 21:21:04 -0400, aemeijers wrote:
On 10/2/2010 8:57 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote: On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 09:05:38 -0700 (PDT), "gnu / wrote: On Oct 2, 7:49 am, wrote: On 10/2/2010 7:52 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote: "A. wrote in message news On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...an-light-bulb- ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/ I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day. I really doubt it. The CFLs keep getting better and they are cheaper to operate. Keeping your head in the sand is your option though. How is that 8088 computer working for you? DOS makes it so simple to use. Hey! Watch your mouth! I still have one of those over in the corner, there. (Really need to light it up some day, and see if the hard drive still spins...) -- aem sends... I have a original IBM PC AND a VCR, will make someone a real deal if they want 1 or both I have an original ("first day order") PC with expansion unit (with a whopping 10MB disk drive) and a "new" VCR. Hey, vcrs still have their place. Lotsa old movies for a quarter each at garage sales. I think I still have 3 of them, but haven't lit them up in at least a year. That's why we bought one. SWMBO has a number of titles for which there is no DVD. Somewhere, I still have one of those back plates to convert a 5-slot case from the original PC, into an 8? slot case so a modern motherboard would fit in it. Retro-PC look? ;-) |
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On 10/2/2010 5:20 PM, Oren wrote:
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:52:32 -0400, wrote: On 10/2/2010 12:59 PM, Oren wrote: On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:49:57 -0400, wrote: On 10/2/2010 7:52 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote: "A. wrote in message news On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...an-light-bulb- ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/ I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day. I really doubt it. The CFLs keep getting better and they are cheaper to operate. Keeping your head in the sand is your option though. How is that 8088 computer working for you? DOS makes it so simple to use. Hey! Watch your mouth! I still have one of those over in the corner, there. (Really need to light it up some day, and see if the hard drive still spins...) I've got four 1/4 meg RAM sticks, would they fit or is your RAM built on-board..G Individual socketed chips, 9 chips per bank. Max 640k, once you found the daughter board that fit in an ISA slot. Remember those long plastic tubes the chips came in? I still have a couple full tubes stashed at work, leftover visual aids from a class I used to teach once a year. Some idiot threw out all the later memory chips, and the CPUs, that went with it. I used to set them up on the front table in timeline fashion, to explain Moore's law to these non-techies, and how the hardware they were supporting for end-users had changed. Some of those later 486 and early pentium chips could have been made into jewelry- those rows of gold-plated pins were downright pretty. I've opened plenty of the "old machines" and marveled at them. Seems like the hard drives weighed 10 lbs. and would make a good door stop. Never started working PC's until the 286, just before the 386. Been building my own machines ever since. I've seen different items made from parts. Peoples imagination can be funny. Here are two "bugs". http://www.snipe.net/wp-content/uplo...09/10/bugs.jpg Do you remember the old ads for mainframes where artists made whole sets of animals out of discrete components? http://www.dvq.com/ads/honeywell_dm_4-70.jpg http://www.dvq.com/ads/honeywell_115_dm_4_70.jpg http://www.dvq.com/ads/acm/honeywell_acm_72.pdf Found at: http://www.dvq.com/oldcomp/oldads.htm TDD |
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: That's why we bought one. SWMBO has a number of titles for which there is no DVD. I believe there are places that transfer tapes to DVDs. you get a better life out of a DVD,I believe,because tape suffers from print-thru,each play degrades it a little bit,it accumulates over time. since this is for personal use,you don't have any copyright violations. there are even VCR/DVD recorder/players,that can do the transfer. -- Jim Yanik jyanik at localnet dot com |
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Jim Yanik wrote: " wrote in : That's why we bought one. SWMBO has a number of titles for which there is no DVD. I believe there are places that transfer tapes to DVDs. you get a better life out of a DVD,I believe,because tape suffers from print-thru,each play degrades it a little bit,it accumulates over time. since this is for personal use,you don't have any copyright violations. there are even VCR/DVD recorder/players,that can do the transfer. For personal use, yes, I think you can do the transfer yourself if you can get past the copy protection scheme. But as far as hiring a service provider to do it, I don't think so. I have a friend who owns a video transfer service, and he legally has to limit it to home movies. |
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On 2010-10-03, A. Baum wrote:
You can buy any one of several popular combo units that will dub back and forth. I own a Sony RDR-VX 525 that has one touch dubbing both ways and works very well. Apparently, not everyone shares your enthusiasm: http://tinyurl.com/22juyvs Myself, I wouldn't give you 5 cents for a Sony CD/DVD product. The last one I bought was junk! Cost $250 and didn't even work as well or have as many features as my SILs $50 Walmart Emerson model. At one point I got so ****ed at its crappy performance, I tossed out my 2nd story window and watched it explode into a thousand pieces on my concrete driveway. It was the ONLY time it ever did what it was supposed to do. nb |
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notbob wrote: Myself, I wouldn't give you 5 cents for a Sony CD/DVD product. The last one I bought was junk! Cost $250 and didn't even work as well or have as many features as my SILs $50 Walmart Emerson model. At one point I got so ****ed at its crappy performance, I tossed out my 2nd story window and watched it explode into a thousand pieces on my concrete driveway. It was the ONLY time it ever did what it was supposed to do. I still haven't forgiven Sony for the virus.. er "CD Copy Protection program" that instituted a few years ago. -- I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS. Robert Bakker, paleontologist |
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On 2010-10-03, A. Baum wrote:
I wouldn't want your 5 cents, that would leave you broke. Gads! The horror! I've been publicly trounced. My ego crushed, my self esteem in shambles. I'll never reach my life goals, no matter how hard I try. My life is OVER!! .....as if. (try again, kid, after you've been weaned) nb |
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On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 09:18:25 -0500, Jim Yanik wrote:
" wrote in : That's why we bought one. SWMBO has a number of titles for which there is no DVD. I believe there are places that transfer tapes to DVDs. you get a better life out of a DVD,I believe,because tape suffers from print-thru,each play degrades it a little bit,it accumulates over time. since this is for personal use,you don't have any copyright violations. I can't imagine a business that would admit to copyright violations. there are even VCR/DVD recorder/players,that can do the transfer. ....of unprotected media. |
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