[Coco] A bit more of CoCo history dies...

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 06 August 2009, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I suspected that you might have problems.
>
>I really would like to convert Belle2 to some more reasonable format.
>
Belle2?  Never heard of such an animal.  Am I living in a cave or something?

>So far, no luck. When it disappears from the web I will have no way of
>looking at it.
>
>As far as I can tell, the congress has stopped funding "pork" projects.
>
>Perhaps it might be converted to a "stimulus" program as it appears ready to
>go.
>
>Even the town has some people unhappy that they would get too little
>dredging for their part of the cost.
>
>When I lived there the water was ~ 3 feet deep, the U of WI study and the
>army planned to dredge just a small part in the middle for the fish.
>
>The depth of the "Mill Pond" might be only one foot deep now.

That will give a winter kill for sure.

>I did ask for the original pictures which the army sent to me so I do have
>the current / before the project is done, pictures of my childhood home.

Yeah, I stopped by the house daddy built right after WW-II, and I wired when I 
was about 12 or 13, while on my way back from saying goodbye to my oldest 
daughter (cancer) back in the fall of 2007.  The new owners had remodeled 
some, and finally got tired of crawling into the attic to replace blown fuses 
and swapped it out for a new 200 amp service just a year before I stopped.  
Someone had added a front porch on the road facing end of it in the 
intervening years.  We had a chuckle over that as they now know who to blame 
for that wiring job.  But it was legal at the time!  The shingles were in good 
shape, but the ridgeline has about a 6" sag in the middle, not bad for an 
amateur built house that was 60 years old in 2007.  Could I ever go 'home'?  
No, too much else has changed on that 2 or 3 acres in 60 years.  All of 
daddies peach orchard on the north side is gone, probably from lack of care, 
and the strawberry patch is now a loop thru driveway.

>But there are 3-4 other Shockwave pictures in the set of other locations I
>would like to keep.

Yeah, I know that feeling all too well.

>SHF

I might brave it tomorrow sometime, I found my 2nd 512 meg CF card for dd-wrt, 
it booted, so I wrote the sp2 image to it and that boots too.  But I haven't 
cabled it up yet, getting late.

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
>To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 6:57 PM
>Subject: Re: [Coco] A bit more of CoCo history dies...
>
>> On Thursday 06 August 2009, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>> undermining the northwest edge of town
>>>
>>>I can one up you on that.
>>>
>>>They want to change the course of the river in mine.
>>>
>>>WARNING "Adobe Shockwave Player" required.
>>>
>>>http://www.mvr.usace.army.mil/Lake_Belle_View/VRTour/belle2.html
>>
>> Sorry, that must be a winderz only file format, firefox wants to download
>> an
>> x-director application of some sort in order to play it.  Maybe I'm being
>> paranoid, but at the moment I'm running on an older BEFSR41 router, and I
>> don't trust anything generated by windows.
>>
>>>Click on the ">".
>>>
>>>Then click on "Next"
>>>
>>>Then click on "Click here for view of best buy plan 3"
>>>
>>>Just look for the Red car on the right.
>>>
>>>I could put my ice skates, cross highway 69 and skate many miles upstream.
>>>I
>>>only fell through the ice once.
>>>
>>>SHF
>>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
>>>To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>>Cc: "Allen Huffman" <alsplace at pobox.com>
>>>Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 2:07 PM
>>>Subject: Re: [Coco] A bit more of CoCo history dies...
>>>
>>>> On Thursday 06 August 2009, Allen Huffman wrote:
>>>>>What Iowa town, Gene?
>>>>
>>>> Redfield, home of the "Redfield Reds" brickyards.  2 of them back then,
>>>> no
>>>> idea if there is still a brickyard there now.  One of them was slowly
>>>> undermining the northwest edge of town 60 years ago.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Cheers, Gene
>
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