[Coco] CoCo Ethernet for $25-$30...

[Kip Koon]

Gene,
I would love to see your basement sometime!  :)  I definitely relate to
packratitus!  My workbench area started out 10' x 10' and now it is 10' x
25' and still growing and because of all the old PC parts everywhere, I
can't even walk through it.  I do have a lot of fun though!  :)  I'm told I
can't grow anymore.  Something must go to the dump.  "Why?", I say, "because
I might need it later!"  :)
Kip

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Gene Heskett
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 12:54 AM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo Ethernet for $25-$30...

On Friday 12 April 2013 00:24:01 Richard E. Crislip did opine:

> <snip>
> 
> > My coco is in the basement Allen.  I found an outfit that had 10 
> > meter long extension usb2 cable/hubs.  I did had some 3 meter 
> > boosted hubs, but I think a nearby lightning strike wrote the ~30~ 
> > to one or both of those, but these have been pretty bullet proof.  I 
> > have a 2 foot dw cable that hits a usb-ser adapter, and that is 
> > plugged into a 7 port hub 2 feet away that also has the Brother B&W 
> > laser printer plugged into it, and the near end of the 10 meter 
> > cable is plugged into one of the hubs near my feet, so my USB tree 
> > has a marked resemblance to a weeping willow here.  The cable was 
> > about $30, works a treat.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I've been in that basement. It was scary 8-). Cost me $500 8-).

Now now Richard, be nice. :)  Just because I only have to move that folding
chair about a foot to change from doing something on my coco, to reloading
the ammo I'll burn at the range south of town the next time the weather is
decent shouldn't make it scary.  I've been rolling my own, exclusively for
the rifles since back in the early 60's.  The reloading press has turned Lee
red, and the measure is now a Hornady Lock-n-load full auto dispenser.

I haven't shot much over the last 50 years, just enough to wear out 5
barrels, 3 on the Ackley-06, and 2 on the 22-250, but I put a whole new
action in that wood a year ago when the 2nd barrel started key holing.

All that FWIW, on 3 boxes of factory shells.  And the Ackley barrel is about
done again, but from rust, carrying it around in the WV hunting season,
which usually corresponds to the annual fall monsoon, with about a foot of
rain during hunting season.

And I've carved two new stocks for a black powder 50 cal since you were here
last.  The mill was converted to CNC when you were here, and now the lathe
is too, but I put ball screws in the lathe.  If I don't fall over first, the
mill is going to get a dose of HGH & some ball screws too

What that basement confirms is that it really ought to be illegal for 2
aging packrats to marry.  :)

Speaking of packratitis, I found a set of docs about 1/4" thick on that PP&S
68040 accelerator card that was in that purchase while looking for a
1099 that seems to have wandered off & gotten lost in this midden heap.

Shoot me an address by PM & I'll see if it will fit in a manila clasp
envelope sometime in the next week.

Cheers, Gene
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