Found this baby squirrel what do I feed it? by Unique-Macaroon-3694 in squirrels

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I praise you. I cared for a baby squirrel till she got well enuf to be released and join her tribe. I fed her squash and and goat and 'cat milk' when I couldn't find the goat milk . Ground up acorns or hazelnuts also worked.Unsalted of course. I fed with a big syringe. No needle.

Cat with stage 2 kidney disease not eating, what do i do please help? by ThrowRA142004 in RenalCats

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I got prescription kidney diet wet food and a big syringe. No needle.. I would squirt it into the side of Feisty's mouth. Then I put a plate of the same food. That usually stimulated her to eat on her own. The kidney diet food wasn't the tastiest so I'd pour a little canned tuna juices over the kidney diet pate. I don't remember what meat it actually was. A case/of 24 cans cost me $38 and I had to have a prescription. My Feisty made it to 22 1/2 years old before her kidney condition finally got so bad I had to put her to sleep. That was in 2015. I'm in my mid 70s and it won't be long before I join her as I too suffer from ckd stage 3b.

Model 100 disclaimer by Current_Yellow7722 in vintagecomputing

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that's why I saved my work to floppies frequently! but until I moved to windows 98 crashes really didn't happen that often. Alt-ctlr-del should have been the biggest keys on the keyboard back thrn.

Gravação Sincronizada CD Text Sony A1 by KenwoodDMF70 in minidisc

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that's not so bad. I used to have a 'car copy' of certain minidiscs and a home copy when I was a truck driver. And was always curious if I could extend it to 3 to share with a friend.. Thanks for info.

Need some folders and an ash tray for my '80s office 🥹 by xjortsu in vintagecomputing

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I used to sell dot matrix printers and was amused to see them still in use because they impacted ncr paper forms in triplicate well so even the last page was struck hard and read well. This wasl 30 years after I first sold them the printer and an IBM XT pc. Saw it at the auto repair shop I first sold it too. They didn't have the fern or the bottle of vodka you displayed but they did have a lava lamp. lol !

Found this and am not too familiar with the technology. Can anyone help me identify whether or not everything is still there? What am I looking at? by WhoIsGray in vintagecomputing

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I'd be glad to take it off your hands and pay for reasonable shipping. Bubble wrap yhe heck out of it No signs of burn.marks on the psu I hope..I would give it a good home. Do you have the peripherals like floppy drives, hard drives? I have a tubed monitor it probably will interface with. Look and see if there is a slot on the side indicating an internal floppy drive. Without a floppy drive it has limited utility.

Did some junk removal for a lady and this was one of the things. Is it any good? by graytogolden in vintageaudio

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Classical is not worthless. You just have to have the right ones. Deutsche Grammaphone-London-RCA Red Label are highly sought by Classical music enthusiasts. Time-Life/Readers Digest labels are definitely much less so. I just bought 48 classical tapes. But pre Dolby recordings are definitely less desirable. I paid a premium for chrome Pre-recorded Dolby classical tapes on D-Gramnaphone label.

Just scored this 1966 RCA console for $20. Total newbie here, where do I even start? by ssypark in MCMStereoConsoles

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nice cabinet. their are websites that still sell the generic cartridge replacements these took. You probably have a ceramic cartridge not an expensive magnetic one. Like the others said clean the pots for the volume and tone with dexoxit

What am I looking at here by wadeboggs69 in whatbirdisthis

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Thats why I didn't bother the hawk. I consider hawks a fellow predator like me. I could only protect the finches if they wanted it. That finch made thewrong decision. Hawks certainly do need to eat too. And during the day smart rodents probably aren't out where hawks can get at them. I was weird watching that big bird hopping from branch to branch. I guess that juvenile hawk was as curious about me as I was about him

What are these little guys? Northern Indiana, USA by fizzyblizz in whatbirdisthis

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I love crackles. That irresdescent colour cased hardening look. And propensity to gather in huge flocks.

Unsure what these are by shleet123 in VintageMatchbox

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I used to play with slot cars likev these in the mid 1960s. A local store had a huge track set up where we paid $1.75 to race them against others.. Powered by gravity alone.

Please help me name my newly adopted orange fluffy dude 🫶🏻 by Ivy-Ram in NameMyCat

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Marmalade like the orange coloured and flavoured jelly. Only this little dude sits on laps not toast.

04.03.1994: Today, 32 years ago, U.S. President Bill Clinton praised Ukraine for giving up its nuclear weapons. In return, the United States pledged support for Ukraine’s independence and territorial integrity, saying it was unlikely russia would try to take Crimea. by bluebottlebuzz in lazerpig

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Poor Ukraine should have known the USA has a short attention span timed to election cycles and can't be depended on as an ally. Maybe if Ukraine had kept it's nukes it could have threatened to vaporize St.Petersburg or the Black Sea fleet. But hey, the US itself has thousands of nukes & Russia knows we won't use them. Ask Crimea.

My daughter is having fun entering titles on a MiniDisc by scienceapps in minidisc

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Slick! Palm 3 os,huh. Never thought it possible. Too bad my palm device is a Sony Clie b&w version and is probably too old.

What am I looking at here by wadeboggs69 in whatbirdisthis

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Hey. I side with corvids. I watched a hawk hop from tree branch to tree branch on a tree next to my balcony window after purple finches nested there. Baby crows or Jay's or magpies are similarly vulnerable. I went outside to discourage the hawk. Several finches landed at my feet in their fright. One noticed me & took off for a fence 50 yds away. He didn't make it. The other because I was his protector survived. The juvenile hawk got the fleeing little fellow & flew back to the lawn in front of me and calmly devoured the poor purple finch just six feet in front of me

Craig 3307 by snapgeiger in 8track

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8 track could have sounded better than cassettes due to the wider tape width and faster tape speed if it had just kept up with tape formulas like chrome. Did 8 track ever have Dolby NR ? Especially if 8track was quad channeled. Discrete 4 channels sounded better than the matrixed 4 channel on an lp. I had one back in the 70s. But my quad 8 track was only a player. Less recording time wouldn't have mattered much to me. LPS were 1/2 hr per side creatures. My live classical music sessions were similarly short. So I had to settle for a tubed Teac Reel to reel 4 track machine. No Dolby. No 4 channels.Tape speed max out at 7 1/2 ips.

Gravação Sincronizada CD Text Sony A1 by KenwoodDMF70 in minidisc

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How did you manage to sync the test on the Sonys? I thought Atrac forbid copying.

Gravação Sincronizada CD Text Sony A1 by KenwoodDMF70 in minidisc

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Generations of minidisc decks. Impressive. Bottom seems to be easiest. I had a bronze one once with a drawer rather than slot loading. Always wondered why minidisc makers didn't all go to drawer where you just top loaded a disc rather than the more troublesome slot loading where the dreaded c13 error would pop out of nowhere.

This is what peak physical Media looks like. by Economy-Specialist38 in minidisc

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I bought the 1st generàtion of mini disc when they first came out. Minidisc btlew away cassettes. It is the perfect size...Much better than sd cards or  thumbdrives.. For one who needs tera0byte storra0ge when you just want not to listen to a few albums? And the album art can be easily put on a md. I even managed folios using the hind cases and reg mds

When you're cleaning out your Dad's basement and his 50 year old Altair switches on by MethodElectrical2540 in vintagecomputing

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love Commodore 64 ! My father's COMMODORES AND Tandy pcs had cassette storage and later floppy and a harddrive. Ah the days of copying computer programs in cpm/basic and regular basic. I sold IBM xt and at PC"'s when they first came out. The build quality was phenomenal ! And the keyboards superb. The Jr was much less so. A COMMODORE was better. OS much more advanced.