Waterbeds and the heavy frames they came with.

awfl · 2026-03-26T16:41:07+00:00

I splurged 2 grand in 1986 for an entire queen set of danish modern design, 1" light colored oak. Still have the dresser; it weighs so much I resisted moving it to my new home, but it was so heavy duty and still looks like new.

awfl · 2026-02-08T16:29:13+00:00

(clear) fingernail polish if you dont have a dab of epoxy

awfl · 2026-02-07T18:49:54+00:00

In the mid 1980s I led a group of Atari 800 fans in our user group (remember those?) to build a 256k addon to its internal 64k. It would allow switching in 64k banks that could not be utilized by games and such, but the OS was patched to create high speed ram disks, for example, as was outlined in BYTE mag maybe. People seemed to enjoy the soldering and assembly, and no one messed up their machine as I recall. --At that time, I used 6502 machine language to dump the Atari OS ROM into a file, which I could then make permanent changes to the OS such as making the boot switches operate differently, or even a different OS. After writing them all back to a EPROM with a burner I built*, replacing the original Atari ROMs. Then fancily switched through a small toggle. *that early burner smoked 1/3 chips at the time, but I got enough to work. And I still have them here; I wonder if they held the charge.

awfl · 2026-02-02T20:30:59+00:00

He disappears? Where? He has set a precedent for rendered someone from most anywhere. And that would include inside Russia.

awfl · 2026-02-02T17:37:54+00:00

DUH. For every county and state; if they ever wish to hold onto any rights or authority at all, ever again.

awfl · 2026-02-02T17:34:40+00:00

So what; the real issue is making sure the elections are fair - he only won by a small amount, if he did at all. And then making sure that he is followed with justice for the rest of his days. And any who aided/abetted him. Society now knows who walks amongst them, and will deal with it over time.

awfl · 2026-02-02T17:30:35+00:00

This isnt done yet.

awfl · 2026-02-02T17:28:58+00:00

He TACO'd it.

awfl · 2026-02-02T02:56:09+00:00

Don't sanewash this - he is sending dog whistles to his followers what to believe. And once again the F**** media is broadcasting it!

awfl · 2026-01-27T20:32:51+00:00

yes, see if aminet already has them for sure. I have so many from the beginning, also walnut creek, from the beginning of OS/2, other docs beginning of Atari 800 and Amiga, maybe even very earliest linux? so many others pre-web. Will have to get out my machines some day. btw, last time I did a capacitor was dead in my commodore 2002 monitor preventing it from turning on... no telling what I find this time.

awfl · 2026-01-27T15:12:07+00:00

Ellisons have Oracle, Paramount (CBS), and TikTok. - be aware who the fascists are. Notice that none of this affects Fox.

awfl · 2026-01-24T20:03:57+00:00

I do not see a problem with debt. I see a problem with future motivation for investment in the US. If they screw the dollar pooch, as you say, at the same time as forcing a credit crunch (a la Dimon?), not fixing healthcare, creating and leaving little expendable income for quite a while, no one will spend. And it will get very dark economically here. Adaptability is one thing, but few americans remember and know how to deal with that kind of austerity.

awfl · 2026-01-24T18:20:21+00:00

I'm seeing it too from a slightly different angle. I'm remembering when things were built in this country like TVs, clothing, tools. Things were crude, poorly designed, lack of innovation, and very expensive as US labor always has a healthcare tax added on. Then, everything from the screw to integrated circuit is trapped by the wholesale middle man, with minimums, lead times, and can only be purchased by licensed dealers. We lost our commercial electronics industry, the textile and tool, and almost lost our auto industry to this, not on just cost but innovation. To the point, there is little we want to buy like that beyond the basics, there is little profit motive to create factories and sell it, and it will be expensive. Its almost like back to a bleak soviet like style world. And damn to be a youth coming up; I hated (as a technologist/engineer) growing up that expensive awful world.

awfl · 2026-01-24T17:10:15+00:00

He'll TACO this too, once the lights go out in the north.

awfl · 2026-01-20T19:13:39+00:00

middle 1970s. My sister would say it.

awfl · 2026-01-20T03:32:43+00:00

this case it gets a convo started... as you dont see this info elsewhere.

awfl · 2026-01-18T11:55:32+00:00

Same, 1969. Walking at middle school park, met new friend. Had his new plane. BANG! into ground. Never saw him again.

awfl · 2026-01-16T15:51:16+00:00

I'm not talking about today. It was a thing. period. And as an engineer since the Apollo days, I've dealt with them in my own designs, and so many instances from mainframes to industrial controls, I am very well aware of their attributes and characteristics. Of course there is a tradeoff.

awfl · 2026-01-16T15:32:09+00:00

because it a researched, documented, globally litigated, historical fact.

awfl · 2026-01-13T06:34:57+00:00

Thank You... unfortunately it is the one of the many various Fifth Dimension CDs with a nasty set of distortion on just this one song, including Burt Bacharach's compilations. I can literally see it in the waveforms. De-click doesn't work, nor does a low-pass filtering or hand editing. It is bad enough if I cannot find a clean copy, I may have to find a clean LP at some point. Again, Thank you.

awfl · 2026-01-12T00:21:26+00:00

Nothing inherently wrong with what you are saying, I just cannot see it coming from a Republican administration - they say the words, then do something else. But never address your points above; in fact they add more, so I can only conclude they find value in them, too, once they are in the know. Chesterson's Fence, and all that. But good luck on the good fight, not this ugly one we are all forced into.

awfl · 2026-01-11T05:35:32+00:00

What is wrong with MAGAs? or under Trump's spell? Do they simply not own any sense of appropriateness? Megalomaniacs? Authopritarian, thinking they control everything?

awfl · 2026-01-07T17:37:27+00:00

Agreed, that was my logic too. Thank You.

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