Gregory's Servercaution: radiation from polonium is dangerous if the said material is ingested or inhaled. do not
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 @tubetime Might come in handy in the next decades! Just keep it generally below 2. extra long life battery. put in service before Feb 1943. think it's still good?  @tubetime …y'know what, I've been surprised before, it might actually have some charge still. I would still replace it if possible though  @tubetime the seller *gave* it to me! it's a D cell manufactured during World War II and it hasn't leaked and still has voltage! "extra long life battery" indeed! @tubetime I was really hoping you’ll do just that - measure if it’s still any good 😃 my other flea market finds include this prototype of the PrairieTek 240, the 40MB followup product to the 220, which was the first 2.5" hard drive on the market. i also got this Shugart 606 hard drive (10MB). i don't think they did very well in the PC market. another find is this WD-2120D, a 120MB drive meant for the first IBM Thinkpads, like the 700 and 720. it is not IDE nor SCSI -- it is IBM ESDI, a poorly named drive interface that is effectively IDE but over Micro Channel and with a different register interface. i imaged the drive, but it just contains the same garbage sector over and over again. the only thing that changes is this 32-bit number, which increments. i suppose it's been wiped. finally, i got a little plastic tray with an Apple part number. 073-0061. it seems to be a parts kit for an Enhanced IIe or IIe Platinum. @tubetime Looks like those ROMs are for the original non-enhanced IIe.  @tubetime You said your dad knew Al Shugart, correct? And IIRC, he said that he was a bit foppish in person? @cr1901 grandfather knew him. and, weirdly enough, i know his grandson. @tubetime If I can't get even the person right, dunno where I came up with the foppish part then :o. Yay fallible memory...  @tubetime I'm glad the warranty seal is still intact, might be worth trying to RMA it. 
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 @tubetime the brand name was derived from "ever ready", as they were the first to build and advertise full sealed cells that do not leak or dry out @tubetime the benefit of brown coal batteries I assume.    @tubetime oh, DANG! A logarithmic current meter?! That’s amazing! I mean, 10k mA is … carry the two… 10A, so not too scary. But the log scale is AMAZING. @tubetime "Well, either the battery's good or we've got a problem, it's too soon to tell..." @tubetime It's a DIY measurement device for excitement in the social network sphere. The mR/hr is a million rants per hour, isn't it!?   @tubetime My wife and I were discussing the other day that VLB is what truly killed 16-bit computers. @tubetime I need to get down there to the flea market some time.  @tubetime  @tubetime all I can see is a turntable, I need one and see them everywhere :blobcatdunno:  @tubetime envious, that’s like a 3 episodes of YouTube videos hour long each ! @tubetime *sniff* Where they'll finally find the actual number for Pi and the square root of -1.  @tubetime I think that says "solid material" not "said material". Although I wonder what distinction the word might be trying to make. Is it safe to inhale and eat the dust? Or should we vaporize it first? :-) Yikes. @tubetime Those are great antistatic brushes. I used one daily in the graphics biz in the 80s. @tubetime I need stickers of that polonium warning to put on everything. |
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