Thanks Bob. With the SB high output it does feel close to a BB of which I have 2, a '65 396 Silver Pearl coupe and a '66 L72 Nassau Blue convertible my first convertible anything. The 425hp output feels more like 500 on the L72
@83VillageRepair, I forgot about the baby powder. I would have to buy some because Liane keeps her supply in a no-go zone. However, I did remove the valve core and inflate/deflate it twice. I found the hole in the tube but I have no idea what did it.
Scott, handful of dirt is my mantra.
@brit vet, I was wondering where all the C2s went! Beautiful collection! Based on the back-lite it looks like your C3 is a 69-72 (I don't see a '68-only pushbutton sticking out of the door).Thanks Bob. With the SB high output it does feel close to a BB of which I have 2, a '65 396 Silver Pearl coupe and a '66 L72 Nassau Blue convertible my first convertible anything. The 425hp output feels more like 500 on the L72
@brit vet, very nice '71. You have to be a dedicated Vette head to tell the '70, '71 and '72 apart. The '70 and '71 Vettes came with white lenses (and yellow bulbs) on the front turn signals and the '72 came with yellow lenses and white bulbs.Close Bob, it's a '71 LT-1 that I bought out of a collection in NY in I think 2016
Ignore the ugly air conditioning pipe work. I'm moving the AC unit to the centre of the end wall maybe next weekend and the pipes will exit behind the unit. Before I had metal racking everywhere and that was the only free space.
I'll do my best to start a thread and stop cluttering yours fellow Vette head
Thank you Scott, you know how touchy I am about those things.I was being sensitive, otherwise I would have suggested two handfuls
Well ****... I can't unsee that last picture. Terrifying!@brit vet, very nice '71. You have to be a dedicated Vette head to tell the '70, '71 and '72 apart. The '70 and '71 Vettes came with white lenses (and yellow bulbs) on the front turn signals and the '72 came with yellow lenses and white bulbs.
I'm really happy to have you clutter up my thread. No rush creating your own.
Thank you Scott, you know how touchy I am about those things.
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Speaking of touchy, this is a week where we got confirmation we're really old. Monday was the only day we don't have a doctor visit.
I did manage to get a coat of paint on the stucco repair yesterday. Also put down some pea gravel to hide the evidence (some stucco ended up on the ground).
After today's doctor visit it was time to trim a few branches on the Florida Mahogany out front. Between the Milwaukee M18 pole chainsaw, the M12 Hacksaw and M12 Pruner it was a relatively easy job. I was able to cut the branches into smaller pieces so they fit in the Gorilla Cart (with a ratchet strap to hold it down). The dead lawn is intentional. Our lawn service guy is re-sodding the front yard and killing the grass and weeds is the first step.
It doesn't look like much but the branches I cut were way over the edge of the roof.
I'm also planning to have our tree guy trim this tree back a whole lot more. Need to have it done before June (start of Hurricane Season). "They" are predicting a real active season this year. Hopefully that means we won't get any.
I have a rather sketchy way of using the ten-foot pole chainsaw. I mounted a ******** the pole just above the balance point. I then put the strap over my head and push the powerhead forward so it heads straight (or close to straight up). I asked Liane not to help or even watch....
Close Bob, it's a '71 LT-1 that I bought out of a collection in NY in I think 2016
Ignore the ugly air conditioning pipe work. I'm moving the AC unit to the centre of the end wall maybe next weekend and the pipes will exit behind the unit. Before I had metal racking everywhere and that was the only free space.
I'll do my best to start a thread and stop cluttering yours fellow Vette head
Well ****... I can't unsee that last picture. Terrifying!
Edit: looks like John Rambo lost his last fight and he's coming back to kick your ***!
@Squankum, I forgot that bit. A swallow carrying a coconut? King Arthur: "It could grip it by the husk! Guard: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios!"
Had my marriage not lasted, that would be me.
The Canadian section of the Alcan highway was a well-maintained dirt (gravel) road and the Alaska section was paved in 1957. The Canadians did a great job of filling or cutting frost heaves and voids.
A cult classic!
oh I know, but thank you for the reminder.
True - but the system that they run on is about 9 generations behind on security, so they are probably pretty easy to hackKinda hard to hack a floppy disc.
Thank you John!
@Seagoon, it's almost a comfort knowing that. The code for those systems is probably machine or assembler language and probably incompatible with anything from Apple or Microsoft.
John, hopefully those systems were built by engineers who didn't report directly to the bean counters. "Yes sir, the rocket could be made less expensive out of plastic but it wouldn't make it out of the silo."
Shorty, I sweat just hearing the word 'WORK' and although it's negligible, I sweat enough swimming in the pool that it's a little more full when I get out. OK, maybe some of that isn't sweat.
Rian, it's mostly my fault. I post here to avoid looking at the list of unfinished projects.
Yes, but those old systems only communicate via floppy, keyboard, and hardened, dedicated lines to other hardened sites. They really don't get out to the world.True - but the system that they run on is about 9 generations behind on security, so they are probably pretty easy to hack
That's comforting.
Dan, I have an internal 3.5 diskette drive in one of my computers but no drives for the 5.25 form factor. I also have an external USB 3.5 diskette drive I can use with today's PCs.Kinda hard to hack a floppy disc.
@Seagoon, I wouldn't be surprised if there was still some defense software running on tube chassis computers. The one I remember was the IBM SAGE (Semi-Automated Ground Environment) system. When we were in Alaska in 1957 the DEW Line went operational.True - but the system that they run on is about 9 generations behind on security, so they are probably pretty easy to hack
Kay, I bet a few had punched 1402 punched card readers. Hackers would have to know the Hollerith code, including the EBCDIC special characters. Only the most dedicated 029 Keypunch (first machine I was trained to repair) user could master all the special characters.
Kinda hard to hack a floppy disc.
Some of those military machines used variant punch sets, non-EBCDIC letter sets, variant source code, variant object code, variant machine command sets. They had some serious paranoia. I fixed some small things for a Univac labeled machine that had made its way into mainstream use, and its assembler code, and everything else, was straight from the banks of the Martian canals. In those days I had contemptuous familiarity with Sperry. And it wasn't right. Like Sperry equipment, with a mix of IBM and Burroughs chips, speaking DEC code, using Honeywell interfaces and RCA sourced peripherals.
I'm sure there are a LOT of levels of security in front of those floppies. They are probably air-gapped as well. And, as Kay described, they're likely coded pretty obtuse. I assume some likely predate DOD's push for ADA as a standard. I always wanted to learn that though.True - but the system that they run on is about 9 generations behind on security, so they are probably pretty easy to hack
Sounds like Fuji-COBOL. In the day it was free. Then it evolved and devolved, and there was greed and bad/evil software and support. C# and .NET were being given away for free, so I wrote a halfassed code converter, and all my Fuji stuff became Porkrosoft.
AcuCOBOL. Based in San Diego. Eventually sucked up by MicroFocus.
Kay, that is so cool. You worked on an amazing array of stuff. Actually you still work on an amazing array of stuff. I told our daughter when she was very young that she should set her sights higher than being a nurse and become a doctor instead. When she was a bit older she told me she wasn't fond of blood but was interested in designing better prosthetic arms. I suggested she broaden her scope so she chose mechanical engineering and earned her masters degree. Her masters thesis was "Stress Analysis of Titanium Alloys" and was the lead author in "Heine, J. E., Cowles, B. A., Warren, J. R., and Khan, A. S., “Evaluation of Powder Metallurgy Alloys in Hydrogen,” P&W/GEB FR-21186, NASA Contract NAS8-36553, 1990." You know, girlie stuff.
Roger, I didn't jump in right away so my first PC was an XT and I soldered the jumper on the motherboard to bring it up from 64K to 256K. I eventually bought a 10 *mega*byte hard drive and thought it was a "forever" upgrade.
Kay, I thought I could learn to be a programmer so I bought Visual Basic and C (Code Warrior) packages. Seemed like a squirrel would run across the screen as I soon as I started working on them.
Roger, that's such a great story. No reason to be sorry. I suspect the crowd who is interested in our (my) ramblings is pretty small.
Thank you Dennis! Hopefully it's good enough to fool an inspector. I'm hoping the pole is long enough to keep the flesh eating parts away from my dangly bits. My M12 Hatchet might be the more likely culprit.
So totally girlie.
It takes a certain kind of brain to be a programmer. The words broken, disturbed, crazy come to mind. The best way to learn to program is writing assembler or machine code. Then you realize exactly what a computer can do. Then, much like chess, you need to perform a vastly complex activity, with a defined result, using an artificially constrained set of potential tasks.
That's how I started too.
I had bankers boxes full of paper tape. There was a policy that they needed to be reproduced every year, before they became too crumbly.That's how I started too.
At least paper tape was being phased on and only used for catastrophic recovery situations when I started programming.
That's how I started too.
At least paper tape was being phased on and only used for catastrophic recovery situations when I started programming.