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I had a towel that had been hanging somewhere for too long, and it smelt sour.

 

I washed it. It was now clean. But it still smelled sour.

 

So I took it out and hung it on the clothesline. For a week. It rained 3 days of that week. And when I brought it in at the end of the week it was nice and dry and crisp and clean. And it no longer smelled sour.

 

Fresh air and sunshine does a remarkable job of deodorizing. Beats frebreeze all to hell.

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19 hours ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

My dad was an engineer. Never saw a repairman in our house. He once brought an oscilloscope home from work to diagnose a problem with the TV. 

My first oscilloscope had 50 KHz bandwidth. A 5V 5 MHz square-wave signal was about a half volt peak to peak at 2.5 volts, and horribly phase shifted. But that signal still told me it was there.

 

Last time I repaired a TV was back in the '90s, ordered the transistor from the service department at Montgomery Wards. Not as trivial as the tube tester days but still doable and Sam's Photo Facts were at the local library so I could get schematics.

 

Recently had an iMac fail on me, googled the disk drive location (turns out it could be in one of three places). Got out my drill and drilled all three areas as the computer is not worth repairing ($250 used, $125 for a power supply, plus tools and other parts to put the thing back together). Had data backups, restored my stuff to one of my other computers.

 

I still have a nice Tektronix 465B oscilloscope, falls off just below 500 MHz. So now too slow for modern computers but could probably still diagnose stuff if it was worth repairing.

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Grammar. Something Otto does not screw up, just ignores
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35 minutes ago, John Kloehr said:

My first oscilloscope had 50 KHz bandwidth. A 5V 5 MHz square-wave signal was about a half volt leak to peak at 2.5 volts, and horribly phase shifted. But that signal still told me it was there.

 

Last time I repaired a TV was back in the '90s, ordered the transistor from the service department at Montgomery Wards. Not as trivial as the tube tester days but still doable and Sam's Photo Facts were at the local library so I could get schematics.

 

Recently had an iMac fail on me, googled the disk drive location (turns out it could be in one of three places). Got out my drill and drilled all three areas as the computer is not worth repairing ($250 used, $125 for a power supply, plus tools and other parts to put the thing back together). Had data backups, restored my stuff to one of my other computers.

 

I still have a nice Tektronix 465B oscilloscope, falls off just below 500 MHz. So now too slow for modern computers but could probably still diagnose stuff if it was worth repairing.

That’s impressive. My total knowledge of oscilloscopes then and now is there was a wavy green line moving against a screen with a grid. 
 

Didn’t they use one in the opening credits of the TV show “Outer Limits”? They were used a lot by Hollywood in the 50s and 60s to illustrate high tech. 

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1 hour ago, Buckshot Bob said:

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Harlan Ellison, "A Boy and His Dog." (heads up - the short story would have an R rating if made into a movie.  Violence, smoking, alcohol, "adult situations")

 

A rather dark story.  

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Did you notice it was taking place in 2024?

 

He's watching a movie that was made in 48 and comments that it was 76 years old.

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1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

 

Harlan Ellison, "A Boy and His Dog." (heads up - the short story would have an R rating if made into a movie.  Violence, smoking, alcohol, "adult situations")

 

A rather dark story.  

It WAS made into a movie. Starred Don Johnson in 1975.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_and_His_Dog_(1975_film)

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