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Walt Fles

Jan 1, 1970
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A princess walked into Radio Shack holding a frog. And she said to
the sales person,
"can you help me with this, my prince got turned into a frog"?

So the salesperson sold her a TTL 7404.
 
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Tom Biasi

Jan 1, 1970
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Walt Fles said:
A princess walked into Radio Shack holding a frog. And she said to
the sales person,
"can you help me with this, my prince got turned into a frog"?

So the salesperson sold her a TTL 7404.

With all due respect, that joke goes back to the 70's. :)

For you young folk, a TTL 7404 is a HEX Inverter.

Tom
 
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Walt Fles

Jan 1, 1970
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Tom said:
With all due respect, that joke goes back to the 70's. :)

For you young folk, a TTL 7404 is a HEX Inverter.

Tom
At least somebody from my generation got it.
 
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PhattyMo

Jan 1, 1970
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Tom said:
With all due respect, that joke goes back to the 70's. :)

For you young folk, a TTL 7404 is a HEX Inverter.

Tom


I was gonna say,it must be an old joke..RatShak didn't even carry logic
gates anymore,the last time I was in there,looking for one.
You'd be lucky to find anything *OTHER* than a crappy cellphone or
crappy PC in a RS store these days.
 
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Michael A. Terrell

Jan 1, 1970
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Walt said:
At least somebody from my generation got it.


The real joke is that someone from Radio Shack even KNEW what a 7404
was.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
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Walt Fles

Jan 1, 1970
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PhattyMo said:
I was gonna say,it must be an old joke..RatShak didn't even carry logic
gates anymore,the last time I was in there,looking for one.
You'd be lucky to find anything *OTHER* than a crappy cellphone or
crappy PC in a RS store these days.
I think I read it in a copy of Popular Electronics or maybe Elementary
Electronics. I can still build logic and solve a Karnaugh map 20 years
after graduating from college - but heck if I know what goes on in a
Northbridge.
 
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Lord Garth

Jan 1, 1970
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The real joke is that someone from Radio Shack even KNEW what a 7404
was.

You've got questions, they have blank stares (and a cellular to sell you).
 
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Michael A. Terrell

Jan 1, 1970
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Lord said:
You've got questions, they have blank stares (and a cellular to sell you).


You've got questions, they have blank stares (and minds).


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
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Homer J Simpson

Jan 1, 1970
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You've got questions, they have blank stares (and a cellular to sell you).

"You've got questions, they've got pimples".
 
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Stephen J. Rush

Jan 1, 1970
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You've got questions, they have blank stares (and a cellular to sell you).

It was different in the TRS-80 era. For a while, you could actually buy all of
the parts for an 8080-based computer (but not a Z-80, go figure) there,
and some of their employees were hardware hackers.

Of course, those were exceptions. I once asked to see the character set
of one of their oddball printers (the one that had a steel platen drum
with a star-shaped cross section). It was connected to a running computer,
so the counterdroid started typing PRINT "ABCD...". I asked him why he
didn't just use a FOR loop, and got a blank stare.
 
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Doug Miller

Jan 1, 1970
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You've got questions, they have blank stares (and a cellular to sell you).

That's *so* true. I have three Rat Shack stores nearby, with apparently only
one competent employee between them. "Hookup wire? You mean speaker wire?"
 
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Walt Fles

Jan 1, 1970
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That's *so* true. I have three Rat Shack stores nearby, with apparently only
one competent employee between them. "Hookup wire? You mean speaker wire?"

--
Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

There is nothing better than being a hobbyist and seeing them rip out
25 pair wire.
I once had 50 feet of that from a place I worked at, and I stripped it
and cut it up and
made all my friends in college happy with all this wire they didn't
have to pay for!
 
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Michael A. Terrell

Jan 1, 1970
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Walt said:
There is nothing better than being a hobbyist and seeing them rip out
25 pair wire.
I once had 50 feet of that from a place I worked at, and I stripped it
and cut it up and
made all my friends in college happy with all this wire they didn't
have to pay for!


25 feet? you would have freaked out of 16 feet of brand new 200
pair, or the thousands of feet I've salvaged over the past 40 years. In
fact, I have salvaged and reused entire 1A2 key phone systems, both five
and ten line, which used 50 pair.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
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Lord Garth

Jan 1, 1970
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25 feet? you would have freaked out of 16 feet of brand new 200
pair, or the thousands of feet I've salvaged over the past 40 years. In
fact, I have salvaged and reused entire 1A2 key phone systems, both five
and ten line, which used 50 pair.

Sadly, the metal reclaim depots will not accept insulated wire. The city
frowns of people burning off the insulation as well.

Unless you can build a machine that can do the job, it's not economical
even with the rise in prices.
 
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Michael A. Terrell

Jan 1, 1970
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Lord said:
Sadly, the metal reclaim depots will not accept insulated wire. The city
frowns of people burning off the insulation as well.

Unless you can build a machine that can do the job, it's not economical
even with the rise in prices.


Motor driven metal rollers can crush the isolation, leaving bare
copper. Some large copiers have nice gear driven roller sets. You only
need the right speed motor, and a guide plate with holes for different
wire gauges.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
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Lord Garth

Jan 1, 1970
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Michael A. Terrell said:
Motor driven metal rollers can crush the isolation, leaving bare
copper. Some large copiers have nice gear driven roller sets. You only
need the right speed motor, and a guide plate with holes for different
wire gauges.

Does this work only on the individual wires or could a complete CAT5
cable be run through?

There was a large copy machine by the building dumpster yesterday
as luck would have it. I thought of ripping the motor(s) out but didn't get
around to it.

When I wired this office I'm sitting in now, I created four five foot high
piles of CAT5 that were probably 15 feet in diameter, from the removal
of the old wiring. I'm sure it was good money to someone that could
strip it.
 

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