The perils of "search & replace" in documentation.

Mine too!

Also the theme from "Gilligan's Island".

Clap off!

"Mark Wallace" wrote

I hit the "Reply Group" button. If I wanted it to crosspost, I'd tell it to.

Not my type, but thanks.

--oTTo--

Golly, but you sparkies /really/ understand how these electric-type computer thingies work, don't you.

Shouldn't you be changing a fuse, or something?

You don't know? You should have it deep in the heart.

And possibly even archive data maintained about the books what were wrote about such studies.

ITYM "computational appliance." HTH BBQ and God bless.

I wonder if it might connect to the YHBT stuff I've been tinkering with.

"Mark Wallace" wrote

I'm not a electrician, Mark, just an old country tinkerer.

I got an old PDP 11 up by using parts from two machines I got at surplus. I think I can handle a fuse.

--oTTo--

With the YHBT quick-disconnect? I vaguely remember something like that.

BTW, do you think the bozo could point to a single shred of evidence to support his assertion that you and I are electrical engineers, or do you think he just has a rather limited but spastic imagination?

There's no "To" line on my screen. Do you mean the one that says "Email To:"?

I can't decide if you are tryin to be funny or if you don't really understand how chat rooms work. I'm leaning toward the ladder.

Do you have even a single shred of evidence to support your apparently heartfelt conviction that Adam, oTTo, and I are electrical engineers, or are you just making things up as you go along?

"Kevin S. Wilson" wrote

I generally don't like quick-disconnects. I cannot afford expensive parts and those cheapo HTH diodes have a tendency to go POP! with a large voltage drop.

I'll tell you one thing, if you want a new circuit, let an engineer design it but have an electrician build it. The electrician probably won't beable to do the design work, but at least he won't electrocute you like an engineer would.

--oTTo--

Mine just says "Newsfroups", which I think is a symlink to "Chat_rooms".

Don't walk under it!

And now that you have looked at it three times, do you still believe that "us" is a proper subject of a sentence? Around here we use "we".

Bill

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I did quote you accurately. Just above what I wrote is your paragraph that includes the mistake. I didn't alter it. You said "Us civilized people get ...". Just in case "civilized people" caused you to use the wrong case for the pronoun, I left it out I what I wrote so you can see the essential part of your text; that is, where you use "us" as a subject of "get".

Bill

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Who said you were electrical engineers?

I mean, if you can't speak English effectively, and you're so thick that you think you're trolling when you're being trolled, then no-one in his right mind would expect you to be able to do anything else that requires a modicum of intelligence.

Sparkies, that's what you are: battery boys (as in you've been assaulted and batteried, because you haven't understood the half of what has gone on).

It's kept me entertained, though. For that, I thank you.

Leaning toward it? Looks to me like you're footing it.

The last guy who tinkered in old countries ended up shooting himself in a bunker.

I think it's sad that we don't do that kind of thing, any more. I don't even change sound or video cards, these days; I "upgrade" by buying a new machine. I kinda miss the hassle of making new hardware work.