It would be my luck when Mr Grizzly finally charges for real I would have my fire starter
in the chamber instead of a slug and get chased through the woods by a Grizzly that is on fire.

A friend in SoCal bought a storage unit with some car stuff in it he thought would be valuable...At the rear of the unit were boxes and boxes of old computer punch cards that his father thought may have been ballistic info for the Navy. He remembered them from serving as a Navy warrant officer in both Korea and Viet Nam...Many of them only had a few little square holes punched out so they used them as note pads...

Now what was the subject of this thread??[duhhh]

Now the question is how do we rescue Bark from a flaming grizzley

Well, I've always heard Alaska is MUCH more liberal/tolerant about those kinda things.....[laugh][tapdshut][laugh]

I dunno about you guys, but I carry tools, water, munchies, first aid, and a couple fire sources in my truck at all times. doesn't matter if I'm running around town or across the country.

I got news for you. What Chris is describing predates Bill G's famous (or infamous) remark by 20 years. At that time, the Univac was already essentially obsolete.

J_Martin, you are absolutely correct about the timelines. I am lucky to be a second generation IT guy. My first IT job was on an IBM System370 where I got to load tapes (reel to reel and something that looked like 8-track tapes) and the majority of my day was loading paper into the laser printer and then putting print jobs that came out of the printer into pigeon holes. Then I was an OS/2 guy and all the rest of the client server stuff. With the highly virtualized computing environments we are building these days I am lucky enough to be around to see us go back to mainframes, just with different names on them.

Hah!! I just got it[laugh].

We get a 12 pack and a stop watch and time him doing laps [laugh]

and then the rim shot on the drum.... tolerance

Chris, you are one funny smart man. glad she kept you! quick, quick wit.
you must have been a wise butt in school......


had a black bear at scout camp, everybody ran. I went to make noise, move mr. bear along... smelled bad things. bear had plopped butt down in the coals ripping into a jug of cooking oil.....sniff sniff. I didn't have to make a sound. I can now attest to speed when hearing "put a fire under his donkey to get him moving"....

busy day, everyone seems to want something, tired, early night!!

I was a design tech in the late 60's working at Control Data, then Fabri-Tek. I was involved in the design of Phase encoding for tape, getting the density all the way up to 1600 bits per inch. At Fabri-Tek, we were debating whether silicone memory could ever compete with ferrite cores.

Later, in the early 80's I worked for a third party maintenance outfit on IBM System/38, and big IBM peripherals. I designed a rebuilding system for the hydraulic carriage control units in 1403 printers. (Yes folks, 3/4 hp hydraulics to move the paper.) We got it down to making 9 units out of 10 cores at about 300 bucks apiece, vs 5000 from IBM. They were so tightly spec'd that install took about 2 hours, vs a day or more for an IBM tech to install one of theirs.

Now I'm an old phart still pulling cable, and fixin' 'puters.

Geesh, I thought it was almost too easy and obvious

Heidi, none of my teachers appreciated
my sense of humor
One actually wrote in my yearbook that if there was a catagory for " most likely to go to prison" I would have won .
He just about choked when I went home to visit a few years later and he found out I was a cop

And another
 

"A 39-year-old man from Texas spent Sunday night on a mountain near Whittier before he was rescued by the
Alaska Mountain Rescue Group and Alaska Air National Guard on Monday morning, Alaska State Troopers said".
"Scott Hueske had hiked several miles off of the trail to Portage Pass toward the summit of Mount Maynard, the mountain the Whittier tunnel cuts through,
when he called police around 6:40 p.m. Sunday requesting rescue.
He said he was "wet, cold and exhausted" and was wearing only a black sweater with black pants and had no other gear, troopers said".

If not for a lucky cell phone connection this guy probably wouldn't have been found until the critters got done with him.
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A shrewfest waiting to happen. What's with people?
[dummy]

Yup. There are thousands of places in Texas where you can go wandering around and die if you don't prepare or have a plan.
Wonder why lately people have been coming up here to be stupid.