The DOT that I work for had only been a couple of years out of the “electronic“ punch card software when I got hired. It’s amazing what I can do with the current design software now. We still have the problem of your design is only as good as the survey data provided though.
I DO enjoy pushing the data and software to the limit to model what I see in my mind
. I guess that having worked in several manufacturing and earth moving jobs helps see how the design should go.I was born there in 1952...... may explain a few things..... but probably not.
what was before basic, i cant remember?
We had Ford Futura before my time. Stories abound about going down the highway and slamming it into reverse. The car would shake and buck all the way down to zero, then start backing up. You could not kill them. After the gas crunch they went back to crown vics, and chevy caprice. The crown vics are nice, they still existed when I started. The caprice I am told would get very light at speed.
They bought some new Impala's for some of the guys not on the road, SRO, Paper service and the tires on all of them on the back where gone in under 2000 miles, cords showing. Seems chevy did not put them together right.
Sing it, Brother!
In 1999 the Feds took over the Mustang Ranch whore house. It made the National News. As part of the story, CBS ran a staged clip of dudes selecting ladies for a romp, and I absent-mindedly said out loud "That's not how they do it!" Wife happened to be standing right behind me.
Shocked, she said "You never told me you'd been to a whore house!" I immediately replied "Before we got married you never told me you loved disco." That was the end of the discussion. True story.
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Years ago I worked for "the worlds formost outfitter" and I controlled the instore music. This is before digital music, so they used Dish Network for the piped in music. But they also had a 5 disc CD changer on the system. I would make my own music and we would rock out to ANYTHING but country. That was pure hell.
One of the most well liked was Disco day. When you stop and listen to it again it is fun and up beat music. Great for stocking. People dancing in the isles, pushing carts, fantastic for morale. We did acid rock, classic rock, even OLD country, but nothing new. But disco and 80's are the most requested. When you have not listened to Car Wash in 30 years it is kinda fun.
Then a VP from Sidney came by and had a fucking cow and pulled it. I think the people where actually going to kill him. It was that ugly. They had that little fuck backed into a corner, the entire morning staff, so roughly 60 people. He said put the music back on.
And I am not kidding in any of that. It was harmless, cost them no money and the people liked it. This is the same puke that played Centerfield by John Fogerty about 100 times opening night.
Good times.
Right before the first ban I bought an Colt HBAR sporter. It was quite a bit more then that. I still have the two 5 round colt mags that came with it. A bit ticked off because a flood killed the original box. As I understand it in some of the more commie states those are still grandfathered in and bring big bucks. I doubt I will ever sell mine.
It is still in the original config. Really the only reason I bought it was because they are going to take it away. Back then there are not a lot of choices for an AR rifle. It was a lot of money for a newly married couple, and it was unique at the range. Everyone was not making them at the time. It sits in the back of the safe now, I never really had much interest in it. I did get it out and shot it a year or so ago, and learned a couple things. Yes it is fun to shoot. Buddy gave me one of those new fangled plastic mags for it. Loading it sucks, and shooting a loaded mag like that sucks as well, it never ends. I now understand all the speed loaders for the things.
I will keep all my old GI mags, that will do me just fine, I have that one pmag that holds like a billion rounds....will be handy for blue hair zombies.
I grew up 5 miles from there... Back in the day, Fred Gibb was a pretty big deal. As I understand it, he's basically the reason that GM put a 427 in the Camaro in '69, because he did a '68 just to prove you could.
Read Empire of the summer moon, fantastic book. I would not really call it a "quanah parker" book but more of a Commanche history book. IIRC it covers from spanish to the 1900's when they finally (i will use my word) domesticated the american indian. I think I have some reviews up in the book report thread.
Plexiglas, grease pens and a rotary dial non-secure line.
There are a couple like that back in the day, two most common are Yenko and Motion. They both did basically the same thing to get around the stupid rules GM had at the time.
That photo with her baby, IIRC Cherry Blossom was quite the upstir in victorian times. A white women with her boob out like that was just not done.
She was full on "indian" by the time of her capture by the whites, and capture is the correct term. Her baby died not long after being captrued, and she passed a little while after that. She would sit in the dirt and slash her breasts in grief over the losses she had. Taking her from the "indian way of life" was just death for her.
Not an answer to your question but your question sent me back to memory lane.
Basic PDS 7.0 and 7.1. Most never heard of it. Pretty good language with lots of support. Nothing like the numbered basic that shipped with MSDOS. Wrote some pretty good stuff with it in the late 80’s and 90’s. Then they introduced Visual Basic. That was the slowest, piece of software I ever had experience with. Most who used it, used it only for prototyping and then ported (actually rewrote it) in C.
I though writing and debugging a program and then rewriting and debugging that same program in another language was stupid. Just use C to began with.
Finally Windows quit supporting MSDOS based applications but by then, I had moved on to writing apps under WORD BASIC because I really had no need for stand alone applications and the entire agency had “finally” converted from WordPerfect (which I hated) to Word. And, we needed to streamline much of the work, spending minutes to run a Word Applet to compete a multi page form instead of days navigating through all the Governmental hidden bull that the forms incased. (Let the applet(s) ferret out all the hidden details, they were good at it)
In another lifetime I did sports car racing. Drag racers shut the fuck right up, you are in that oven for what 10 minutes tops. Try an hour.
I remember when I bought my first "cool shirt". It was a t-shirt that had tubes in it that water would run through. It had a little cooler and you filled that with ice and water. First time I hit the switch I thought it was dumping ice water all over me, it was so cold. Then no it was just the water running through the suit. My cooler would last about 1 race. By then end of the session the water would be warm to the touch. One thing for sure it did make your mind "more fresh". You loose something when you get that hot and sweaty.
Basically long johns, a head sock, and gloves head to toe.
LOL.
We'll end up sitting in our drag cars for hours at a time also when the track has issues. It's not worth getting unstrapped or out of the fire suit if you don't know how long before you need to be ready to race again. It comes down to which is a bigger distraction? Sitting in a 150* car for that hour, or getting out, stripping down - then having to get everything back together in a hurry. If you aren't the next group up in the staging lanes it's a no-brainer. Cool off. The closer you are to the front of the lanes - the greater the decision weight.
Hours just sitting in the car, hell with that. When we had a red flag we would all roll onto the false grid and the first thing everyone did was off with the helmet, the unzip the suit to the waist, and off tie the arms around the waist. Why would you keep all that crap on, it would take like 3min to get you back going again. I think in the time it would take to make the car ready again you would have your gear on.
I only did drag racing at a very hobby level, low level. The turn left and right was also "hobby" racers, but a bit more fun. Drag racing just did not last long enough for me.
My local track at the time was Heartland Park in Topeka, a drag strip and road course. In the rain that drag strip was slippery as snot.
I've raced at HPT before.
I really like that place!
I've hobby road-raced cars and motorcycles.
There is no doubt that it's more fun to pick lines and turn corners.
I've spend many of the best days of my life at Heartland Park on the road course. Most of my old courses are office parks now.
I kept my car, need to find a pic of it. It was an Opel GT in Gulf colors, good looking car. I ran IT at first then FP. That is where the name comes from FPGT72, my number was 72.
I hold on to the car with the silly idea of doing an open road race like big bend or sand hills, think that would be fun, and I have a good rear end for it as well.
Found some, after I got hit at Hallett.
This was my IT car.
Great for heating up the C-rations and LRP’s when on the hill as well. Burns with a hot and long lasting, though smoky fire) Though some say this was all disproven, it was recommended by our infantry drill instructors that you don’t “stomp” the burning C-4 out. (Both pressure and heat are required to get C-4 to detonate.).
Everything is half price, BOGO, or Free Today! I've never been trained, nor have I filled out an application for employment, so if they want it done "right", the store will have to provide a checker.
C-4 burned fast and hot, like a little jet. It didn't smoke. Period. I heated water but never C Rats, due to either burning, on the bottom or heat expansion pushing out stuff like spaghetti, like a huge toothpaste. I used a certain size to boil water for cocoa or LRRPS, and heat tabs for everything else. I had quite a battery of recipes to alter things like pork slices or beef slices (with juices) or a pecan cake roll. And of course Peaches and Pound cake. Our C-4 was in a longer strip-like rather than a block like the photo. It had a strip of green sticky covered withtape along one side. C4 was GREAT stuff.
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