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Our friend Al Davis (not the NFL owner) sent me this picture yesterday. Al Davis is AKA ALDAV

[img]https://www.electrical-contractor.net/BCodes/Aldav's_crib.jpg[/img]

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Snow outside makes it kinda bright!

Hey Great pic's folks!.
Just goes to show how antiquated my system is!.
Do most of you guys use the HP gear?.
Scott35,
You have a black Cat too?, I love them!!!!.

Hey Bjarney,
When it got real cold here last year and I was on holiday,I threw a few short lengths of 20W heat trace into my shoes and wore them around outside.
Magic I say, even though I had to run them on 230V and carry the flex as I walked.
Imagine 12/24V electric boots with an inter-woven heating element!.
Don't tell me someone has already had this idea!.

Mike,

Here's my Desk (although less messy than it's natural state!)


Bill

From classicsat:

Mike (Trumpy);


My Wife's Workstation is the newest Technology based Machine - Intel Celeron, based on the first Generation Pentium 4 CPUs.
Monitor is also the newest, but her Printer is the same HP 720C Color Inkjet which was used on her previous Machine (purchased new in July 1997).
The remaining W/Ss and server equipment are Pentium 2 (AL440BX) and older!


I currently use all HP gear (kind of biased, I guess...). Both flatbed scanners are also HP.
When I used Tractor Feed Impact Printers, these were universally Epson. First Laser Printer was an old "Legacy" HP type - with Font Cartridges, driven via serial port (yuck!).
Wide Format Printers and Pen Plotters were of two flavors - Calcomp & HP.
Both Companies made great Pen Plotters - media sizes upto Arch. E (36" x 48").
HP models often came with optional serial (RS232) port, or the HPIB (IEEE-488, AKA "GPIB"). It was a cool idea (HPIB), but equipment was expensive and difficult to find.
Common ports for past and present Plotters + Wide/Large Media Format Printers (AKA "Big Inkjet Printers") are Serial ports and Parallel (IEEE-1284) EPP.
The only "Non-HP" Printing peripheral in use currently is the Fax / Laser printer combo machine. It's a Xerox model, plus it doubles as Local Printer for PC#5.


Oh ya!!! We really have 4 Black Cats, but the others were sleeping at the time. Also, Marshall is a real Ham for the Camera - and when a Print Job queues, He runs upto the Printer and watches until the job is complete -hence the "Print Manager" reference!

I'll post a new message in the Computer area, with more details about our past and present setups. Will come back here to insert link to that topic afterwards.

Scott35

I'm repainting and recarpeting my "computer room" at the moment, so my system is in temporary quarters in my bedroom standing on assorted boxes and cases until I get everything organized again!

Scott,
I also have a "print manager," he's also black and named Lucky. He came from Ireland as a kitten about 5 years ago. Love cats!

Bill,
Nice to see you still have an traditional-style 2500 telephone on your desk!



[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 02-05-2004).]

hey "Clasicsat" is that a Star Choice remote on your desk. aka EG