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Snapped some pics of Mt. Lassen on our hike through the mountains of far northern California this afternoon
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My Walmart find. Still in the garage due to cold.
Nice pics... I lived in ca 3 different times but I've never seen that part of the state. Seen parts of the american river, oroville, parts of Plumas nf. Driven the entire pch and I-5 but have never seen the ne. Given the current state of affairs I doubt I will now....
I hope to climb it this summer after the highway through the park reopens. My oldest is hopefully big enough we can summit it now. It's supposed to be a fairly easy hike.
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Found these tonight in a box of small specialty tools, they are "jumpers". Anyone else remember using them? @Neb ?They were an integral part of my job. I always carried spares, being so small they were easy to drop and lose.
Years ago circuit boards in catscans and mri’s commonly had rows of tiny gold pins, closely spaced together. These jumpers were used to make electrical connections between the pairs of pins of your choice.
A circuit board or even a computer could be configured to do many things depending on the pins that were connected. There could be hundreds of pins. An engineer would have to read a big manual to figure out all the ways the computer or circuit could be configured... Then spend hours counting pins to make sure he connected the correct pairs. (And going blind in the process
, they were very tiny).
Sort of funny… I was working on a ct one night. An engineer at a different hospital paged me. He needed help configuring several circuit boards… the funny part, he had the hiccups!!! He kept losing count in rows of tiny gold pins. He’d been there for 3 hours!!! And would have been there the rest of the night!!! with the hiccups!!!! counting tiny gold pins!
I finished my work then drove over and helped the guy!!!! He owed me a couple beers for that one!
These days they just change the software or flash the bios in a chip….
Years ago circuit boards in catscans and mri’s commonly had rows of tiny gold pins, closely spaced together. These jumpers were used to make electrical connections between the pairs of pins of your choice.
A circuit board or even a computer could be configured to do many things depending on the pins that were connected. There could be hundreds of pins. An engineer would have to read a big manual to figure out all the ways the computer or circuit could be configured... Then spend hours counting pins to make sure he connected the correct pairs. (And going blind in the process
, they were very tiny).Sort of funny… I was working on a ct one night. An engineer at a different hospital paged me. He needed help configuring several circuit boards… the funny part, he had the hiccups!!!
He kept losing count in rows of tiny gold pins. He’d been there for 3 hours!!! And would have been there the rest of the night!!! with the hiccups!!!! counting tiny gold pins!I finished my work then drove over and helped the guy!!!! He owed me a couple beers for that one!
These days they just change the software or flash the bios in a chip….
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