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[RJ2019]

Phallus rubicundus
Literally "red phallus" in Latin.

That checks out.

 

[RJ2019]

Snapped some pics of Mt. Lassen on our hike through the mountains of far northern California this afternoon

 

[dademoss]

Penelope says Hello :

 

[zannej]

Friend moved appliances over to his new house today. He had to remove a base cabinet to make the new fridge fit.

 

[Mel]

My Walmart find. Still in the garage due to cold.

 

[Peanut]

Mt. Lassen

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....

 

[RJ2019]

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.

 

[Neb]

My Walmart find. Still in the garage due to cold.View attachment 171604View attachment 171605

Plant in peat moss?

Ben

 

[Peanut]

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….

 

[Neb]

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….

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I still have drawers full of configuration jumpers.

Where I thought you were going with wire-wrapped backplanes like a kl-10

Have fun rewiring one of those!

Been there...

Ben

 

[Supervisor42]

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….

View attachment 171608

Ahh, those bring back memories.
They were on all the control boards in the video arcade machines I owned.
They were used to configure the operation of the machines. (how many games per coin, etc.). I always kept a bag of jumpers.
Only the Star Wars machines were advanced enough to let you configure thru a menu.
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[zoomzoom]

Saw this in the HD parking lot and it left me with questions.
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There were no more footprints after this splashdown area.

Me too, like why are all the footprints from the right foot?

 

[Peanut]

were going with wire-wrapped backplanes like a kl-10

Have fun rewiring one of those!

Ben

I never met anyone who liked wire-wrapping backplanes!!! But yes, I still have my wire-wrapping tools. The key was getting comfortable! Else I'd get muscle craps and start making mistakes. GE made a computer without a single cable connection, s-200 I think. Everything had to be wire wrapped. A royal pitb that was!!!!