I had an old apple IIc with a green screen. My vic 20 I had hooked up to the black and white tv too. 20MB drives back then were expensive. Memory lane!!!!

I have one unopen packet of 8 inch discs.
Have lost my floppydrive for those or something. I hope they do not reduce that from my salary




Edit: It was so funny to write Minnesota, in Finnish Minne = where, sota = war.

So funny

More about old stuff, I have actually once make inventory to one company.
Concept was that it IT department was outsourced and there fore they were not aloud to own stuff anymore.

So my job was count every piece and create packet that was moved from department Aaa to department Bee..

I get ninehundred (900) list starting something like 60's.
There was absolutely not any logic on those lists, rules varies depending who was creator of list, and so on...

I simply start with one serial number, and build it lifecycle with those lists.
Ex sample: Computer (serial number 1234) was given from Warehouse to Mister Pee on 1.2.2000 -> returned to warehouse on 2.3.2002 by Mister Pee -> given to Sister Cee from Warehouse 5.2.2002 -> last mark so computer must be Sister Cee's main tool to work, so computer does exist and can be transferred as property of new department.

I did have lot last "open status" marking from past decades, of course it was absolutely ridiculous idea to move those, but it was not able to make presume that those were scrapped before I did try verify their destiny, so I did also lot very weird phonecalls.
Hello, this is Thule from department Ääs, it seems to me that you have sign pocket calculator on year 1982 . Would you like to have new batteries for it?
Hello, this is Thule from department Ääs, your father have sign overhead projector on year 1971. EU will forbid incandescent lamps on near future so please change it to new model on warehouse.

I start to get lot admiring glances on corridors after I start to make those calls.

Then I also found lists that were created by some quantum physicists. Ex sample there were three list handling same hardware, just named differently. There was "real", "should be" and "exist".
I did get that impression that there was some items that actually did exist on two place on same, on warehouse and somewhere else.

So I send mail to my boss and wrote that this is absolute huge waste of time and money, I cannot create any realistic view.
I put live examples on email about situation and it would take something like ten minutes to read my mail.
After I send that mail, I did get reply in less than minute, message was simply: "You will finish this task".
Ou poi...

About old stuff:
500W incandescent bulb, still works

Hello Joe,

that is bayonet, manufacture is Phillips..
Bayonet is basically: press down -> turn 90' (degree, not inch).

Bayonet is not very common here on Thule, we usually have Edison base. That is screw like, so it need to turn several turns around.
Abbreviation for those goes: E14, E27 and E40.

E stand for Edison and number mark diameter on millimeters. So E14 is small candle bulb, E27 is common and E40 industrial size. Those metal halides that I buy on this winter are on E40 base.
One inch equal 25,4 millimeters, so those would be something like 0,56 / 1 / 1,6.

Apropoo,

I have designed some electronics stuff some very long times ago so actually mil inch is most common unit to me...
This is simply because 99% percent of all component on that time where originally US designed. So basic unit was module, that was one hundred mil inch a.k.a 2,54 millimeters.
I do not know designer rules now a days but on old days CCCP module was 2,5 millimeters. They purposeful did create this tiny difference so it was not possible to add bigger chips with long row of legs from design to another as serial production ... Poi did they regret that later
Well, there was not CCCP any more when I was on school playing around with PCAD, but this rule did still apply. I really cannot say for sure modern design rules.

Ouu poii, those were the days when I was young man!
There was night halos hundred time a year 8D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3PgGga-e_M&feature=related

Hello darth. Thanks for stopping by. Projector bulb eh ? Not something I would have ever known. Bet those 1000W jobs really produced heat.

Cheers