They did indeed produce a lot of heat. There was a metal cover that surrounded the bulb that got warm enough to cause nasty burns, even with a fan helping to exhaust the heat out of the top of the projector (doesn't that sound like a CPU cooler?). You had to be careful when threading the film to not accidentally touch it. The cover had to be secured with a couple of wing nuts so that it would stay in place, but there were no interlocks to make sure the cover was in place before turning on the bulb.

I heard some cautionary tales of projectionists getting temporary flash blindness from looking at one of the bulbs while it was on due to getting lazy while replacing a bulb and testing the projector with the cover open. Whether true or not, I had no interest in finding out.

- D

Now if only bioncstats would fix my cpid.

Just sold my G4 mac and a radius 21" crt for 60 bucks.
My next rig to sell is a HP workstation xw6000. 2 X 2.8Ghz xeon first gen hyperthreading processors. On board 320 adaptec scsi controler, 8x AGP. I actually have two of these rigs but one is my boys and he does not want to give his up. I'm planning on getting rid of all my computers that are pre core 2 duo. I figure one i7 computer can do more that 5 of my old PC for probably less electricity cost.

Sgt Joe, your hard drives are in the mail. Should be there Saturday or Monday.

Thanks Brink

Cheers

The chickens have been doing surprisingly well given the weather(-5F this morning). I get about half brown and half white with a few green and blue ones thrown in. I have a couple of aracanas. Still have the 250 watt heat lamp going. The coop is closed up, but there is just enough cracks in the walls to provide ventilation without letting too much heat escape. But man do they eat when it is cold out.

Cheers

I'm thinking of building my own when the time comes.