[Lowfer] ldes' et al

[Peter Barick]

>>> evp@pacbell.net 09/19/03 10:43AM >>>

>  Here in California the term scofflaw has no meaning at all. 
Illegal

Hear ya, Ed. Getting that way around here. I see them filling up the
police blotter in the paper. I refer to them, as a class of scofflaw
residents, as " Know Nothings": No license, no registration, no
insurance, no card, no speak well. Sad our system seems unable or
unwilling to address these criminal matters, yet darts off attacking
other wrongs around the globe--and not doing much better there either.

This may interest you, Ed. Was at a regional hamfest last weekend and
found an "engineering" book, Radio Theory, by Therman, circa 1938. It
was in good condition with the usual complexion of age. Thought you
mentioned this name on this list. Regrettably the book and other items
came from an estate sale, one of a few others at this just this hamfest,
by a unknowing family member. But sometimes it is a neighbor ham selling
a deceased ham's related goods. There are the clues usually: sometimes,
a box of Bud coils; maybe a collection of WWII era-boxed tubes with
those VT- numbers or large out-of-band xtals. Whatever it once was, much
of it is hardly relevant today, usually being picked up by others for
nostalgic interest, sometimes as spares. That old collection of treasure
gets spread around again.

All,
We now live in the era of the Zero down, zero interest, "I'll pay you
to take it home" PC. Yes, also at this fair was a VAR dealer w/ pallets
of pcs. He offered to pay me to take away an Apple 15-inch monitor, any
one from the cubic sized pallets available. ( Heh-heh, I backed up a
bit.) Add-on cards, 5 for $1.00, refrigerator-sized boxes of them.
200-300Mhz PCs for $10-15. Need a chip, grab a low end Pentium for $2,
many levels. Lots of (ahem!) Compaqs and Gateways, likely business-based
boxes from doing pc-cycle upgrades. Ditto for the Mac stuff. I shook my
head and walked.

Peter