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Go carefully there. Kynar tends to wilt at soldering heat. Press insulated wires together when they're still hot and suddenly they can be kissing; a 1-diameter short is easy to overlook when you're inspecting your work.

I find it worthwhile to use teflon-insulated wire here. When I'm building a prototype, the last thing I want to have to distrust is my construction.

So it was double-forks, not pitch-forks, all along?

That's Keith Baar; I looked it up.

Keith Barr focused on musical technology at MXR, Alesis and eventually Spin Semiconductor. His legacy is MXR pedal effects like the Phase-90, the MidiVerb digital reverb series and the Spin FV-1 digital reverb chip.

> The 8088's chief virtue was that it was readily available at a reasonable price;

That, and it had a compatible suite of peripheral chips, while the M68K didn't... Something I vaguely recall an Intel FAE gloating about soon after: "And we're going to keep it that way."

If you come across a CZ230S, be aware that you can exfiltrate all 100 of the fixed voicings through SysEx. I got that far, saving those tables to disk; my plan, when I ran out of time and attention, was to SysEx in one of those settings to the last entry in the CZ101's table, which is overwriteable, so as to get 8 notes at a time. Maybe you'll find a place to drop in a ROM with them all.

Thanks, CVS.

It's off the shelf at my local CVS (e: and has been for weeks). I looked.

My anecdata is that, though it's not as effective as pseudoephedrine, phenylephrine actually is effective in an inhaler, and a helluva lot better at clearing up a stuffy nose than "scents and essential oils". Of course, a cylindrical inhaler with a wick inside it doesn't go near my digestive tract... Now I'll have to look around for a replacement inhaler, something quick enough to avert choking-panic. Thanks, CVS.

Lancaster CA is high desert.

The laptop is a Gateway MX8711. I tried the Exe-Gnu 64bit live-USB and it refused to boot, so I shrugged and booted it into the 32bit flavor. Inherent or model-specific (or offended at only having 2G DRAM to play in), it wasn't worth my time to chase down why, not for an ancilliary machine.

Browsing is slow but not that unusable. firefox-esr is in the repos; I prefer palemoon but I'll take what I can get. Gnumeric is faster than LO; both are in the repos. The Broadcom blobs for that Gateway machine are sadly out of date, so I yanked the wifi module out entirely; ethernet works fine, though in most cases I use it landlocked. The editor I prefer (jstar) is TUI, so I mostly work out of xterms.

Use-cases? Remote and while-you-wait work, RS232 and ethernet test console. It's bigger than a netbook but it's what I've got, so I lug it around.

Disagree.

I'm a ham; my kids aren't... but they grew up with me using Morse (my computers talk to me when they boot up, and when a 'kitchentimer' goes off, and...) so they were naturally exposed to the paradigm. Maybe that's a limiting factor, but...

With CW you're limited to two states: key and unkey. Knocking on a wall, you're not: you can go loud and soft as well. A dah has the same pacing as it always does (3 dits in length), but if its knock is perceptibly louder, at least twice as hard as a dit, in practice that seems to make it hold together as readable Morse, at least for us. Certainly our family signal, questionmark (..__..), is usable that way, so is each son's "call-letter".

And (guessing here) you'd be SOL if there were already 9999 Susies registered when you tried to sign up.

Me, I'm gonna treat it like a firstnick.lastnick format when it arrives at my account. I figure "crb3.cdp1802" is very unlikely to be taken before I get there, but, if I'm wrong, there're lots of other already-memorized device-numbers I can append.