A darker shade of orange

[David Brasfield]

Hi, folks.

I have a question for you folks that deal with a lot of wood with your laser.

How do you get rid of the 70's shade of orange tanning lotion that my hands have turned?

I know there are people here old enough to remember the orange "over-weekend-tan" back in high school. I was always amused in home room on Monday mornings. "Hey, nice tan! Ya been to the beach?"

Oh, and to whoever mentioned that they had built their own Altair - you need to stop, you're showing our age. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800)



David

[Mitchell Andrus]

Hi, folks.

How do you get rid of the 70's shade of orange tanning lotion that my hands have turned?

It hasn't worn off YET??????

[David Brasfield]

It hasn't worn off YET??????

Nah, still got it, and it gets worse every day

David

[Bill Cunningham]

Boy! checked that link, and I remember most of that stuff. (I built the Altair).. I remember the TV Typewriter, and the calculator but never built any of those.. Built a heath H8 next, along with the terminal and dot matrix printer (and still have them) In 89 I did a article for the Magazine Canadian Data Systems highlighting 'some' of the previous 20 years of computing from 'my' perspective..
This is from a Ooold website I put up years ago and forgot about.. Not exactly Orange wood, but the 'stain' remains..
http://www.geocities.com/athens/atla...uff/index.html

[David Brasfield]

Boy! checked that link, and I remember most of that stuff. (I built the Altair).. I remember the TV Typewriter, and the calculator but never built any of those.. Built a heath H8 next, along with the terminal and dot matrix printer (and still have them) In 89 I did a article for the Magazine Canadian Data Systems highlighting 'some' of the previous 20 years of computing from 'my' perspective..
This is from a Ooold website I put up years ago and forgot about.. Not exactly Orange wood, but the 'stain' remains..
http://www.geocities.com/athens/atla...uff/index.html

That was a good read. I got my start back in 1975 as well. My first project was epoxy encapsulated "logic circuits" built from discrete components (true TTL) that were combined together to control textile machines. The control panels were 18 feet high, had three sides (compartments), and 60 control points per machine. The machines were 60 feet long. There were 62 machines total

By 1982, I was spending all my time developing embedded control systems, stand alone sensors (atmospheric gas monitoring) and anything else that you could stick some logic in and make it work better.

In 1988, I left my day job and started my own engineering firm that lasted until 2006. It morphed a couple of times along the way. I had several chances to get into missile guidance systems, but declined because of the work location. I did my last big engineering job back in 2002 - a remote radio linked seismograph.

Sorry to ramble. I still have a lot of stuff out there in daily use.

I tried to keep my fame to a minimum, although I have a number of papers and articles written about some of my innovations, most of them I can't talk a lot about. I do have a friend that designed the Commodore 128. He is in wikipedia now http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bil_Herd

Fun stuff.

I still can't get this damned orange stain off my hands

David

[Bill Cunningham]

Ahhh do the years ever pass by fast Eh! That old website has not been updated in about 10 years.. If you wandered around it a bit, you will have seen my past life.. I'm a lot dryer now..