Digging around in my closet at home, I found two old ProFiles that had been inop since the late '90s. On one, the drive would not turn. I swapped its analog board into the other ProFile and presto! that one was fixed.

This small victory aside, the 27-year longevity of the ST-506 inside is probably exceptional. I have ordered parts for an IDEfile, ( Read more... )

A perspective that makes me glad to be a software engineer in the 2010s:The internal controversy came to a head when a delegation of du Pont chemists led by W. F. Harrington visited Standard's Bayway plant in September, 1924. The contrast between the du Pont approach and the Standard approach was evident from the moment Harrington and his team ( Read more... )

Today I did my part to help improve Wikipedia (highlighted):


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Day 66

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Day 65

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Days 62,64
[Note that the chronology has become a little bit nonlinear here. It won't get any worse. -tss]

Everything is ending. The Sentra has taken me over 10,000 miles, across the US and up to Seattle. Parts of it may not have worked all the time, but when I said go, the car always went. But then there was the corrosion and body damage, that ( Read more... )

Day 63

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Day 61

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Day 60

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