Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 21:13:05 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

This summer we flew our small plane down to Cody and rented a car to do
Yellowstone.  Then, since we had gotten that far, we continued into
South Dakota to get a look at Mount Rushmore before Trump carves his
ugly mug on it.

I saw Rushmore when my family took a vacation trip from upstate NY to
Seattle in '52. Once was enough. What really impressed me was the nearby
Reptile Gardens. I revisited it a few years ago. I wasn't sure if it still
existed but it had moved and was even bigger and better.

We made a fuel stop at Butte, Montana.  I was quite taken by it, and
would like to go back for a closer look.  Not that we didn't get a
fairly close look while our poor little 172, all loaded up on a warm
summer day, struggled for altitude off that strip, which is at 5500
feet.  We had to circle to get high enough to get through the pass
toward Bozeman.

I like Butte. In some ways it reminds me of Troy NY with some of the
architecture and the hills.  Compared to the Montana Banana Belt the
climate is a little harsh. Last spring I went over to a client's open
house in Helena. It was a nice day so I swung down through Butte on my way
home. It was still winter.

Yeah, gaining that 1000' or so can be a challenge. I learned to fly in
Vermont on a Rockwell Lark which is similar to a 172. The Greens aren't as
high but it helps if you clear the chair lifts. There are pieces and parts
of planes that didn't in the forests.  Oddly when I took a contract in Ft.
Wayne all that flat, open area spooked me.