Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Fri, 27 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 12:17:54 +0100, D wrote:
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May all the power boats be damned! I especially like the ones who see
that I'm sitting in a tiny fishing boat, and then they speed by at extra
high speed to see if they can sink my boat with the waves.

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My father and I were fishing in a rented rowboat when a speedboat nearly
swamped us. My father stood up and yelled 'Cocksucker!'. I didn't know he
knew words like that :)

I feel a close bond with your father. Similar words and worse, have been on my mind when they do their thing. ;)

Boat rentals were common on the area lakes. They were homemade wooden
productions with flat bottoms, square ends, and a bait well under the
seats. They weren't beautiful but they were stable. When we got the
aluminum V-hull it was a lot less stable.

I know the one. Around the lake where I fish in sweden, you can find a few abandoned boats here and there. From small plastic ones, to the one above. Sadly they tend to rot away. When I was young, one summer, I found one I thought was abandoned, and took care of it during the summer. Then one day it was gone. It turned out it had an owner who finally found it, and took it away. He did not have his name or phone number painted on the boat.
In the housing community next to mine, they have a rule that all boats by the lake must have name + phone number painted on them, or they will be seen as abandoned and towed away. Hmm, come to think of it... maybe I should check to see if there are any abandoned ones I can restore, before exploring that canoe idea!

In the '50s the designs were adapted to use plywood instead of planks.
After storing the boats over the winter in the spring they discovered
porcupines love the resin used to bond the layers.
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I have a special fondness for porcupines. While I was on a multiday hike a
porcupine ate the front brake lines and heater hose on my pickup. It was
raining when I got back to the trailhead so I threw my gear in and took
off. I quickly discovered a pickup without front brakes isn't the best
thing to use to come off a mountain. I could splice the heater hose and
refill the radiator from a creek but the brakes had to wait until I was
back to civilization.

They are very cute. Did not know they liked to eat that stuff.