Ed Vance wrote --

jm>> Ed Koon loaned me a 64 in May but haven't been able to get it up

and
^^^^
[Vance]

Sorry about that, a late middle age moment. :)

jm>> Its my fault for not doing anything much with it since then.

You could check if the TV Channel Switch on the back of the C=64 was
set to the same setting for a unused TV Channel on Your TV Set.
I had it set to Channel 4.

First, I gotta find a tv set.
Got rid of mine years ago.

jm>> Yeah, something like two or three hours.

Four to Five hours driving time for me to WV, but don't have any plans right now to drive East.

And I don't have any plans for you to do that. :)
I wouldn't mind going to Cinci. In fact I would enjoy the trip.
Joe


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01-15-18 06:33 joe mackey wrote to Daryl Stout about Commie stuff
Howdy! Joe,

Your BBS message reader has Daryl's initials by my comments to You. ??

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Ed Vance wrote --

..jm>> .... Ed Koon loaned me a 64 in May but haven't been able to get
it up

and
.................. ^^^^
................ [Vance]

Sorry about that, a late middle age moment. :)

..jm>> .. Its my fault for not doing anything much with it since then.

You could check if the TV Channel Switch on the back of the C=64 was
set to the same setting for a unused TV Channel on Your TV Set.
I had it set to Channel 4.

First, I gotta find a tv set.
Got rid of mine years ago.

Hmmmmm, interfacing a Commodore 64's composite Video signal to your laptop would be a problem then.

I wonder "if" You had a Digital TV Convertor box with Video and Audio
Output Jacks on it, and connected cables from them to one of those
"Video 2 PC" video conversion systems adapters plugged into a USB port
on Your laptop - could that let You use the laptop screen to see what's on
the C=64 "if" the C=64 was plugged in the Antenna jack of the Digi TV box?

..jm>> .... Yeah, something like two or three hours.

Four to Five hours driving time for me to WV, but don't have any plans right now to drive East.

And I don't have any plans for you to do that. :)
I wouldn't mind going to Cinci. In fact I would enjoy the trip.

I [EV not DS> or DK>] live in Southern Indiana across the Ohio River
from Louisville, Kentucky - not Cincy, different conversation, different person, but the same Subject: Commie stuff.

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Joe,

Sorry about that, a late middle age moment. :)

I seem to have that...I hadn't seen any messages in here in awhile,
and I discovered I somehow had the QWK deal turn it off <blush!>. It was
also a good thing I had a backup from a few weeks ago, as I tried a data
file update for the BBS software, and nearly lost everything. So, I've
gone back to a backup just before the end of 2017...then redid my
messages to those of 2 days ago.

First, I gotta find a tv set.
Got rid of mine years ago.

I have a flat screen monitor, but rarely watch it...unless it's for
weather programs, or for railroad or selected movie VHS or DVD's.

I wouldn't mind going to Cinci. In fact I would enjoy the trip.

I hate long drives...and rarely go outside of central Arkansas
anymore.

Daryl

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Daryl wrote --

I wouldn't mind going to Cinci. In fact I would enjoy the trip.

I hate long drives...and rarely go outside of central Arkansas
anymore.

I don't really miss having a car (and all the expenses) but I do enjoy getting out on the road sometimes. That's the great thing about a rental. I pick it up, drive, and put it back.
And when I travel I prefer the old roads to freeways. Freeways are nice but you don't see anything. Its the same fast food/motels at all the interchanges and one doesn't know if they are in are in CT or CA.
With the old roads you pass by farms, go though small towns, always a change of scenery.
Couple of years ago I was in PA and watched a farmer pull stumps from the ground with a team of horses. Don't see that on interstates. :)
Joe


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Joe,

I don't really miss having a car (and all the expenses) but I do enjoy
getting out on the road sometimes. That's the great thing about a rental. JM>pick it up, drive, and put it back.

And, hope that someone doesn't plow into you in a wreck. I heard that
with one of the car rental companies, if you get into an accident with
the car, whether it was your fault or not, you have to pay for the
repairs.

And when I travel I prefer the old roads to freeways. Freeways are nice b
you don't see anything. Its the same fast food/motels at all the interchang JM>and one doesn't know if they are in are in CT or CA.

Plus, there's usually far less traffic on the old roads.

With the old roads you pass by farms, go though small towns, always a chan
of scenery.

Years ago, on Home Box Office (HBO), they had a program called "Money Matters", and the segment was on taking Amtrak's Empire Builder from
Chicago to Seattle. One of the things they noted was "There is the very tangible sense of journeying. Not sealed in a steel tube at 30,000
feet...but, rolling through the landsacape. Out the windows of the
train, we saw a very different America than one sees from the interstate highways. Somehow....closer, smaller scale, friendlier".

I found a video last night on YouTube called "Aboard The Diesel
Train". You're aboard a NICE Sleeping Car, and all the video is via a
Tran Simulator program...mostly looking out the window, with some aerial
shots of the train going down the tracks. There is a constant clickety
clack, plus the whistle of the train for highway grade crossings, and
the crossing bells as the train goes by. It lasts 75 minutes, and it
reminds me of train trips in the past aboard the sleeper.

It's at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs941e1TT6I -- best listened
to with a set of headphones.

Couple of years ago I was in PA and watched a farmer pull stumps from the
ground with a team of horses. Don't see that on interstates. :)

For that matter, you don't see the classic Burma Shave signs, either.

Daryl

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Quoting Joe Mackey to Daryl Stout on 01-19-18 07:20 <=-

I hate long drives...and rarely go outside of central Arkansas
anymore.

I don't really miss having a car (and all the expenses) but I do
enjoy getting out on the road sometimes. That's the great thing about
a rental. I pick it up, drive, and put it back.

My little brother, who lives in Brooklyn, does the same... when he needs
or wants a car, he rents one.... most of the time he can just use mass transport in the city, so why have the hassle of a car...

And when I travel I prefer the old roads to freeways. Freeways are
nice but you don't see anything. Its the same fast food/motels at all
the interchanges and one doesn't know if they are in are in CT or CA.
With the old roads you pass by farms, go though small towns, always
a change of scenery.

I tend to use a mix, depending on where I'm going... I've found that the
old roads can be as efficient as the freeways or toll roads, and usually
a lot less hassle all around...

Couple of years ago I was in PA and watched a farmer pull stumps from
the ground with a team of horses. Don't see that on interstates. :)

At least not very likely... :) And harder to pull over to watch,
besides... ;)

ttyl neb

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Daryl wrote --

pick it up, drive, and put it back.

And, hope that someone doesn't plow into you in a wreck.

I have an account with Enterprise, have for over 20 years.
I buy insurance each time, just to be safe.
One time I was at a stop light and started moving through the intersection and someone dallied too long to make a left turn so the van behind them started
backing up. I laid on the horn, to no avail.
There was the crunch of metal as the van's bumper hit the front fenders of the small car I was driving.
I called Enterprise who said the insurance covered that, send the accident report, etc to them. Nothing more was ever heard from them.

Chicago to Seattle. One of the things they noted was "There is the very

tangible sense of journeying. Not sealed in a steel tube at 30,000

Absolutely.
Plus on a train you can get up and wander around, visit the diner, lounge, etc.
Today plane travel is common place.
With so many in the air they are no longer something special. Airplanes have become buses.

I found a video last night on YouTube called "Aboard The Diesel
Train". You're aboard a NICE Sleeping Car

On one transcontinental trip from Colorado to Chicago I splurged and got a roomette on the Santa Fe's El Capitan. To me that was luxury travel!

shots of the train going down the tracks. There is a constant clickety clack, plus the whistle of the train for highway grade crossings, and
the crossing bells as the train goes by.

I had a tape once of something similar. It was about an hour or so long, from leaving one station to pulling into another.
When I would listen to that I often slightly swayed in my chair giving the effect of being on a train. :)
There is an annual train trip from here up into the mountains each fall to see
the turning of the leaves and such. Until several years ago it was pulled by a
steam locomotive. * If conditions were right I could hear the whistle as it pulled into the station six blocks from my apartment.
I love the sight, sound and feel of a steam locomotive. They talk to you, they are "alive". A diesel is just a lifeless machine.
(* CSX banned all steam locomotives saying they were "unsafe".)

ground with a team of horses. Don't see that on interstates. :)

For that matter, you don't see the classic Burma Shave signs, either.

Been a long time since any Burma Shave signs have been seen along the road.
:)
Joe


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Nancy wrote --

JM>> a rental. I pick it up, drive, and put it back.

My little brother, who lives in Brooklyn, does the same... when he needs or wants a car, he rents one.... most of the time he can just use mass transport in the city, so why have the hassle of a car...

If I lived in NYC I wouldn't want a car either.
Reminds me of the old joke.
A woman goes to a bank in NYC and asks for a $10,000 30 day loan and offers her new car as security. The bank takes her car and gives her the money. Thirty days later she returns and pays off the loan, with the same money she was given. She was asked why and replied she had gone to Europe and where else
could she park her car in NYC for a month for only the interest she had to pay on the loan. :)
Joe


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Hi, Joe...

I called Enterprise who said the insurance covered that, send the accident
report, etc to them. Nothing more was ever heard from them.

Wow. I had heard reports that told the opposite of what you said.

Plus on a train you can get up and wander around, visit the diner, lounge,
etc.

And, people are more friendly on a train.

Today plane travel is common place.
With so many in the air they are no longer something special. Airplanes ha
become buses.

And, just as cramped.

On one transcontinental trip from Colorado to Chicago I splurged and got a
roomette on the Santa Fe's El Capitan. To me that was luxury travel!

It sure was.

I had a tape once of something similar. It was about an hour or so long,
from leaving one station to pulling into another.
When I would listen to that I often slightly swayed in my chair giving the
effect of being on a train. :)

That works.

There is an annual train trip from here up into the mountains each fall to
the turning of the leaves and such. Until several years ago it was pulled b JM>steam locomotive. * If conditions were right I could hear the whistle as it JM>pulled into the station six blocks from my apartment.

Some railroads do fall foliage excursions.

I love the sight, sound and feel of a steam locomotive. They talk to you,
they are "alive". A diesel is just a lifeless machine.
(* CSX banned all steam locomotives saying they were "unsafe".)

I guess those who have the steamers now are unsafe railroads,
according to CSX. :P

Been a long time since any Burma Shave signs have been seen along the roa

They're more collectors items now.

Daryl

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Joe,

A woman goes to a bank in NYC and asks for a $10,000 30 day loan and offe
her new car as security. The bank takes her car and gives her the money. JM>Thirty days later she returns and pays off the loan, with the same money she JM>was given. She was asked why and replied she had gone to Europe and where e JM>could she park her car in NYC for a month for only the interest she had to p JM>on the loan. :)

I've seen variations on that one.

Daryl

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Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 01-29-18 07:03 <=-

a rental.-a I pick it up, drive, and put it back.

My little brother, who lives in Brooklyn, does the same... when he needs
or wants a car, he rents one.... most of the time he can just use mass
transport in the city, so why have the hassle of a car...

If I lived in NYC I wouldn't want a car either.

Finding a convenient parking space can indeed be a major job... and
there are also lots of other regulations that make it harder to keep a
car.... When I visited my brother, for his wedding, I was fortunate to
find free parking on the street right in front of his place... and have
it be a street where one didn't have to move the vehicle constantly...

Reminds me of the old joke.
A woman goes to a bank in NYC and asks for a $10,000 30 day loan
and offers her new car as security. The bank takes her car and gives
her the money. Thirty days later she returns and pays off the loan,
with the same money she was given. She was asked why and replied she
had gone to Europe and where else could she park her car in NYC for a month for only the interest she had to pay on the loan. :)

I've heard that story.... not sure if it really is a joke, or if it
might have actually happened... <G> The only part that sounds like a
joke is the bank actually taking possession of the car and storing it
for her... ;)

ttyl neb

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Daryl wrote --

I called Enterprise who said the insurance covered that, send the

accident report, etc to them. Nothing more was ever heard from them.

Wow. I had heard reports that told the opposite of what you said.

I've never had any problems with Enterprise. Used them off and on for over 20 years.
There are times I'll request a smaller car and be told they were out of stock
and bumped up to a larger one, same price as the smaller. I've never been bounced down to a smaller from a larger one.
There was a problem once with my credit card. I have a $200 cap on it and something was more than that. I don't recall what it was, some sort of refundable cost that was $200, so they accepted the debit (I was going on a trip and far more than enough to cover expected expenses {gas, lodging, food, etc}. That refundable was put on the CC the rest on the debit and never got a charge on the CC.

There is an annual train trip from here up into the mountains each

Some railroads do fall foliage excursions.

At the weekly coffee klatch a friend of a member dropped by (we meet in a local bakery/coffee shop) and spoke about the one here. Someone asked how much
it was and told the price with the guy adding, "If you become a member of railroad society and put in X number of hours a year you ride free", which got a laugh. (Can't recall the hours doing various RR related things).
I told of the time over 50 years ago I went on one trip and rode back from Charlestown to Huntington in the Rockefella's private car once Jay Rockfella and his family got off, sitting on the platform waving at the poor people as we
passed. :)
(No, didn't throw them any dimes like the old man). <g>

(* CSX banned all steam locomotives saying they were "unsafe".)

I guess those who have the steamers now are unsafe railroads,
according to CSX. :P

Yeah. Its not the same now. :(
Joe


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