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RFClark
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We need to get Coco a Starlink drop!
We stopped by Coco’s a few minutes ago and he had a crowd there. 9 rigs from Oakland on the way to LA Bay. First time visitors. We had to go to
Chapela to upload the pictures. Coco needs a Starlink system!
Looks like Coco will have more traffic here. Stuffs collecting fast. We left some outside solar lights and he’s collecting lots of solar panels.
  
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JZ
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Great idea.
He could sell Wi-Fi access.
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BajaBlanca
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This is wonderful! Way to go Coco!!
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RFClark
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He could stream a video feed of himself telling stories and talking to Baja old timers too!
He’d be another Art Bell!
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Bajazly
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And lets pave all the cool dirt roads in Baja so everybody can get to the cool spots and post photos quicker.
Coco has lived some 80 odd years without being connected and he is just fine. I know a bunch of the people you saw there and all they do is stare at
their phones. First stop in Bahia will be internet access to get some good staring in. It's ok and good to be disconnected for a while every now and
then.
So no, we don't need to get Coco a Starlink account nor does he need one. Quit trying to make Baja like where you came from.
Believing is religion - Knowing is science
Harald Pietschmann
"Get off the beaten path and memories, friends and new techniques are developed"
Bajazly, August 2019
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mtgoat666
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Why would anyone want wifi access at coco’s panty palace?
Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
Prefered gender pronoun: the royal we
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AKgringo
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I'm waiting for an Oxxo to open up across the street from Coco's new digs! 
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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RFClark
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He could stream a video feed of himself telling stories and talking to Baja old timers too!
He’d be another Art Bell!
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willardguy
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OMG that old fool with access to pornhub!  im afraid he'd hurt himself!
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RFClark
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Goat,
You still have a land line phone under your bed? You should get out more!
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mtgoat666
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Yep! Got three landline numbers at home for work. Even got a fax! Not much use for the fax, but we have need for it once in a rare while...
amazingly, there are a few people that still send faxes — it’s nostalgic! A working antique taking up desk space!
The nice thing about landlines is you can keep certain people on a leash by giving them your landline number and not your cell number...
Just his year I removed a rotary phone from the kitchen wall! I kept it in place for as long as possible, it survived several remodels, kept it just
for chits and grins,... but some recent remodeling finally forced it’s removal.
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Woke!
“...ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” “My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America
will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
Prefered gender pronoun: the royal we
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JZ
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As soon as they make portable setups I'm going to get one that can be used when camping and on my boat.
Think about working remote anchored off a beautiful beach in Puerto Refugio. With Zoom's virtual background capability no one will know where you
are. Damn that will be sweet and I think it will be here soon.
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RFClark
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I still have a couple of working telex machines in the shop but it’s hard io find the paper and punch tape anymore!
You do know that cell phones have a really great feature? They tell you who’s calling and if you press a key it will do the “Hi, I’m not in
right now, leave a message and I’ll call you as soon as i get back” thing?
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JZ
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https://www.efax.com
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RFClark
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You used to have to flip switches on a PDP-8 before it would even read the punch tape! A good friend of mine wrote DEC’s first IO program!
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RFClark
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I’ll go even further back than that! Around ‘60 one of the companies that made cores (little teeny ferrite things they used for nonvolatile
memory) was located in Inglewood. I visited there with a friend to see their “secret process” for making cores! They used a couple of multi ton
mill stones to polish the cores and get the sides parallel! Just like grinding flower! Only thing missing was the Ox!
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David K
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It's a new world people... no more 2 week long drives to La Paz and waving at every car you pass or stopping to share road conditions ahead.
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RFClark
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Goat didn't say but the telco people made him disconnect his rotary dial phone because they stopped supporting switch closures!
David,
La Paz being far away wasn’t all bad! I used to work wit a guy who flew down there when he finished a project and would hang out with the Chinese
Hookers!
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RFClark
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No, I started when I was 16 and could drive! Remember the Ridley Scott Apple commercial where the girl ran up the isle and through the hammer through
the screen?
Jobs was in the UK with Ridley and Waznick was here in Hollywood with Adrian Liyne doing a different commercial. I watched them talking to each other
on this suitcase sized thing with a phone handset connected to it! Something called a “cell phone”!
Goat can have his copper wires!
Most everyone stopped in ‘90 ish! Sasktel (Canada) supported it until April 2012 they still had a thousand rotary customers (goat?) I think they
were the last major in NA to end rotary!
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John Harper
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One thing I do wonder is if those of us who went through that period, don't have a deeper / broader understanding of this whole computer revolution
phenomenon, than those who were born into graphical user interfaces and spoon-fed social media. 
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Started out using punch cards and a PDP-11 in college. We also got early Apples with 8" floppy disks. After college I worked at Kaypro Corporation
so I worked with the first PC compatibles, laptops, modems, expanded RAM, evolution of interfaces from SCSI to now USB. Even the adaptation of
Windows/GUI from X Windows (IIRC) running on Unix. Also Sun Sparcstations, DEC VAX, and IBM mainframes to the servers we use today.
John
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