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We need to get Coco a Starlink drop!

RFClark - 4-29-2021 at 01:28 PM

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 - 4-29-2021 at 01:47 PM

Great idea.

He could sell Wi-Fi access.

BajaBlanca - 4-29-2021 at 06:08 PM

This is wonderful! Way to go Coco!!

RFClark - 4-29-2021 at 07:52 PM

He could stream a video feed of himself telling stories and talking to Baja old timers too!

He’d be another Art Bell!

Bajazly - 4-29-2021 at 08:27 PM

Quote: Originally posted by RFClark  
We need to get Coco a Starlink drop!



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.

mtgoat666 - 4-29-2021 at 08:34 PM

Quote: Originally posted by JZ  
Great idea.

He could sell Wi-Fi access.



Why would anyone want wifi access at coco’s panty palace?

AKgringo - 4-29-2021 at 08:34 PM

I'm waiting for an Oxxo to open up across the street from Coco's new digs! :O

RFClark - 4-29-2021 at 08:39 PM

He could stream a video feed of himself telling stories and talking to Baja old timers too!

He’d be another Art Bell!

willardguy - 4-29-2021 at 08:43 PM

OMG that old fool with access to pornhub! :lol: im afraid he'd hurt himself!

RFClark - 4-29-2021 at 08:43 PM

Goat,

You still have a land line phone under your bed? You should get out more!

mtgoat666 - 4-29-2021 at 08:58 PM

Quote: Originally posted by RFClark  
Goat,

You still have a land line phone under your bed? You should get out more!


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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JZ - 4-29-2021 at 09:11 PM

Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666  

Why would anyone want wifi access at coco’s panty palace?


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 - 4-29-2021 at 09:12 PM

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 - 4-29-2021 at 09:17 PM

https://www.efax.com

RFClark - 4-29-2021 at 09:28 PM

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!

RFClark - 4-29-2021 at 09:45 PM

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 - 4-29-2021 at 09:46 PM

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.

RFClark - 4-29-2021 at 09:52 PM

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 - 4-29-2021 at 10:16 PM

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 - 4-30-2021 at 04:42 AM

Quote: Originally posted by lencho  

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. :smug:



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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mtgoat666 - 4-30-2021 at 06:02 AM

Quote: Originally posted by RFClark  
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.



[Edited on 4-29-2021 by RFClark]


Who designed coco’s hot box panty palace?
You should have added a wheel chair ramp. That front entry with 4 inch stoop is not passable in wheel chair.
You should have added perimeter shaded area, there is not shading of walls to cut heat, there is not outdoor shaded area. That structure needs to be redesigned to stay cool, and outdoor shade is needed — this is a brutal desert area, eh?

advrider - 4-30-2021 at 06:25 AM

Goat, sounds like you should head down with all of your knowledge and building supplies and give him a hand. Nothing better then lending a hand and helping someone else! I'll send some money for concrete for the patio and ramp. Heck even post some pictures of everything you accomplish while you are there.

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mtgoat666 - 4-30-2021 at 06:45 AM

Quote: Originally posted by advrider  
Goat, sounds like to should head down with all of your knowledge and building supplies and give him a hand. Nothing better then lending and hand and helping someone else! I'll send some money for concrete for the patio and ramp. Heck even post some pictures of everything you accomplish while you are there.


In this case I prefer to stick to providing advice

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BajaMama - 4-30-2021 at 06:59 AM

Quote: Originally posted by David K  
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.


I still get a little miffed when drivers from the opposite direction fail to reduce their speed to keep the dust down on dirt roads. Those are the drivers that never wave, either.

Before the new fangled rotary dial phone!

AKgringo - 4-30-2021 at 07:33 AM

Quote: Originally posted by RFClark  
Goat didn't say but the telco people made him disconnect his rotary dial phone because they stopped supporting switch closures!



The area in northern CA that I grew up in was slow to adopt dial phones. I am pretty sure that the old phone (no dial, no buttons) is stored in the part of the basement that I am reluctant to sort through.

Until 1960, if you had a private line, you picked up the hand set and waited for an operator to say "Number please". Then you gave her the four digit number (ours was 2211).

If you had a party line, you had to wait for whoever was using the circuit to finish their call before you could make or receive one yourself.

If you were a kid goofing around on the phone, an operator would sometimes come on the line, scold you, and threaten to call back later and talk to a parent!

JZ - 4-30-2021 at 08:38 AM

Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo  


If you were a kid goofing around on the phone, an operator would sometimes come on the line, scold you, and threaten to call back later and talk to a parent!


Elaborate on "goofing around"?

AKgringo - 4-30-2021 at 08:52 AM

Quote: Originally posted by JZ  
Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo  


If you were a kid goofing around on the phone, an operator would sometimes come on the line, scold you, and threaten to call back later and talk to a parent!


Elaborate on "goofing around"?



Is your refrigerator running? Yes that one has been around since the late 50's.....or so I am told. I was always a good boy!

Bajabus - 4-30-2021 at 09:24 AM

Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo  
Quote: Originally posted by JZ  
Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo  


If you were a kid goofing around on the phone, an operator would sometimes come on the line, scold you, and threaten to call back later and talk to a parent!


Elaborate on "goofing around"?



Is your refrigerator running? Yes that one has been around since the late 50's.....or so I am told. I was always a good boy!


Do you have Jim Bean in a bottle? We were bad boys. We built a board with diodes and dozens of clips. We would take that board into the basement of apartment buildings in Yonkers NY at 2AM and interconnect all the phone lines then we would call the operator and curse at her. She would call back and everyone's phone rang. It was a hoot listening to the resulting confusion with our handsets. We were epic phone freaks.

RFClark - 4-30-2021 at 04:25 PM

AK,

The “Sutter 1” central office near Stanford still had the original vertical mechanical steppers, not even the “new” rotary steppers until into the ‘60s! GTE never meant “Great Telephone Equipment”!


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mtgoat666 - 4-30-2021 at 09:32 PM

With wifi, coco could put up a web cam for 24/7 video feed of his panty collection...
Knuckle draggers would cream over that.

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RFClark - 4-30-2021 at 09:55 PM

Goat,

Coco could raise a lot of go fund me money by doing just that or telling stories! He’d probably get some famous autographed panties too!

The Knuckle Draggers will inherit the earth! They’re the ones who have kids!

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JZ - 4-30-2021 at 11:54 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Bajabus  


Do you have Jim Bean in a bottle? We were bad boys. We built a board with diodes and dozens of clips. We would take that board into the basement of apartment buildings in Yonkers NY at 2AM and interconnect all the phone lines then we would call the operator and curse at her. She would call back and everyone's phone rang. It was a hoot listening to the resulting confusion with our handsets. We were epic phone freaks.


You and I would be best friends..

RocketJSquirrel - 5-1-2021 at 08:28 AM

I lived in Asia in the early 90s and had one of those little black boxes that made buzzing and clicking noises and somehow allowed you to call internationally free. Had no idea what it was doing, but it worked just fine for a few years.

I would have enjoyed knowing what it was actually doing.

RFClark - 5-1-2021 at 09:01 AM

Rocky,

That box was a demonstration that in-band non encrypted signaling is a bad idea! Those tones were in-band signaling and you could do some amazing things with them!

The Telcos fixed it! Now you need to hack their computer system to get free stuff!

Bajabus - 5-1-2021 at 09:14 AM

for a few years in the 70's if you could whistle a perfect C you could make free 800 calls

WideAngleWandering - 5-1-2021 at 10:27 AM

Captain Crunch