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Thunderbird Club

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Miles_ONeal said:
I especially dig the red double pg!
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Thanks it was a neglected Epi blackbird when I got it it was missing a couple saddles, no strings, was in a hard case at least. Traded a Ibi 5 string that I didn’t like for it. I wanted something diff so I made the lower pg and then was like hey that might look cool. Cut the piece out and taped in on and looked at it for a few days before I decided to drill holes.
 
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bobyoung53 said:
There's a really fascinating book out about the two scientists who designed ENIAC and how they got it going, how they got screwed at the end of it getting no credit and no money. (of course)

https://www.amazon.com/Eniac-Triumphs-Tragedies-Worlds-Computer/dp/0802713483

"ENIAC used common octal-base radio tubes of the day; the decimal accumulators were made of 6SN7 flip-flops, while 6L7s, 6SJ7s, 6SA7s and 6AC7s were used in logic functions.[32] Numerous 6L6s and 6V6s served as line drivers to drive pulses through cables between rack assemblies.

Several tubes burned out almost every day, leaving ENIAC nonfunctional about half the time. Special high-reliability tubes were not available until 1948. Most of these failures, however, occurred during the warm-up and cool-down periods, when the tube heaters and cathodes were under the most thermal stress. Engineers reduced ENIAC's tube failures to the more acceptable rate of one tube every two days. According to an interview in 1989 with Eckert, "We had a tube fail about every two days and we could locate the problem within 15 minutes."[33] In 1954, the longest continuous period of operation without a failure was 116 hours—close to five days.

ENIAC - Wikipedia
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the technicians would walk around shirtless cause of the heat that thing generated…….
the word “bug” (hardware or software) comes from a moth stuck in a relay bank…..
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Chucky Stiletti said:
the technicians would walk around shirtless cause of the heat that thing generated…….
the word “bug” (hardware or software) comes from a moth stuck in a relay bank…..
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They had some AC in the place too, I forgot how much their electricity bill was but it was enormous for the time.
 
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Nocturnal said:
I am testing out the copy/paste method of posting pics. What do you know? It worked! Not my bass by the way.
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I like the swirl concept when it works visually (good colours/patterns)- but just would never go through the trouble to do or own one. I always wonder what's done with a plastic garbage-bag lined trash-bid filled with gallons of alkyd paint-tainted water after the finish is done. More toxic pollution and messy to boot - doesn't seem worth the result.
 
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JIO said:
I like the swirl concept when it works visually (good colours/patterns)- but just would never go through the trouble to do or own one. I always wonder what's done with a plastic garbage-bag lined trash-bid filled with gallons of alkyd paint-tainted water after the finish is done. More toxic pollution and messy to boot - doesn't seem worth the result.
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It probably gets poured down the storm drain. That’s how rainbow trout are made. ;)
 
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