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When I moved to my retirement condo I filled up an entire 96 gallon rolling plastic bin of VHS tapes for the garbage man.  I think I have one remaining VHS player in a box somewhere along with the gadget to transfer tapes to SD card.  Everything I own, except for a few hundred DVD's in now evenly duplicated among 3 8TB hard drives.  I simply have no room for all that stuff, and since I'm not getting any younger, I don't want to leave behind a mess for my beneficiaries.

Unfortunately there isn't the surplus splashable income at the moment for any extra expenditures.  (Be nice if some more work picked up this year and stayed that way for a few months - I still have a nanoPEB to procure).

Well, if more people like you would come by, we could definitely get more action going.  Actually this is a great place since everyone here is super friendly and I've never witnessed anyone being rude or insulting to anyone in all the years I've been here.. and I've been here 7 years.  Oh and since I'm here, I'm still maintaining the TI lists as well (as I get information).  So please, feel free to invite anyone over that you think is a good person.

And power an Atari?  When do we move?

The orientation of the habitat's dish towards the sun takes all that light and runs it down light tubes that illuminate the entire space.  One would assume that a dish of that size, being some miles across, would be able to generate enough electricity 24/7 to accomplish a lot of tasks, heating, cooking and cooling being just a few.

Naw, more like this...

 

 

The orientation of the habitat's dish towards the sun takes all that light and runs it down light tubes that illuminate the entire space.  One would assume that a dish of that size, being some miles across, would be able to generate enough electricity 24/7 to accomplish a lot of tasks, heating, cooking and cooling being just a few.

Watch the video below from The Immortal John Hancock on YouTube!  

I don't think I've ever seen this.  Thanks for sharing!

Latest image of Uranus and it's moons taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.

I have pieced together a “hi-fi” sound system.  Every piece of it bought not working at Goodwill.  I fixed all of it up.  It includes a 600-watt analog receiver with AM/FM, 5 Disc Changer (you can change other discs while one plays), dual cassette decks with Auto Reverse (remember when that was a huge thing), and two Technics turntables; one direct drive from a radio station according to Goodwill, the other is a fully automatic belt drive model. Both have new stylus setups and the belt drive has a new belt.  Everything else is Sony other than the two TTs.  When I get home I’ll take pics of it.  
 
I know some people say they like the fact they can have all their music in the palm of their hand.  I get it.  I love my iPod and iPhone too but there is just something more interesting, interactive, involving using analog gear that can’t be experienced any other way.
 I’d prefer vinyl and cassettes over MP3s any day.  CDs are even starting to be phased out looks like.  You can’t find a Discman anymore. I’d like to find an old Emerson personal cassette player like I had back in high school. I played the heck out of that thing.  I had my own stereo setup then with tons of vinyl, I’d make mix tapes and take them with me to school.  When teachers were done I’d put headphones on and do my school work.
You have not lived until you have spent hours picking out songs, adjusting the recoding volume per song, timing everything, just for about an hour and a half’s worth of ear pleasure.  I never had a tape that had more than 10 seconds of blank space on the ends.

I’ve had an all-in-one personal stereo ldentical to this one:

Mom was a crazy picky about stereo gear and I don’t know where she got it from.  If the tape decks did not have Auto Reverse she was not interested…at all.  
 
When I turned 15 my mother took me to wal-mart to find me a birthday gift. I couldn’t find anything.  NES games were of no interest, a lot of the music then was not interesting to me.  Mom said to help her find a cassette tape and then we would go someplace else.  
 
Our Wal-Mart had a habit of placing non-Sony branded Walkman units in the middle of their tape shelves.  That’s where we found that little unit above.  I still remember it being $20.  I got a few blank tapes, some of the early gray Koss earbuds for like $5.  And some batteries.
 
 I have to admit that little player impressed me.  It had a really good sound.  Every year after that Mom replaced my players with new Emerson models and would grab her one as well to listen to when she laid out in the sun.  But that model above was my go to unit.  I loved it.

My parents had a Magnavox brand console stereo for a few years.  It was fried twice in Italy due to failing/faulty power converters.  Then somewhere between 76 & 78 Dad switched to a component setup, which was real nice.  It's interesting now that many people do not even have stereos anymore, but use bluetooth soundbars to use with their cell phone or TV.

My parents had a Magnavox brand console stereo for a few years.  It was fried twice in Italy due to failing/faulty power converters.  Then somewhere between 76 & 78 Dad switched to a component setup, which was real nice.  It's interesting now that many people do not even have stereos anymore, but use bluetooth soundbars to use with their cell phone or TV.