PDIB's Making MODs!

[MamaTried]

Oh good! I'm sure I'll be waiting on tenterhooks, with bated breath til then

Good luck shoving that ancient wood in that box, dear Dennis!


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LOL.

i haven't yet sprung for the ancient wood. i almost bought a piece today that reminded me of the 60s, which is about as ancient as i care to go...

 

[MamaTried]

MamaT if you ever find yourself in Southwest Missouri you have an open invitation. Much time spent with 4 & 8 bit micros, TTL's, machine language input, assembler, building my own Z80 machine with proto boards, deep iron burns, drawing blood from kynar wire, burning eproms. Those were good times. I worked for a local vending company repairing boards, monitors, pinballs and outsourced myself to others including Bally for a short while. Went a different direction though and got myself into some trouble and even though no charges were filed was fired from Bally. Learned a lesson in life the hard way from that point lingering in dead end jobs bench shooting TV's and radios and various jobs at a bowling center for 9 years till I got straight found my wife and rebuilt my life.

wow. i think a Bally subsidiary/partner distributor ordered one of the pinball testers i designed. due to some marketing genius, it was called the DACT-1, which stood for "Dennis Allen's Computer Tester" it was probably the last thing i designed that did significant analog stuff.

machine language, switch twiddlng, octal, hex, TTl, wiring MPUs to ALUs, burning EPROMs, Tiny BASIC. them were the days. i mainly did 6800, 6502 and Z80. i wrote a CP/M OS in 6502 assembler for the Commodore 64 which almost made me a fortune, but IBM decided to come out with their first PC about the time i was gonna put ink on paper

 

[timk]

wow. i think a Bally subsidiary/partner distributor ordered one of the pinball testers i designed. due to some marketing genius, it was called the DACT-1, which stood for "Dennis Allen's Computer Tester" it was probably the last thing i designed that did significant analog stuff.

machine language, switch twiddlng, octal, hex, TTl, wiring MPUs to ALUs, burning EPROMs, Tiny BASIC. them were the days. i mainly did 6800, 6502 and Z80. i wrote a CP/M OS in 6502 assembler for the Commodore 64 which almost made me a fortune, but IBM decided to come out with their first PC about the time i was gonna put ink on paper

Wow, you are an interesting fellow. I've worked in IT for 10 years, mostly network administration/engineering, but in college I dreamed of doing what you lived. Thought I was going to be a big time programmer but the money was with networking and I never looked back.

 

[SkinyFatMan]

Same here in NYC actually, Dennis- your an interesting bloke and I'd love a chat over a pint( well a glass of wine and whatever your drinking


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Good luck with that MON.

I've been trying for a few months to get Dennis to come to a vape meetup so I can chat with him and see some of these famous Woodvilles that he's hoarding with no luck.

And (so far a he's said) he only lives about 10 minutes away from me.

 

[MasterofNone]

I don't even care about the Woodvils... Dude is interesting as the Doctor lol
Almost

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[MamaTried]

Good luck with that MON.

I've been trying for a few months to get Dennis to come to a vape meetup so I can chat with him and see some of these famous Woodvilles that he's hoarding with no luck.

And (so far a he's said) he only lives about 10 minutes away from me.

LOL. i really, really intended to make the last vapemeet, but i woke up at 3pm, and it was 5pm by the time the coffee kicked in...

being retired, weekdays/weekends and sleep schedules get kinda fluid and blurry.

 

[MamaTried]

Wow, you are an interesting fellow. I've worked in IT for 10 years, mostly network administration/engineering, but in college I dreamed of doing what you lived. Thought I was going to be a big time programmer but the money was with networking and I never looked back.

my college degrees are in english literature. i wanted to become the next great american novelist or poet laureate. somewhere along the line i discovered that there really are 10 kinds of people that could think in binary, and i was in the first camp.

and it didn't hurt that the money was far, far better than my starving poet friends...

 

[timk]

my college degrees are in english literature. i wanted to become the next great american novelist or poet laureate. somewhere along the line i discovered that there really are 10 kinds of people that could think in binary, and i was in the first camp.

and it didn't hurt that the money was far, far better than my starving poet friends...

Even more interesting haha. Actually started out going for mechanical engineering degree, switched to IT/networking for money. I was a late bloomer in life. Partied a little too much and I was 25 and broke before I knew it. I delivered a whole lotta pizza before I understood hexadecimal and binary.

 

[SkinyFatMan]

I don't even care about the Woodvils... Dude is interesting as the Doctor lol
Almost

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Totally agree. Plus, I'd like to see what kinda wood he's been buying up.

LOL. i really, really intended to make the last vapemeet, but i woke up at 3pm, and it was 5pm by the time the coffee kicked in...

being retired, weekdays/weekends and sleep schedules get kinda fluid and blurry.

Mama, we can hold a meetup whenever you can show up. I'll schedule people to be on a "Mama standby meetup list", and you can post that you're up and moving (with coffee), and we'll all just go to whatever B&M you're heading to.

 

[glassgal]

Ahhh... you guys give me some hope for my kids.

 

[Gigdujour]

The Evil One and I were wandering through the music store the other day and this handsome fellow followed me home.

I was really, REALLY looking hard at a Spalted Maple one and an absolutely beautiful Spalted Mango, but the Mahagony sounded so much better


Master of Bassets...and not much else.

 

[IMEDICx90]

The Evil One and I were wandering through the music store the other day and this handsome fellow followed me home.

I was really, REALLY looking hard at a Spalted Maple one and an absolutely beautiful Spalted Mango, but the Mahagony sounded so much better


Master of Bassets...and not much else.

Is it sad that as musicians we almost like the look of the wood more then the sound of the instrument? Lol. I couldn't for the life of me walk away from the flame koa Taylor I had for my acoustic sessions. It didn't sound quite as pretty as my Martin, but damn it sure did look purty.

 

[Gigdujour]

Is it sad that as musicians we almost like the look of the wood more then the sound of the instrument? Lol. I couldn't for the life of me walk away from the flame koa Taylor I had for my acoustic sessions. It didn't sound quite as pretty as my Martin, but damn it sure did look purty.

It's a bit of a stretch to refer to me as a musician. I've got quite a ways to go The Spalted Mango almost made me say f the sound, this is too pretty to pass up.


Master of Bassets...and not much else.

ETA: That's why I took The Evil One. Someone has to be the voice of reason

 

[ValHeli]

You guys deserve an Oscar

... If you don't like Mondays, that is.

 

[Alexander Mundy]

wow. i think a Bally subsidiary/partner distributor ordered one of the pinball testers i designed. due to some marketing genius, it was called the DACT-1, which stood for "Dennis Allen's Computer Tester" it was probably the last thing i designed that did significant analog stuff.

machine language, switch twiddlng, octal, hex, TTl, wiring MPUs to ALUs, burning EPROMs, Tiny BASIC. them were the days. i mainly did 6800, 6502 and Z80. i wrote a CP/M OS in 6502 assembler for the Commodore 64 which almost made me a fortune, but IBM decided to come out with their first PC about the time i was gonna put ink on paper

Talk dirty some more. 74LS00,02,05,07,08,32,38,191,245,574....S100...PIO...1802..Cosmic Elf.....8080..Altair.....Trash80.... Lol

Sorry, back to reality now.

 

[Xobeloot]

That sounds....
Ahem. Yea...

Sounds like a normal tuesday for me... I mean.... Trying to fit all that wood... And the box... And stuff... Tuesday


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[Rictic]

<--- List #13!!!

It's a bit of a stretch to refer to me as a musician. I've got quite a ways to go The Spalted Mango almost made me say f the sound, this is too pretty to pass up.


Master of Bassets...and not much else.

ETA: That's why I took The Evil One. Someone has to be the voice of reason

That could be your stage name....

 

[ValHeli]

Hey Pdib,

Will this fit? It's 6" long, 1.75" thick, 2.5" wide
Fossilized walrus tusk

Edit: It fits!

 

[Borescoped]

Hey Pdib,

Will this fit? It's 6" long, 1.75" thick, 2.5" wide
Fossilized walrus tusk

I think you just opened the flood gate for people to start asking Pdib if he can make stuff out of things they find....

 

[ValHeli]

that flood gate has long been opened.... from page 20 31 onwards

I think you just opened the flood gate for people to start asking Pdib if he can make stuff out of things they find....