No worries Herb, We only blow up the tested bad, leaky ones. I think we all realize this one’s a joke thread! Sometimes it’s good to have a laugh at bad and joke products to keep spirits high. Of course it’s not a joke reflector, rather a computing one, but every once in a while it doesn’t hurt to stray from the usual business. This thread amused me at a rather stressful day of work. I personally fight for my life at the VCF workshops for a good power strip, so I don’t think it’s too far off topic. ~Ian L. On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 14:48 Herbert Johnson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Thanks to Dave Shevett for clarifying that this supposed product is a work of fiction and Photoshop. Without going on about it, I do not care for a class of post which amounts to a joke that people keep extending in reply.
I don't care for this joke in particular. I went to the suggested home-page. The first thing I saw, was a supposed Macintosh on a supposed desktop - entirely fake. Vintage Mac models can be hard to identify sometimes, so it's an annoying poke-in-the-eye about that.
Discussing the art of this artist, would be off-topic. As is, disinformation, however amusing it appears to be.
And blowing up capacitors deliberately, is not fun to me, someone who does repair work.
So, all in all, I was unhappy with this particular thread. While I could simply ignore it, it seems to me that if threads are either ignored or appreciated, that becomes approval. But "yes" is not the absence of "no". So I vote "no" on this thread.
regards, Herb Johnson
On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 9:59 AM Jeff S wrote:
Found the perfect solution for the limited power taps for VCF and the Workshops. No more fighting... except when trying to exit the building in time to save yourself.
Power Strip <https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnxAJ2xXwAEXPFZ?format=jpg&name=medium>
Dave Shevett writes: This is the work of Dana Sibera, aka 'nanoraptor' - she does some amazing mockups of 'machines / equipment that never existed' https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/109769185815969896
Highly recommend looking at her work.
Here's her home page https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor
-- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey in the USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net preserve, recover, restore 1970's computing email: hjohnson AT retrotechnology DOT com or try later herbjohnson AT comcast DOT net