And what did we buy today?

Samurai Delicatessen.

The Julia Child skit was awesome too, I remember it, all that blood.... SNL used to be extremely funny to watch then.

Then we had Uncle Roy the babysitter. OMG.... beyond funny, it couldn't be done today... absolutely, completely politically incorrect stuff.. but it was FUNNY.

VAX are long gone. So are the DEC-11 manuals. Imagine that we had to write own page swapping with the DEC.... I've never tried writing some FORTRAN for my Samsung Note... it might work, who knows? I'm sure it has a floating point processor somewhere in its ARM architecture.

I got sharpening guides for 15, 17 and 20 degrees.

The big Western Knives all go to 20, bi bevel.

The Chinese Big Cleaver. I've experimented. bi bevel at 17 degrees, it's awesome.

I did buy the Dayton Audio DSP-408 with the DSP-NRC Wired Remote Control.

I also ordered a pair of Dayton Audio Dayton Audio MKSX4 subwoofers, but that order is in some question.... they show them backordered but they took my money. We'll see what happens.

Those two are for attempting to do some bass waveforming in my office.

 
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Definitely keep the VAX manuals. I'm keeping a VAX system CD-ROM, just in case. At least I think I do. It was still in my office before the most recent move.
Somebody must have written a VAX emulator for your smartphone?

Back on topic: I ordered some zero-drift op-amps from Digikey, to build a noise generator I probably don't need.
Why an emulator wen a real vax is available ? I have a microvax 2000 used as a sideboard.
 
That's pretty neat! I remember using a laser printer that had its own MicroVAX to drive it; the VAX had a whole MB (or maybe even two?) of memory. It could output two pages per minute! Clearly you'd want to print at night....
Almost forgot: pictures, please, of the sideboard!