We had one - brilliant machines. Because the keys were electric, not mechanical, it only needed a very light touch to type, plus - change the ball in 10 secs to change the typeface!
I had one come to the door the other evening. Usually I just pretend we aren't home but my wife had just pulled into the garage so I figured he wouldn't go away too quickly. First, how rude is it to knock on the door 30 seconds after someone pulls into the garage after work? Second, as soon as I open the door he goes "You must be Mr....." WTF? Don't introduce me, introduce yourself. Am I supposed to be impressed that you know my name in the digital age?
I still remember those awkward in-between years of bubblejets that didn't work.
I signed up for online banking and tried to use "fortnight" as a password, but the site said it was two week.
Taqlking about sadness, guess you all missed Vasaloppet, a 90km (56 miles) cross country skiing competion in Sweden. If you are a beginner you start the race last and if your skis or ski poles aren't broken, it will take you an hour or more from the start of the race til you reach the first incline 500 yards further down the track ...
Incredible. They're not going to cross much country with that many people in the way. Participant numbers go into the 18,000's that I can see.
That bit of punched sheet metal is a bit more impressive than it seems at first glance. The ghosts can be punched with three normal punches. One the basic round hole, the second a small square punch to clean up the bottom sides and a third small round one to make the skirt.
The pac man one could be done with a custom punch, but my feel is such a punch would wear quickly and possibly jam. Another way to punch it would be to use a “D” shaped punch in tool that allows the punch and die to rotate. Then punch, rotate and second punch. My close look supports that hole was done with two punch strikes.
The other bit is the material looks like stainless steel. One of the tougher materials. But as the holes are small and the material thin, that isn’t much of a problem.
I did once have a punch get to the program step where it was to punch a three inch slot in a piece of .187 304 stainless. All it did was make a very loud funny noise and trip the fault detector. I did re-profile the punch to get the load down and got it to work.
But a nicely done example of sheet metal work.
The pac man one could be done with a custom punch, but my feel is such a punch would wear quickly and possibly jam. Another way to punch it would be to use a “D” shaped punch in tool that allows the punch and die to rotate. Then punch, rotate and second punch. My close look supports that hole was done with two punch strikes.
The other bit is the material looks like stainless steel. One of the tougher materials. But as the holes are small and the material thin, that isn’t much of a problem.
I did once have a punch get to the program step where it was to punch a three inch slot in a piece of .187 304 stainless. All it did was make a very loud funny noise and trip the fault detector. I did re-profile the punch to get the load down and got it to work.
But a nicely done example of sheet metal work.