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thx - i need to send this to my mum, every time i visit my parents house I have to correct the roll to the proper orientation!
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I guess I’m one of those lucky enough that caffeine doesn’t affect me enough not to say “decaf., what’s the point?” Of course, I rarely do more than 3 cups a day, and never after dinner with my cheesecake.
One plus for the "backside" TP roll: It makes it slightly more difficult for the cat to unravel it all over the room/house/neighborhood. (Key word being "slightly," although "temporarily" is likely more accurate - he'll figure it out soon enough.)
I miss my old Centronix printer. Sure, it weighed half a ton, and it was upper-case only, and I paid like THREE HUNDRED BUCKS for it in 1980, but it was a printer! In my house! What a concept.
It was easy enough to wire to a parallel port on my SD Systems Z80 Starter Kit. But when I upgraded to a Commodore 64, I had to buy this little DIN-to-Cen parallel adapter dongle. It didn't work. After much head scratching, I figured out that the dongle was sending the LF before the CR, or maybe vice versa, can't remember; whichever the sequence, it was not what the printer wanted to see. Of course the printer logic was all discrete TTL stuff, so I just fly-wired the output of the LF decoder to the CR driver, and vice-versa. Problem solved, heh. We sure can't do stuff like that anymore.
Cheers Carroll. RIP you grumpy old bastard. Character actor and lead extraordinaire.
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Well now that the toilet paper issue is finally settled and we have our basic engineering toolkit established, perhaps it’s time we delve into proper tool use. A recent excursion into the realm of home improvement has reminded me of the old saying, “When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail!”
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