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[Rice_Guy]

Back to the photos, this is a batch of fresh merlot grapes fermenting with Torulaspora delbruekii. Kept skins only for 4 days, coz I want a kind of a claret. After Torulaspora stops fermenting, I will inocculate EC1118. So far, smells good.View attachment 120192

A ten liter, I am jealous.

 

[Alexandre Estolano]

Where did you source your yeast?

Zymaflore Alpha TD, from Laffort.

 

[Alexandre Estolano]

A ten liter, I am jealous.

;-)

 

[Alexandre Estolano]

What was the OG?

heheh densitometer broke last week, and I am driving blind, just looking at the bubbles. I live in a small city, had to mail order, it is due for this saturday.

 

[Khristyjeff]

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One of the first cheap (and my first) scientific calculator. I think it was $19.00. Red LED display, ran on a 9v battery.
1980

I believe I bought this calculator in maybe 1971 0r 72 for about $120. I should have waited!

 

[Neb Farmer]

Couldn't afford a TI-30 in the 70's...so had to use this. a lot.

 

[ibglowin]

 

[ibglowin]

Eagles Nest Lake, Nuevo Mexico

 

[ibglowin]

Any guesses?

 

[Ohio Bob]

Abstract, oil on canvas.

 

[Christopher Anderson]

Does anyone remember Digital Equipment Corporation? I worked for DEC in the late 70's (fortunately for a short time). DEC made some outstanding hardware at the time and was the darling of the "Mini-Computer" world. I had the misfortune to work in their only product line that dealt directly with the end user, the Graphic Arts Product Line. We sold text entry and editing systems mainly to small and mid-sized newspapers.

It was an interesting experience, to say the least. Our three main competitors were Harris, Hendrix and CSI, for whom DEC was their OEM. Because DEC was the OEM, DEC service people serviced their hardware. The four legs of the sales stool were value, hardware, software and service. Our competitors had the same hardware and service, their software was superior and somehow through OEM agreements and pricing, they could undercut us in price.

The newspaper business is very interesting. I quickly learned that newspapers are not really competitors in any major sense and they are more like a fraternity. If we had a troubled installation in Indiana, the news would quickly spread to Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan. I recall making a sales presentation in Kentucky and things seemed to be going very well. I was getting good and penetrating questions and there seemed to be a level of interest. Then one of the people raised his hand and said, "You ain't talking about that system they got in Columbus, Indiana, are you?" Unfortunately I was so I had to try to recover but I could see the lights going out in peoples' eyes and others looking at their watches. It was time to go.

You might be wondering how this relates to this thread and I will tell you. We were selling systems for between $750K and $900K (in 1977 dollars) that could not do what this $500 (in 2025 dollars) laptop I am using can do, faster and more reliably!

Or Data Point?

 

[Christopher Anderson]

14 yo? Yeah, target time!

It can be resurrected. It should have a USB port and should take a 2 gB stick. Windows XP could be fully loaded, and it should work. I still have an XP server that has worked continuously since 1999 as a security camera server. 16 cameras. It just keeps on chugging along. It is on a UPS and does get a reboot twice a year.

 

[Christopher Anderson]

Any guesses?

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obviously, there is a lake, mountains, a river on the left. or it could be an oil slick on my son's driveway!

 

[Christopher Anderson]

Yet today, we all gripe about how slow our computers are. Or when the internet gets cloggy. When one hits the enter key and the computer "thinks" for 30 seconds, many of us LOSE IT!

 

[winemaker81]

It can be resurrected. It should have a USB port and should take a 2 gB stick. Windows XP could be fully loaded, and it should work. I still have an XP server that has worked continuously since 1999 as a security camera server. 16 cameras. It just keeps on chugging along. It is on a UPS and does get a reboot twice a year.

You obviously don't have boxes of ammunition begging for release from their confines!

Headless (no graphical interface, e.g., nothing to see) may work fine. But for folks expecting a functional PC? It doesn't work.

My in-laws' 14 yo laptop doesn't run a modern version of Linux Mint well enough to use. It may be useful as a server, but Raspberry PI is so cheap that I'd not bother.

Yet today, we all gripe about how slow our computers are. Or when the internet gets cloggy. When one hits the enter key and the computer "thinks" for 30 seconds, many of us LOSE IT!

Not those who remember 300 baud modems and pray they have been consigned to hell.

 

[sour_grapes]

Any guesses?

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Oooh! Oooh! I am guessing that is ... somewhere... in NEW MEXICO! Amirite?

 

[Christopher Anderson]

You obviously don't have boxes of ammunition begging for release from their confines!

Headless (no graphical interface, e.g., nothing to see) may work fine. But for folks expecting a functional PC? It doesn't work.

My in-laws' 14 yo laptop doesn't run a modern version of Linux Mint well enough to use. It may be useful as a server, but Raspberry PI is so cheap that I'd not bother.


Not those who remember 300 baud modems and pray they have been consigned to hell.

Aw. That beautiful dial up sound. 1 hour to download porn. Hehe. Bulletin boards, etc. I just bought a refurbished Lenovo i7 foldable with 500 gig SSD, etc. For $250. Works great.

 

[ibglowin]

You're looking at White Sands National Park from space.



Gypsum sand is extremely rare, and gypsum dunes are even rarer. The Tularosa Basin is home to the only gypsum dunefield of this size because of the convergence of several geographical coincidences. First, an ancient sea deposited massive amounts of gypsum here several hundred million years ago, providing the basic material to form the dunes. Next, tectonic plate movement created the Tularosa Basin, which is a closed basin; picture a bathtub without a drain – once gypsum-infused runoff from the mountains reaches the basin’s low point, there’s nowhere else for it to drain, so it gathers into a seasonal lake or playa. This playa provides a nursery for selenite crystals to grow and then eventually break down into gypsum sand.

Finally, a hidden feature of this incredible landscape provided the final ingredient: a shallow water table! Throughout the dunefield, the water table is a mere 12-36 inches below the surface, and it keeps the dunes at about 99% humidity. The groundwater also acts as an anchor, holding the dunes together and cementing them to the earth. At any given time, only the top couple of inches of sand are dry enough to be picked up and blown away by the wind. It’s this geographic anomaly that allowed 275 square miles of gypsum sand to pile up and stick in the Tularosa Basin.

Truly one of the most amazing places you will ever see.

 

[sour_grapes]

You're looking at White Sands National Park from space.

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Gypsum sand is extremely rare, and gypsum dunes are even rarer. The Tularosa Basin is home to the only gypsum dunefield of this size because of the convergence of several geographical coincidences. First, an ancient sea deposited massive amounts of gypsum here several hundred million years ago, providing the basic material to form the dunes. Next, tectonic plate movement created the Tularosa Basin, which is a closed basin; picture a bathtub without a drain – once gypsum-infused runoff from the mountains reaches the basin’s low point, there’s nowhere else for it to drain, so it gathers into a seasonal lake or playa. This playa provides a nursery for selenite crystals to grow and then eventually break down into gypsum sand.

Finally, a hidden feature of this incredible landscape provided the final ingredient: a shallow water table! Throughout the dunefield, the water table is a mere 12-36 inches below the surface, and it keeps the dunes at about 99% humidity. The groundwater also acts as an anchor, holding the dunes together and cementing them to the earth. At any given time, only the top couple of inches of sand are dry enough to be picked up and blown away by the wind. It’s this geographic anomaly that allowed 275 square miles of gypsum sand to pile up and stick in the Tularosa Basin.

Truly one of the most amazing places you will ever see.

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Very cool!

 

[ibglowin]

Spotted in the wilds of northern NM. Seems fitting! LOL