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Looks like good clean work. Nice job.

Diablo 33s were what ours had. I have no idea where you'd find a working one, or cartridges for it. I think -- I'm not sure -- it used an SMD interface. You might be able to find something like a mid-80s Fiujitsu fixed-disk drive and make it work. It would be way more storage than RDOS can...

The first computer I ever used was a Nova II owned by the high school I attended. This was circa 1975. It had a whopping 64K bytes of magnetic core memory, and two 5MB front-loading cartridge disk drives. Four Teletype ASR-33s, two DG Novadisplays, and an ADDS Consul 580. And a Centronics...

A house we lived in back in the '60s had a heat pump unit that looked like the one in the first post. A long rectangular box with the outdoor coil along a long side, and two fans that blew through it horizontally. It was an American Standard. As for outlet registers, I liked the ones that...

Interesting construction It would take a world war to damage that I-beam. These days, they use engineered wood joists and don't need the beam. That drain plumbing on the lav seen through the door looks a bit funky. Did it used to have an S-trap that went down to the floor? Nice...

Doug, just out of curiosity, is that house still standing?

Prices That's why, among the middle classes, there weren't that many households that had a matched set. Typical was to buy a washer first, and then a dryer after the washer was paid for. Of course, those machines were (mostly) sturdily built and servicable, so once you had a machine, you were...

Organizational insanity is an amazing and frightening thing to watch. It's stunning how a group of people, who individually are smart, can persist in doing what doesn't work, in the belief that somehow something will magically change and it will all start working. I guess time does this to...

Cold washing Just turn the knob to WARM/WARM and leave it there. Bet she won't notice.

Interesting comment about the septic systems... I don't know how common this was around North America, but at one time, around here, if you were on a septic system the washer drain would be plumbed to a dry well. No longer allowed where I lived; the code changed in the early 1990s. That's what...

That's very clean work. Nice job.

We had cable in 1965. The FCC decreed that Huntsville would be a "UHF island" with no VHF stations licensed. Unfortunately, the geography here is terrible for UHF reception. Electronics stores sold special antennas to try to reduce the multipath problems, but nothing helped very much. Hence...

An aside: STAR stood for Random Access Tuning System, so called because it was the first system where you could just punch in the channel number on a 10-digit keypad. How did STAR stand for that? Well, they figured that RATS wouldn't be a very good acronym for advertising. So they turned it...

Stick the knob on with some clear silicone caulk. It'll hold it pretty secure, but you can still pull it off when you want to.

Adding clothes after the load starts I can tell you that the GE Harmony will re-sense the load if you open the lid in the first few minutes after agitation begins. I've never played with it to find the exact point in the cycle where it will no longer do this. But we've added items to it many...

The bit that interests me is seeing the prices stated in pounds, shillings, pence. I've not seen much material like that from before Great Britian decimalized its currency.

Restaurant tea is often "soapy" / "oily" tasting, or just plain bitter, because they leave it out at room temperature all afternoon, and they're using dispensing urns that haven't been cleaned since about 1958. I don't like mine as sweet as some people. In a 3-quart container, I use a 1/8...

Yeah, a 40VA transformer will be fine.

'VA' stands for "volt-amps", which is a way of measuring the power output of a transformer. If you divide the VA number by the transformer's voltage and then mutiply by 1000, you will get an estimate of the mA output (probably a little high, depending on what kind of application the transformer...

GE Harmony Pros: * Lots of cycle choices and options, including pre-wash, second rinse, and extended spin. * Heater (takes a long time but that's inevitable with North American electrical wiring). * Full complement of dispensers, including for pre-wash. * Long soak cycles possible, up to 8...