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The microwave is on the same circuit? In that case, I have a suspicion that the circuit was over-fused to begin with. At some point the oversize fuse blew, and now that he's putting in fuses of the proper rating, they are blowing regularly.

All the Mickey D's here have been torn down and rebuilt within the last 7-8 years. A bunch of us were pissed because one of them had one of the original "LICENSEE OF MCDONALD'S SPEEDEE SERVICE SYSTEM" signs, and they got rid of it. (At least they gave it to a museum instead of just bulldozing...

I wonder if it plays Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse" while it works...

We had one of those RCA Whirlpool window A/C units too. I recall reading the manual and there were four or five models described, with different feature levels; the TOL model had oscillating vanes in the air outlet. In the early 1960s, RCA had its own retail stores and they marketed RCA...

So yeah, caller ID is useless now because there are so many tricks the robocallers and scammers can use to put anything they want in it. The FCC is talking to the carriers about redesigning and reforming the system. We're actually thinking about dropping our land lines; it would save us about...

Wasn't the Unimatic direct drive for spin?

I learned assembly language on a Data General Nova 2. Still remember most of it. Example: MOVR# 0,0, SZC tested to see if the value in accumulator (register) 0 was even or odd, and skipped the next instruction if it was even.

That business with the "we'll show you three homes and you pick one" has been an open secret for a while. A few years ago, there was an episode of House Hunters shot here in town. The local paper interviewed the family, and they described the process: they had already purchased and moved in...

Prices That $235 for the Model 80 washer works out to just short of $2000 today. What does a TOL Whirlpool run for now? It's over $1000, is it not?

Were the solid-tub ones water hogs? I know the perforated-basket ones were, because of the huge outer tub.

Wow I remember seeing some VTRs at WTVF in Nashville circa 1982, and the tech who was showing us around talking about how much maintenance it took to keep them going. My hat is off to anyone who can make one of these work. Where do you get tape?

Pulltostart, Publix is the same up here at the north end of the state. Carryout service (no tipping please!), and cashiers. Among the stores around here: Have them: Wal-Mart, Sams (just put some in recently), Costco, Target, Home Depot, Kroger. Don't have them: Publix, Lowe's, Fresh Market...

I like to discharge caps by putting an old analog voltmeter on then. That way, I can watch it discharge. Very large caps may take a minute or two.

The Sears here closed in February. (The mall it was in is being torn down.) The newspaper mentioned that this is the first time in about 75 years that there has not been a Sears in town somewhere. JC Penny was in the same mall and it is also now gone from town, for the first time in a very...

Were the solid tub machines the ones that had a lever on the front of the cabinet that you had to lift to reset it if the unbalance sensor tripped? The Norge Village here had a bunch of those.

Speaking of that, the Decatur, Alabama plant is still open and makes builder-grade refrigerators.

The FCC decided to experiment on our town and decreed it a "UHF island", with no VHF channels being licensed. This was back in the late '50s, when most TV sets did not have a UHF tuner. Needless to say, those models did not sell well here. Other models had a space for a UHF tuner which was...

I lived in Ft. Lauderdale back in the '80s. My first winter there, on Christmas Day I called my mom, who was in an ice storm in Tennessee, to inform her that I was laying by the pool. That went over well, not...

My great aunt had a big six-burner Roper. Each group of three burners had a pilot. There were flash tubes from each burner leading to a pilot. The pilots were underneath the stove top and well protected against drafts. They caused two little spots on the stove top to always be a bit hot...

Unsecured net-enabled devices are becoming a huge problem. When they are exposed to the Internet, they are easily exploited by botnets. I read a news article last week where one Eastern European spammer was claiming that his botnet had control of 6 million devices. Many devices have been...