Re: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-30 Thread Adrian Graham
Hi Lukas, Shipping is certainly possible but expensive, the 4000 plus a decent sized packing box will be around 10kg so a rough guess would be ukp45/€62. If that doesn't sound too bad I can box it up next week and let you know. Cheers Adrian On 01/08/2015 11:29, "Lukas Kaminski" wrote: > Hi,

Re: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-07 Thread Ian S. King
There are establishments here in the US that sell 'pounders' of 'beer', i.e. 16oz. glasses. The reference is usually to something that only loosely resembles beer - we're back to sex-in-a-canoe jokes here. Establishments that server real beer most often refer to them as pints, although there is ev

Re: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-06 Thread ben
On 8/6/2015 4:30 AM, Liam Proven wrote: On 5 August 2015 at 20:25, Fred Cisin wrote: "A pint is a pound, the world around." is no longer true. Never was. You always did use weird pints. They were *our* bloody silly measure, until we adopted something more sensible and easier to use... And *n

RE: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-06 Thread tony duell
> > Never was. You always did use weird pints. They were *our* bloody > silly measure, until we adopted something more sensible and easier to > use... Actually, 10 is a lousy base for a measuring system. It has far too few factors. > And *nobody* else uses pounds, Fahrenheit or MM-DD-YY. Not in

Re: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-06 Thread Liam Proven
On 5 August 2015 at 20:25, Fred Cisin wrote: > "A pint is a pound, the world around." is no longer true. Never was. You always did use weird pints. They were *our* bloody silly measure, until we adopted something more sensible and easier to use... And *nobody* else uses pounds, Fahrenheit or MM-

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2015-08-05 Thread Jay West
Tony wrote (re: 25kg)... Its about half the weight of many minicomputer bits (I think an RK05 drive is about 50kg for example). I cry DEC-bias, using an RK05 as your UOM ;) For HP, a bare 7906 drive is 75kg (165#), and with controller, power supply, and desk side rack that only holds th

Re: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-05 Thread Adrian Graham
On 05/08/2015 19:10, "tony duell" wrote: >> Surprisingly none of my weightlifting mates can muster 25kg. I like the idea > > I doesn't have to be one mass, does it? Couldn't you pile up 5 off 5kg > weights? Nope, biggest mass was 20kg. You'd also think that with a warehouse full of Proliants an

Re: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-05 Thread Tapley, Mark
On Aug 5, 2015, at 1:26 PM, tony duell wrote: (Fred wrote) >> ...And pluto is no longer a planet. Give us (New Horizons team) a couple years on that. I’ll guess that even the IAU is going to realize the error of their ways by the time all is said and done. > No, he's a dog (could not resist)

RE: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-05 Thread tony duell
> > > Those are "imperial pints", in the US a pint is 16 fluid onces so nearer to > > 464 (I think) grams... > > "A pint is a pound, the world around." is no longer true. Not just the Over here we (used to) say 'A pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter' > price of beer not being a pound pe

RE: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-05 Thread Fred Cisin
Hmm.. 55 pints? In the UK, the pint (as used, I assume for beer) is 568ml. So assuming that 'pint' means the drink commonly called that over here and assuming beer has a density similar to water [1] then 44 pints is very close. On Wed, 5 Aug 2015, Dave G4UGM wrote: Those are "imperial pints

RE: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-05 Thread tony duell
> Those are "imperial pints", in the US a pint is 16 fluid onces so nearer to > 464 (I think) grams... Sure, I've got it as 473ml or so. But the OP was from the UK, so presumbly uses imperial pints. -tony

RE: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-05 Thread tony duell
> Surprisingly none of my weightlifting mates can muster 25kg. I like the idea I doesn't have to be one mass, does it? Couldn't you pile up 5 off 5kg weights? > of a 25kg bag of dog food though, I know somone who works at a pet food > supplier... Cement is often sold in 25kg bags now. At one tim

Re: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-05 Thread Adrian Graham
On 05/08/2015 18:43, "tony duell" wrote: > More seriously, and ignoring things like '25 bags of sugar', what about the > sort of weights used by > those misguided people who do not get their exercise from lifting PDP's into > racks? Surprisingly none of my weightlifting mates can muster 25kg. I

RE: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-05 Thread Dave G4UGM
ic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: RE: Saved DEC kit > > > > Hmm.. 55 pints? > > In the UK, the pint (as used, I assume for beer) is 568ml. So assuming that > 'pint' means the drink commonly called that over here and assuming beer has > a density similar to

RE: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-05 Thread tony duell
> Hmm…. 55 pints? In the UK, the pint (as used, I assume for beer) is 568ml. So assuming that 'pint' means the drink commonly called that over here and assuming beer has a density similar to water [1] then 44 pints is very close. [1] No jokes about making love in a canoe, please. More serious

RE: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-04 Thread tony duell
[25kg] > Hmm…. 55 pints? Not over here -tony

Re: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-04 Thread Toby Thain
On 2015-08-04 6:32 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: On 08/01/2015 05:10 AM, Adrian Graham wrote: I'm struggling to find anything that weighs exactly 25kg :) 6.6[043] gallons of water a 25Kg bag of dogfood 1470 3.5" floppies About a kajillion emails

Re: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-04 Thread Fred Cisin
On 08/01/2015 05:10 AM, Adrian Graham wrote: I'm struggling to find anything that weighs exactly 25kg :) 6.6[043] gallons of water a 25Kg bag of dogfood 1470 3.5" floppies

Re: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-04 Thread Tapley, Mark
Hmm…. 55 pints? On Aug 4, 2015, at 4:58 PM, Jules Richardson wrote: > On 08/01/2015 05:10 AM, Adrian Graham wrote: >> I'm struggling to find anything that weighs exactly 25kg :) > > 25 things that weigh 1kg, obviously. :-) > > >

Re: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-04 Thread Jules Richardson
On 08/01/2015 05:10 AM, Adrian Graham wrote: I'm struggling to find anything that weighs exactly 25kg :) 25 things that weigh 1kg, obviously. :-)

Re: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-04 Thread Jarratt RMA
Hello Adrian, Any news on whether I might be able to get my hands on the 2000 and 4000 VLC? Regards Rob On 1 August 2015 at 11:59, Adrian Graham wrote: > No probs Rob, I'll give it a couple of days and dig through my old messages > from Dec/Jan this year. The original takers might also have d

Re: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-02 Thread shadoooo
Hello Adrian, how are you? Maybe you still have the SDI disks aside for me? Any time to ship them to me? Thanks in advance! Andrea

Re: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-01 Thread Yvan Janssens
I've sent you an email off list about the Alpha 800; feel free to get in touch if nobody takes it. Y. On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 11:59 AM Adrian Graham wrote: > No probs Rob, I'll give it a couple of days and dig through my old messages > from Dec/Jan this year. The original takers might also have

Re: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-01 Thread Adrian Graham
No probs Rob, I'll give it a couple of days and dig through my old messages from Dec/Jan this year. The original takers might also have dropped off the list in the same way I did. A On 01/08/2015 11:45, "Robert Jarratt" wrote: > Always interested in a 2000 and a 4000. I suspect these were dest

RE: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-01 Thread Robert Jarratt
Always interested in a 2000 and a 4000. I suspect these were destined for other people, but if the takers have not materialised then I will happily take them. Regards Rob > -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Adrian > Graham > Sent: 01 Au

Re: Saved DEC kit

2015-08-01 Thread Lukas Kaminski
Hi, I would be very interested in the 4000 vlc. Is it still available? Also is shipping to Germany possible? How miuch would it cost? Bye, Lukas Kaminski Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.   Original Message   From: Adrian Graham Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2015 12:11 To: Discussion: On-Topic