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I mean, Who doesn't have a complete cable TV headend full of operational Weather Channel equipment? Yes I am a nerd and proud of it! Don't judge me. >:-)

@RonDemersKTIV4 Ooops looks like it killed the DMX512 controller

What the weather center was looking like after the station took a lightning hit!

@RetroTechChris Office 2000 is the sweet spot for me.

Microsoft Word 97. Peak word processing? Perhaps! I spent some time with it, I'm pretty sure 🤣

@RetroTechChris All you need now is a classroom so you can start a retro computer lab :D

I decided to get ALL of my Compaq laptops out today! A few needed repairs, since they tend to break, but they are all up and running! I'm a few power cables shy, but the docks take regular power cables, and I have several docks. Okay, time to put them away, it's warm up here 🤣

@RetroTechChris Yeah that's an interesting observation. It was really red and orange and then it just died. I wonder if it's just got a lot of hours

@techknight2 That happened to me too the other day on one of mine!! Must be a common failure

Can anyone make use of these? Three 16MB and one 32MB 144 SoDIMM modules, from my Armada 7700 series. If you want them, tell me your use case and I'll send them to you for the cost of shipping!

@LundukeJournal What compiler was that, Borland?

Remember when this is what programming looked like? Those were good times.

@SCweather_wx This is something I would see out of Nick 😂

Insane. You can actually see the mesoscale discussion border just North of me. Wild stuff.

@RetroTechChris Nice, you are going too?

VCF Southwest is this coming week. Guess I better start packing! I just printed out my admission ticket 🤣

@NSSTIG8R Exactly! Same situation here. And there was a big outage that occured from the same thing on the other side of town, knocking out over 500 customers. So that delayed reconnection.

@techknight2 Yeah, I could only type so much before X cuts me off with limited characters. Haha. Glad you got it fixed. I was lucky in that I got an electrician, an inspector, and Duke power to get it all taken care of on a Friday afternoon before 5p, or else no power over the weekend.

Well this sucks... Tree hit the house

@NSSTIG8R Finally got it fixed but it was a bit more complicated than that. Had to call specific electricians as well as an inspector, one that had the time to push the paperwork to Duke to get it reconnected.

@techknight2 Call your power company and describe what happened. File an insurance claim, unless you want to deal all out of pocket. Now, find a reputable company that does home repairs/general contracting/electrical work and and get them to repair. Then call the PC to turn power back on.

After multiple people and phone calls. Electricians, inspectors, Duke Energy, etc... Its finally FIXED... Holy crap. In between all this, there was a big outage caused by a storm in-between which delayed the reconnection.

@NSSTIG8R Yeah I don't even know what to do or how to fix this. I just went to bed I couldn't deal with it

@techknight2 I had the exact same thing happen to me last year. Tree falls and rips out the power lines going into my house and the meter box.

The repair video is out on the Hamilton City Schools Powerbook youtu.be/04ORLuFP2Nw

@alphafox Could be worse... Could be the XT keyboard 👴

If you know what plugs into this connector, you are old:

@TimBuckleyWX Oh maaaan I remember that commercial. TWC used to air it constantly back in the day

For those of you in the broadcast community, the author of TS Reader passed away last year, but it has now went open source:github.com/TSReader

And this is how it ended...

This is going as well as I expected

How my day is going 😩