Your thoughts on 'truck guns'

[alan]

Leaving a gun in your vehicle is asking for it to get stolen, which puts a firearm on the street. If you need a gun, carry it on your person. If you can't carry it legally, don't bring it. The 'truck gun' concept made sense in 1970, not today. Secure your firearms properly or don't bring them...

 

[Pepssy]

Truck guns sounded practical decades ago, today they mostly sound like “free gun for whoever breaks your window.”

 

[KonoctisWigwam]

Truck guns sounded practical decades ago, today they mostly sound like “free gun for whoever breaks your window.”

You made me spit ice tea all over my keyboard!

FWIW, I heard that the majority of stolen firearms are taken from a vehicle. Food for thought...

 

[alan]

You made me spit ice tea all over my keyboard!

FWIW, I heard that the majority of stolen firearms are taken from a vehicle. Food for thought...

RIP to your keyboard. But yeah, that stat alone is a reminder that cars aren’t exactly great gun safes..

 

[KonoctisWigwam]

RIP to your keyboard. But yeah, that stat alone is a reminder that cars aren’t exactly great gun safes..

Believe it or not, I use the old IBM Model M keyboards, the ones that click when you type. There are two types, the smaller micro DIN used on the Microchannel computers (I used to own a Model 80). And the older big DIN used on the original IBM PC (I actually own one of those, with a box of floppies in my shop somewhere). I also have an acoustic coupler, that I had to use when I first got involved in computers, you had to push the phone receiver into the coupler to transfer at 300 baud. I can tell you that my wife and kids all hated these keyboards, I have 2 or 3.

 

[KonoctisWigwam]

Anybody ever use one of these? These pre-dated modems. You had to push the handset into these couplers and you would hear the cat fight as it connected. It sucked if you knocked one of these off the desk while downloading a big file...you'd have to start over.

Notice on this one, there's a switch between the couplers. I modified it so that it would work with either Bell or CCITT. Those are 2 phone standards. This way I could use the coupler in Japan or America. America is Bell standard as I recall.

These couplers ran off batteries also, and I used one in the late 80s to access my BBS that I ran in Tokyo, from the Bullet train going to Osaka. A laptop was called a luggable in those days. LOL

Here's an IBM Model M keyboard

 

[KonoctisWigwam]

Here's an IBM Model M keyboard

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I see Auris on the monitor in that keyboard pic. That was one of the great projects I worked on for Johnson and Johnson...Auris is an Endoscopy program that will let you use the joystick to guide the endoscopy probe down your bronchial tubes into your lungs. One of the great things about this device is that it can change tools in the endoscopy probe without removing it from the lungs, so you can have a knife, clippers, etc...as of about 5 years ago, when I worked on it, it was used mostly for diagnostics. The stack used 3 computers to manage the endoscopy probe, with large touch screens on the pod.

https://www.jnjmedtech.com/en-US/products/robotics/monarch-platform/bronchoscopy/