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A couple of my employees used to be technical application engineers there, what do you need? Surprisingly enough I got in touch with a woman who seems competent. What I need is the copy of the old software that we had to run the digital front end on the 400k turret press that SATEC rebuilt in '97. The software is obsolete but I'm trying to get them to see if they have an old copy somewhere we could get, and if we can't she is trying to look up all the specs on it to see if we could even upgrade to the new software for the machine. The kicker is we need to have it operational by next friday. We could get it done by sticking another pressure transducer on the pressure bladder at the bottom and hooking it up to a Keithley data acquisition unit and get it to work for us but we want to fix it right and be done with it. In a perfect world we would get all servo control hydraulics with MTS gear on it instead of the old manual control valves, but no way in hell that could get done in a week. Acquisition and control are two very different things; glad you found someone who can help. I really doubt that I could find old software for you, but technical help I know I could. We can still make it go up but we have no way to read the data off....

I've never had a problem with people asking my age in a gun store. For me anyway if you go in and ask intelligent questions, seem to know what you are doing and what not they have no problem with you. Hell, Cabela's has had no problem pulling match pistols (1,500$+) out of their show room cases and letting me dry fire them whenever they have them. Needless to say they normally comment that it looks like I've done that before when I'm done though...

A couple of my employees used to be technical application engineers there, what do you need? Surprisingly enough I got in touch with a woman who seems competent. What I need is the copy of the old software that we had to run the digital front end on the 400k turret press that SATEC rebuilt in '97. The software is obsolete but I'm trying to get them to see if they have an old copy somewhere we could get, and if we can't she is trying to look up all the specs on it to see if we could even upgrade to the new software for the machine. The kicker is we need to have it operational by next friday. We could get it done by sticking another pressure transducer on the pressure bladder at the bottom and hooking it up to a Keithley data acquisition unit and get it to work for us but we want to fix it right and be done with it. In a perfect world we would get all servo control hydraulics with MTS gear on it instead of the old manual control valves, but no way in hell that could get done in a week.

and drinking a beer

Wow... sitting on a couch, watching Road House and cleaning a pair of boots...

Something came up and it was way easier to do the personal check rather than a damn postal money order. I'm not worried about you running away with my money or changing the check.

Check? What check? It was supposed to be a MO. I hope you have money in the bank. I do have plenty of money in that account, plus there is even overdraft protection on there so you won't have a problem getting your money from that check.

Damn back has been hurting all afternoon.

Talk about a monumental pain in the ass. Can't find the software needed to get an old computer up and running on the machine, need it by next friday, but the lady at Instron is looking for me. Hopefully it is a success.

You got that check yet Ryan?

On the phone with Instron, feeling I'm not going anywhere...

Not really since we need it today... Figures...

It was a beast of a computer too, 166MHz, 16Mb of RAM, running Windows 95...

Thrilling... power outage yesterday for a bit on campus fried the computer that was running big purple, a 440,000lb press down here in the lab...

Just spent some money with knu for RCA's and what not... Hoping to tear the dash apart saturday.

bahahhahahaha omg, actuaLOL

Indeed.

Need a quick answer, some old RF amps came up on craigslist and I was curious if they are worth anything and worth picking up. I have 4 Rockford Fosgate Punch amps. Two are old school Punch 60's $75 ea. One is old school Punch 40 $35, and I have a Punch 120.2 $50

Freud dado heads sure do cut nice.

You do grease it regularly don't you?

Yes, I realize the concrete may be important to you but step back and look at the bigger picture here...

People piss me off. No, they won't stop doing construction to fix the damn roof to batch a couple of concrete beams for research that aren't to time dependent... Its stopping two thousand dollars for a damn dime.

My god, some/most/all women are f'ing stupid.

*looks both ways* Top!

Mornin'