It’s old.

How many of them put the little rubber bands you use on braces under the keycaps to quiet the keyboard? Common journalist trick. (RS sold a metric buttload of these to journos way back when.)

They started to, but too late. I scored a fair number of nice Arduino kits and accessories from my local store when they were going out of business.

I still have the first machine I ever built in that era, with two single-side, single-density floppy drives on it...a whopping 243K of storage on each. (241K if it was a bootable disk.) It still runs, even.

Been taking pictures at David Tracy’s house?

I have a Norwegian friend who’s a retired professional snowboarder. She says her first car was a yellow Vette. I asked her if she bought it so people could see her more easily when she slid off the side of a mountain in it...

No way would I buy a fucking Ford product. Hyundai’s quality is a LOT higher. (And how many of you would have thought that you would ever be able to say that with a straight face back in 1990?) This one? NP all the way.

Convertible 911 with a manual? 12 large? Yes please. Even with IMS and cylinder liner creep issues, after you replace the engine it’s still probably a NP.

Merciful $DEITY. Why??!!

No kidding. That thing must ride like absolute crap.

Actually, it was probably 300K easy miles. This one wasn’t driven for emergency response. It was used to shuttle patients from one hospital to another and such. An emergency unit would have half this mileage or less. Emergency units sit in the garage a lot of the time.

Because it’s a Mercedes, not a f&*%%$%*&^#@%#^%&ing Ford.

I hate it when a nice pretty new unit turns into scrap metal in the blink of an eye. Hope nobody got hurt when that happened.

Roger. You’re 1-C Minnesota. 73 and good luck in the contest. QRZ Field Day? K5ZC mobile 0.

Just don’t tell me where you got him. I don’t want to know where you got him.

Aviation writer Gordon Baxter once asked of car turbos whether they glow red like airplane turbos when running.

I spent 17 years on the street as a volunteer paramedic. A well-built ambulance is beefed up quite a bit to hold all of the crap that you need out on the street. Electricals, especially, are the biggest you can get.

Amen. My first new car was a ‘79 Regal Limited...nice enough car, but I couldn’t afford the turbo version’s insurance.

Yeah. It’s in nice condition, but it’s still an ‘89 Mustang. 25 large is way too large.

I should schlep my 1987 560SL down there. I still have family in Houston. Maybe this summer.