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Originally Posted by W3XWT (Post 3051146)

Reception Reports for Channel 37 TVDX Can Not Only Get You a QSL Card, but a One-Way Trip to the Planet Davanna ...

I'd doubt that the Davannan FCC would allocate channel 37. As the Davannan radio astronomers would want to keep that channel clear, just like ours. :D

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Originally Posted by W3XWT (Post 3051146)

If the RIM BB OS is derived from UNIX, no wonder RIM is so close to being RIP!

QNX is a custom real-time OS where they later added POSIX compliant APIs. It's not Unix at all. And given RIM's market share evaporated to competitors running BSD UNIX (Apple) and Linux (Android) I don't really get that statement :)

As far as 1980s "embedded" CRT monitors, spare a thought for the guys keeping old arcade games running. Those have the added hazard that the CRT often gets burn-in well before it loses emission, but other than that the problems are quite familiar to VK readers - dead capacitors, shorted horizontal output transistors, and the occasional flaming flyback.

Yeah flaming flyback transformer, I sure know about that!