My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20. It came with just 4K and I knew that was not enough, so I bought the 16K add on cartridge. That cartridge would get HOT. It had a cassette tape to load and store programs. It might take 10 minutes to store a program of just a few kilobytes.

The aerial camera the company bought where I used to work was just under 500 pounds and cost $490,000. It took a Cessna 206 with a 20 inch hole in the floor to haul it around. It would actually move the platen and the frame of film during the exposure to compensate for the movement of the aircraft. That was called forward motion compensation. It was the very peak of film based cameras. The Wild (Leica) RC-30. Ours was the third from the last of them ever made.

Now our aerial camera is all digital of course. We have flown a project with digital that we did in the past on film. The digital camera just beats the film in every single possible measurable way. It has so much better color rendition, and we can have a project back to the client faster than the film was returned to us from the processing lab.

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This is just the lens for the RC-30. Crazy heavy and it takes two people to load it into the camera mount in the airplane. Now it is just a cool paperweight.

I always wondered why cars did not have these type of WSW before: The helicopter I flew had them due because of all the wind from down wash in a hover (especially at sea) and above say, 100kts forward air speed.

Great idea!

My only problem with these wiper blades stems from my internal anxieties; how much will service parts cost and will they be available.

I installed my last pair of blade refills yesterday and went trying to find more. Sold out everywhere, and these are nothing special by any means. Now I'm looking for something that I can bodge just in case I still haven't found a supply by winter. (I generally go through a couple of sets a year, living in rain country)

It'd be a shame if these Jeep wipers were rendered useless in a few years because of supply chain or high priced replacements.

There were people born in the 1890s who witnessed the Wright's first powered flight of 180', then a mere 66 years later, were able to watch men travel to the Moon. Talk about an unimaginable advance in technology... :eek:

It amazes me that how long the electric shaver has been in existence the Chinese are unable to reproduce a quality aftermarket electric shaver foil or set of rotary blades. It baffles me that everyone has really poor reviews such as not sharp, rips your hair out, does not cut, self disintegrates, high probability of face maiming. Then it occured to me they are terrible at anything stainless steel.