Artifacts

[wdfifteen]

Came across this. I bought it because I once had a go-kart with a REO motor on it, and a small engine that had never been operated was an oddity. I knew I had it, but haven't looked at it in years. Time for someone else to store it.

Ad copy:

"Brand new 70 year old REO boat motor for sale. This is part of a kit REO sold in the early 1950s to turn a rowboat into a power boat. Motor only. This motor has never been run, never had gasoline in it. The muffler still has the original paint."

[Scott Douglas]

^^^That is cool!

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by 3rd_gear_Ted

Wasn't EBDIC (extended digital binary interchange code) the format and FORTRAN was the program?

EBCDIC ... Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code...

C1 = A
C2 = B
...

Late 70s I started with cards... our college IBM mainframes were at Research Triangle Park ... CRTs appeared around 80.

Our Burroughs filled a room too...

You do NOT want to drop a box of cards with a program of 370 Assembler instructions !

It wasn't me

[rcooled]

[GH85Carrera]

OK, so really OLD artifacts. My coin I have as G is the one in the article. It is the only ancient coin I that I have that I can identify. It is 2,335 years old or so.

I always figured the coin I labeled as A and F was ones of the most interesting. Very hand made looking, and both have been clipped over the millennia, where someone cut a little of the edge of the coin off, to cheat the next person, and keep some of the metal.

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

I have one identical to the above (without the inscription on the back) with a NYC subway token in it. My dad used it to carry tokens when he rode the subway every day back in the 60's.

[DonDavis]

Artifacts in diagnostic images are unwanted flaws in the image acquisition. The type of artifact usually tells a story of what caused it.
They can be super ready to solve, or it can take days to diagnose.

The arrow shows that vertical line, ignore the tiny red dot, my phone added for some reason. This is from a CT scanner caused by a faulty xray Detector module. There are many different versions, this system has 57 modules that make up the entire assembly.

[wdfifteen]

I'll need to get them out for pictures, but I have a trime and a no-cents nickel in my small collection of coins. They're over 100 years old - not old for coins, I know, and they aren't very valuable. I just got them because I found them interesting.

[KFC911]

Patrick ... why don't you have a Porsche tractor? You need one!

Methinks you probably know R. Yow (356, etc)... amongst his "collection" was a beaut ....

I didn't "need" one

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by 911 Rod

Do people still smoke pipes?

They smoke bowls now

[oldE]

Yes, it is a tuning peg from a violin. Why do I consider it an artifact? It was carved about 125 years ago by my great uncle.

[Por_sha911]

Cool. Was he a violin maker or just doing a homemade repair?

[Tobra]

Uncle had a side gig selling promotional items, had samples with his name and number. Keychain pocket knife, 50 years old

Newton Mfg, Newton, IA

[oldE]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

Cool. Was he a violin maker or just doing a homemade repair?

He played, I am told. He died before I was born. His daughter never married and gave me his desk, which I still have. My sister, who I visited in November was given the violin. Last year, she got in contact with a great grandson of my great uncle's (2nd cousin) and found there was another violin player in that family. She had a luthier bring the instrument to playable condition and sent it to him. She thought I might like the tuning peg, as I share a name with the old fellow.

[5495bb]

Memory boards from an old 1980's mainframe computer. I don't remember the manufacturer but when we were tearing it out I pulled a couple of the boards. The pictures show both sides of them. They measure about 12" square and probably weigh at least a pound each. They hang in my bar now.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by KC911

Patrick ... why don't you have a Porsche tractor? You need one!
D

I do need one! I would have the Jr model - the smallest one. Miserable excuse for a tractor. Single cylinder, air cooled diesel. When it’s idling it jumps up and down and sounds like someone beating on a washtub with a hammer.

Porsche never built tractors.

These days, a galvanized washtub would be an artifact!