BOMBS AWAY!!! THE UN-OFFICIAL OFFICIAL BOMB THREAD

[royal0014]

Could not have happened to a nicer grumpy ol' Jarhead.
Congrats Mr Marine.
And kudos to the bomber !!

[TripleF]

Yeah buddy!! Knice gift!! Couldn't happen to a better fella!!

[jmh58]

Kool!! Kudos to the giver and getter!!! John

[doglegg]

Bombs, bombers and bombee all well done. Excellent.

[Colonel26]

Wow Cuz! That is awesome.

[jerryd6818]

You ain't just whistlin' Dixie, Cuz. It's a humbling experience to receive something like that.

[313 Mike]

Received this housewarming bomb from Scott! Also included in the package was some of that outstanding Florida fatwood and a nicely carved wooden spoon..thanks so much Scott., very much appreciated!

Sheath says Estwing on it, not sure if it is original to the knife or not? Anybody seen one of these before?

[doglegg]

Congrats Mike, Scott is a crafty one. Interesting and attractive knife.

[jerryd6818]

Bought a NOS Camillus 709Y Yello-Jaket medium half Congress from Knifeslinger#81 and was floored when I opened the package to find this big old honkin' Buck 371 Stockman came along for the ride. Thank you very indeedly Paul. Very generous of you.

[TripleF]

Received this housewarming bomb from Scott! Also included in the package was some of that outstanding Florida fatwood and a nicely carved wooden spoon..thanks so much Scott., very much appreciated!

Sheath says Estwing on it, not sure if it is original to the knife or not? Anybody seen one of these before?

Two weeks later.....I see this!
\My pleasure pal!!! Enjoy~

[jmh58]

WOW!! KA----BOOM on all accounts!! Congrats!! John

[Steve Warden]

Mike Xx Case xX dropped this one on me a couple days ago

[doglegg]

That is a pretty knice bomb Steve. A quality, practical and good looking knife. Props to the bombardier.

[Colonel26]

Steve that stockman is fantastic. I love the blade selection on it. WOW!

[treefarmer]

In addition to a couple of knives I received in a trade, dogleg "bombed" me with a Parker Edwards mini-trapper and a Remington Cutlery pick. He's not sure if the pick is an original or a reproduction? Either way, the Alabama made knife and the pick were a complete surprise!

A much appreciated "bomb"!

Thanks again, Floyd!
Treefarmer

[TripleF]

Knicely done Mike......Floyd.

[djknife13]

I'm always impressed at the great bunch of guys that hang around this site. ____Dave

[Steve Warden]

I'm always impressed at the great bunch of guys that hang around this site. ____Dave

As am I!

[jmh58]

I'm always impressed at the great bunch of guys that hang around this site. ____Dave

Yep!!! John

[bighomer]

I'm always impressed at the great bunch of guys that hang around this site. ____Dave

Me also too.

[bestgear]

So my older brother from another mother who lives in the middle of the top of a bastion of Liberalism and I worked for the same company (Amdahl) in the 80's. It was a GREAT company to work for and started by Gene Amdahl who (amongst many things) formulated Amdahl's law, which states a fundamental limitation of parallel computing. So in my mailbox today was an unexpected box from Rockford Illinois filled with Amdahl trinkets that brought back some wonderful memories this afternoon.

The black key on the bottom left was used to open the side panels of an Amdahl 580 and jerryd6818 will tell you that the chips were mounted in an 11-by-11 array on multi-layer boards called Multi-Chip Carriers (MCCs) that were positioned in high-airflow for cooling. The MCCs were mounted horizontally in a large rectangular frame. The MCCs slid into a complex physical connection system. The processor "side panels" interconnected the system, providing clock propagation delays that maintained race-free synchronous operation at relatively high clock frequencies (15–18 ns base clock cycles). This processor box was cooled by high-speed fans generating horizontal air flow across the MCCs.

I'm honored to be the caretaker of the trinkets and genuinely touched by the memorabilia dump, thank you sir

[doglegg]

Happy for you Tom, always nice to stir old memories and the good ones get better with time. True friends are like that too.

[TripleF]

Very, very cool! Knice target and bomber!!!

[TwoFlowersLuggage]

Amdahl is one of the few systems I never worked on. Most people never even knew that there was "clone" mini & mainframe computer HW long before the PC clones. The companies I worked for that used IBM systems were True Blue shops - no Amdahl allowed!

[jerryd6818]

It was said in the Data Processing world of the '60s, '70s & '80s, "you can never make a mistake by going blue". Many D.P. professionals adhered to that philosophy like glue.