What is the correct procedure to shutdown the extruder?  

RE: What is the correct procedure to shutdown the extruder?

yep - was at DEC pre internet - we had one of the original arpanet IMPs  at DEC Marlborough

RE: What is the correct procedure to shutdown the extruder?

I worked for the descendant company from Honeywell-Bull for a while. When I worked in one of the data centers for a few weeks in the early 2000s, they were just retiring a water-cooled monster that was absolutely gorgeous. The brass work on that thing looked like a steam engine. I wish I could've kept a chunk. Couldn't afford to move it though. Never did get any core memory for a souvenir, just some punch cards. 

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Posted by: bobstro

I worked for the descendant company from Honeywell-Bull for a while. When I worked in one of the data centers for a few weeks in the early 2000s, they were just retiring a water-cooled monster that was absolutely gorgeous. The brass work on that thing looked like a steam engine. I wish I could've kept a chunk. Couldn't afford to move it though. Never did get any core memory for a souvenir, just some punch cards. 

I have a couple of DEC Unibus Core memory cards.  Anyone more ancient than that?  I also owned a PDP-11/70, (I got the 11/70 when working for  U of M), and repaired a PDP 11/34 in College as a directed study student.  😉

Just sayin'.

RAH

RE: What is the correct procedure to shutdown the extruder?

Back on topic.  I just use the cool down unless I am in a hurry then reset and cool down.  I just added a foot switch to the power for power testing.  The foot switch is kinda nice to have.  One press for on and one press for off.  I like saving expensive power supplies with a foot switch that costs $15 @ Harbor Freight.  I still use a surge supresser after the foot switch.

RAH

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oh, you youngsters, in my day we still had to strip bark and tie it to a stick to start fires. (left an opening for you flint users)

i want to add something i live by. dont know if i came up with it or heard from other...

'you are never too old to spend 1 hour of each day learning or expanding knowledge of any subject.'

im an EE, with paper to back it, but since i put this time use feature into practice, i have learned so much more. i knew nothing about 3D printing 1 year ago. now i can almost read gcode like the matrix. (kinda do the same things with some game server consoles). i once spent half a day looking over the einsy schematics.

my first computer to call my own was the vic20(lost to hurricaine katrina), wrote a business programme for my mum and ran out of memory. then amiga 1200  (recently demothballed and repaired) and is being phased into my music gear.

dont ever say you are too old, the day you believe it, you are done. 

if you cant learn anything more, teach. inspiration is the best classroom.

and im only 50, i need to get working on my 3d printed body replacement and jar for whats left of my brain after the 80s

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What is really odd, and it has me banging my head to remember, but I was programming 4051's and 4052's in the mid 1970's (cardio app for a research hospital and a an automated femtoamp measurement system for ion-gas pressure studies were two fun projects). Even built a Slicer 186 machine (8" floppies and a 10 MB HDD).  But memory says I owned the VIC-20 before that; yet as far as I can tell on line they weren't being sold until the 80's.  Major dementia warning bells ringing loudly.  Anyone know the year the VIC-20 became available in the states?

RE: What is the correct procedure to shutdown the extruder?

Posted by: Migamix

oh, you youngsters, in my day we still had to strip bark and tie it to a stick to start fires. (left an opening for you flint users)

i want to add something i live by. dont know if i came up with it or heard from other...

'you are never too old to spend 1 hour of each day learning or expanding knowledge of any subject.'

im an EE, with paper to back it, but since i put this time use feature into practice, i have learned so much more. i knew nothing about 3D printing 1 year ago. now i can almost read gcode like the matrix. (kinda do the same things with some game server consoles). i once spent half a day looking over the einsy schematics.

my first computer to call my own was the vic20(lost to hurricaine katrina), wrote a business programme for my mum and ran out of memory. then amiga 1200  (recently demothballed and repaired) and is being phased into my music gear.

dont ever say you are too old, the day you believe it, you are done. 

if you cant learn anything more, teach. inspiration is the best classroom.

and im only 50, i need to get working on my 3d printed body replacement and jar for whats left of my brain after the 80s

Migamax/All,

Now you have me so I cannot stop laughing.  NEVER did I mean to imply that I, (nor anyone else), are too old to do.  My first real Electronic computer was the original Oddesy.  Some youngsters just don't get our generation, though.  I, like you am in my second half century.  Looking forward to those 3D printed parts when the fleshy ones are no longer working.  I am especially glad to be here since I just went through some scary times with my health.  Glad to be alive, learning, and enjoying this one life I have to live.

All that said... On to printing 3D parts, reading GCODE, dissecting electronics (read reverse engineering), building new things, and repairing my Airstream.  I wish I didn't have so much that I wanted to do.  NOT. 😉

Robin

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Speaking of replacement tech:  I see all the sci-fi shows where people want to live inside a computer, live forever, etc.  I don't know, unless I had a foot-switch for OFF, not sure I would want that existence.  If there was an adequate simulation of some vastly new experiences, seems like living forever would get old pretty fast.

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Posted by: Tim

Speaking of replacement tech:  I see all the sci-fi shows where people want to live inside a computer, live forever, etc.  I don't know, unless I had a foot-switch for OFF, not sure I would want that existence.  If there was an adequate simulation of some vastly new experiences, seems like living forever would get old pretty fast.

You don't want to be a printer in your after life? 😆 

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Posted by: guy.k2

Those were so advanced. My first computer ---- the Geniac. We didn't need no semiconductors!

You win that one.  I am a LITTLE bit younger.  It makes me feel like a young whipper snapper.  LMAO.  Keep me laughing.  OK.  So I OWNED a PDP-11/70, (with the infamous FLIP CHIPS with separate transistors no ICs and wired core memory),  and did one of my undergrad directed studies with a PDP-11/34 UNIBUS.  And I also learned basic in college on a mainframe, owned a Timex, and soldered my own Apple II clone.  I bought the board from a shop in Toronto.  I also built the infamous "On TV" box that used SSB (Single Sideband), to encode Over the Air TV so they could charge for it.  I made spare cash selling and installing the boxes into TVs.  All that and over 35 years in IT as a systems architect.  😉

Anyone else wanna bring it on?

Robin

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Posted by: Tim

Speaking of replacement tech:  I see all the sci-fi shows where people want to live inside a computer, live forever, etc.  I don't know, unless I had a foot-switch for OFF, not sure I would want that existence.  If there was an adequate simulation of some vastly new experiences, seems like living forever would get old pretty fast.

I am thinking more like Futurama.  Brains in a jar hooked up to computers.  Live forever.