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Brett W
post Sep 18 2003, 02:37 PM
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since I can get this message board to let me finsh my whole *(&(#$ message here is the car before I killed it.


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post Sep 18 2003, 02:39 PM
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post Sep 18 2003, 02:41 PM
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QUOTE(Brett W @ Sep 18 2003, 01:37 PM)
since I can get this message board to let me finsh my whole *(&(#$ message here is the car before I killed it.

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post Sep 18 2003, 02:49 PM
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Hi Brett and welcome to the BBS! Are you the Brett W that used to post on Rennlist? Nice looking car and I had wondered what happened to you.

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post Sep 18 2003, 02:52 PM
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sideways into a curb or the equiv? (avatar)
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post Sep 18 2003, 03:06 PM
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Heres the story, I slid the car through a turn and over a curb, and then bounced off a stop sign. Broke a CV Axel, 320 caliper, brake rotor, bent a turbo tie rod, bent two wheels, smashed a door, (the glass was down, and did not break, the door beam did its thing). My harness kept me in place so I didn't feel a thing when I hit but when I woke up the next morning and went out side and llooked at the car that was what hurt the most.

Brad, I did move back from CO to go to school. Durango didn't have much of a car scene. I am in the middle of building a tire frying bad-ass 2056 for a friend, fixing my car, building a turbo civic, and trying to pass Linear Algebra.
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post Sep 18 2003, 03:18 PM
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Yep I was with Rennlist from the beginning. Anyone here remember Porschefans and Porschefiles?
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post Sep 18 2003, 03:22 PM
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Yep, I remember Porschefiles. I've been a lurker on Rennlist/Porschefiles since mid '98.

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post Sep 18 2003, 03:57 PM
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QUOTE(Brett W @ Sep 18 2003, 01:18 PM)
Yep I was with Rennlist from the beginning.  Anyone here remember Porschefans and Porschefiles?

You're in college and you remember Porschephiles? Wow. That was almost 10 years ago. Yep, I remember Porschephiles. I used to read my messages on a VT100 terminal over a 14kbaud connection to a DEC Vax at the university. (I thought that was pretty hot stuff at the time!) My pc was a 386-16mhz. Most people didn't know what "Internet" meant. Ahh, those were the days... back before graphical web-browsers, advertisements, restrictive EULAS...
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post Sep 18 2003, 04:04 PM
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I got on the net in 95 and joined Porschefiles in 97 when I got my 914. My first computer was an early Mac Quadra 450 and I connected with a 14.4supra fax modem. I would download my mail and go eat dinner before I could read it, my computer would run out of memory after about 10 webpages, so cruising the net was very aggravating. You assume just because I am in college I am younger. I am 27 so I have been around a while. Just got tired of going to work everyday and checking my brain at the door so I am out to change that.
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post Sep 18 2003, 04:06 PM
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QUOTE(airsix @ Sep 18 2003, 02:57 PM)
Ahh, those were the days... back before graphical web-browsers, advertisements, restrictive EULAS...

yeah baby!

used to code device drivers WITHOUT a assembler.
just hacked the hex codes right into memory.
(makes for fun relative jumps)

redid the complete OS of the C64, threw out about 1/3
of the original code and integerated my own "debugger" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

9600 modems were THE SHIT and internet was more like
a bunch of BBS's you could dial in.


god, how i miss those days. seriously. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)
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post Sep 18 2003, 04:41 PM
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QUOTE(Brett W @ Sep 18 2003, 02:04 PM)
I got on the net in 95 and joined Porschefiles in 97

Was Porschephiles still up in '97? You must have joined just in time for the big heist. he he.
-Ben M.

ps - re: going back to school... Good for you. We all need to keep learning.
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post Sep 18 2003, 05:13 PM
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I to got into 914's and the 914 forums on that diginet site (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) then into the Porschefiles/Rennlist. I remember the 300 baud modems (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) and trying to be on the net in 93. What was that new cool browser, Mosaic? I run a G3 at home....and a Dell Latitude 400 for most other stuff.

Brett, sorry to hear your car got toasted!! I remember all the work and questions you used to ask (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Good to see you back on.

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post Sep 18 2003, 06:14 PM
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You young pups!

Back in the early days we were forced to bang two wires together to write code. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

We didn't have no stinking internet, we had mainframes. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/Yack.gif)

It was big magic when we made one of the first token rings. We got paid to use startrek to debug it! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dance.gif)

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post Sep 18 2003, 07:23 PM
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My first 'puter was a Sinclair ZX81 with an extended memory of 16K
Internet? You were lucky if you managed to save your programing to a tape recorder (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

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post Sep 18 2003, 10:19 PM
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Ah yeah I had a Timex Sinclair 1000!! My first computer. Those were the days. And then a TI 99/4A. A 286 clone. A Mac Color Classic with a 96, then a 14.4 (speed baby!) A 386/33, upgraded to a 486DX/100. I joined Porschefans, then Porschelist/Rennlist. Bunch of good guys, I tell ya.
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post Sep 18 2003, 11:02 PM
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QUOTE(Jeroen @ Sep 18 2003, 05:23 PM)
My first 'puter was a Sinclair ZX81 with an extended memory of 16K
Internet? You were lucky if you managed to save your programing to a tape recorder (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

cheers,

Jeroen

Yeah Boyeeee!

I started with a ZX80 when I was 7. I got a ZX81 for christmas that year. Have been programming ever since.

The days I miss though were running Unix on my atari ST, and dialling into Spuddy in the UK for free internet email and news.

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post Sep 18 2003, 11:18 PM
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Yeah I caught the tail end of Porschephiles, then it went to Porschefans and then the deal where it went to Rennlist. I still get rennlist in digest but it has changed from the old days. I don't follow it much. I learned a lot in the early days and then I got the car up and going and my learing went from the list to reality and that is where most of my experience came from. Build it, break it, do it all over again and learn from my mistakes. I would do some things different but I wouldn't trade my experiences for any others. This book is not finished, just wrapped up another chapter. The car will run again before the year is out. AS I get more into engineering school I see things from a whole different angle than the kids at school. I am a mechanic/racer who will become an engineer not an engineer with some mechanical experience. I think that is what will make me a better race engineer.
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post Sep 18 2003, 11:20 PM
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Glad to hear your on the right path. I'm also glad to see you sign up and post here.


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post Sep 18 2003, 11:55 PM
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QUOTE(Jeroen @ Sep 18 2003, 06:23 PM)
My first 'puter was a Sinclair ZX81 with an extended memory of 16K

those were nice!

my first was a TRS80, back in, hum, '78 i believe?
took a computer class at school back then (which was quite exotic in the days), they made us punch holes in cardboard cards and feed them through a reader!

the only thing i really regret is that i didn't buy microsoft stock in the 80s. that was damm stupid (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

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