[R-390] Rules of Ware

[Tisha Hayes]

I always imagined Les Locklear's little gift parcels as being dropped by a
C-130 flying NOE over our houses on Christmas Eve. Heaven help you if you
were on the receiving end of a St. Juliens Massacre pallet after the
loadmaster had too much mead to drink. Instead of "Grandma Got Run Over By A
Reindeer" it would be "Uncle Milt got smashed by a box of PTO's". Would his
little stick legs be hanging out from under the pallet like the wicked witch
of the east?

You may recall that Rat Shack used to sell mystery boxes of parts for $5
dollars each in their stores back in the 70's. What a neat way to get a
zenier diode (homage paid to Beavis and Butthead for that memory) or an old
heat sink with a few transistors stuck on it. Now as we get older we collect
parts that are running backwards in time. Sort of like the life of Chronos,
aging towards infancy.

I stopped wearing my tin-foil hat when I was mistaken for a gigantic Hershey
Kisses chocolate candy one Halloween... BTW, important Halloween safety tip,
do NOT use green food coloring to dye your skin and hair green so you can
look like a slave girl from Star Trek. It took weeks to get my dirty
dishwater blonde look back. Also, trying to rehook the anode lead on a 27"
color television while it was still on caused some sort of drain bamage. The
doctors say that this was the first time that they ever saw anyone try
electro-convulsive therapy on themselves, I still cannot remember what 8 x 7
equals. To bring back better days I just grab on to B+. (remember 67 1/2
volt batteries?)

If I was the illustrious winner of our ad-hoc writing contest I would donate
all of my BBOD collection to charity (or audio-phools on eBay).

I have enough parts to almost build another R-390A from the collections over
the years. It reminds me of the Johnny Cash song "One Piece at a Time". My
dream radio will be;

"I got it one piece at a time
And it didn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is around."

Yes, the front knob was from a '67 EAC, the PTO from Motorola, the audio
deck from Helena Rubinstein, the power cord is an authentic Collins and the
IF deck from Stewart Warner. I have yet to decide what name tag to stick on
the front. I may just come up with my own manufacturer called;
"The Ship of Theseus"
(read your Plutarch for that reference).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

-- 
Ms. Tisha Hayes/ AA4HA
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