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  • ratronicratronic Posts: 1,451
    edited 2011-10-22 13:45
    You're being cruel to Microcontrolled.
  • Ron CzapalaRon Czapala Posts: 2,418
    edited 2011-10-22 13:52
    Those things first started appearing in 1949
    BTW I wasn't around then ;-)
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2011-10-22 13:56
    All of Microcontrolled's circular logic is spiraling out of control.

    He has made a record-setting number of pleas for more info.
  • jazzedjazzed Posts: 11,803
    edited 2011-10-22 14:01
    erco wrote: »
    All of Microcontrolled's circular logic is spiraling out of control.

    He has made a record-setting number of pleas for more info.
    LOL. Now I remember.
  • Ron CzapalaRon Czapala Posts: 2,418
    edited 2011-10-22 14:03
    jazzed wrote: »
    LOL. Now I remember.

    Guess you're on the right track now!

    It seems erco likes to needle microcontrolled...
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-10-22 14:05
    Don't tease Micro too much. He's liable to turn the tables on us! For my part, I've gotta get back to work plugging holes in some Spin code I wrote and shrinking it a bit, so it all fits the hub. Then maybe I can play.

    -Phil
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2011-10-22 14:08
    Here's a HINT:
    mystery2.jpg
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  • Ron CzapalaRon Czapala Posts: 2,418
    edited 2011-10-22 14:15
    Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »
    Don't tease Micro too much ... Then maybe I can play.

    -Phil

    That is a sound idea!
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2011-10-22 14:17
    This is more fun than I hoped. Thanks uC, more related hints for you!
    mystery3.jpg
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    mystery4.jpg
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    mystery5.jpg
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    mystery6.jpg
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    mystery7.jpg
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  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2011-10-22 14:24
    Possibly unrelated. Might just be messing with ya. Never know. OTOH...
    red herring.jpg
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  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2011-10-22 14:34
    I feel old now... round and round we go.. Mine were always yellow for some reason.

    OBC
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2011-10-22 14:44
    erco wrote: »
    Possibly unrelated. Might just be messing with ya. Never know. OTOH...

    Dang! I was just going to bring those up from your other thread. Those where easier to identify. At least for us old folggies.

    Jim
  • bill190bill190 Posts: 769
    edited 2011-10-22 14:47
    Yes my mom and dad had some of those!
  • Ron CzapalaRon Czapala Posts: 2,418
    edited 2011-10-22 14:49
    This web browsing led me to a picture of my old friend Garrard
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2011-10-22 14:54
    Probably why I buy more than CD's than vinyl these days
  • Roy ElthamRoy Eltham Posts: 3,000
    edited 2011-10-22 14:58
    OBC, mine were almost always yellow, too!

    I did have a single blue and red one, one side was red and the other side, marked with a B, was blue.

    Sadly, I don't have any of them anymore.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2011-10-22 15:02
    Ron Czapala wrote: »
    This web browsing led me to a picture of my old friend Garrard

    Or my other friends Benjamin Miracord, Optonica, and Dual, sitting in front of me.

    Jim
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-10-22 15:03
    Where's Micro? Maybe we've needled him too much, and he's spiraled into a black hole of despair. Of course, the flip side of that could be that he just doesn't like our tone and is keeping us at arm's length.

    Scratch that. I think what's happened what's happened what's happened what's happened what's happened what's happened what's happened what's happened what's happened what's happened what's happened what's happened what's happened what's happened ...
  • Ron CzapalaRon Czapala Posts: 2,418
    edited 2011-10-22 15:07
    Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »
    Where's Micro? Maybe we've needled him too much, and he's spiraled into a black hole of despair. Of course, the flip side of that could be that he just doesn't like our tone and is keeping us at arm's length.

    -Phil

    You win Phil! I can't keep up with your witty hints!!!
  • PropabilityPropability Posts: 142
    edited 2011-10-22 15:27
    Some of these hints just seem to be "jumping the shark".
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2011-10-22 15:34
    Those devices are a bore, really, centered on keeping the wow factor to a minimum.

    -Phil
  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2011-10-22 15:39
    These images have only confused me further! Could it be a symbol for something?!? A useful device?!? Some sort of tag?!?
    AHHHHHHHHH!!!!
  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2011-10-22 15:41
    BTW, erco, I know that picture at the top of this page is for those clips you had for the last Mystery Part thread you started. I'll hold out a little longer before I ask you flat out what the answer to this challenge is.
  • ctwardellctwardell Posts: 1,716
    edited 2011-10-22 15:47
    I've had to adapt to a lot since I was 33, but at 45 things still keep going round and round...

    C.W.
  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2011-10-22 15:48
    OK, this thing just HAS to be some sort of tag! Like the ones that they put on telephone poles, with a hole in the middle for a nail. Why anyone would make jewlery out of it mystifies me.

    The only thing they seem to have in common is the hole in the middle. Some don't have slots, some have 4 notches instead of 3, etc.
  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2011-10-22 15:52
    Wait...... does this have something to do with records? (The vinal disks that store music, so no workarounds there) It looks like something that would go on the metal rod that the record rotates around, or possibly used to seperate them during storage.

    Am I close?.....
  • ctwardellctwardell Posts: 1,716
    edited 2011-10-22 15:56
    Not for seperation.
  • MicrocontrolledMicrocontrolled Posts: 2,461
    edited 2011-10-22 16:23
    OK, then. How about raising them up? Holding them down? Maybe clicking the little "RPM" counter wheel? (which would explain the notches)
  • ctwardellctwardell Posts: 1,716
    edited 2011-10-22 16:34
    This isn't Jeopardy, can't phrase your answer as a question, but you are very very close, keep at it.

    C.W.
  • W9GFOW9GFO Posts: 4,010
    edited 2011-10-22 16:56
    At 33 I didn't need them. At 45 they may become useful again. By the time I'm 78 I know they won't have any use.
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