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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Tremble
Dude sounds like a knock-off Rampant Rabbit
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Likewise. 58pts and yet his team still losing has got to hurt…
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That sounds entirely reasonable to me… I’d hope there’s still enough of that era hardware out there that a tower unit could be picked up pretty cheap and they’ve not become collectors items yet
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It might well have been the PC1512, both the mouse and the look and feel of the OS are ringing some very distant bells...
Yes that's a good point on Windows 3.1 vs 95, "obsolete" was very much my game-obsessed child's view on it as 95 had DirectX and pretty quickly games migrated away from DOS to needing Win 95 or above. That said I took copies of the six Win 3.1 floppies on the last machine I had that came with a floppy drive and now have an installation running on DosBOX for when the urge to play Sim Tower or Dr Drago's Madcap Chase strikes...
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My dad had various strange old computers stowed away in the loft, a spectrum where the connection to a tape drive had broken so you could only boot it into basic, and a circuit board thing based around a 6502 chip with what looked like a calculator in the corner that you had to programme in hexadecimal. Apparently he spent a day with it once and got it to sum two single digit numbers and that was that.
The earliest machine I remember using was an Amstrad, can't remember the model name but it had two 5.5in floppy drives and no hard disk. There was a very early graphical OS that you could boot from a floppy (maybe the first version of Windows?) and we played various games that came with magazines like Jason Jr and Spongs. When I was 7 we got a 486 (the Pentium had just come out but had the floating point issue so Dad decided to stick with something proven), with Windows 3.1 and 8mb RAM and that was when my interest really started. Never really got into coding but became the authority on using it and wrote various boot discs allowing increased memory allocations for playing games like Desert Strike and Worms. With Win 95 coming along shortly after we bought it, the machine was obsolete pretty much immediately but we kept it until near the turn of the millenium.
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I have an i4 (silly M50 version) with a stated range of 315 miles, did a 260mile round trip in the summer with 10% of the battery remaining so it was probably giving about 285-290 miles range total. That was sat on cruise at 70 most of the time and on Eco Pro mode. I wouldn’t touch the first gen E-Tron 50 given what’s available nowadays, I had one as a company car previously and in ideal conditions it might just about manage 160 miles, but indicated more like 110 in the winter.
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Thank you! I feel as though yours is objectively an actual classic whereas at the moment mine is a silly man spending unnecessary amounts on an old car, but as mentioned above it does everything I want it to and in a rather fun way too.
Sorting out the passenger side wing mirror indicator was another fun job that took many times longer than it should have done. The issue was easy enough, in that whoever last had it off (I imagine the body shop when it was resprayed) hadn't plugged the wires back in to it. Unfortunately as with everything else on the car it had evidently been bodged around with multiple times and of the four mounts that attach the mirror cover to the mechanism, only one was still present, and that snapped when I unscrewed the torx bolt from it. Cue plastic welding it back into place, waiting a day for it to set, and very carefully reinstalling everything.
I also realised the reason the bolt that holds the whole assembly to the car had been replaced with one with a big button head was because that jammed it still to stop it shaking. As it stripped on the way out I replaced it with a standard sized one and the mirror cover now has a slight wobble. I'll try and sort it with some tape short term and then add new mirror covers to the shopping list...
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Being off work at the moment I strapped on my big boy pants and had another go at the alarm horn. Got the car up high enough for an axle stand and put a brick under the rear wheel and then went to work. Of course, the 13mm nut that holds the alarm siren in place had completely corroded in place and nothing was moving it. I ended up having to take the wing off to get at the cage the horn sits in and then Dremel out the offending nut and bolt . What should have been a 45 minute job ended up taking 2 and a half hours, but it's done now and the alarm is once again functional. Noticed one of the wing mirror indicators has died so next job will be attacking that....
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Sorry I missed this response initially. My current stands are minimum height of 280mm, there look to be some on amazon around the 240mm range which might be enough. I do have wheel chocs, the drive has a very slight downwards slope (probably no more than 2-3 degrees) so I wasn't sure if it was safe to just wedge something under there.
I thought I'd managed to get away with doing this job having turned the wheels all the way to the right and peeled back the arch liner, only to find that the bolt that holds the siren in place has corroded in place. I now need to take the wing off so I have access to remove the whole unit and then work out how to get the bolt off. These jobs always seem so simple until you start doing them...
Mostly ride TT's, but getting into track riding aiming to race some pursuits next season. Have given bunch racing a few cracks but it's not for me.