The motherload. I have hit it.

[Capt. 2110]

Went to my favorite electronics store, and got all of this for about $63.
I'll post pictures a little later.
Sony Trinitron PVM-1341(June 1989. But it kills LCDs and eats them for breakfast.)
Handspring Treo 180(Unknown. Probably early-2002. Charger does not work.)
Zilog Z80 Z8400PS(Date code 8522)
All for $63.
The TV alone can go up to $130. The Treo? About $25. The Z80? Not much more than I paid for it.
Now that I look at this, it seems less awesome.

 

[Chuck(G)]

I seem to remember that the Z80 was one of the first CPUs to hit below $1 the each, in Q1000. Maybe there were others, but the Z80 sticks in my mind as inspiring wonderment at the price in the early 80s as well as my puzzlement as to why Exxon, an oil company bought the chip maker. Stupidity, I guess.

And I will never get used to the term "motherload".

 

[Capt. 2110]

That's cool. I think it was because:

Also, I'm 14, and I'm not sure why you'll never get used to it... Do I really want to know?

 

[Chuck(G)]

Mostly because the term is/was "Mother lode", a term from the old gold-prospecting days. I have no idea where "motherload" came from. I've tried to research the etymology and come up empty-handed.

 

[antiquekid3]

Mostly because the term is/was "Mother lode", a term from the old gold-prospecting days. I have no idea where "motherload" came from. I've tried to research the etymology and come up empty-handed.

This may be your ticket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn

One of my personal favorites: Cadillac converter

Kyle

 

[Chuck(G)]

whereas one who speaks or writes an eggcorn is unaware of the mistake.

Oh, okay.

 

[NF6X]

Congratulations, Captain! That sounds like a nice haul to me.

Speaking of eggcorns, hearing "for all intensive purposes" has much the same effect upon me that "cleaning woman" does on Steve Martin's character in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.

 

[griffk]

Is this the thread everybody comes to, when the drugs are wearing off???

gwk:twisted::twisted::twisted:

PS: I had a program manager in the distant past who insisted on using: "for all insensitive purposes"

 

[KC9UDX]

It only irritates me when someone calls a PCB without slots a Motherboard.

I never heard the word Eggcorn until this thread.

I used to work with a guy who was almost as good as Archie Bunker though. For some reason I crack up whenever someone says "bat out of hell" only because this guy used to say "like a bat on a hill". I didn't have any opinion on that either way, until one day a rather angry fellow demanded to know "DOES THE BAT HAVE @#$%^@ WHEELS!?!?!?!"

He always called the cursor "The Purser". It took a lot not to chuckle every time.