Lee Burke Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 has anyone already set out a spread-sheet to record the charges put into their batteries in order to monitor their decline? The batteries decline, that is, not their own. And if so would they care to share it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Mackey Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Several chargers these days include software for this purpose, so If i really wanted to do it ( which frankly I dont really bother with ) I just use that. But it would be fairly simple to knock up a SS in Excel I would imagine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Burke Posted July 15, 2008 Author Share Posted July 15, 2008 I did get some software with my charger (rc power 601BC) which enables one to monitor the charge but I don't use it because I am not keen on charging the lipos in my study where the computer is. Perhaps I'll resuscitate one of my aging laptops for that purpose., they take half an hour to boot-up though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdy Posted July 15, 2008 Share Posted July 15, 2008 Windows 98 I was given by my dad once took 3 tries to boot up. And I probably could do that as I save the voltage curves ect on my (newer) windows 98. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Burke Posted July 15, 2008 Author Share Posted July 15, 2008 Ah, Win98, takes me back to the sweet old days of MS DOS 3. One 5 and a 1/4 disc held the whole operating system if I remember rightly, Don't know that it was much faster though, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdy Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 What type of disks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Burke Posted July 16, 2008 Author Share Posted July 16, 2008 Well, you probably are too young to have seen them, but they were the original Floppy disks. They were five and a quarter inches square and originally held just 360Kb. They really were floppy, that is, flexible. The disk drives were of course sized to take them. Then they became able to take greater memory 750kb, I think then they got smaller until they shrunk to the most recent but almost obsolete three and a half inch size. Back then the whole of the Operating System (what now is Windows XP or Vista) was held on one or two of those meagre floppies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inspector9566 Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 floppy disc BLA BLA BLA!!!!!! dont forget the quill and blotting paper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Mackey Posted July 16, 2008 Share Posted July 16, 2008 Lee was merely answering birdy's question Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
260 Flyer Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 Floppy disks? Fiddly little things! IBM's fisrt HDD circa 1956. 5MB capacity weighing over a ton! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Burke Posted July 17, 2008 Author Share Posted July 17, 2008 Just about fit my old laptop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ashby - Moderator Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 I use floppie inners to make hinges for small models - not sure about that one..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Mackey Posted July 17, 2008 Share Posted July 17, 2008 Great picture there Rob ! I too use floppy disk inners for hinges - remarkably strong stuff in the shear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul C Posted July 18, 2008 Share Posted July 18, 2008 LOL, Picture of the hard disk made me laugh - I used to work with IBM Controllers (Not allowed to be called computer as they had a board of chips in place of a single CPU) Part of the service routine was to adjust the drive belts and drum break on the 18" 10mb hard disk and that was the mid to late 90's !These kids today don't know how lucky they are Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdy Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 Admittidely... But when (if ever) I have children, I'll probably be saying that to them! Alas, I also feel guilty for getting this thread off subject. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Mackey Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 detention for you my boy !..... and bring teacher a sticky bun tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
birdy Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 Sorry, on holiday now (huzzah!)! In media res, have you tried googling (its a verb now is it?) for a graph? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terence Lynock Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 I use floppie inners to make hinges for small models - not sure about that one.....Hi David, when I bought this system there was no FDD so I moved everything over on CD-RW and then chucked about 200 3.5's in the bottom drawer, now I know what to do with them and may even invent a few other uses!, regards, TerryP.S got any use for about ten sheets of Mylar drawing sheet 30'' x 20'' with some bad copies of ships plans on? they were scrapped out because they didnt reproduce very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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