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     F22raptor |
This is in response to a post by Brinnutz.I was driving around my town today and thought I would take some photos of were it all began..The only comments I wish to make is that Eriks creativity is not based on were he works,nor do fancy buildings make motorcycles.I view it as a radical surgery that was needed to remove the huge Harley tumor from Buell motorcycles,not pretty,but a necessary step to take E.B.R to the next level! And to all the newbies out there,the farm-barn photo is where it all began!    | ||
| Stirz007 |
I'm sure it's just the photos, but it looks like a ghost town - not a single vehicle or person to be seen. | ||
| Court |
Hahahaha . . . I remember the move to Jefferson Street and "having a lobby" . . . that was the BIG time. The only drawback was hauling the SGI machine back and forth in the trunk of the old Audi. Erik worked during the day at "the factory" and then took care of the kids and worked another full time job at home at night doing contract design work . . . . on the same computer. Great memories. | ||
| Hughlysses |
The only drawback was hauling the SGI machine back and forth in the trunk of the old Audi. Erik worked during the day at "the factory" and then took care of the kids and worked another full time job at home at night doing contract design work . . . . on the same computer. Holy crap- and you say he's working harder NOW than he's ever worked before? He must be a machine.  | ||
| Court |
>>>He must be a machine. If you only knew . . . I'd describe last week. . . for Mr. Buell . . . as nothing short of brutal. I had to tease him and remind him that, at his age, he should slow down. I'm putting the chances of that at about zero. . . I think you'll be pleased with the fruits of his labor. | ||
| Hootowl |
I have been so far. | ||
| Brinnutz |
Brian, We'll have to meetup for a ride this year. I'm sure I'll be back up your way as I'm only in Kenosha, so you can show me the older ones! | ||
| Murgatroid |
Court: "The only drawback was hauling the SGI machine back and forth in the trunk of the old Audi." I worked at SGI from '88 to '97. I wonder if Erik used one of the workstations I designed? Cool story! -steve | ||
| Hootowl |
Heavens to you Steve, Heavens to you. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Those SGI machines, when used in MRI machines, were really easy to hack!  (For the record, this was all 100% ethical hacking I was doing under contract for the owners of the equipment I was penetrating, with specific approval in controlled environments during controlled and approved windows of time). Nice machines for sure. | ||
| Court |
>>>Nice machines for sure. But poorly protected from ice and snow. Mr. Buell once, doubtless in haste resulting from being late so that his wife could get to work, put the Audi in the ditch on Road X. There was a tough decision to make. Try to carry the Megatron SGI machine from the road to the house . . no mean feat. Or . . . leave it there and hope that it survives the Wisconsin cold. I wasn't a witness but recall tales, when they were running some of the early fancy smancy design software, of entering all the data . . hitting ENTER and then coming back the following morning to find the machine still grinding away. We've become spoiled, eh? | ||
| Hughlysses |
We've become spoiled, eh? No kidding. I was doing design work on Computervision CAD equipment back then. This was a big main frame system and IIRC the individual work stations cost over $100k each. When you were working on a BIG (for the time) model, sometimes it could take ~15 minutes to save the file ("FILE PART" command) and you could do nothing while it was saving. Of course the system was notorious for crashing for no apparent reason too, which generally meant you had to pick up at the place you'd last saved it once you got the system up again. Work was always a balancing act between making progress actually doing the drawing versus the risk of losing all you'd worked on for the last ~20 minutes.  | ||
| Two_seasons |
When we got our first desktops, back in the day, everyone got a 20MB (not GB---MB) HD, but I got one that had 40. Had a guy ask me, "hey, who do you know?" I've still got my SGI umbrella! And Reep, yeah they were easy to hack back then. Have you tried lately?...good luck. I sure like this BWB board...so many old timers that remember "back in the day". | ||
| Court |
>>>"back in the day" Like Visi-Calc? My first portable looked like a Singer sewing machine. | ||
| Zane |
Back in the day (maybe 1982 or so), my first home desk top was a Xerox 820 II. It had: a 4.77Mhz chip with one wait state. a 14 inch black and white monitor that weighed about 35 pounds. A state of the art Operating System called CPM 2 8-inch floppies. One for the OS and one for programs and data. It did not have a hard drive. The 8 inch disks stored at total of 160 KB each. Came loaded with Wordstart 4.2 and Visi-Calc 0.0 I was able to hook up a 1200 baud modem to dial into work. | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
Here was my "Axe" in 1982:  | ||
| Buellhusker |
I still have an unopened Visi-Calc program that I had purchased at a fundraser auction And this was the time that I already was using Lotus 123 and AutoCad 1. I had the first IBM XT in town. Wow a 10 meg hard drive and 8088 processor. THE GOOD OLD DAYS. | ||
| Court |
Man........ You guys are old! Oh ...... Wait........utoh ........carry on. :-) | ||
| Spdrxb |
Seems like this thread got redirected.I got introduced to PC's and video games on this. tape drive sucked. At least the games were cartridges. Yikes! Pitstop ruled!   As for a motorcycle subject kinda thread related...... I started riding dirtbikes around this same time period.... | ||
| Hootowl |
Still have the 64. And the tape drive. And the monitor. And the floppy drive. The floppy drive was $250.00 in 1983 (ish) and it was single side, single density. I cheated though, punched the disks and flipped them over. There was a 10 MB hard drive available. No one could afford it. (Gates and Jobs didn't have money yet.) | ||
| F22raptor |
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| F22raptor |
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| F22raptor |
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| 86129squids |
This should become the Old Video Game thread too.   | ||
| Koz5150 |
During the 20th Anniversary of Buell (summer of 2003) Erik led a group of riders (about 75 of us) on a history ride from the "new factory" back to the barn. I had just become a Buell owner less then a year ago and had no idea how cool that weekend was going to turn out. Once we pulled in and Erik opened the barn up for us I remember guys with early tubers looking around at the leftover parts saying, "hey, I really could use another front brake rotor like that one hanging on the wall!" There were drawings left on tables and all kinds of neat stuff. I wish I would have taken pictures that day it sure was cool. Anyway, I still have one of the old school Blue and White pit crew shirts that Erik signed for me the day before at the dinner he spoke at for us. I believe I als still have my Team Elves shirt I purchased that night. Here are a few I found on Badweb from that event 8 years ago   Click this link to see a few more. http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/406 2/580967.html | ||
| Court |
Fortunately . . . . . Since you went there . . . An effort was undertaken to preserve much of what you saw and to make it a bit more presentable. Other than an errant worker who tossed a box of what he thought was "junk" . . . . It was a great undertaking. It really looks like someone was there working yesterday, I spent a day a while back and photographed everything, including some of this drawings, so that folks will be able to enjoy and appreciate them in the future. Cool beans! | ||
| Koz5150 |
Not to pick on you, however I remember you (Court) showed up for that event, driving a Crown Victoria.... BTW, I still have my Pic with you from last summer along with my autographed copy of 25 years of Buell  | ||
| Court |
>>>>>Not to pick on you, however I remember you (Court) showed up for that event, driving a Crown Victoria.... Man . . I took tons of guff for that . .that year, eh? But . . . at least I had my fly zipped! There's no such thing as "picking on" me . . .in my advanced years . . . well, I've done enough stupid stuff to warrant and render true . . most the comments. It was a GREAT time . . . this year is going to be a dandy as well. Which makes me think . . I need to get to work . . . Ourdee??? . . how many days? |
