Letters and Numbers

24 November 2023, 05:00 PM

Steve Miller

Letters and Numbers

Rocket propelled grenade

Role playing game

?

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24 November 2023, 05:01 PM

Axtremus

quote:
Originally posted by Steve Miller:
How many of these do you recognize?

CR 2032

F 250

TRS 80

A 380

A 440

E 85

PS 2

V 8

Happy Thanksgiving!

This list, I recognize every one of them.

25 November 2023, 09:04 AM

Mikhailoh

OU812

I got them all but the CR 2023.

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25 November 2023, 10:08 AM

RealPlayer

Ruth Pader Ginsberg?

I am really bad at this.

Will there be an answer sheet?

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25 November 2023, 05:43 PM

pianojuggler

quote:
Originally posted by Mikhailoh:
OU812

I got them all but the CR 2023.

That’s
CR 2032

Ikea sells them in an 8-pack.

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25 November 2023, 05:44 PM

pianojuggler

quote:
Originally posted by RealPlayer:
Ruth Pader Ginsberg?

I am really bad at this.

Will there be an answer sheet?

Steve’s first post on this page and my last post on page 1 cover the three meanings of RPG that I know.

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26 November 2023, 11:47 AM

pianojuggler

202

404

411

90210

+44

8 5.25 3.5

15 7.5 3.75

144

666

367 80

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26 November 2023, 03:29 PM

Steve Miller

Answers:

CR 2032: Coin shaped batteries usually found in car clickers

F 250: Ford pickup truck model

TRS 80: Early Radio Shack computer

A 380: Airbus plane model number

A 440: Tuning specification

E 85: Gas and ethanol mix

PS 2: Early computer, also computer game

V 8: Engine style or vegetable juice

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26 November 2023, 03:36 PM

Steve Miller

More answers:

VAX 11/780: DEC computer from the early 80's

AT 1: The first Yamaha 125 enduro

867 5309: Motown hit song

80/20: Designation for hamburger

WD 40: Lubricant

409: Chevrolet engine designation made famous in a Beach Boys song

409: Detergeant

BE4 5789: 50's pop song. BEachwood 45789

I 95: Interstate highway runs up and down the East coast

XK E: 2 seat Jaguar model - 1960's

Y2K: Famous bug - year 2000

YKK: Manufacturer of zippers

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26 November 2023, 03:38 PM

Steve Miller

I know all but these:

8 5.25 3.5

15 7.5 3.75

367 80

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26 November 2023, 04:38 PM

pianojuggler

Sizes of floppies.

Reel-to-reel tape speeds - IPS.

367-80, or just “Dash 80” was the model designation of the prototype 707. NFFMCo’s last piston passenger plane was the 367, so they called the secret new jet the “367-80” to obscure the fact they were working on a secret new jet.

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26 November 2023, 10:09 PM

RealPlayer

I would have never gotten the computer stuff. Or much of the car stuff.

80/20 is also a common reference to quality. As in, 80 percent of pop (or any style) music is crap and 20 percent is quality.

Model numbers of anything are hard to guess unless they’re a very common consumer item.

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26 November 2023, 10:13 PM

pianojuggler

80/20 shows up in a lot of places. At the NFFMCo, 20 percent of the customers own 80 percent of the aeroplanes.

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27 November 2023, 01:05 AM

AdagioM

867-5309/Jenny

not Motown; it’s Tommy Tutone and maybe a one hit wonder? Very catchy, now it’s stuck in my head again. Hellooooo, 1980s!

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