Where is Henry Spencer?

Happy Sputnik Day Henry Spencer, wherever you are.

In honor of Henry Spencer's Day, we took our beloved eMachines 300k,
rescued from certain Waste Management destruction on Mifflin Street
during Hippy Christmas 2007, a humble 300 MHz K6-2 system complete with
matching monitors, speakers, keyboard and mouse, and we rechristened it
the 'Henry Spencer', filled it out with SDRAM, stuck an nVidia MX-4000
into the PCI slot, loaded up Orbiter with Level 10 Earth and medium
resolution Kennedy Space Center, and believe it or not - *IT FLEW*!

Way to go, Henry Spencer!

On Oct 5, 2:40 am, kT wrote:
Happy Sputnik Day Henry Spencer, wherever you are.

In honor of Henry Spencer's Day, we took our beloved eMachines 300k,
rescued from certain Waste Management destruction on Mifflin Street
during Hippy Christmas 2007, a humble 300 MHz K6-2 system complete with
matching monitors, speakers, keyboard and mouse, and we rechristened it
the 'Henry Spencer', filled it out with SDRAM, stuck an nVidia MX-4000
into the PCI slot, loaded up Orbiter with Level 10 Earth and medium
resolution Kennedy Space Center, and believe it or not - *IT FLEW*!

Way to go, Henry Spencer!

Could someone clue me in please. I've been reading and very
occasionally replying to Henry's posts for over fifteen years but it
looks like he stopped posting without warning 2007-08-17.

wrote:
On Oct 5, 2:40 am, kT wrote:
Happy Sputnik Day Henry Spencer, wherever you are.

In honor of Henry Spencer's Day, we took our beloved eMachines 300k,
rescued from certain Waste Management destruction on Mifflin Street
during Hippy Christmas 2007, a humble 300 MHz K6-2 system complete with
matching monitors, speakers, keyboard and mouse, and we rechristened it
the 'Henry Spencer', filled it out with SDRAM, stuck an nVidia MX-4000
into the PCI slot, loaded up Orbiter with Level 10 Earth and medium
resolution Kennedy Space Center, and believe it or not - *IT FLEW*!

Way to go, Henry Spencer!

Could someone clue me in please. I've been reading and very
occasionally replying to Henry's posts for over fifteen years but it
looks like he stopped posting without warning 2007-08-17.

His SCSI K-6 box died. It appears there is a 'Henry Spencer Effect'
somewhere between 66 MHz K-6 socket 7 and 100 MHz K6-2 3DNow (Super
Socket Seven) - the so called 'Henry Spencer Barrier'. Some of the
effects may also be related to the BIOS clock being set to year 2099.

We'll ship him the 'Henry Spencer' free of charge he can give us an
address. The laboratory vernacular around here is now rife with Henry
Spencer references, 'What would Henry Spencer do?', 'Where is Henry
Spencer when you need him the most?' 'Henry Spencer, are you in there?'
and so on. That's what happens when you try to return to the moon, on a
budget, with an obsolete spacecraft design - a freaking dinosaur before
it's even built. I refer, of course, to the Ares I - the ****ing dildo.

If anybody has an old K6-2+ or even a K6-III or III+, feel free to
donate it to the Henry Spencer cause. On second thought, just buy him a
nice new machine and be done with it, that is one very slow computer.

wrote:
Could someone clue me in please. I've been reading and very
occasionally replying to Henry's posts for over fifteen years but it
looks like he stopped posting without warning 2007-08-17.


He was walking in this sandpit, and the ground opened up, and next thing
you knew he was facing this glass sphere with a gold Martian overlord in
it, and then...

Pat

wrote:

On Oct 5, 2:40 am, kT wrote:
Happy Sputnik Day Henry Spencer, wherever you are.

In honor of Henry Spencer's Day, we took our beloved eMachines 300k,
rescued from certain Waste Management destruction on Mifflin Street
during Hippy Christmas 2007, a humble 300 MHz K6-2 system complete with
matching monitors, speakers, keyboard and mouse, and we rechristened it
the 'Henry Spencer', filled it out with SDRAM, stuck an nVidia MX-4000
into the PCI slot, loaded up Orbiter with Level 10 Earth and medium
resolution Kennedy Space Center, and believe it or not - *IT FLEW*!

Way to go, Henry Spencer!

Could someone clue me in please. I've been reading and very
occasionally replying to Henry's posts for over fifteen years but it
looks like he stopped posting without warning 2007-08-17.

Yes, I too am concerned about Henry's wellbeing.

Pat Flannery wrote:

He was walking in this sandpit, and the ground opened up, and next thing
you knew he was facing this glass sphere with a gold Martian overlord in
it, and then...


Best theory so far.

Craig Fink wrote:
Pat Flannery wrote:

He was walking in this sandpit, and the ground opened up, and next thing
you knew he was facing this glass sphere with a gold Martian overlord in
it, and then...


Best theory so far.

He's on my vessel list. Who else is going to make the cut?