How do you say "Ye Olde Rocket Forum"? Hear this guy out!


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Roy
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So it should be pronounced "THE Olde Rocket Forum"?
And instead of YORF it should be TORF?
Heh.

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I like the unusual, the off beat, the avant-garde. No 3/4 FNC for me!

Seems like another thorn in the side......

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Don
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"Carpe Diem"

But since we're on the subject.....

Ye Olde Rocket Forum.....like it's been around a long time?

Ye Olde Rocket Forum.....like we're talking old rockets?

Ye Olde Rocket Forum.....like it's a rocket forum for old folks?

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Don
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"Carpe Diem"

I think there's probably only one or two members here that know how I came up with the names for my sites.

I've been a computer guy since the early 80's when I got my first Commodore 64. I then got a Commodore 128 and then an Amiga 500. (Yes, I still have all three!) Anyhow, I started a Commodore 64 BBS (Bulletin Board System for you youngin's out there) around 1984 or so. Back then trading "warez" was a big thing. I came up with the name Ye Olde Pawn Shoppe for my BBS since it's main purpose was for trading "warez". My system eventually moved to the C128 then an IBM XT PC and on to a 386 based system. I ran DESQview on the 386 to run a multi-line BBS. I then got involved with FidoNet and ran Net 154 (which handled all the FidoNet traffic in SE WI) for a number of years. I finally closed up the BBS around the mid 90's.

The late 90's is when I got back into model rockets becoming a BAR. There's an old time hobby shop in town here that at the time had a huge selection of old OOP kits at original retail prices. I saw the market for them and started Ye Olde Rocket Shoppe which originally was an online by email auction. I'd manually update the rocket auctions by hand as bids would come in. Tedious but it was a lot of fun. I'd use the profits to build my vast collection of kits.

Anyhow, that's the origin of my sites names.

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Scott D. Hansen
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Scott-
Awesome story about the old hobby shop with the OOP kits.

When I got into rocketry in the late 70's I was introduced to the father of a friend that literally had a garage and basement full of OOP Estes, Centuri, and FSI kits.
He had tons of well-stored OOP engines in his basement all the way up to H-class back when the biggest "legal" hobby motors were 80n-sec F motors.
I never could get a credible explanation ov how he had such a stockpile, but I used to buy a ton of kits/motors from him for about 1/2 cataloged prices. 18mm engines were 50 cents each, Estes D motors 75 cents, 80n-sec Composite Dynamics F's were $5 each and E's were $2-$3.
Around 1991 he sold off the entire stash to some collector. He had at LEAST 20 Centuri Saturn Vs left, as well as 1/45 LJII kits.

Scott -
No Commodore PET with built in monochrome monitor and cassette drive ?
That's what I learned BASIC on at around age 9.

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