Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix5.panix.com!not-for-mail From: Rich Alderson Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: cars and COBOL and tricks Date: 30 Oct 2022 22:28:09 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 32 Sender: alderson+news@panix5.panix.com Message-ID: References: <87sfn8pr5t.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <506008721.681319132.143259.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <8PbHK.669418$ntj.102155@fx15.iad> <1b8rkykt5w.fsf@pfeifferfamily.net> <1646834480.688830859.425381.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="panix5.panix.com:166.84.1.5"; logging-data="14779"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 22.3 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:222235 Peter Flass writes: > Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > (deleted comp.os.linux.misc) > > > > John McCue writes: > > > >> Trimed follow-ups to: comp.os.linux.misc > >> > >>> My car is not new enough for the backup camera but that seems like a > >>> worthwhile feature. > >> > >> I do not have one either, but as I age, I can see that camera > >> as being very useful. > > > > Absolutely. The only reason we got one in my wife's car was we bought > > off the lot and had no choice. After roughly a day we realized just how > > valuable it is. I keep wondering about retrofitting one to my truck > > (but none of the retrofits are anywhere near as nice as factory). > > > > Having seen one in my daughter’s car I absolutely want one. For better or > worse the old Honda just keeps ticking at 170,000m+ with very little > maintenance required, so I’ll just keep waiting. My wife and I have aftermarket units in her Lexus and my Scion. Great things. -- Rich Alderson news@alderson.users.panix.com Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur, omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus. --Galen