Digital Equipment

My very own home page! Thanks for visiting it. The strange URL name 'plsntcov' is a short form of Pleasant Cove , a place in Boothbay Maine where I live. I used the name Pleasant Cove Models for a line of model boat kits that I produced. After 3 years at Burroughs, then 33 years at Digital Equipment Corp, aka DEC, acquired by Compaq, and then by He... wlet Packard, I retired In June, 2002 with an early retirement package. June, 2007. We made a drive across the US for about 6 weeks, see a log here I can usually be found doing one or more of the following things: May, 2005 I bought a boat , planned a long cruise to bring it home, then kept a Trip Log as I traveled. After I got home I wrote an Epilogue. Building full size boats. I have slowed a bit on this, as it was getting out of hand around here when I got to about 12 boats. Current boats include 4 sea kayaks, A Rob Roy canoe, a sailing Peapod, a motor dory (1908 1 cylinder engine), an Alton Wallace 19 motor boat, and a 17' fantail Steam boat. Building model boats. Note that is boats, not ships. I like models of small working watercraft, yachts, etc. a 4 cylinder water cooled overhead valve gas engine. I did it all on this one- from wood patterns for the castings to cutting the timing gears, grinding the cam and making the spark plugs. It was almost 5 years from first work until it ran. I am interested in Stirling Engines, so I built a Hot Air engine which runs on very low heat- a cup of hot coffee! I started working on an electric car but decided I didn tlike car work so I sold it. My shop Was originally a small building, but when I retired to Maine part of the construction was to build a fine new shop. I built MINNIE, an English steam traction engine. I made a Sensitive Drilling Attachemnt for a Sherline milling machine and a Duplicator for a lathe. December 2005 I started another locomotive model Mona February 14, 2006, It is FINISHED!Read More