4 Dec
2006
4 Dec
'06
10:48 p.m.
Whether vintage computer parts, electronics, or whatever .... just thought
it would be a fun discussion thread.
Rumor has it that the Chanukah fairy* is bringing a cold air intake kit for
my Miata. Extra 25 horsepower. Fun!! :)
- Evan
* Hey, we don't have Santa, okay?
4 Dec
4 Dec
10:53 p.m.
Evan,
On 12/4/06, Evan Koblentz <evan at snarc.net> wrote:
Whether vintage computer parts, electronics, or
whatever .... just thought
it would be a fun discussion thread.
I'm getting another HP 95LX palmtop, with memory cards and sync cable
(two things I lack), from Santa. If I'm really lucky, Santa says
he'll bring me a 500mm prime telephoto for my Canon FTb, too. =)
Josef
--
"I laugh because I dare not cry. This is a crazy world
and the only way to enjoy it is to treat it as a joke."
-- Hilda "Sharpie" Burroughs,
"The Number of the Beast" by Robert A. Heinlein
10:54 p.m.
On 12/4/06, Evan Koblentz <evan at snarc.net> wrote:
* Hey, we don't have Santa, okay?
Santa, the Chanukah fairy*, the Yule Fairy, St. Nicholas... It's all
about Coca Cola to me. *joking*
--
"I laugh because I dare not cry. This is a crazy world
and the only way to enjoy it is to treat it as a joke."
-- Hilda "Sharpie" Burroughs,
"The Number of the Beast" by Robert A. Heinlein
5 Dec
5 Dec
2:23 a.m.
Evan Koblentz wrote:
Whether vintage computer parts, electronics, or
whatever .... just thought
it would be a fun discussion thread.
I just blew most of my budget on a new digital camera - a Canon EOS 400D
(Digital Rebel XTi). It's a nice camera, but buying it has thinned my wallet
considerably... I did get some nice pictures out of it though -
<http://gallery.philpem.me.uk/v/eos400d/>. Shame it's been alternating between
freezing cold, cloudy, and heavy rain (and combinations thereof) all week. Not
exactly prime photography weather...
I'm hoping to get a 70-200mm lens for the 400D later on this month, and maybe
a new TFT monitor (the antiglare coating on my Mitsubishi CRT has failed, and
it's picking up a nasty static charge while it's running - switching it off
results in me getting zapped).
To be honest though, the one thing I do want is the Jupiter Ace motherboard I
asked Lee Davison to repair. He seems to be actively ignoring my emails and
I've lost his snail-mail address...
Rumor has it that the Chanukah fairy* is bringing a
cold air intake kit for
my Miata. Extra 25 horsepower. Fun!! :)
* Hey, we don't have Santa, okay?
That's OK. Not everyone does - frankly I couldn't give a hoot. The winter
holiday is becoming rather over-commercialised IMO.
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3:27 a.m.
On 5/12/06 03:48, "Evan Koblentz" <evan at snarc.net> wrote:
Whether vintage computer parts, electronics, or
whatever .... just thought
it would be a fun discussion thread.
Hopefully, either one or two Hungarian Videoton TVComputers, aka a locally
re-engineered version of the Enterprise 64 that the country's biggest
domestic appliance manufacturer took on when Enterprise UK went down in
1985/6.
Videoton had already been making their own version of some of the Enterprise
peripherals so I guess coming up with their own design of the machine was
logical, and it'll be interesting to see how they did equivalents of the two
specialised sound and video chips in the Enterprise.
Enterprise page (hopelessly outdated):
http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/Enterprise/index.php
Pic of the TVC:
http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/Enterprise/tvc.jpg
Rumor has it that the Chanukah fairy* is bringing a
cold air intake kit for
my Miata. Extra 25 horsepower. Fun!! :)
Can't you just leave the hood up? :oD
--
Adrian/Witchy
Binary Dinosaurs creator/curator
Www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - the UK's biggest private home computer
collection?
3:47 a.m.
Evan Koblentz wrote:
Whether vintage computer parts, electronics, or
whatever .... just thought
it would be a fun discussion thread.
Not sure if it counts, but I get to buy the bits to make a battery belt
for my JVC KY-15/BR-S411E camera and dockable recorder. Hey, it's a
classic broadcast camera!
Incidentally if anyone's got the workshop manual for the BR-S411E S-VHS
recorder, or the BR-S411U NTSC version, give me a shout.
Rumor has it that the Chanukah fairy* is bringing a
cold air intake kit for
my Miata. Extra 25 horsepower. Fun!! :)
Ah. Well, today I get to jack up the CX and see if it really does have
a cracked lower hub mounting. There's a horrible scraping noise from
down around the front wheel that started very suddenly. Seems even
lovely soft oleopneumatic suspension can't save it from Glasgow's
potholes...
Gordon
3:54 a.m.
Evan Koblentz wrote:
Whether vintage computer parts, electronics, or
whatever .... just thought
it would be a fun discussion thread.
Oh, forgot to mention - just to bring it vaguely on topic, although I
posted too soon (lack of morning coffee) - I will be firing up my ZX
Spectrum once my sister and her bf come round here, for that authentic
"Christmas 1983" touch. Then we're going to watch Wargames, and listen
to Now That's What I Call Music! on vinyl. Or not. Probably not the
music bit, anyway.
Gordon.
6:12 a.m.
On 12/5/06, Gordon JC Pearce <gordon at gjcp.net> wrote:
Oh, forgot to mention - just to bring it vaguely on
topic, although I
posted too soon (lack of morning coffee) - I will be firing up my ZX
Spectrum...
My hosts here in Christchurch have a ZX Spectrum... any pointers to
some interesting Xmas-related demos I could aquire via the 'net?
(thinking along the lines of the classic C-64 Xmas in-store-windows
program from Xmas '82).
-ethan
8:25 a.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
My hosts here in Christchurch have a ZX Spectrum...
any pointers to
some interesting Xmas-related demos I could aquire via the 'net?
(thinking along the lines of the classic C-64 Xmas in-store-windows
program from Xmas '82).
Hmm, not quite a demo, but the guy who wrote the Monty Mole series of games
did a one-off Christmas game called, I think, 'Moley Christmas' for the cover
of one of the popular Spectrum mags of the time (either Crash or Your Sinclair).
If you're into platform games then tracking that down might be an idea...
(I've almost certainly still got it on tape *somewhere* so could look into
finding it and converting it to mp3 or whatever if needed)
cheers
Jules
--
there's a carp in the tub
there's a carp in the tub
so nobody's taking a bath
1:44 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Ethan Dicks wrote:
You can grab .tzx and .tap files off the 'net, and I've seen a utility
to convert them into .wav files that you play into the Speccy...
You might also want this:
http://www.8bitpeoples.com/discography_gfx.php?artist=The%208bitpeoples#8BP…
Gordon.
My hosts here in Christchurch have a ZX
Spectrum... any pointers to
some interesting Xmas-related demos I could aquire via the 'net?
(thinking along the lines of the classic C-64 Xmas in-store-windows
program from Xmas '82).
Hmm, not quite a demo, but the guy who wrote the Monty Mole series of
games did a one-off Christmas game called, I think, 'Moley Christmas'
for the cover of one of the popular Spectrum mags of the time (either
Crash or Your Sinclair).
If you're into platform games then tracking that down might be an idea...
(I've almost certainly still got it on tape *somewhere* so could look
into finding it and converting it to mp3 or whatever if needed)
cheers
Jules
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witchy＠binarydinosaurs.co.uk