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| Vince:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 30, 2022, 11:39:37 am ---With all the chatter regarding floppy discs, reminded me of my first "proper" computer which was the Amstrad PC1512. Yes I had others before that one, but they were not proper in my mind. Before that, I had a pocket Sharp PC-1211 (which I still have somewhere and still works) and then I progressed onto a Sinclair ZX Spectrum and upgraded it with a Rotronics Wafadrive and later on Miles Gordon Technologies of Cambridge introduced an interface to accept a 3.5" floppy drive, which I then adopted. When I had the PC1512, I then later upgraded it to have a 20Mb hard card (20Mb hard drive and interface all in one to fit into one of the internal expansion slots), my fate was sealed there and then, I have been a great PC fan ever since. http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/1288/Amstrad-PC1512-DD/ --- End quote --- I am quite fond of these old calculetty - computery things. The good thing is, they don't take much space compare to boat anchors TE, so I could get a few of them without having to dig into the ground to find space to build an extra storage room to my house, which is good. So I might at some point see what's available out there. IF there is some coll stuff you can find for a reasonable amount of money, might go for it. However If all the greedy vintage-anything speculators have already invaded that scene and it's a shit show, then well that will be without me :-// I remember a cool one. was in 1997, was doing a one month placement for school. Was in a small company that designed and built machines that had a PLC in them. I would of course work on the PLC programming side of things. The machines they were still designing them on drawing boards pen and paper style (came back to visit just 4 years later and they had all switched to CAD/ computers instead...) Anyway, so the guys drawing had what looked like a calculator with the same aspect ratio/form factor that you show here, but it had a little pen mounted on it ! Guy would type text and numbers on the calculators, and it would move the pen attached to the calculator, to draw the text onto the paper, I was stunned !!!! :wtf: :-+ |
| Vince:
--- Quote from: TERRA Operative on June 30, 2022, 12:47:59 pm ---All I want is..... ONE MILLION DOLLARS! :-DD But yeah, I've seen what people ask for these things in Europe! Thousands is toooo much! I got a TDS794D for $350, just needed some new RAM chips, and a TDS784C with pouch and 4 P6425 1.5GHZ probes for about the same price, fully working. Those accessories are now on my TDS784D, that I got for a few hundred bucks too. Once shipping ain't so ridiculous, I'd send one to you for an order of magnitude less than Euro prices.... Hurry up and find that highly paid but cushy work-from-home job so you can buy all my stuff! :-DD --- End quote --- One million Dollars ?: No worries, lemme dig out my Monopoly board game ! >:D High paid job no, not happening in France, unless you work in finance/banking/insurances/politics. Industry/technical jobs don't pay. Nothing pays. Even with the silly inflation we are having here, and every worker going on strike for a raise, they won't cough the money, or for the lucky ones, just a bag of crisps, like 50 Euros GROSS not net, which doesn't even remotely covers for the inflation we are having right now, never mind what will come next year and the year after that... I don't care, I will get my scope anyway, I will just save on food and sell my TDS544A. Bought it for 500 Euros 5 years ago, which was a good / very fair price here (working / fixed, leaky caps and corrosion already attended to). That's 500 USD today, but would have been 600 USD before the war, so might be worth 600 again once the war is over... The tricky bit is finding someone to actually buy at that price nowadays.. seeing how people have lost so much buying power because of COVID and now the war. Hopefully in a year or two I can sell it for a decent price. Stay tuned !!! :-DD |
| Specmaster:
@Vince, yes I remember those printer/plotters that draughtsmen used on their drawings and quite liked one myself, however they were frightfully expensive at the time, so on my drawings I had to make to do with some far cheaper plastic stencils, but of course the real breakthrough was the development of CAD, I enjoyed doing drawings and schematics on my CAD. |
| nixiefreqq:
almost never carry a phone around with me.......so i was having trouble keeping track of the time. bought this pocket clock that you assemble as a kit. it took about an hour and a half to build. it keeps good time but does not seem to be much use for anything else. could probably use it as a calculator, but they forgot to include an = key. |
| mnementh:
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 30, 2022, 09:32:41 am --- --- Quote from: Vince on June 30, 2022, 09:12:41 am ---Good morning TEA !!! Overcast and rainy here, just woke up. Let's see what's been going on while I was sleeping... Oh, networks again ! :-DD Networks will never exterminate removable media, doesn't make sense... Have a good day all ! :-DD --- End quote --- I have to agree with you. All it takes is one fucker with a hedge trimmer to ruin your day. Doesn't matter where you live. --- End quote --- *yawwwwwwwwwwwwnnn...* *scritch-scritch-blep* You called...? >:D mnem Be careful what you wish for; you might just get it. |
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