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| bd139:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 16, 2022, 05:18:47 pm --- --- Quote from: 0culus on July 16, 2022, 05:02:00 pm --- --- Quote from: Specmaster on July 16, 2022, 04:57:36 pm --- --- Quote from: 0culus on July 16, 2022, 04:36:51 pm ---I received a very special package, which certain people on this forum should appreciate. >:D >:D >:D --- End quote --- Well that's nice, but it has 2 things wrong with it, 1/ it has a really crappy LCD screen which seriously detracts from its usability, poor resolution and contrast, 2/ It doesn't have an = key :-DD The second, is not really a problem, just an inconvenience and requires a small rewire of one's brain in order to work it correctly, the first is in my view a major design flaw especially when the cost is taken into account, a few cents more on the BOM and it could have been a winner. :popcorn: --- End quote --- Ah, but there you'd be wrong! This is an example of a later 48GX that has the high contrast screen (standard on the 49 and 50g). Very hard to find. :P --- End quote --- What, I'd sure hate to see the old screen then, that one would seriously give me a massive headache quickly, like so many of the graphical calculators do, of which I have a few in my collection, that do not see the light of day for that reason. Perhaps I just need to get my eyes tested again but I doubt a fresh set of glasses would make me think that the screen was high resolution :palm: --- End quote --- Prefer a shit screen on a good calculator myself :-DD |
| bd139:
--- Quote from: mnementh on July 16, 2022, 05:16:47 pm --- --- Quote from: Specmaster on July 16, 2022, 04:57:36 pm --- --- Quote from: 0culus on July 16, 2022, 04:36:51 pm ---I received a very special package, which certain people on this forum should appreciate. >:D >:D >:D --- End quote --- Well that's nice, but it has 2 things wrong with it, 1/ it has a really crappy LCD screen which seriously detracts from its usability, poor resolution and contrast, 2/ It doesn't have an = key :-DD The second, is not really a problem, just an inconvenience and requires a small rewire of one's brain in order to work it correctly, the first is in my view a major design flaw especially when the cost is taken into account, a few cents more on the BOM and it could have been a winner. :popcorn: --- End quote --- mnem mmmm... creamed spinach color... --- End quote --- Hahahaha not seen that. I did actually own a Game Gear :-+ |
| mnementh:
--- Quote from: med6753 on July 16, 2022, 05:13:41 pm --- --- Quote from: Specmaster on July 16, 2022, 05:02:42 pm --- --- Quote from: mnementh on July 16, 2022, 04:59:21 pm --- --- Quote from: Specmaster on July 16, 2022, 04:27:39 pm --- --- Quote from: bd139 on July 16, 2022, 04:14:29 pm ---Seen some shit in my time but this ... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/362782549796 :palm: :palm: :palm: --- End quote --- Holy shit, I'm not surprised at it not working. It's like I said in another post, some people lack brains and what makes it even worse is that more than likely some stupid dipshit will more than likely buy this as well :palm: --- End quote --- Hey, at least you can see everything that's been robbed off it before you waste your time & money... and if I were in dire need of something it actually has, I might pay more than I want to for it to save myself myself the guilt of robbing it off a decent example. :-// Just sayin'... mnem might, I say... might. If I were really desperate for that part. --- End quote --- Yep, you'd have to be really desperate for that part as after seeing the clear abuse it has been subjected to, their is real and dangerous possiblity that that part is going to be equally knackered one way or another :-DD :-DD --- End quote --- WTF is that POS? I might use it for target practice. :palm: --- End quote --- Naaah... not that bad. Timebase knob is in good shape, and it has those trapezoidal switch caps bd139 needs also in nice & black finish. I'd offer the moke 10 quid for it. This is what I'd find more worrisome. Ships from the US but does not ship to the US. I know exactly where that is; I've been there. I suspect maybe they've had a irate customer come dot a eye for 'em or summat. :-DD I've seen this vendor before too; they're regulars in the "TE Junque" trade. :-// mnem :-BROKE |
| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 16, 2022, 03:52:07 pm --- --- Quote from: mnementh on July 16, 2022, 02:51:57 pm --- --- Quote from: Cerebus on July 16, 2022, 02:18:52 pm --- --- Quote from: mnementh on July 16, 2022, 01:09:19 pm ---Well, hopefully this break will give you a chance to seek out and hire some competent workers. --- End quote --- He doesn't have a choice - housing association property, therefore not his call. --- End quote --- Uggghhh... missed that part. Is that like subsidized/government managed housing over here, or like "Deed Restricted" "Homeowner's Association" crap where you supposedly own your property but some dipshit PTA queen has final say over the color of your drapes if they face the street? I'm assuming the former... but after some of the horror stories I've heard, I wouldn't be surprised if "approved contractors" were also part of the latter over there. :palm: mnem *sand-ily* --- End quote --- Actually it's neither, the house used to be owned by the Local Council and I rented it from them. Then they transferred all their housing stock to a housing association as part of the Governments great idea of let's sell off as much as we possibly can to raise some cash for itself and then put more money into the hands of wealthy people via the tenants rental payments. --- End quote --- That rather misrepresents the rĂ´le of a housing association. Housing associations are set up on a statutory not-for-profit basis as suppliers of rented property that grew out of the Victorian philanthropic schemes that various people such as Peabody set up, and later stepped in to manage former council housing stock precisely as a way of getting it into the hands of organisations with some positive social ethos as opposed to for-profit commercial landlords. Nobody is getting rich off your rent, indeed housing association properties are often rented out, as was council housing, at significantly less than market rents. I used to know a penniless artist (now deceased) whose work is on my walls who lived in a Peabody flat in Brownhart Gardens, just around the corner from Bond Street (for the 'Merkins that's like saying "just off 5th Avenue"). Needless to say, a penniless artist wouldn't be even able to consider paying a fully commercial rent there. Current purchase prices for property in that area start at several million and just go up. |
| mnementh:
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 16, 2022, 05:27:56 pm --- --- Quote from: mnementh on July 16, 2022, 05:16:47 pm --- mnem mmmm... creamed spinach color... --- End quote --- Hahahaha not seen that. I did actually own a Game Gear :-+ --- End quote --- I recently unearthed a Banker Box labeled "Vintage Portables" that I'm pretty sure has at least 2 each of GG, PSP and GBC. Might even have some PSV and 3DS as well. I'm afraid to open it. :-DD mnem If you don't know what those acronyms mean, count yourself lucky. ;) |
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