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[#] Wed Oct 16 2013 01:11:29 UTC from vince-q

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In some countries, the line voltage varies frequently.

Particularly in the country known as California....

[#] Wed Oct 16 2013 03:39:16 UTC from ax25

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Tue Oct 15 2013 09:11:29 PM EDT from vince-q


In some countries, the line voltage varies frequently.

Particularly in the country known as California....

Don't you just generate it yourself and sell back to the grid (ala the CA way?)



[#] Wed Oct 16 2013 16:24:58 UTC from vince-q

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Nope; I don't do the "off the grid" thing.

After running the numbers I determined my "break even" point to be roughly 22 years in the future, at which point I will either be dead or too old to give a shit.

[#] Fri Oct 18 2013 18:15:52 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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Not line voltage but frequency.

Right. The AC frequency, not the voltage level. That would certainly make for interesting timing.

[#] Sun Jan 12 2014 19:57:12 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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Cool. I think we'll see a lot of things like that. Linux on ARM on a lot of machines.

[#] Sun Feb 23 2014 12:29:08 UTC from zooer

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A raspberry pi super computer.
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/

I bet Cray is panicking now.

[#] Mon Feb 24 2014 01:31:01 UTC from LoanShark

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SuperPi?

[#] Sat Mar 01 2014 23:30:51 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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No ... SuperGeil. Where you can buy any flavor of Pi(e).

[#] Sun Mar 02 2014 09:08:39 UTC from dothebart

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Edeka for shure!



[#] Mon Mar 03 2014 04:43:06 UTC from ax25

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SuperUK for sure.  Not that Germany does not pay its dues:

http://www.zx81.de/

Would love to go to the zx81 club on the annual meeting, but I could not afford it.  I still enjoy looking on from afar, and love that so many folks still love the zx81 line (TS-1000 myself), that it continues today!



[#] Tue Mar 11 2014 14:36:40 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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What's the attraction to ZX81 that people still love it decades later, over and above all of the other 8-bit computers that are long forgotten? Is it the simplicity? Hackability? Is it somehow "more retro" than a Commodore or Apple?

[#] Tue Mar 11 2014 22:02:12 UTC from ax25

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Simplicity at the core.  Where else would you be convinced to put an off station AM radio next to your computer to press keys on the membrane keyboard to make the processor (in "fast" mode), select loops to generate RF that made tones on the radio.  The rest of you bastards had a speaker and some sort of tone generator :-)

Just too much fun making it do things it was never meant to do (and folks still doing it).  Suppose it is like the strange folks that make new 2600 games.



[#] Wed Mar 12 2014 02:29:06 UTC from Sig

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Didn't most of the people in the zx81 markets not have access to things like Commodores and Apples?

[#] Wed Mar 12 2014 16:35:08 UTC from fleeb

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I suppose this goes under Hardware...

I bought an evoMouse, with the hopes that a more ergonomic mouse would help my hands feel a little better in the long run.

It acts like a trackpad... more specifically, like one of the newer kinds of trackpads that knows a few gestures for some simple things (like back, click, click-and-hold, right-click).

I will need to grow accustomed to it for full-blown use, but it works pretty well for normal desktop use. I have only a little lack of comfort using it after a few hours, and then only when I need to do something quickly and I haven't quite remembered the right gesture or something.

But, overall, it seems to work okay. Maybe a tad slower, perhaps... not sure.

Anyone else fool with this?

[#] Wed Mar 12 2014 17:19:42 UTC from wizard of aahz

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One wonders how that works with gaming?

[#] Wed Mar 12 2014 20:24:49 UTC from fleeb

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It's really, really awkward to impossible depending on the game.

With Champions, impossible.

With Neverwinter, you can play, but it's a tad awkward. I wonder if, after a while, I'd get good with it ... but at the moment, my character looks like an idiot while all hell breaks loose around him.

Minecraft feels very weird... maybe I'd get use to it. But, it otherwise seems doable.

[#] Thu Mar 13 2014 03:05:15 UTC from ax25

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Tue Mar 11 2014 10:29:06 PM EDT from Sig
Didn't most of the people in the zx81 markets not have access to things like Commodores and Apples?

People with Apples did not tend to rub elbows with the TS-1000 or ZX81 crowd.  The price point was quite different ($1100 - $1200) compared to the $35 I spent on my from the Montgomery Wards catalog store.

I did get to mess around briefly with some Apple II and II+ in high school, but it was not as much freedom as I had with the TS-1000.



[#] Sun Mar 16 2014 15:37:38 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

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I spent most of those years tinkering with a Commodore 64, and yes, the Apple users had an unearned smug superiority (hmm, it might be argued that they still do).

[#] Mon Mar 17 2014 14:33:57 UTC from fleeb

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I still recall how many Amiga owners had a fairly smug attitude, too, until Medhi Ali destroyed CBM.\

The difference, of course, is that the Amiga was truly an amazing bit of machinery for the day.

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