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In some countries, the line voltage varies frequently.
Particularly in the country known as California....
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?)
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.
Not line voltage but frequency.
Right. The AC frequency, not the voltage level. That would certainly make for interesting timing.
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/
I bet Cray is panicking now.
SuperUK for sure. Not that Germany does not pay its dues:
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!
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.
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?
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.
Tue Mar 11 2014 10:29:06 PM EDT from SigDidn'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.