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Mother wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:22:02 +0000, [email protected] (Alan J. Wylie)
> wrote:
>
>> I can't remember anything that interesting in my old copies of PW,
>> dating back to 1970. An excellent way to waste several hours when your
>> should be doing something useful by marvelling at all the old adverts
>> after finding the box in the loft.
>
> Oh how I REALLY wish I'd kept all of my old PW, Everyday Electronics
> and other assorted, probably quite sad and geeky magazines :-(
>

Alan's brother has just BINNED 25 years worth of such things. I still
have 25 year old "Hobby Electronics" and ETI.....

Steve
 
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:34:55 +0000, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
scribbled the following nonsense:

>On 18 Jan 2006 13:59:46 -0800, [email protected] wrote:
>
>>(it goes up to 11!)
>
>Lurve Spinal Tap references wherever I can find them - as did the late
>Jim Marshall to whom the /original/ joke was aimed.

before my time!
--

Simon Isaacs

Peterborough 4x4 Club Newsletter Editor and Webmaster
Green Lane Association (GLASS) Financial Director
101 Ambi, undergoing camper conversion www.simoni.co.uk
1976 S3 LWT, Fully restored, ready for sale! Make me an offer!
Suzuki SJ410 (Wife's) 3" lift kit fitted, body shell now restored and mounted on chassis, waiting on a windscreen and MOT
Series 3 88" Rolling chassis...what to do next
1993 200 TDi Discovery
1994 200 TDi Discovery body sheel, being bobbed and modded.....
 
Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:22:02 +0000, [email protected] (Alan J. Wylie)
> wrote:
>
>> I can't remember anything that interesting in my old copies of PW,
>> dating back to 1970. An excellent way to waste several hours when your
>> should be doing something useful by marvelling at all the old adverts
>> after finding the box in the loft.
>
> Oh how I REALLY wish I'd kept all of my old PW, Everyday Electronics
> and other assorted, probably quite sad and geeky magazines :-(

Crikey - if you're really keen I'm pretty sure I still have a few years of
Everyday Electronics + assorted others still in the garage/loft/basement.
I'd be happy to let them go to a home where they'll be [ab]used.

--
William Tasso
 
William Tasso wrote:
I'd be happy to let them go to a home where
> they'll be [ab]used.
>

Martyn has other magazines to abuse, often featuring Charlotte Church
apparently.....

Steve
 
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:33:28 -0000, "Bob Hobden" <[email protected]>
wrote:

>I've been thinking about that for some while, a jamming device or something
>to overload the system, but how to zap a unit playing a CD or MP3? :-(

I reckon that a half decent EMP cannon is probably just about do-able
these days...

>It's the fact that it would be me getting my collar felt that puts me off.

What for I wonder? There are few laws to regulate hobby electronics
testing - albeit if it were to accidentally cause some degree of RFI

May have a few neighbours complaining about broken electrical goods,
though...


--
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of distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while being
increasingly capable." Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs
In memory of Brian {Hamilton Kelly} who logged off 15th September 2005
 
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:52:32 +0000, Steve <[email protected]> said:

> Alan's brother has just BINNED 25 years worth of such things.

I did rescue the first 8 editions of Personal Computer World, though.

Volume 1, No. 1 (1978)

Nascom 1, base kit £227, but you can expand it with 8K of RAM for £97.

Uncle Sir Clive's Science of Cambridge MK14 SCAMP based microprocessor
kit. *Only* £39.95 (plus VAT and p&p).

Assembler listings

Circuit diagrams with proper 7400's.

8" floppy discs.

Z80 2.5MHz, £15.50


Hmm. This thread really ought to be over in uk.comp.vintage
Follow-ups set.

--
Alan J. Wylie http://www.wylie.me.uk/
"Perfection [in design] is achieved not when there is nothing left to add,
but rather when there is nothing left to take away."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:29:06 +0000, Mother <"@ {mother} @"@101fc.net>
scribbled the following nonsense:

>On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:33:28 -0000, "Bob Hobden" <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>
>>I've been thinking about that for some while, a jamming device or something
>>to overload the system, but how to zap a unit playing a CD or MP3? :-(
>
>I reckon that a half decent EMP cannon is probably just about do-able
>these days...
>
>>It's the fact that it would be me getting my collar felt that puts me off.
>
>What for I wonder? There are few laws to regulate hobby electronics
>testing - albeit if it were to accidentally cause some degree of RFI
>
>May have a few neighbours complaining about broken electrical goods,
>though...

and all of yours broken.

Would be good if it could be directed without damaging surrounding
equipment.
--

Simon Isaacs

Peterborough 4x4 Club Newsletter Editor and Webmaster
Green Lane Association (GLASS) Financial Director
101 Ambi, undergoing camper conversion www.simoni.co.uk
1976 S3 LWT, Fully restored, ready for sale! Make me an offer!
Suzuki SJ410 (Wife's) 3" lift kit fitted, body shell now restored and mounted on chassis, waiting on a windscreen and MOT
Series 3 88" Rolling chassis...what to do next
1993 200 TDi Discovery
1994 200 TDi Discovery body sheel, being bobbed and modded.....
 

Bob Hobden wrote:
> D wrote ((snip))
> >
> >
> > Now don't ask me what the hell I was thinking but for some reason I
> > must have thought that I was 18 again and drove a 1.1LX Fiesta with
> > "wide boy" body kit or something, not a RRC Tdi, and saw one of those
> > subwoofer bass box / amp kits, i just had to have it........oh dear.
> >
>
> Living as I do near a railway crossing (100yds) I get woken up on a regular
> basis by such bass units, when there's a few in the queue all playing
> different crap music it can get very annoying.
> Especially as I seldom drive with a radio on.
> Personally I think it should be part of the MOT, if the stereo, with
> everything connected, can be heard more than 10ft from the vehicle when it's
> on full volume, then it fails. It' just another form of pollution after all.
>
> --
> Regards
> Bob
> 1974 S111 SWB 2.25 petrol Hardtop (For Sale)
> 1987 90 2.5 petrol Hardtop

Strange how the noise of the trains doesn't bother you though?

And I can justify my extra pollution by the amount of fuel I save by
driving a diesel RR not a petrol one..............

 
the extra sound quality is really good with the bass box I've found is
really good, after all, most Range Rovers and Discoveries have been
fitted with them for ages. I was listening to an couple of old U2
albums today and found myself hearing things on a particular track that
I never had before. Really enjoyed listening to it.

The D2 sound system is excellent as standard though, I had one for work
and it was excellent. Only one I've heard better was in the bosses new
Range Rover. 14 speakers or something silly?

 
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:45:19 +0000 (UTC), Simon Isaacs
<[email protected]> wrote:

>>May have a few neighbours complaining about broken electrical goods,
>>though...
>
>and all of yours broken.
>
>Would be good if it could be directed without damaging surrounding
>equipment.

That's why it's called a 'cannon' and not an 'explosion'.

 
Mother wrote:

> That's why it's called a 'cannon' and not an 'explosion'.
>

I actually have plans....

Steve
 
[email protected] wrote:
> the extra sound quality is really good with the bass box I've found is
> really good, after all, most Range Rovers and Discoveries have been
> fitted with them for ages. I was listening to an couple of old U2
> albums today and found myself hearing things on a particular track
> that I never had before. Really enjoyed listening to it.
>
> The D2 sound system is excellent as standard though, I had one for
> work and it was excellent. Only one I've heard better was in the
> bosses new Range Rover. 14 speakers or something silly?

The Harmon Kardon one in my HSE is very good indeed!!

--
Subaru WRX
Range Rover LSE (Bob) FOR SALE!!!
Range Rover 4.6 HSE (The Tank!)

'"I don't remember asking you a goddam thing"


 
in article [email protected], Dave
Liquorice at [email protected] wrote on 19/1/06 9:28 am:

> On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 02:28:51 GMT, Nikki wrote:
>
>>> If you want a track to give that sub a work out try track 3 or 4 on
>>> disc one the Now 63 CD. (I think, it's No.1 Daughters, honest).
>>
>> We've banned any albums that belong to our girls in the Discovery.
>
> Purely for the sake of research you understand. It's track 3 BTW on
> Now 62. Something called "Don't cha" by Pussycat Dolls Feat & Busta
> Rymes. I've noted it in case I ever get to play with a decent full
> bandwidth PA system, something small with just 10kW per stack would
> do.

We also have this cd, and Bruce does actually have a PA set up in his
workshop/garage, which he was persuaded to play "Don't cha" by our youngest
daughter. (My girls are 12, 11 and 9) I can assure you it didn't sound any
better at all.

>> we have to listen to enough of their choice in the house...
>
> No.1 Daughter is 9 today, she is pretty sensible and the (to some
> extent deliberate) cheap 'n cheerful CD/Radio/Clock she has doesn't go
> all that loud.
>
> No.1 Son has yet to show any interest in having his own CD machine.

Funnily enough neither has our youngest and only boy. He thinks that he
gets to use the Roksan set-up, but we know otherwise!

Nikki

 
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:53:01 GMT, Nikki wrote:

> We also have this cd, and Bruce does actually have a PA set up in
> his workshop/garage, which he was persuaded to play "Don't cha" by
> our youngest daughter. (My girls are 12, 11 and 9) I can assure
> you it didn't sound any better at all.

But I bet it rattled the dust out of the rafters, always assuming said
PA has some decent subs on it...

>> No.1 Son has yet to show any interest in having his own CD machine.
>
> Funnily enough neither has our youngest and only boy.

I'm not surprised with 3 older sisters, he can't get word in edgeways.
B-)

--
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Cos I'm 'ard me 'ard!

It is nice to drive topless when it is below freezing or there abouts,
all bundled up in nice warm coats with a benny on, laughing at the
muppets dressed the same driving there eurobox's.

I may get a little cold but I ALWAYS look COOOOOOOL!

 
In article <[email protected]>, Alan J. Wylie
<[email protected]> writes

>Nascom 1, base kit £227, but you can expand it with 8K of RAM for £97.

The Computer History Museum is currently looking for one:

http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/donateArtifact/wishlist.php

I asked my dad - sadly he disposed of ours fairly recently.

Regards,

Simonm.

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GT250A'76 R80/RT'86 110CSW TD'88 www.kc3ltd.co.uk/profile/eurofollie/
 
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:59:58 GMT
SpamTrapSeeSig <[email protected]> wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>, Alan J. Wylie
> <[email protected]> writes
>
> >Nascom 1, base kit £227, but you can expand it with 8K of RAM for £97.
>
> The Computer History Museum is currently looking for one:
>
> http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/donateArtifact/wishlist.php
>
> I asked my dad - sadly he disposed of ours fairly recently.
>
> Regards,
>
> Simonm.

he will be ze first against ze wall come ze revolution :)


--
F
 


Folderol wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:59:58 GMT
> SpamTrapSeeSig <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> In article <[email protected]>, Alan J. Wylie
>> <[email protected]> writes
>>
>>> Nascom 1, base kit £227, but you can expand it with 8K of RAM for
>>> £97.
>>
>> The Computer History Museum is currently looking for one:
>>
>> http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/donateArtifact/wishlist.php
>>
>> I asked my dad - sadly he disposed of ours fairly recently.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Simonm.
>
> he will be ze first against ze wall come ze revolution :)

So I'll keep mine, then! 8¬)

I designed and built a 64KB addon and found the reason for the
dreaded "memory plague", too.

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On or around Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:59:58 GMT, SpamTrapSeeSig
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>In article <[email protected]>, Alan J. Wylie
><[email protected]> writes
>
>>Nascom 1, base kit £227, but you can expand it with 8K of RAM for £97.
>
>The Computer History Museum is currently looking for one:
>
>http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/donateArtifact/wishlist.php
>
>I asked my dad - sadly he disposed of ours fairly recently.


"Microsoft Windows v. 1.0, 1985 with original packaging"

they'll be lucky.

Mind, they have a Dragon 32 on the list, I happen to have one of them...
--
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"Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!"
Thomas À Kempis (1380 - 1471) Imitation of Christ, I.xxiii.
 
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