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I love this for it's simplicity and the corny name is only an added bonus
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I was trying to remember what year at school we did log tables and I thought it might have been last year of primary but I'm sure there are folks here of the correct vintage to remember...
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Still got mine as well, survived 5 months in darkest africa on walkabout and 6+ months in India but i left it out in the rain one afternoon whilst listening in the garden so it now doesn't work - i was/still am quite upset about my stupidity
Needless to say the tab's on the battery door broke like many of them do but a cable tie around the body worked for years
Moved onto this sony mini dab model to replace it, another awesome sony radio.
Found my walkman, it was a DC2
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Awesome bit of kit, wish i still had it but the door mech broke and i couldn't get it repaired
Reminds me, I need to replace the capacitors on my Game Gears...
for [b]Northwind[/b] - this was in the auction the other day, I reckoned it could be useful but I just wasn't sure for what! Lovely little thing though, had a whole bunch of tools with it too.
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Needless to say the tab's on the battery door broke like many of them do but a cable tie around the body worked for years
dammit! I was reading your post and about to ask you to send me the battery door if the radio had stopped working! Mine's knackered and has the ziptie fix. I was wondering whether I could bodge some kind of araldite fix 🙁
- have one of those in the shed still offering sterling service!I *loved* this thing.
I had about every palm- 3a and Pilot for sure. Wrote a best mans speech on the 3a on the flight over to a wedding. Great little device.
Also owned the poor mans BBC
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Who needs a MacBook eh?
Who needs a MacBook eh?
We had the Compaq "sewing machines",
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then Toshibas came out and were a revelation.
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I still refuse to buy any Apple stuff
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dammit! I was reading your post and about to ask you to send me the battery door if the radio had stopped working! Mine's knackered and has the ziptie fix. I was wondering whether I could bodge some kind of araldite fix
The battery door tiny tab was a real weak point on an otherwise wonderful radio, mine broke using cheap batteries which i imagine were slightly oversized. I spent many nights in Africa tuning into the world service and exotic SW radio stations when i was billy-no-mates in the middle of nowhere, same in India but had a wee bit of trouble in ****stan at a border checkpoint (i mistakenly rode across the India/****stan border on a goat track road up in Kashmir region with no visa but foolishly returned on the main road once i realised my mistake) trying to explain it's just a radio as i imagine they thought it was some exotic spy transmission kit, or more likely they wanted it for themselves but i flatly refused to hand it over and spent quite a few hours being questioned/shouted at by men with guns - not one of my brightest decisions.
Also owned the poor mans BBC before which we had the Acorn Atom. Which anyone with a shred of technical credibility will tell you was better in every sense than the ZX81.
Well, Acorn was broken up into a number of different companies, one of which is ARM Holdings.
And who's chip designs are used in all of Apple's mobile devices, and may end up in their mainstream machines?
ARM Holdings, based in Bristol, IIRC. Good to know there's areas of modern tech Britain can match the best in the world.
I've got one of these stashed away somewhere, still works ok, AFAIK, had an add-on battery pack which used a couple of AA's to supplement the internal rechargeable:
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Still got it. Perfect nick, too.
Got loads of weird shit from the same era - probably worth a few bob to the right person but the above will always have good memories attached as it was my first composing machine.
Da Da Da... 🙂
Edit : Still have that sci-calculator that Cougar posted, too. Bit torn on the case hinge now.
CZ - ARM Holdings were sold to Softbank Group last year. They're Japanese owned now.
Teasel - I still have this:
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up in the loft. My daughter is getting it if I can't fit her crappy book keyboard. Only thing wrong is a broken battery compartment cover.
Still have that sci-calculator that Cougar posted, too. Bit torn on the case hinge now.
Fixed your link.
A lot of people killed FX-451's by folding them backwards, you weren't supposed to bend it past 180' flat.
We had the Compaq "sewing machines",
That was my first work 'laptop', used to think I was so cool turning up at our satellite depots with it to crunch some numbers for them, what a div.
Oldest sister bought the first Sony discman, handed it down to me, which was exciting, but it didn't work, so I threw it.
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leffeboy
logs and slide rules being used up to 73 at leastat my school not allowed calculators until 3rd year (y9 for the youngsters)
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my mum was expert with one of thee things could add up columns of figures £Sd in seconds
I loved my Palm Pilots, got a couple in the attic. Vx and Tungsten.
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Also thought the Rex Pro was a brilliant piece of design. Synced with Outlook, so you'd always have your diary and contacts with you. Still got it somewhere, but I lack a PCMCIA slot on any PC now 🙁
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Johndoh, I had one of them in grey. Brilliant
Fixed your link.
Ta
A lot of people killed FX-451's by folding them backwards, you weren't supposed to bend it past 180' flat.
I had a hand-me-down from my older brother after he replaced a "lost' one. Folding back the case was definitely his modus operandi, the tosser.
Teasel - I still have this [Casio SK-5]
Awesome! I wanted that and a few of its forerunners but my dad surprised me by instead getting some giant full size monstrosity (can't recall the model) and all desires were quashed. I even took that big bastard to gigs when I was 17, albeit hidden from view so the audience could only see the ESQ-1 and JX3P and not the "fake" synth.
Superb little machines!
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Beautiful to use. I use it mainly to clear my mind/de-stress. Less useful than a cheap leccy one for things like, umm, sums....
Mines from the mid/late 50's
Probaby shouldn't have left my Amstrad CPC 464 with my 2nd year university flat which was owned by a dodgy antiques/crap dealer.
Those mini lathes look great, I didn't know such a thing existed.
I realized the other day, that the Cambridge Audio stereo amp & Mordantz Short speakers I bought in my 2nd year at university are now 18 years old, still going strong, except I've lost one of the knobs on the amp. Got a RPI with Hiberry DAC+ plugged into it, running MPD with tunes stored on the NAS or streaming internet radio.
edit: ^^^^^ what the hell is that!?
And love the old pics of PC's from around 88-92 - my first PC was a 486sx25 bought brand new with inheritance.
edit: ^^^^^ what the hell is that!?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta
Whaaaaarrr...!!!
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A Philips Savvy in a holster. Definitely for emergency use only.
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Had one of these, cried when I had to flog it
Nakamichi Dragon. Had one for years until I realised that I no longer had any music on cassette
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Around 95 one of my mates went to his old school to the music dept. and enquired about that old synth that nobody ever used sat out the back. Only a Korg MS 20 + MS50 expander, got for next to nothing I believe. Jammy sod.
this old thing is pretty awesome too
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Still using one of these
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But sadly sold one of these for peanuts
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Favourite phones!
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First phone.
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>Eriksson T28/T39 - YES!!!
My father won one of these in a ?Hi-Fi World? competition:
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If you looked at it it would skip. When it had finished skipping the battery would be flat. Sounded good though!
Stoner, remember those laserdiscs. They had the BBC domesday project on them in our primary school. [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday ]Now available online[/url]
I had a cheap digital watch at primary school, fake gold n all.
So wish I still had it.
Zx81, spectrum, Acorn.
Handspring.
That Motorola mobile lodsa folk had, £35.
Nice to see enthusiasm from others regarding Marantz and other hi-fi gear.
Other things that were cool in a geeky way were Silicon Graphics and Sun Sparc workstations.
Modern phones, computers etc are amazing but for me just don't have the same excitement factor.
We still have Sparcs at work, definitely not the oldest IT on site, you should see what our pagers are programmed with!
I've always played acoustics, never got on with electric guitars.
I was at Uni, a friends father was having a clear out and gave me one of these. It was a bit battered, well played and yet in good condition. No idea what it played like because I sold it for a couple of hundred quid ..
A 70's tele... damn I wish I'da kept it..
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Yeah man...
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Our first video recorder was top loading and built like a tank.
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JVC CX-7K - personal stereo with auto reverse, FULL LOGIC, soft touch buttons, a digitally tuned radio and if it was *tiny* and if there was no cassette in it, it closed down even smaller - it was amazing for its time.
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I was gutted when it stopped working and all replacements that I could find looked like walking, very reluctantly, back into the past.
My old Aiwa, now the only cassette deck I have which works, and it's what I'll have to use to digitise my old rave tapes before they turn to dust:
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A 70's tele... damn I wish I'da kept it..
do musical instruments count ? As they, like fine wines, improve with age. Amps on the other hand 🙂
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helps if you include the picture 😳 orsumly loud btw
Reminds me of the fact that Sony engineers were tasked with reducing the size of the first portable transistor radios so they would fit in their uniform shirt pockets. They couldn't quite do it so they just made their pockets a bit bigger...
Klunk – Member
… orsumly loud btw
This is good (59m) (It requests a TV licence though)
Play it Loud: The Story of the Marshall Amp
4 days left to view (from 17/02/17) on BBC4 online.
I upset my son by suggesting I'm having my coffin made from it and will be buried with my guitars 😈
better surely? I have a Linn Axis that's as good as/better than CD. Yours might need a service 😉Linn LP12
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They're bringing a new one out!
http://www.factmag.com/2017/01/19/namm-2017-stylophone-gen-x1-video/
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if we're talking guitars etc
I have one of these [url= https://reverb.com/p/boss-dm-3-delay ]DM-3[/url] still going strong and one of these [url= 
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Yeah baby. I'd be on that like a tramp on chips.
Like, yeah.. why not.
I do wonder whether something like this:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Psion-3mx-5mx-Serial-cable-/272567573877?
... might give me good reason to crack out the S5 again. Lugging full-sized laptops around to talk to network devices is a PITA.
Klunk, I've got my 2203 up for sale (needs must). If it doesn't sell its getting re-boxed in a nice stained wood case!
I love my one of these, over 20 odd years of almost daily usage. Lugged around various Uni halls and rented accommodation and all without missing a beat.
I bought a CD63 a couple of weeks ago, in fact I've bought half a dozen bits of old hifi( and some new stuff) Turntables, Amps, Receivers, Speakers etc all of which is cheap as chips at the moment.
Just because I like old Technics Amps really but I'm also betting on CD players being next years turntables.
The modding btw seems to involve soldering in new and upgraded components capacitor s and DACs and the like. The Marantz players are a popular starting point.
I had a cartridge based handheld games system thing a bit like a game boy but loads better and was sort of articulated in the middle.
Was trying to find one online the other day but had no idea what is was called - ring any bells?
Maybe atari lynx or Sega game gear
Pc engine got?
[url= https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/27/the_psions_is_back_meet_gemini/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook ]The Psion returns! Meet Gemini, the 21st century pocket computer[/url]
OK you got your wish.
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Game Gear didn't fold. I had one, was ace.
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The Psion returns! Meet Gemini
We've been here before with Psion-a-likes, but that looks pretty good. Crowd funder is here:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gemini-pda-android-linux-keyboard-mobile-device-phone#/
Linn LP12
better surely? I have a Linn Axis that's as good as/better than CD. Yours might need a service
Ah that old chestnut. It's not a case of as good as/better, it comes down to what you prefer the sound of.
I have an LP12, AVI electronics (incl CD player) and ATC speakers. I was an early adopter of CD. I think they knock spots off analogue.
Oh by the way, those great big ugly Comapq "portables" - in the North East they were known as "yuppy bait boxes".
I had a cartridge based handheld games system thing a bit like a game boy but loads better and was sort of articulated in the middle.Was trying to find one online the other day but had no idea what is was called - ring any bells?
Supervision? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watara_Supervision
Pandora? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_(console)
B&W or colour? Anything else you can remember about it?
That Gemini 😯
I would honestly have one ONLY for the proper keyboard.
The cautionary tale here I'm led to believe is that it's the latest project from the people (person?) responsible for the contentious ZX Spectrum Vega+, and I believe also some previous vaporware involving speakers still not delivered after three years. Whilst it looks lovely, I wouldn't be backing it personally.
Orsum telly tonight, just watched the Avengers, then The Persuaders and just pressed record on Hammer House of Horror for tomorrow.
I have no real need nor use for that Gemini but I have an irrational "want" for it at $349
I had a cartridge based handheld games system thing a bit like a game boy but loads better and was sort of articulated in the middle.
Was trying to find one online the other day but had no idea what is was called - ring any bells?Supervision? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watara_Supervision
Pandora? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_(console)
B&W or colour? Anything else you can remember about it?
Boom! Quickshot Supervision it was, looked a tiny bit different to that Watara version if I remember correctly. At the time it seemed so much better than my mate's Gameboy that I genuinely believed that despite only being able to buy games in one dodgy backstreet games shop-come-sofa shop it would kill Gameboys off totally!
I do want a new Psion though, my brother had a 5 and we both knew it was awesome but were too young to have anything we actually needed it for.