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  1. Re:Good times. by ktakki · · Score: 2, Informative · on Revolution In The Valley
    Wish I still had that box, bet it would fetch some bling-bling on Ebay :)

    The only 128K Mac I could find on eBay was priced at $406, which seems horribly overpriced to me (I've seen 128K Macs bundled with dot matrix printers in local want ad magazines for $25 to $50), even if it does still boot. Everymac.com says its list price was $2500, though the street price was closer to $1800, IIRC. I bought a 512K Mac (2nd generation) for $1299 in 1985. Comparable PC clones were $1500 to $2500.

    Still have it, still boots, albeit from an external floppy drive (the internal Sony died after 12 years of use). For about 10 years it served in my recording studio doing MIDI sequencing and acting as a front end for an Ensoniq Mirage sampling keyboard (via Digidesign Sound Designer I and an Opcode MIDI interface).

    I've also managed to collect another 512K (free), a Plus (also free...plucked from a neighbor's garbage), an SE ($5 at a thrift shop), and an SE/30 ($10 at another thrift shop and now running NetBSD). Then there's my collection of Mac IIs, Quadras, and early PowerPCs, currently languishing in a storage facility in Boston.

    Yeah, I'm a Mac zealot, even though I'm typing this on a Toshiba WinXP laptop (hey, it was cheap) and I work for a company that supports Windows desktops and servers (though we run Linux on Cobalt Raq4s and Acer beige boxes as our internal servers).

    k.
  2. Another Pacman song - Pac Man Fever by cjellibebi · · Score: 1 · on Revenge Of Pac-Man - Vintage Gaming Still Hot?

    The lyrics to Buckner & Garcia - Pac Man Fever

  3. Re:Worst job in science... by Captain+Tripps · · Score: 1 · on Worst Jobs In Science

    Of course it depends which kind of mouse you are.

  4. Yes, It Is Possible by E-Rock-23 · · Score: 5, Informative · on Remember The Wizard?

    Amazingly enough, it is possible to mod a Power Glove to work with a PC. Check This Out, as well as this page. That should get you started. I know there's a driver for it somewhere, it was featured in a /. story sometime in the last 1.5 years...

  5. Re:Nintendo? by Frizzled · · Score: 1 · on 3D Glove Input Device

    Yup, if you still have one of these you can wire it to you PC (no one's tried to hack this for the Linux ... yet).

    Do it yourself version
    Pay for the parts version

    _f

  6. JAFR. by ktakki · · Score: 3 · on Too Much Tech Makes End Users Blink

    JAFR = Just Another Formulaic Rant.

    First of all, the blinking "12:00" is the result of a poor user interface -- buttons with hidden functions that aren't immediately obvious, like using the channel up/down buttons to set the hour.

    So the writer misses the point on that one.

    But what really annoys me is the way the writer trots out the usual suspects: Stewart Brand, Jaron Lanier, Esther Dyson (Negroponte, Joy, and Kurzweil must have been off skiing or something), and adds Through the Looking Glass to show how confoozing this technology stuff is!

    I feel like I've read this same piece a hundred times in the last ten years. Okay, let's take it as a given that there's always going to be a gap between humanity and technology, leaving some people frustrated and confused. And move on.

    As for that blinking VCR, buy a clock.

    Just Another Fucking Rant.

    k.
    --
    "In spite of everything, I still believe that people
    are really good at heart." - Anne Frank

  7. Four years already? by ktakki · · Score: 1 · on JenniCam Celebrates 4-Year Anniversary

    When the JenniCam site first went up, it was co-located at Xensei, my ISP for the last six years.

    At first, while the site was still "free", Xensei's bandwidth was saturated by "Clicking Toms". Our 64K DS0 connection through Xensei slowed to about 300 bps. Painful.

    Eventually, JenniCam went pay and moved to another co-lo, Xensei upgraded to T3, and everyone was happy. Except Jaffo, who took it all too seriously.

    k.