1.21 Quickiewatts

mobiux wrote in about the resurrection of Packard Bell PC's. michael.creasy told us about Darth Vader's MBE. An anonymous coward wrote in to tell us about the GameSpy interview of Martin Feldhausen, inventor of the 'extra life.' Thanks for helping me get through all those games! mcryptic shared the link to an online gallery of mousepad art. payneinthe told us that Randal Schwartz uploaded pictures from the Perl Whirl. Another anonymous coward told us about someone's visual response to the loss of Paul Steed at id. HerrNewton noted the symphony written primarily for dot matrix printers, and rasterbator told us about a web site for the distribution of free GNU and Open Source related artwork. Ant sent in the link to Star Wars Origins, and illumina mentioned RSA en/decryption in JavaScript. Have a good weekend, everyone!

Comments

Re:Symphony for printers

[iCEBaLM]

The second starts with a more familliar sound of a carriage moving abck and forth, and what might be a daisy-wheel printer tapping the rhythm.

A daisy wheel printer in the symphony for dot matrix printers?! Thats harmonic sacrilige! Beethoven is probably turning over in his grave!

-- iCEBaLM

Symphony for printers

[Zoyd]

I thought I'd seen this somewhere before.

Real link to Packard Bell article

[Field Marshall Stack]

/. crew left off the 'l' in 'html'...hm, wonder what _that_ means...anyway, here's the _real_ link

NEC resurrects Packard Bell

--
"HORSE."

Mousepads as art?

[lucidvein]

I've always wondered if mousepads would become a collectors stylepoint of the 90's. Like Pokemon, Magic or Garbage Pail Kids each have their timelines, we will be charting the progress of computer science by what mousepads we can pick up in the thrift store.

In fact, they also make great wall art. Accumulate a couple hundred and you have a mosaic of computer culture tiled on your wall or ceiling. I suppose the similarity of having soft padded walls might make you look a bit crazy though, eh?

Nice collection, though it might be easier to browse if their were thumbnails for each section.

Packard Bell

[antizeus]

I hope for the sake of the uninformed consumers that the new Packard Bell systems are better than the old ones. Back in 1992 my mother bought me a Packard Bell. Here are my complaints: (I may have forgotten some)

• Stupid motherboard/case shapes prevented meaningful upgrades.
• Monitor lost sync at anything better than 640x480x256.
• Hard drive had an ever-increasing number of bad sectors.
• Single IDE port couldn't handle slave devices for some reason.

Nowadays I put together my own systems, but still... I don't like to see other people get burned.

One Point Twenty-One Quickiewatts!!!

[roystgnr]

"Great Scott!"

"What... What the hell is a Quickiewatt?"

Quickie FAQ Violation

[KingJawa]

This posting by emmitt is in violation of the Quickie FAQ, which clearly states that quickies must contain at least two of the following:

* Something by Eric Raymond
* Something blasting Microsoft
* Something by Eric Raymond blasting Microsoft
* Something about Natalie Portman (close on the SW quickie)
* Something about hot grits (whatever.)
* Something blasting Metallica
* Something trumpeting (heh!) Napster
* Something by Natalie Portman blasting Metallica while eating hot grits
* The Furby Autopsy link that always always always get reposted
* My site, which has funny eBay auctions and only made the quickie list once, and that was a year ago.
* Something blasting Microsoft
* A bad argument about why Jon Katz is a giant giant loser
* A good argument about why Jon Katz is a giant giant loser
* CowboyNeal