I have a HP Mini 311, yes, an Atom, but with a ION chipset, 3GB of DDR3 max, it can nicely play 1080p videos or play 3D games in low/medium settings. Display is a 11.6" in 1366x768, battery last almost 5 hours, no CD/DVD but i never used them anyway, I have a DVD burner on my desktop PC to backup personal pictures/movies. But on a laptop? I never used it.
The 11.6" form factor is way better than the 10" netbook that are in 1024x600.
Also the Atom can be o/c to 2.2GHz easily and the ION GPU can be o/c too, which brings you a very powerful netbook the size of a letter paper!
My first name is Frédéric and even in QC, Canada, I cannot enter it on some goverment web site without it being rejected for "invalid character", so for "Revenu Québec" (local IRS) I am "Frederic", and it bugs me, and if I want to correct it I have to fill papers and send proof and whatever. Sometimes, websites accept it when I type it, but when it displays it, it is garbled as Frdric, Fridiric, Fr%E9d%E9ric, etc I cannot believe we are in 2010 and so much websites (especially from USA) do not accept accentuated characters.
I am working on the OBDuino, it's an OBD reader based on an Arduino board. Add an LCD, 3 buttons, an OBD interface (current one based on the ELM327), and you can display instant fuel consumption, average on trip or tank, speed, RPM, various temperature, read MIL code, clear them etc.
Programming the Arduino is very easy as you do it in C and upload through a serial port or USB. You can also develop/compile in Minsys and upload with a parallel programmer, etc.
Incidentally, the most common fault on the 3 inch Amstrad drives is a broken belt True, and my latest repair was made using a rubber band:)
It's easy to find old Amstrad HW in Europe anyway.
I still have a huge library of Fortran code on 1/2" tape.
I still have a couple of COBOL program on a 8" floppy, I am wondering what would be the cost to retrieve them!
They come from a Bull Mini6, like this one: http://www.histoireinform.com/Histoire/+infos2/chr4infe.htm
Easy, I have a standard 5 1/4 drive on my CPC6128. I even did the little hack to invert A and B so now my |A drive is the 5 1/4.
There is tools in cpm+ to use 800k floppy or transfer files etc. And it uses the same encoding (MFM?) on Amstrad or PC so on the CPC you can read and write PC floppy. PC use 40 tracks by default and Amstrad use 80 tracks for the 800k floppy iirc.
Anyway, it works, try to find the schematic to hook a 3 1/2 or 5 1/4 drive on an Amstrad.
This is why I have a $10 USB memory stick and I use a Truecrypt volume on it with a HMAC-Whirlpool whatever encryption it is.
When I plug it into another computer, the autostart popup comes on the screen to mount the volume, easy enough, and as almost everyone run their windows as administrator, no problem to run Truecrypt.
It works also on Linux and OSX.
And if someone steal it, good luck finding the key!
I played D&D, AD&D and dozens of others RPG during my teens (and adult life), it's sad Gary is no more with us:-( I'm sure hundreds of thousands people will miss him:-(
Meanwhile, for instance, a Honda Goldwing is US$20'000 and CAD$30'000, same thing for almost all cars, especially sports car like the WRX STi or others...
It's time we all go shopping in USA, I live in Montréal so I am 45 minutes from NY state and often go to Plattsburgh or even Burlington in VT, just to buy stuff sometimes 60% cheaper than here.
He needs a solar charger and a good bunch of rechargeables batteries, when you are around the world, voltages are different (don't care really as a lot of devices are 90-240V compliant) and different plugs (bulky).
iirc my first computer was a ZX81, in 1981, I was 10 years old... it was a Z80 at 1MHz with 1K of RAM, but we bought the 16K extension quickly. This is on this machine that I learned basic and assembly language.
I think I never went on AOL.com in 10 years and even less search something with their engine... Last time I searched something on yahoo was in 1999 maybe, last century... and what is MSN? I never went to their site too.
Before google I used lycos, now I only use google, and clear cookie from time to time.
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With the very small cap we have in Canada, for instance I just got upgraded from "30GB combined" to "40GB combined", forget viewing movies...
Because with this budget, a good equatorial mount with motors (like an EQ6) is really out of your budget.
You can try to find a EQ3-2 with RA motor, used, this is a good "small" mount.
I have a HP Mini 311, yes, an Atom, but with a ION chipset, 3GB of DDR3 max, it can nicely play 1080p videos or play 3D games in low/medium settings.
Display is a 11.6" in 1366x768, battery last almost 5 hours, no CD/DVD but i never used them anyway, I have a DVD burner on my desktop PC to backup personal pictures/movies. But on a laptop? I never used it.
The 11.6" form factor is way better than the 10" netbook that are in 1024x600.
Also the Atom can be o/c to 2.2GHz easily and the ION GPU can be o/c too, which brings you a very powerful netbook the size of a letter paper!
My first name is Frédéric and even in QC, Canada, I cannot enter it on some goverment web site without it being rejected for "invalid character", so for "Revenu Québec" (local IRS) I am "Frederic", and it bugs me, and if I want to correct it I have to fill papers and send proof and whatever.
Sometimes, websites accept it when I type it, but when it displays it, it is garbled as Frdric, Fridiric, Fr%E9d%E9ric, etc
I cannot believe we are in 2010 and so much websites (especially from USA) do not accept accentuated characters.
There is a couple of pictures of the "sinkhole" there, and especially one of the bottom, it seems there is a big cave
http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Guatemala-sinkhole/(photo)/2
And before this there was no "max", remember signal11?
same here, I lurk often but I don't have time to read everything and reply
I am working on the OBDuino, it's an OBD reader based on an Arduino board. Add an LCD, 3 buttons, an OBD interface (current one based on the ELM327), and you can display instant fuel consumption, average on trip or tank, speed, RPM, various temperature, read MIL code, clear them etc.
Programming the Arduino is very easy as you do it in C and upload through a serial port or USB. You can also develop/compile in Minsys and upload with a parallel programmer, etc.
See the wiki on the OBDuino
http://code.google.com/p/opengauge/wiki/OBDuino
It's easy to find old Amstrad HW in Europe anyway.
You can plug PC 3 1/2 or 5 1/4 drive on an Amstrad, they use the same interface!!
http://www.cpcwiki.com/index.php/3%C2%BD%22_%26_5%C2%BC%22_Disk_Drives
I still have a couple of COBOL program on a 8" floppy, I am wondering what would be the cost to retrieve them!
They come from a Bull Mini6, like this one:
http://www.histoireinform.com/Histoire/+infos2/chr4infe.htm
Damn I'm old
This is exactly the drive, the AM5D+:
http://www.cpcwiki.com/index.php/Jasmin_AM5D_5_%221/4_floppy_drive
Easy, I have a standard 5 1/4 drive on my CPC6128. I even did the little hack to invert A and B so now my |A drive is the 5 1/4.
There is tools in cpm+ to use 800k floppy or transfer files etc. And it uses the same encoding (MFM?) on Amstrad or PC so on the CPC you can read and write PC floppy. PC use 40 tracks by default and Amstrad use 80 tracks for the 800k floppy iirc. Anyway, it works, try to find the schematic to hook a 3 1/2 or 5 1/4 drive on an Amstrad.
This is why I have a $10 USB memory stick and I use a Truecrypt volume on it with a HMAC-Whirlpool whatever encryption it is.
When I plug it into another computer, the autostart popup comes on the screen to mount the volume, easy enough, and as almost everyone run their windows as administrator, no problem to run Truecrypt.
It works also on Linux and OSX.
And if someone steal it, good luck finding the key!
Me, like certainly thousands of /. readers, would accept a one way ticket to Mars for sure.
I played D&D, AD&D and dozens of others RPG during my teens (and adult life), it's sad Gary is no more with us :-( I'm sure hundreds of thousands people will miss him :-(
Meanwhile, for instance, a Honda Goldwing is US$20'000 and CAD$30'000, same thing for almost all cars, especially sports car like the WRX STi or others...
It's time we all go shopping in USA, I live in Montréal so I am 45 minutes from NY state and often go to Plattsburgh or even Burlington in VT, just to buy stuff sometimes 60% cheaper than here.
you welcome :)
My ISP, videotron, has a 20Gb/month cap, and charge 7.95$CAN per Gb after that...
He needs a solar charger and a good bunch of rechargeables batteries, when you are around the world, voltages are different (don't care really as a lot of devices are 90-240V compliant) and different plugs (bulky).
c hargers.php
The solution is a battery charger that works with a solar panel, a quick google search bring me this http://www.siliconsolar.com/travel-solar-battery-
especially for trekkies, it's here:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/romance/
iirc my first computer was a ZX81, in 1981, I was 10 years old... it was a Z80 at 1MHz with 1K of RAM, but we bought the 16K extension quickly. This is on this machine that I learned basic and assembly language.
I think I never went on AOL.com in 10 years and even less search something with their engine... Last time I searched something on yahoo was in 1999 maybe, last century... and what is MSN? I never went to their site too.
Before google I used lycos, now I only use google, and clear cookie from time to time.
SpaceMonger is a pretty nice application for this too, take a look at a screenshot
and the anniversary of Viking 1 that landed on Mars July 20th, 1976, too.