I'd take a Gameboy Advance and all the games (RPGs mostly) I could carry. I'm sure I'd need some other source of power besides the Li-Ion battery. I'd have to take an extension cord for the tests and find some sort of "solar gba power adapter" for actual space travel....oh, and headphones for even more isolation.
Now, my 8-Bit Atari days with my 1030/300bps modem sucked!
Before electricity, they had to HAND-DELIVER each bit, usually a bunch grouped together on a piece of paper, and/or use fire and smoke to send a simple message!
Hmm. You better not be who I think you are, a.coward. You obviously know that this is priced for the professional and I'm sure you saw the list of professional owners of this system on the site.
TWIMC: this is geared at the high-end...new models to come out soon will be much cheaper and have the options of:
guitar w/just one tuning + tuning system
guitar w/3-6 tunings + tuning system
current model is the Performer. Thousands of tunings, all the extras (larger user menu).
-C.Kessel
I'm associated with TransPerformance, so I guess I'm one of the lucky bastards that gets to play all those artists guitars when they come in for the retro-fit of our tuning system.
Really a great system. I can't say it enough. Like page says, "...it makes your eyes pop out!", you've got to see, hold and play a guitar with this system in it to truely appreciate it.
We're also up to ver.7.xx of the software in the workshop, so no more -2/+2 cents of target. Now it's dead-on. Battery meter, on-screen tuner, less power consumption...
I've sent the inventor a link to this article and think he just might drop by and read up soon.
I've got a few pics on my site. Go ahead, slashdot the sucker:
www.geocities.com/cakman1967/cakSelfTuningGuitar s. html
...there's a self-tuning guitar retrofit that is very cool. Instantaniously change tunings; you don't have to stop playing. Just go right into an open G from DADGAD.
The tuning is not computerized/synthetic, but an accurate mechanical system. I was very impressed with who's already got one (or two/three/four like Jimmy Page).
Your friend would be in a very special class if he aquired one of these. This product deserves it's own slashdot article, but I'm too lazy to write one. I thought the "iGuitar" article a few months back was this invention, but this blows the iGuitar out of the water IMHO.
The page is at:
www.selftuning.com
(dang. No linkage. How do you do that? "URL" doesn't work).
And if I'm approached to remove it, I'll know that someone is trying to monitor me. Could this be why CDC is concerned with SARS? Can't read lips with SARS masks blocking the 'flow of information".:)
heh, just tried this out on the 800 emulator and a POKE 710,10 made the text vanish! 709,0 gave it the black text I was familiar with...damn I'm rusty.
-CAK
I see you're alarmed by the C-64's blue screen. You obviously never saw the Atari 8-bit's default blue screen (!!^2). I had to do a poke 752...poke 756...poke 82...uhhh...oh yeah, a POKE 710,10 to get a nice grey background color to keep my eyes from crossing.
CAK
My mistake on the misspelling of TercEIra. Yes,Pico was the island with the big mountain.
The 'earthlights' jpeg floating around sure shows a lot of light out there - I was there in '80-'81; tourism must have picked up.
Now, there is a seasonal journey up into the Rocky Mountains West of Fort Collins, Colorado to check on a friend's cabin and hang out, party and look at the night sky. Great view from up here, too. Guessing at about 9,000 ft.
and that was a pretty dark place - way out in the middle of the Atlantic. *when it wasn't overcast*, the night sky was perfect. Not many groupings of bright lights on the island I was on (Terciera), if you don't count the runway lights of the airport or maybe the bullfighting ring. One could always take a boat out further into the darkness...stay out of the shipping lanes!
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I'd take a Gameboy Advance and all the games (RPGs mostly) I could carry. I'm sure I'd need some other source of power besides the Li-Ion battery. I'd have to take an extension cord for the tests and find some sort of "solar gba power adapter" for actual space travel. ...oh, and headphones for even more isolation.
-C. Kessel
What about "Fake System"? That's the first thing I thought of when I saw heard about it.
Now, my 8-Bit Atari days with my 1030/300bps modem sucked!
Before electricity, they had to HAND-DELIVER each bit, usually a bunch grouped together on a piece of paper, and/or use fire and smoke to send a simple message!
-C. Kessel
There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball!..." -Tom Hanks, "A League of Their Own"
...no...really, who are you?
-C.Kessel
Hmm. You better not be who I think you are, a.coward. You obviously know that this is priced for the professional and I'm sure you saw the list of professional owners of this system on the site. TWIMC: this is geared at the high-end...new models to come out soon will be much cheaper and have the options of: guitar w/just one tuning + tuning system guitar w/3-6 tunings + tuning system current model is the Performer. Thousands of tunings, all the extras (larger user menu). -C.Kessel
...now we have a single teenager working on it, so expect it to improve! :)
-C.Kessel
You are correct.
I'm associated with TransPerformance, so I guess I'm one of the lucky bastards that gets to play all those artists guitars when they come in for the retro-fit of our tuning system.
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Really a great system. I can't say it enough. Like page says, "...it makes your eyes pop out!", you've got to see, hold and play a guitar with this system in it to truely appreciate it.
We're also up to ver.7.xx of the software in the workshop, so no more -2/+2 cents of target. Now it's dead-on. Battery meter, on-screen tuner, less power consumption...
I've sent the inventor a link to this article and think he just might drop by and read up soon.
I've got a few pics on my site. Go ahead, slashdot the sucker:
www.geocities.com/cakman1967/cakSelfTuningGuita
-C. Kessel
...great movie, Jeff Goldblum in a freakin' cowboy outfit?! Crazy, man. I'm off to another dimension, B. Banzai
...there's a self-tuning guitar retrofit that is very cool. Instantaniously change tunings; you don't have to stop playing. Just go right into an open G from DADGAD.
The tuning is not computerized/synthetic, but an accurate mechanical system. I was very impressed with who's already got one (or two/three/four like Jimmy Page).
Your friend would be in a very special class if he aquired one of these. This product deserves it's own slashdot article, but I'm too lazy to write one. I thought the "iGuitar" article a few months back was this invention, but this blows the iGuitar out of the water IMHO.
The page is at:
www.selftuning.com
(dang. No linkage. How do you do that? "URL" doesn't work).
-DeathoP
And if I'm approached to remove it, I'll know that someone is trying to monitor me. Could this be why CDC is concerned with SARS? Can't read lips with SARS masks blocking the 'flow of information". :)
1. stop SARS.
2. collect information.
3. profit.
heh, just tried this out on the 800 emulator and a POKE 710,10 made the text vanish! 709,0 gave it the black text I was familiar with...damn I'm rusty. -CAK
I see you're alarmed by the C-64's blue screen. You obviously never saw the Atari 8-bit's default blue screen (!!^2). I had to do a poke 752...poke 756...poke 82...uhhh...oh yeah, a POKE 710,10 to get a nice grey background color to keep my eyes from crossing. CAK
My mistake on the misspelling of TercEIra. Yes,Pico was the island with the big mountain. The 'earthlights' jpeg floating around sure shows a lot of light out there - I was there in '80-'81; tourism must have picked up. Now, there is a seasonal journey up into the Rocky Mountains West of Fort Collins, Colorado to check on a friend's cabin and hang out, party and look at the night sky. Great view from up here, too. Guessing at about 9,000 ft.
and that was a pretty dark place - way out in the middle of the Atlantic. *when it wasn't overcast*, the night sky was perfect. Not many groupings of bright lights on the island I was on (Terciera), if you don't count the runway lights of the airport or maybe the bullfighting ring. One could always take a boat out further into the darkness...stay out of the shipping lanes!