If this is indeed the case, and there's no way to get an iTunes product without buying in to the WalMart crap, then I too will stop being a loyal iTunes Store customer... as are many friends and relatives with some semblance of ethics.
It looks like a horizontal version of the vertical "Amiga Walker"
http://www.blachford.info/computer/walker/walker.h tml
It was never functional as intended, but the top and bottom halves were meant to be separated and expansion modules placed in the middle. Which would make the top and bottom the equivalent to the bookends...
The problem there is quality control.
One of the reasons that Lego sets are so great is that you never get a half-molded piece... you never get pieces that don't snap together... you never get pieces that fall out due to temperature changes, etc. You also never get sets with missing pieces...
Their plastic technologies are so precise that they actually have different molds for each color of brick, since they shrink to very very slightly different sizes (smaller than tenths of millimeters iirc) and they want the finished pieces to be exactly the same dimensions.
You get other companies making sets that don't have these same tolerances and quality control, and you'll end up with sets that don't always go together or stay together... or are incomplete..
(Based on my (probably faulty) memory of some research I did on Lego about 8 or so years go...)
2mb ram, 2mb flash, works on the tandy 100, 102, and 200. very cool project. The Tandy Model T community still has a lot of the old, late 1970s hacker-programmer-computer enthusiast ethic. very very cool people.
Agreed. The IBM Workpad Z50 is awesome. $100 on ebay, CF card, 20 hour battery life, ($20 for an extra high capacity battery)
It even has VGA output, sound support, voice recording, and an awesome-feeling IBM keyboard.
And BSD has been ported to it... in case you wanted to use that.
I've not noticed problems with the built in WinCE apps and such.. I tried running VIM on it, with a shell, but it was a bit wonky and awkward to use, so i just use Pocket word and save out.txt files.
That icon was never used on the amgia.
The amiga never had a startup screen that looked anything remotely close to that.
I think she was just making a computer that was colorful.
(That's not even an amiga mouse)
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If you like icons, you should check out Susan Kare's page She made most of the original MacOS icons, as well as most of the original Windows icons.
Lots of great pixel art.
SE's were in fact released with an updated rom with "SuperDrive" support... although in this case, "SuperDrive" was a 1.4mb drive.
This model was called the "SE SuperDrive" or the "SE FDHD". I have one of each in my garage right now.
The mac i believe also spins the disk at 5 diffrent speeds, whereas the PC does not. however, the mac can support PC formatted disks, so you can format a pc floppy, drop it into a mac, copy the files over and use them....
6.x or 7.0/7.1 should be the top end you'd want to put on a 68000 mac. If you need old-version stuff, go 6.0.8. if you need system 7 stuff, go 7.1 if you can find it. (7.0 was released for free, 7.1 contained some non-free software, and thus is not on their site for download. (512, plus, se, portable, powerbook 100, etc)
7.5.x should only be used on 68020+ macs. It'll work on 68000 macs, but it'll be wicked slow. (SE/30, the entire II line, etc.)
And typically, if you want 7.5.x you should also grab the 7.5.5 updater for 7.5.3. 7.5.5 is more stable and feature filled than 7.5.3
(just my experience, anyway...)
I was working on the software side of the Spirex-Abu telescope at CARA... which no longer exists, as far as I know. (Spirex: South Pole InfraRed EXplorer, Abu was just the name of the IR CCD device.) http://pipe.cis.rit.edu
It was meant for doing Infrared astronomy, using an experimental IR sensor. (some pics on that link)
The thought was that due to the fact that it's so dry an cold down there, you could do IR astronomy similarly to an IR telescope in space. Results were pretty good too.
All observations were done over the Antarctic Winter, while the airport was colosed, since the sky was colder and there was less water vapor in the sky... and as you know, the less water vapor, the better the IR imaging capability, and the colder, the less background noise.
This function will be taken up by the new SOFIA platform, which we're also working on as well right now. I believe there have been/. articles about it, but in case you forgot, it's a 2.5m telescope in the back of a modified 747... also meant for IR astronomy.(at 40,000 feet up, you're above most of the water vapor in the air) SOFIA can be reconfigured after each landing.
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If this is indeed the case, and there's no way to get an iTunes product without buying in to the WalMart crap, then I too will stop being a loyal iTunes Store customer... as are many friends and relatives with some semblance of ethics.
It looks like a horizontal version of the vertical "Amiga Walker" http://www.blachford.info/computer/walker/walker.h tml
It was never functional as intended, but the top and bottom halves were meant to be separated and expansion modules placed in the middle. Which would make the top and bottom the equivalent to the bookends...
The problem there is quality control. One of the reasons that Lego sets are so great is that you never get a half-molded piece... you never get pieces that don't snap together... you never get pieces that fall out due to temperature changes, etc. You also never get sets with missing pieces... Their plastic technologies are so precise that they actually have different molds for each color of brick, since they shrink to very very slightly different sizes (smaller than tenths of millimeters iirc) and they want the finished pieces to be exactly the same dimensions. You get other companies making sets that don't have these same tolerances and quality control, and you'll end up with sets that don't always go together or stay together... or are incomplete.. (Based on my (probably faulty) memory of some research I did on Lego about 8 or so years go...)
http://patsy.cis.rit.edu/Software/4p/
2mb ram, 2mb flash, works on the tandy 100, 102, and 200. very cool project. The Tandy Model T community still has a lot of the old, late 1970s hacker-programmer-computer enthusiast ethic. very very cool people.
Agreed. The IBM Workpad Z50 is awesome. $100 on ebay, CF card, 20 hour battery life, ($20 for an extra high capacity battery) It even has VGA output, sound support, voice recording, and an awesome-feeling IBM keyboard. And BSD has been ported to it... in case you wanted to use that. I've not noticed problems with the built in WinCE apps and such.. I tried running VIM on it, with a shell, but it was a bit wonky and awkward to use, so i just use Pocket word and save out .txt files.
That icon was never used on the amgia. The amiga never had a startup screen that looked anything remotely close to that. I think she was just making a computer that was colorful. (That's not even an amiga mouse)
If you like icons, you should check out Susan Kare's page She made most of the original MacOS icons, as well as most of the original Windows icons. Lots of great pixel art.
you can always use AmiWM, using my 1.x patch... http://www.cis.rit.edu/~jerry/Software/amiwm/ :)
SE's were in fact released with an updated rom with "SuperDrive" support... although in this case, "SuperDrive" was a 1.4mb drive. This model was called the "SE SuperDrive" or the "SE FDHD". I have one of each in my garage right now.
The mac i believe also spins the disk at 5 diffrent speeds, whereas the PC does not. however, the mac can support PC formatted disks, so you can format a pc floppy, drop it into a mac, copy the files over and use them....
6.x or 7.0/7.1 should be the top end you'd want to put on a 68000 mac. If you need old-version stuff, go 6.0.8. if you need system 7 stuff, go 7.1 if you can find it. (7.0 was released for free, 7.1 contained some non-free software, and thus is not on their site for download. (512, plus, se, portable, powerbook 100, etc) 7.5.x should only be used on 68020+ macs. It'll work on 68000 macs, but it'll be wicked slow. (SE/30, the entire II line, etc.) And typically, if you want 7.5.x you should also grab the 7.5.5 updater for 7.5.3. 7.5.5 is more stable and feature filled than 7.5.3 (just my experience, anyway...)
It was meant for doing Infrared astronomy, using an experimental IR sensor. (some pics on that link)
The thought was that due to the fact that it's so dry an cold down there, you could do IR astronomy similarly to an IR telescope in space. Results were pretty good too.
All observations were done over the Antarctic Winter, while the airport was colosed, since the sky was colder and there was less water vapor in the sky... and as you know, the less water vapor, the better the IR imaging capability, and the colder, the less background noise.
This function will be taken up by the new SOFIA platform, which we're also working on as well right now. I believe there have been /. articles about it, but in case you forgot, it's a 2.5m telescope in the back of a modified 747... also meant for IR astronomy.(at 40,000 feet up, you're above most of the water vapor in the air) SOFIA can be reconfigured after each landing.