Seconded. Take your lunch at a local Crossfit, or build a little gym at your workplace. Crossfit is the only thing that's gotten me in shape, other than Hashing;-)
BenderMan
My mother had a business in the 80s selling these, specifically the Sorcerer II. She gave me one for my birthday when I was in seventh grade. I started with a RF modulator kit I had to install on the motherboard and an external cassette tape recorder, but eventually I got the optional DDS (Disk Display System) with a green monochrome monitor and dual 5 1/4" Micropolis double side drives. I also had the Exidy branded Daisy Wheel printer, the "fast one" 45cps vs 25cps. The system ran CPM, or you could boot off of the cartridges. They had taken 8-Track tapes and replaced the guts with an eprom board with an edge card connector. I had Basic, M$ Word (whatever it was called back then), and even a development cartridge with a hole for the ultraviolet light to erase the eprom. The whole system was made out of blow molded plastic, unlike the sexier Apple II. Unfortunately the system crashed frequently, likely due to lack of cooling. I spent most of my programming effort on Apple II and Commodore Pets in the classroom at Egan Jr High in Los Altos, CA. I recently donated both my Sourcers to http://digibarn.com/ in Boulder Creek, CA.
Existing boxes ($600+) may allow firewire transfers for now, but the new ones will have copy protection built in, possibly even in Firewire (1394/5C). The powers that be want to do away with current DVI and move to HDCP compliant DVI/HDMI which will prevent us from doing anything with the content on our computers unless we're willing to use analog converters. I have a dream, that one day society will unite and boycott the entire entertainment industry and content providers.:-)
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Seconded. Take your lunch at a local Crossfit, or build a little gym at your workplace. Crossfit is the only thing that's gotten me in shape, other than Hashing ;-)
BenderMan
My mother had a business in the 80s selling these, specifically the Sorcerer II. She gave me one for my birthday when I was in seventh grade. I started with a RF modulator kit I had to install on the motherboard and an external cassette tape recorder, but eventually I got the optional DDS (Disk Display System) with a green monochrome monitor and dual 5 1/4" Micropolis double side drives. I also had the Exidy branded Daisy Wheel printer, the "fast one" 45cps vs 25cps. The system ran CPM, or you could boot off of the cartridges. They had taken 8-Track tapes and replaced the guts with an eprom board with an edge card connector. I had Basic, M$ Word (whatever it was called back then), and even a development cartridge with a hole for the ultraviolet light to erase the eprom. The whole system was made out of blow molded plastic, unlike the sexier Apple II. Unfortunately the system crashed frequently, likely due to lack of cooling. I spent most of my programming effort on Apple II and Commodore Pets in the classroom at Egan Jr High in Los Altos, CA. I recently donated both my Sourcers to http://digibarn.com/ in Boulder Creek, CA.
Given all the cool technology at your disposal, do you guys build costumes for halloween? If so, what are some of the costumes you've built? Pics.
Existing boxes ($600+) may allow firewire transfers for now, but the new ones will have copy protection built in, possibly even in Firewire (1394/5C). The powers that be want to do away with current DVI and move to HDCP compliant DVI/HDMI which will prevent us from doing anything with the content on our computers unless we're willing to use analog converters. I have a dream, that one day society will unite and boycott the entire entertainment industry and content providers. :-)