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My father in law still uses one like this. Reverse Polish Notation!
Oh, and I have one of these:
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Reverse Polish Notation!
At college, we called that "egdelP."
At college, we called that "egdelP."
Doogy Rev.
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I didn't have a Sinclair Spectrum but I do have (still in the cupboard at home!) an Oric 48k like this....
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Reverse Polish Notation
Once you get used to it, it is difficult to use any other type of calculator.
Lister JP3. Bomb proof, and not even hard to start when in good nick.
Oh and for turntables:
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Doogy Rev.
Gronda gronda.
If we're going down the tool route, I just picked up a Startrite Mercury Mk2 yesterday, only thing it needs are new top cover bumpers, a proper hinge pin and a plate to fill in where the serial number was taken off for whatever reason. Otherwise it's fine to use immediately though I'll probably clean it up properly if I get round to it.
I tend not to buy crap, I'd rather not do the job than a bad job.
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The Marantz player still has a following in modifier circles. This is (the same as)my Micromega player,not in much use these days unfortunately.
I also had a really tiny sony cassette walkman in the early 90's which was barely bigger than a cassette box,
Sony Walkman WM10?
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The Marantz player still has a following in modifier circles.
How/why does one modify a CD player? Genuinely interested!
Asteroids
(the retro hotel I was skiing in last year, had one. Blast from the 80s!!)
My old technical compasses set from college - still sat on my desk.
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Anyone for an amstrad PCW? I have one in my attic carefully stored for when it becomes collectable
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a selection of [s]junk[/s] orsum stuff within easy reach...
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Only the music centre is in regular use (bluetooth enabled), but everything apart from the Sharp radio still works, just not very useful! 🙂
@dragon: my Marantz CD65SE is still going strong too. The drawer is a bit sticky but otherwise fine.
RPN calculators always win because no one ever 'borrows' them
The mighty Linn LP12. Mine's still going strong and still sounds as good as CD
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>Asteroids
I had that, ass grapes from space :/
>The drawer is a bit sticky but otherwise fine.
Re-grease the rails for the drawer?
>V8_shin_print
What is that laptop? Some Ultraportable P2 thinggy?
RE Amstrad:
What is that laptop? Some Ultraportable P2 thinggy?
It's a Libretto. I always wanted one.
Anyone else had one of these?
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Got one of these tucked away somewhere.
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6gb of MP3 goodness way before Apple turned up and did it properly. The hard drive was nearly as noisy as the music. Took about a month to rip all my CDs and install them. Then it crashed and lost the lot.
This was a little less orsum
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Still use HP15C - have done for 30 years, Feels weird going back to normal calc
OK not techie but lets not forget slide rules and log tables
Mention of Asteroids reminded of owning one of these...
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Seemed amazing at the time.
How/why does one modify a CD player? Genuinely interested!
Loads of info in this thread about guys keeping old stuff goign and fitting improved components. AFAIK there is a scene also.
http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=246353&start=10
The heroic Sony ICF-SW100.
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Mine is on my desk here. Ive been thinking of selling it on since I don't use it for SW BBCWS anymore.
And wot no Laserdisc?
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And for those who dont know the scale, that thing is the size of a 72 LP!
I've never even heard of Vectrex.
Was it pre 'Grandstand'?
The Xbox / PlayStations grandad......
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There is no spoon....
And strangely, not the inspiration for my username either.
The heroic Sony ICF-SW100.
My father has a very well travelled one! Great piece of kit.
I still have an old Sony Walkman that had a rechargeable battery and retractable headphones - it was a beautiful piece of kit - really minimalistic in styling. I think it cost me something like £80 back in 1990.
Can't find a damn pic of it online though.
Edit: Got it...
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What is that laptop? Some Ultraportable P2 thinggy?
It's a Libretto. I always wanted one.
Correct, the Libretto 70CT to be exact. 🙂
Made by Toshiba, Pentium 1, 32 mb ram, 1.6gb hard drive, Windows 95. The mouse is brilliant, there's a thumb pad to the right of the screen and the buttons are on the back.
I even have adapters for it - ethernet, wifi, floppy drive and docking station!
I've never even heard of Vectrex.
Highly sought after these days, if you've still got one it'll easily fetch a couple of hundred quid. True vector display (like an oscilloscope), only monochrome but some games came with transparent coloured overlays to colour in areas of the screen.
And wot no Laserdisc?
Still have mine, along with the [url= http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1997-Star-Wars-Trilogy-Special-Edition-Laserdisc-PAL-Edition-/272556013526 ]Star Wars trilogy box set[/url] (and a bunch of others).
I love this for it's simplicity and the corny name is only an added bonus
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I was trying to remember what year at school we did log tables and I thought it might have been last year of primary but I'm sure there are folks here of the correct vintage to remember...
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Still got mine as well, survived 5 months in darkest africa on walkabout and 6+ months in India but i left it out in the rain one afternoon whilst listening in the garden so it now doesn't work - i was/still am quite upset about my stupidity
Needless to say the tab's on the battery door broke like many of them do but a cable tie around the body worked for years
Moved onto this sony mini dab model to replace it, another awesome sony radio.
Found my walkman, it was a DC2
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Awesome bit of kit, wish i still had it but the door mech broke and i couldn't get it repaired
Reminds me, I need to replace the capacitors on my Game Gears...
for [b]Northwind[/b] - this was in the auction the other day, I reckoned it could be useful but I just wasn't sure for what! Lovely little thing though, had a whole bunch of tools with it too.
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Needless to say the tab's on the battery door broke like many of them do but a cable tie around the body worked for years
dammit! I was reading your post and about to ask you to send me the battery door if the radio had stopped working! Mine's knackered and has the ziptie fix. I was wondering whether I could bodge some kind of araldite fix 🙁
- have one of those in the shed still offering sterling service!I *loved* this thing.
I had about every palm- 3a and Pilot for sure. Wrote a best mans speech on the 3a on the flight over to a wedding. Great little device.
Also owned the poor mans BBC
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Who needs a MacBook eh?
Who needs a MacBook eh?
We had the Compaq "sewing machines",
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then Toshibas came out and were a revelation.
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I still refuse to buy any Apple stuff
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dammit! I was reading your post and about to ask you to send me the battery door if the radio had stopped working! Mine's knackered and has the ziptie fix. I was wondering whether I could bodge some kind of araldite fix
The battery door tiny tab was a real weak point on an otherwise wonderful radio, mine broke using cheap batteries which i imagine were slightly oversized. I spent many nights in Africa tuning into the world service and exotic SW radio stations when i was billy-no-mates in the middle of nowhere, same in India but had a wee bit of trouble in ****stan at a border checkpoint (i mistakenly rode across the India/****stan border on a goat track road up in Kashmir region with no visa but foolishly returned on the main road once i realised my mistake) trying to explain it's just a radio as i imagine they thought it was some exotic spy transmission kit, or more likely they wanted it for themselves but i flatly refused to hand it over and spent quite a few hours being questioned/shouted at by men with guns - not one of my brightest decisions.
Also owned the poor mans BBC before which we had the Acorn Atom. Which anyone with a shred of technical credibility will tell you was better in every sense than the ZX81.
Well, Acorn was broken up into a number of different companies, one of which is ARM Holdings.
And who's chip designs are used in all of Apple's mobile devices, and may end up in their mainstream machines?
ARM Holdings, based in Bristol, IIRC. Good to know there's areas of modern tech Britain can match the best in the world.
I've got one of these stashed away somewhere, still works ok, AFAIK, had an add-on battery pack which used a couple of AA's to supplement the internal rechargeable:
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