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From: Rowland McDonnell on 17 Apr 2010 20:38 Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk>: > > [...] > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_316 > > I've just realised that this is the same Honeywell who make the swipe > cards we use at work to get in the office. How curious. And the valve in my central heating boiler that needed replacing. And the central heating thermostat at my parents' house. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Woody on 17 Apr 2010 21:32 On 18/04/2010 01:38, Rowland McDonnell wrote: > Woody<usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > >> Rowland McDonnell<real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: >> >>> Woody<usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >>> >>>> zoara wrote: >>>>> Via daringfireball.net - loads of old computers. Jim, take a deep breath >>>>> and don't get overexcited... >>>>> >>>>> http://j.mp/bxKP2P >>>>> >>>>> I really love the naivety of the "kitchen computer" (and the >>>>> "yesterday's tomorrow" stylings >>>> >>>> They really did put a lot of effort not just into the creation of those, >>>> but the image of them as well. I guess at the price they may as well! >>>> >>>> That kitchen computer - anyone know anything about it, like, how does it >>>> hold recipes with lights and switches? >>> >>> ISTR reading the details once. 7 seg LEDs'll do for alpha output, just >>> about. I see what appears to be a one line 7 seg LED display on that >>> beastie, which is what my memory tells me it ought to have. >> >> The computer at the center of this is the same machine, Honeywell 316 >> >> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_y944mbczg> >> >> Why they didn't just include the printer. I guess it was the budget >> model. >> >> Not like the one at bradwell nuclear reactor up until 2000. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_316 > > <heh> If it works, why change it? > > Oh Lord - binary light output even on the kitchen computer, specified by > Wikip anyway. Hmm. I read about the beasties somewhere else, could > have sworn I recall some mention of 7 seg LEDs which are after all > really easy to drive from binary. Easy yes, but if this was in 1969, LEDs were very expensive, and they had only just began to mass produce them to get the costs down, so they are probably actual bulbs. -- Woody
From: zoara on 18 Apr 2010 18:59 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > On 16/04/2010 11:50, zoara wrote: > > Via daringfireball.net - loads of old computers. Jim, take a deep > > breath > > and don't get overexcited... > > > > http://j.mp/bxKP2P > > > > I really love the naivety of the "kitchen computer" (and the > > "yesterday's tomorrow" stylings > > They really did put a lot of effort not just into the creation of > those, but the image of them as well. I guess at the price they may as > well! Do you mean the way the devices looked, or the photos? The photos are from a coffee-table book which is linked from the gallery. I'm kinda tempted - it's available from Amazon UK - and I suspect Jim might be too. > That kitchen computer - anyone know anything about it, like, how does > it hold recipes with lights and switches? Confusingly. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: zoara on 18 Apr 2010 18:59 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > No end to what you can stick on cassettes... Limited only by patience and physical storage space. I wonder how many warehouses you'd need in order to store Wikipedia on C90 cassette tapes. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: Woody on 18 Apr 2010 19:37
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > I think the idea was that you'd get someone (bloody patient > > > cook/nanny/cleaner, perhaps?) to enter your recipes for you, and you'd > > > be able to show off your new toy at the next dinner party you held for > > > your husband's latest business clients. > > > > Well, it had more memory than a zx81 by default! > > Core memory, yes; but the ZX81 had a larger file store. No end to what > you can stick on cassettes... Although on a zx81, there is a limit to what you can get in. If you have the screen filled, and with the system variables, it doesn't give you much room for anything with too many ingredients! -- Woody www.alienrat.com |