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From: Duncan Kennedy on 26 Feb 2010 05:28 In message <1jeiktt.15fmhvu3w85m1N%real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid>, Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> writes >Plenty of ZX81 pages out there. Called the TS1000 in the USA; worth >bearing in mind when Web searching. > Owing to its manufacture by the Timex watch company - who also manufactured it in Dundee. ("TS" = Timex Sinclair?) -- Duncan K Downtown Dalgety Bay
From: Rowland McDonnell on 26 Feb 2010 05:43 James Dore <james.dore(a)new.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > James Dore <james.dore(a)new.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > > > >> Psion MC400 Word > > > > I always thought they were lovely machines, but far too expensive for > > me- remember, at that time I had a CPC6128. When the NC200 came along, > > and it was running Protext in ROM, AND it was cheap... No-brainer. > > I think I got a student discount from Dabs, and went over to collect it, > saving on P&P if memory serves. Rather nice indeed, and battery life > modern machines would kill for (many weeks of active use on 8 AA Ni-CD's). > But it got stolen over the summer holidays when my folks got burgled. The > insurance paid for the LCIII. Excellent keyboard, if memory serves. Of the Apple keyboards I bought new, my Performa 475's keyboard is the one I've liked best. Same as your LCIII in that department, I'd guess. But my very favouritest of all is the Apple adjustable keyboard, for which I don't have the number keypad so I never used it much. Gorgeous, though - and oh so much more `natural' to use than the MS `Natural' keyboard (which only fits one size of hand/arm/shoulder width properly - and whatever that might be, it's not what I've got). 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: Rowland McDonnell on 26 Feb 2010 05:45 Duncan Kennedy <no-spam(a)nospam.otterson-bg.couk> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> writes > > >Plenty of ZX81 pages out there. Called the TS1000 in the USA; worth > >bearing in mind when Web searching. > > > Owing to its manufacture by the Timex watch company - who also > manufactured it in Dundee. ("TS" = Timex Sinclair?) Yep. They had to add the Timex name - you wanna sell in the USA, it helps to look as if you're a US firm. They're like that. 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 26 Feb 2010 06:06 On 26/02/2010 10:43, Rowland McDonnell wrote: > Andy Hewitt<thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > >> Rowland McDonnell<real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: >> >>> Andy Hewitt<thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > [snip] > >>>>> I don't understand that. JPEG/JFIF is a file format. You don't use it >>>>> for viewing, you use it for storing/transmitting. >>>> >>>> Well, you cannot directly view a Raw file, >>> >>> One cannot directly see *any* image stored as a serial stream of bits in >>> computer memory, until it is subjected to processing and displayed on a >>> graphical output device. >> >> Er, yes. But the Raw files aren't even capable of that, although MacOS >> can now do this by post-processing them 'on the fly'. > > <puzzled> No, raw camera files do contain the image, which as with all > computer files containing images, needs to be subjected to processing > including rendering on a display before your eyes see an image: the > rendering process is a processing step, don't forget. True. But what he is saying is that the Mac OSX core graphics doesn't contain a plugin to allow raw files to be converted to an onscreen bitmap, like they do for gif/png/jpg etc. So you have to have another step to convert it to one of those formats before the mac can process it natively. >> but I'm not really sure what it >> is you're not getting. > > What iPhoto does and what Aperture does. iPhoto is a 'consumer level' (ie, ordinary cheap digital camera) photo manager. It enables you to connect your camera, download the photos from your camera, and store them in one central place. This is to enable you to look through your photos by date, by 'event' (ie, the time where you took your camera out and started taking pictures, such as a party or day out), by photos containing a person or (assuming you have the time to enter the details), by location that the photo was taken. It enables a very small amount of basic editing (red eye, rotation, course image adjustment) and printing. It also enable display as a screensaver. It is designed to abstract the details of the physical files that came from the camera away from those people (ie, my mum) who don't want to or cannot deal with them Aperture is a 'Professional level' photo manager. It enables you to connect your camera, download the photos, bulk compare a number of similar images, do a number of complicated low level adjustments to the colour of the files and then export a subset of those images for further processing. It is designed to abstract the details of the physical files for people who have no interest in file management, but care more about the images and providing those images to other people (such as customers and clients). -- Woody
From: Jim on 26 Feb 2010 06:24
On 2010-02-26, Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >> >> What iPhoto does and what Aperture does. > > iPhoto is a 'consumer level' (ie, ordinary cheap digital camera) photo > manager. It enables you to connect your camera, download the photos from > your camera, and store them in one central place. It is, effectively, iTunes for pictures. iTunes: iPhoto: ------- ------- Insert an audio CD Plug in a digital camera containing pictures Rip the tracks from the CD Download the pictures from the camera to to the iTunes library the iPhoto library Create albums that contain Create albums that contain pictures music tracks And that's essentianlly it. Both can do a lot more with the stuff you import, both contain basic editing tools (iTunes has a graphic equalizer, iPhoto can alter brightness, contrast etc) but essentially they're both just ways of getting certain types of files into one place where you can do what you want with them. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK "Get over here. Now. Might be advisable to wear brown trousers and a shirt the colour of blood." Malcolm Tucker, "The Thick of It" |