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Dude, I got a Dell!
Needed a new laptop after frying my USB ports on the old one... went with this Dell because I could get it with Windows XP installed (instead of Vista).
Step 1. set up network.
Step 2. download Firefox and appropriate plugins.
Step 3. download images from camera card.
Now I can set about the very dull task of transferring data.... then Kiddo will get the injured laptop for her own use.
The new (refurb) computer for the church secretary. It's an Inspiron Desktop 570 MiniTower, with an AMD Athlon II X2 240 (2.8GHz, 2MB) processor, 640 GB SATA II Hard Drive (7200 RPM), 4 GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz (4 DIMMs), a FAX/modem (!!!) and Windows 7 Home Premium, plus a 1-year warranty of sorts. Cost including tax and free shipping = $368.66 from the Dell Outlet.
In the back: the monitor of my first computer, a Windows desktop named Emu. On the left, my ´05 iBook G4, known as Mamka (Мамка). And on the right, my newest baby, an EeePC 900A which i have dubbed Yozh (Еж), currently running some Linux distro which i think is Asus-specific and which i don´t particularly like yet. If it doesn´t grow on me in the next few days it´ll be replaced with some other Linux flavour.
The KL-10 Front-end for the Digital (DEC) PDP-11/40. At the San Jose Computer History Museum, which is really worth a visit. Wished I had brought a proper camera! More info here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KL10-front-end.jpg
I'm also sorry that I didn't pay more attention to this. It involved cooking oil somehow which I would have liked to see. They were accepting computer donations which immediately takes hazardous materials out of the waste stream. They were routed to different projects throughout the faire including the oil-related one which was to assemble the workable donations into a supercomputer. Does anyone know how that worked out?
The CoCo I remember as having an excellent version of BASIC that could support graphics better than anything else I'd used. The keyboard, however, was terrible. It spawned the CoCo 2 and CoCo 3.
bigbobby's computer room is now being dismantled. I do believe that it surely needed work See you guys next week
bobby
It's a comfy bed:) Also, I bought the tilting bed support from Ikea so I could watch my computer from bed. Best investment I ever made.
This creeps me out every time I look at it, my computer when it completely broke down. Luckily it was repaired.
Back in 1990, when i was 13, my father gave me an Atari 800 xl. This is a (very) Basic program I made using the highest graphical capacity of 300x190 px.
In a tv, the output seems to have pixels in white, red and blue, but the graphics is actually made in just one color.
Technology - High tech gadgets are great when they are working; but sorry to say...this is the guts of my broken laptop. I'm in a dark mood today.
Martin's refurbishing of vintage computers
after Homebrew Computer Club 40th anniversary reunion
Woodside, CA
November-2013
Another cantenna project. A friend of mine is the director of a local non-profit organization in Ashtabula County, and they had permission to share Wi-Fi from a nearby church but couldn't get a signal. I built a cantenna which solved the problem. This one is mine which I built for fun, but they'll be borrowing it for a few weeks while they have an intern working for them. Building these has been a lot of fun and it's nice to see them used for a good cause.
This one is mounted to a $2 camera tripod I picked up at Micro Center. An ALFA Network AWUS036EH 802.11b/g USB adapter (which has an SMA connector) drives the whole thing. I haven't had a chance to test it to any great extent, but Kismac does seem to pick up on more activity with this adapter than with my customized Linksys WUSB11 2.5. The ALFA adapter uses an RTL8187 chipset which is supported in Kismac 0.21a revision 319.
I used this website as my guide for building the cantenna:
www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html
I've uploaded my cantenna photos at a larger size than I normally do for the benefit of anyone who is thinking of building one. It's pretty easy, but you'll need a soldering iron and drill, and if you want to clean up the edges of the can a Dremel is handy too. Have fun if you try this!
Grand People's Study House
This is a lecture in computer studies. The teacher gave a demonstration of doing some basic stuff in Microsoft Word 2003 running on Windows XP. It seems that the 'evil imperialistic US' has found it's way into their computers, but I wonder if these are officially purchased and licensed products...
name: Hillary Andrlik
school: Walker Elementary
town: Clarendon Hills
state: IL
The P.E. teacher gave me a red pocket pedometer holder. It was the perfect solution for storing computer mice for the mobile laptop cart. This system makes it very easy for my primary kids to access.
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