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Group of people from Bolivian indigenous communities use computers to learn more about organic agriculture and the sustainable use of natural resources among farmer communities.
The first computer I ever used.
The monitor, disk drives, and main unit are all rescued from public schools.
If pressed at the top left corner, e.g. with a c-clamp, the normal image appears. If released, the white frame appears first, then fills the complete display with a random scary pattern. It sure is posessed.
The Selectric typewriter printers (I had 2 of them) had pretty good output, compared to the dot-matrix printers of the time, but were slow, noisy, and tended to beat themselves to death..... The H89 was a great computer. Wish I had kept it for historical sake.
A shot of my work-at-home setup (laptop and cartoons-on-TV) after a computer virus trashed my desktop.
In 1969, Honeywell released the Kitchen Computer. It was designed for housewives to be able to store and retrieve recipes. Unfortunately, it had a terrible, unusable interface, and its price tag was a whopping $10,600 (in 1969 money!)
It appears that none of these were ever sold.
Free 486 base unit for anyone who can collect from London SE13, UK.
50 throbbing megahertz of raw computing power can be yours.
Generic 486 PC base unit, needs new 3.6v CMOS battery. Stuck a tiny 100MB hard drive in it just to prove it starts up. Has keyboard, mouse, floppy drive, Soundblaster soundcard, 3com ethernet card, CD-ROM drive (will not boot from CD ROM though).
Seems to work but no proper OS installed, and without that CMOS battery you'll be typing numbers into the CMOS each time to get it to see the hard drive.
Sorry, monitor not included!
Would suit mad masochist trying to get some obscure Linux distro running on the lowest spec machine in the universe.
This is my office space at the newspaper where all the magic happens with the computer. Actually it is more likely where the computer likes to crash but ...anyhow it is home to me.
Motherboard with padlock, computer security, computer protection, computer antivirus, lock
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This chap lives under the computer, he has a nice soft tummy to polish the screen.
The Our Daily Challenge group has chosen Critter as today's topic.
Day Seventy-Five: Project 365
You know that pickup line? "If I could rearrange the alphabet, I'd put you and I together." It occurred to me today, and not for the first time, while looking at my keyboard that the QWERTY keyboard already puts U and I together. I wonder if that could be worked into a suitably bad pickup line?
No one's ever tried to use this line on me before. The best bad pickup line I've ever gotten was the following, said to me in a very smoky bar (best heard with the accompanying accent, but this will have to do): "Hey baby, you smell good." I was so shocked by this that I couldn't even attempt to be polite. I just turned to him and said, "I smell like cigarette smoke. I've been here for several hours." That pretty much stopped him in his tracks. He continued to sit next to me at the bar for a few minutes, occasionally looking my direction as if he were trying to come up with some way to salvage the situation, but as I continued to ignore him, he went quietly away and left me to continue talking to the bartender (who I was dating at the time).
The computer went from a pokey 512 mb ram to 2 gb ram, and the hard drive went from a 60 gb capacity to 320 gb. Now if only the space bar didn't have a worn-in hole and the "e" and "s" weren't rubbed clean!*
*Apparently I can get these replaced at the genius bar, and now that I have that ProCare account I'll schedule an appointment for later from now--there's no real rush now that the computer is up and running again.