All-- First, the gift: <http://pocketcalculatorshow.com/> Be happily reminded of the diversity in design and functionality of consumer electronics from the 70s...
all-- I'll bet I'm the only person here interested in Apple's orphaned Newton PDA platform, but this is such an interesting development in the still-active...
all-- Panther is finally alive on my laptop (thanks for the assist, Michael). A new iteration of XpostFacto has given new life to my 300MHz G3PowerBook...
[for all you gamers out there. link to forum: <http://games.slashdot.org/games/04/03/14/2213236.shtml?tid= 126&tid=127&tid=156&tid=186&tid=206>] Posted by...
From the most recent _Syllabus_ newsletter (an IT trade magazine): ****************************************************** U San Francisco to Build First...
[from BoingBoing:] Glenn Fleishmann has written a blog entry about an amazing new WiFi project at Champaign-Urbana, to create a bootable disk image that turns...
all-- a quick query: has anyone on this list ever had any experience with wikis? specifically, how to host and admin one (i've got a collaborative academic...
this month's _wired_ has an article penned by joshua davis on what might potentially be the next big thing in broadband service: BPL, or broadband over power...
Isn't this the same technology which weekend late night talk show host Art Bell was discussing as being detrimental to HAM radio and other radio frequencies? -...
Ah! Indeed it is! According to Bell, the Japanese tried a similar system to BPL and it was a failure due to the interference. I side with Bell when he says HAM...
This is a fairly concise, but informative, look at the evolution of computing languages: <http://www.oreilly.com/news/graphics/prog_lang_poster.pdf>...
All-- Consider this a sampler of items I've catalogued while trolling the web over the last couple of weeks: WWNC: The World-Wide Newton Conference will be...
The Virtual Machine article was pretty interesting. Looks to be a far cry from the original SoftWindows for Mac and V-Mac (but hey, it is cool to run an old...
ed-- saw this auction on ebay for a complete working system with lots of software & peripherals: <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ite ...
Wellllllllllll, methinks I won't be able to get to Vegas. But thanks for taking the time to look it up! I actually have a Tandy 1000 case which I saved from...
Was the Tandy 1000 similar to the Tandy Color Computer? I used to have a Co Co, with no hard drive but DUAL disk drives! It was hooked up to an old tv in my...
This one is not an "all-in-one" like some of the Tandy machines. It is a white case with the dual drives to the right when you face it. I haven't cracked the...
Quoted from _Wired News_: "This weekend, fans of Apple's long-discontinued Newton will gather in Paris to celebrate the PDA that will never ever die. Six years...
All-- I'm in the midst of dissertating/searching for a job, so the postings have been rather sparse as of late...however, here are a few items of interest that...
Hmmm...that article on the Linux box is cool. I have a pile of older hardware which might fill the bill. Been meaning to fiddle with Linux but for one reason...
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does anyone have experience with these things? i'm thinking about playing around with the "automated house" concept, and was wondering about the feasability...
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66397,00.html Here's an interesting story about a British artist, Richard Bolam, who networks old Macs together...
It is pretty cool. The same article popped up on the Cyberpunk LiveJournal group as well. Huzzah for old Macs! On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 13:35:44 -0000, 11011...
Red Herring has an article about MIT's Nicholas Negroponte and his plans to develop a cheap PC for the developing world (places like China or Africa)with a...
I seem to recall there is a inexpensive Linux laptop being sold through Wal-Mart for like...what...$400 something? On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:19:22 -0000, 11011...
Sho' nuff. It's called "Balance," and is currently going for $498. There's also an expanded line of peripherals, PC cards, monitors, and beefier laptops. I'm...
If you think about their target market and income level (low to middle), it makes sense to offer a lowcost laptop. Linux is very cheap and with the GUI...
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