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fpp 2008-10-02 19:49
Re: Are you getting a Pandora console?
 
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Originally Posted by qole (Post 229805)
I have almost pre-ordered the Pandora three times in the last two days. I have sat on the credit card information page for a very long time, staring at the words. But I have finally decided to take the same position as fpp:
Hey, I just saved you a lot of typing AND a bunch of money there... now you owe me a beer or two at the next summit ! :-)

Karel Jansens 2008-10-02 19:50
Re: Are you getting a Pandora console?
 
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Originally Posted by RobbH (Post 229802)
[Note: Karel's color enhancement removed above]
There appears to be something wrong with my in-forum editor: I can't select colours anymore (nor did I add colour to that particular bit).

Does anyone else only see a small white square when clicking the colour selector?

Karel Jansens 2008-10-02 19:51
Re: Are you getting a Pandora console?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by fpp (Post 229840)
That's funny - somewhere in a dark musty corner of these forums there must still be an old post of mine, with a mockup picture I'd made of a 770 as the top half of a modern Psion Series5... It's true that as far as clamshells are concerned, it's been downhill ever since.
I remember that! Oh, how I drooled...

Benson 2008-10-02 19:54
Re: Are you getting a Pandora console?
 
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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens (Post 229845)
There appears to be something wrong with my in-forum editor: I can't select colours anymore (nor did I add colour to that particular bit).

Does anyone else only see a small white square when clicking the colour selector?
No, I see a small black square.

But [color=red][/color], [color=#7fff00][/color], and the like still work...

fpp 2008-10-02 19:54
Re: Are you getting a Pandora console?
 
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Originally Posted by Benson (Post 229806)
Hmmm... either of those would be killer, but I'm gonna have to go with the sawed-off Kaypro.

Seriously, wouldn't it be fun, a Kaypro with everything chopped about 6" behind the display, a slot-loading optical with a 5.25" floppy facade, and batteries for a 48-hour runtime? (And those lovely individual-switch keyboards. You know you could mod those, take keys off an old one, nibble out more room, and get extra keys... Not like the Pandora. :p Gaming controls, in the limited sense of an inverted-T cursor pad, were thus attainable.)

Really, the only problem with this is destroying a perfectly good Kaypro to build it. :(
Might I perhaps interest you in a working, mint-condition Compaq Portable III sewing-machine (with full-size ISA card extension)... or maybe a Toshiba T5100 ? :-)

Benson 2008-10-02 20:07
Re: Are you getting a Pandora console?
 
Not that those are bad machines, but... ;)
  1. They don't have big metal keyboards (and cases).
  2. They actually run modern OSes without putting in a new computer.
  3. They aren't machines I grew up on.
If I had them, they'd wind up being terminals or thin-clients. The Kaypros' the only thing I'd actually mod into something cool and useful. (A more likely outcome would actually be an x86 gaming-ready machine, rather than a Pandora...)

That said, if you're ever thinking of tossing them, I might be game to at least cover shipping costs to get them here; while I love old machines, I am aware of the uselessness of most of them, and too tight a budget to collect them regardless, so you can probably get more on ebay.

fpp 2008-10-02 20:31
Re: Are you getting a Pandora console?
 
Oh no, I didn't extract them from their respective garbage cans just to dump them again for a few bucks. Right now they're gracing my garage racks waiting for my time and inspiration to mod them into something fun (probably when I retire :-). Like I did with the old Hirschmann Ethernet hub...

Benson 2008-10-02 20:38
Re: Are you getting a Pandora console?
 
OK, we're seriously OT, but that's beautiful. A shame about the lights, though; revisit that after you get done with the Compaq and Toshiba!

fpp 2008-10-02 20:53
Re: Are you getting a Pandora console?
 
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Originally Posted by Benson (Post 229865)
OK, we're seriously OT, but that's beautiful. A shame about the lights, though; revisit that after you get done with the Compaq and Toshiba!
Thanks (*blush*).

I do have the hardware provisioned for generation III actually : a newer VIA ITX board and a 80 GB 2"5 drive. And a new OS (Arch Linux), 'cause I'm fed up with Gentoo. All currently being prototyped inside a MSDN plastic binder case, waiting for me to muster the courage for the big switch (and downtime :-)

qole 2008-10-02 21:17
Re: Are you getting a Pandora console?
 
Hey, OT is what I do best! Here's my server / router housing:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/21/33...8eb960c6_m.jpg

This is an old picture; I've replaced the old monitor with a 19" CRT that looks almost the same. The button / joystick console swings down and inside I have a keyboard, mouse, and some actual joysticks that I plan to rig up to the old controls at some point in the future...

I'm actually trying to figure out how to use my antique phone with my N800 to make a cool video-VoIP phone.


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