Keatah Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 I'd love to see a pic of that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 Yeah, the text says "light blue" which probably is the off-white in some lighting conditions. The phosphor table can be sorted by wavelength, which suggests the following ranges: 295 - 368 nm = ultraviolet 400 - 504 nm = blue (sometimes blue-green) 504 - 546 nm = green (sometimes blue-green or yellow-green) 550 - 588 nm = yellow (sometimes yellow-green) 590 - 602 nm = orange (sometimes orange-yellow or yellow) 610 - 660 nm = red (sometimes orange-red or orange-pink) White doesn't have a clear wavelength, as it is a combination of all colours? This one looks blue, but I'll blame it on poor lighting. Some DEC Rainbows also appear to have light blue text, and so can TRS-80: The problem here is the AWB function in the camera in combination with the CMOS/CCD sensor gamut. Those blue images are more white than blue when you see them in person. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpiguy9907 Posted May 21, 2017 Author Share Posted May 21, 2017 I'd love to see a pic of that! There is one on eBay now. Reasonable price for the whole kit if the low bid wins. But I am out of retro cash right now... http://r.ebay.com/C98m2N Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 I have a Timex Sinclair 2068, it does 512*200 graphics! It's very cool. I always wanted a 1500 in the special executive briefcase they used to offer. It has a space for the 1500 and tape drive all sold together in the leather briefcase! Drool. I had a 1500 in the case. It wasn't a leather briefcase, it was some sort of hard material (plastic?) with a cheap latch. Basically a TS-1000 with 16K RAM and a better keyboard. It's probably what Timex should have sold initially. Maybe Timex would have been able to stay in the market if they had done that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa_Bear Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 That exactly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rpiguy9907 Posted May 22, 2017 Author Share Posted May 22, 2017 My memory must be faulty. Maybe in South America you could get it in a Leather Case? Now I am stretching... lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatPix Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 (edited) Well, that one less want off the list : The FOCAL cart seems dead tho. Too bad. Edited May 22, 2017 by CatPix 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Is that a case of extremely uneven yellowing, or were some of the keys in a slightly different colour on purpose? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Is that a case of extremely uneven yellowing, or were some of the keys in a slightly different colour on purpose? Keep in mind that some keycaps may come from a different run than others, and the plastic may be slightly different. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oracle_jedi Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 So yeah... That irrational "want" is now an irrational have.... Not sure what I am going to do with this. It came with a few cassette games which might still work... Job 1 will be a gentle clean to get that gunk off the case and keyboard. Job 2 will be to organize a US power supply for it. A Mean Well RT50A should do the job. Job 3 will be to make a Lynx RGB to Commodore 1084 monitor cable. I've seen two different pin outs for the Lynx RGB port so this will require some testing. Also the Lynx 5-pin RGB port has a pin arrangement I've not seen before, like a 6-pin DIN layout but with pin 6 deleted. Might have to grab some 6-pin male connectors from Vetco and practice removing the center pin. Job 4 will be to see if I can get TAP files to convert to WAV files and see if I can get the Lynx to load them from something pretending to be a cassette deck. I guess I could try recording the WAV files to actual cassettes and then loading them from my TI cassette deck. More investigation required on this one. Job 5 will be to see if I can recreate a joystick interface using the schematics shown on Russel Davis' site. If I get really ahead of myself I might even see about recreating the disk interface. There is a schematic for that too, although I was surprised to see that the "disk interface" pack that attached to the back of the Lynx does not include the disk controller chip, only the Lynx DOS ROM, the WDC1770 chip being located inside the actual Lynx disk drive. It would be amazing to get this thing talking to the HxC2001, but that's a longer term goal. Still, I've wanted one of these since I was 12. Now I have one, what next? Maybe a Mattel Aquarius..... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 Neat, I had to look that one up. I figured it was a terminal or something, but nope, it's the Lynx that's way less desirable to me than the Atari Lynx. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camputers_Lynx this makes me smile: "Camputers" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Computer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 I suppose the 5-pin DIN connector you describe is a 240 degree variant? Also the Camputers Lynx has at least 1 feature that makes it stand out. Its BASIC allows for floating point line numbers: 10 PRINT"HELLO WORLD" 10.1 GOTO 10 It should mean you nearly never need to renumber lines in order to insert more code, just add decimals to the line number up to the point they're significant. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 i guess the most irrational 'want' for me would be a complete MBX system for my TI 99 4A. (headset, joystick, console, etc)- theyre pretty pricey, though, and im not entirely sure *where* i would put the darn thing to hook it up, lol. but heck if it doesn't look cool! (plus nostalgia) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oracle_jedi Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 (edited) i guess the most irrational 'want' for me would be a complete MBX system for my TI 99 4A. (headset, joystick, console, etc)- theyre pretty pricey, though, and im not entirely sure *where* i would put the darn thing to hook it up, lol. but heck if it doesn't look cool! (plus nostalgia) When I first moved to the States back in '96 I bought a TI99/4A from a thrift store in Peoria, IL. which included the 10" Color Monitor and a complete boxed MBX system. I don't remember what I paid for it, but it was the cash in my wallet, so not much. The MBX came with no games, so after fiddling with it for a while, I sold it on this new website called "Ebay". Used a polaroid camera and a flat bed scanner that connected to the PC via the parallel port to take some pictures and upload them. Damn that was hi-tech! I got $250 for the MBX even back then. Wonder what they'd fetch, complete in the box today. Edited August 12, 2018 by oracle_jedi 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seob Posted August 12, 2018 Share Posted August 12, 2018 A Schneider CPC-464, our first home computer. Still missing in my collection. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap! Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 A Sharp X68000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted August 19, 2018 Share Posted August 19, 2018 A Sharp X68000. I just want to play Attack on the Death Star on that computer. I love vector graphics and Star Wars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HCRAYERT504 Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 A TRS-80, a Commodore monitor, and a TI-99/4a floppy disk drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 https://youtu.be/ngFrvOFw7nc?t=37m6s See that computer in the background? That's a Burroughs B-205, a real computer from the 50's. It was obsolete by the 60's. It had no RAM; it used a spinning magnetic metal drum for memory. It had no screen, only flashing lights. And I want it. I hove no use for it. But I want it. Primarily because it was used in a lot of movies: http://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=45 Oh, look. I can rent one: http://woodysprops.com/item.php?uid=195&page=1 As I understand it, these were gutted & rewired decades ago, so they're not working computers anymore. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HCRAYERT504 Posted August 20, 2018 Share Posted August 20, 2018 https://youtu.be/ngFrvOFw7nc?t=37m6s See that computer in the background? That's a Burroughs B-205, a real computer from the 50's. It was obsolete by the 60's. It had no RAM; it used a spinning magnetic metal drum for memory. It had no screen, only flashing lights. And I want it. I hove no use for it. But I want it. Primarily because it was used in a lot of movies: http://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=45 Oh, look. I can rent one: http://woodysprops.com/item.php?uid=195&page=1 As I understand it, these were gutted & rewired decades ago, so they're not working computers anymore. Lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 https://youtu.be/ngFrvOFw7nc?t=37m6s See that computer in the background? That's a Burroughs B-205, a real computer from the 50's. It was obsolete by the 60's. It had no RAM; it used a spinning magnetic metal drum for memory. It had no screen, only flashing lights. And I want it. I hove no use for it. But I want it. Primarily because it was used in a lot of movies: http://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=45 Oh, look. I can rent one: http://woodysprops.com/item.php?uid=195&page=1 As I understand it, these were gutted & rewired decades ago, so they're not working computers anymore. Scrolling down the list of Burroughs machines on that site, the only thing I could really see were all the DAMN HOT WOMEN! Some of those women are hotter than hell! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butterburp Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 Hotness eh. I take it you're a fan of 60's hair? My most irrational want is for there to still be a large online posting community that gets their jollies with DOS/Windows 3.1 computing and gaming. I mean going back to the days of Compuserve/Genie, where you could post a single question about Maniac Mansion or the amazing 80287 math co-processor, and get a massive conversation going. I can kinda-sorta get the same amount of action these days, if I combine Atari Age, Reddit and a whole mess of other sites. But following 20-30 threads that get an occasional reply here and there, just isn't the same as following 2-3 hyper-active threads and enjoying the resulting mayhem. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie D. Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 Right now I'm really feeling the irrational want for a Famicom, Disk System, Family BASIC, and tape deck to essentially have a NES computer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted September 4, 2018 Share Posted September 4, 2018 You know that Famicom Disk System and Family BASIC are mutually exclusive? As for tape deck, any will work, You don't need a special Nintendo tape deck for functionality, only if you are completionist collector. Even a MP3 player or smartphone works fine if you're only loading programs into BASIC with no need of saving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oracle_jedi Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 A TRS-80, a Commodore monitor, and a TI-99/4a floppy disk drive. None of these strike me as irrational. Commodore monitors - especially the 1701s, 1702s and 1084s were pretty awesome. A TI99/4A is a different computer entirely once you add 32K of RAM and a floppy disk drive. Don't know much about TRS80s, but a friend of mine back when I was a kid had an EACA Video Genie II, and I loved that behemoth of a computer with its faux wood finish side panels. You should get all three... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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