I picked up this Europlus-badged case at an auction. There's no mainboard, just the case and keyboard. I have not seen this keyboard on an Apple II before, it does not appear to be what was shipped on the Europlus.
I'm guessing based on the "HERE IS" key that this is something TTY related, but I don't know much about that.
Does anyone recognize this, or know anything about it?
I agree with his Subway Takes video 100%. He can't stand seeing people eat on screen, and hates the phrase "how's everything tasting" in a restaurant. I'm the same way about both of those things, and it's because they're misophonia triggers for me.
I've always liked John C. Reilly, but I like him even more for this.
I feel like the general size and placement are decent. I don't hate the color/lighting, this is as good as I was able to get it.
I don't know how to make it look like it's sitting in the carpet, or how to create a realistic shadow.
There may be other things that I need to do in order to make it feel natural, but I don't know what they would be.
Grateful to anyone who can provide some advice, thank you.
EDIT: since someone seems to think the original is AI, it's not, it's a photo from 1986. Here is the source that I licensed it from: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-1970s-family-playing-parcheesi-on-living-room-floor-orange-shag-carpet-52274750.html
Who said exercise bikes couldn't be futuristic?
This is from the 1980 Sears Wishbook. Adjusted for inflation, that $899.99 Computrim 900 would be $3,876 today.
Best I can find about this illustration is that it was titled "All-In-One-Watchman." Clearly a satirical piece, but I can't find if it was published or if he just did it for himself. Either way, it's fun and I love it.
Like the body, the interior is by legendary design house Bertone. The 5 Turbo was made from 1980 until 1984.
From the TV movie Regan (1974) the show that launched The Sweeney.
A great cover should reinterpret a song and make it something new for the artist doing the cover, and that's exactly what Su Lee did with There Is A Light That Never Goes Out.
I've just become a fan of hers lately, and to see her covering The Smiths was such a surprise and a delight. Enjoy!
The TI Dataman was made in 1977 as an educational toy. Although it looks like a calculator, ironically that is the one thing it doesn't do. It could play games like Electro Flash (for practicing your tables), Wipe Out (to see how fast you could do problems), Number Guesser, and Force Out.
The VFD screen could display some cool animations as well.
Every issue of Processed World has been made available for free download on the Internet Archive by the Processed World Collective.
They published 32 issues from 1981 to 1994. A great history of the zine written by founders Chris Carlsson and Adam Cornford is at Found SF, and the website is still maintained at ProcessedWorld.com
I have a collection of potential writer decks, including an Atari Portfolio, an AlphaSmart Dana, Onyx Boox Nova Pro, and an Apple eMate.
After giving them all a fair shake, I've settled on the Tandy Model 100 as my favorite of the bunch. The Atari is the most portable, and they keyboard is surprisingly usable, but it's not easy to transfer files. The Dana and the eMate are my favorites other than the Tandy. Both have good keyboards, and both are reasonably easy to transfer files with. I've been happy with both of them. The Onyx Boox is the easiest for file transfer since it's so modern, but the eInk screen is frustrating to type on due to the refresh rate, and I don't like the UI.
The reason I find myself always choosing the Model 100 is primarily for its keyboard. It's so enjoyable to type on that I will literally make any excuse to use it just for the sake of typing on that keyboard. That's a great motivation to keep me writing.
It's got a screen that's big enough, and with the folding laptop stand I got for it, it's very readable once it's tilted at an angle. It's easy on the eyes and quite clear.
What I love as well is being able to use regular AA batteries. As a bonus, I found a portable printer that can also run on five C batteries. Being able to print my work out wherever I am has proven to be invaluable. First because I like having a hard copy just for peace of mind, but also because I prefer to review and edit my work on paper.
The nice thing about the printer is that it is very simple, yet it uses modern HP ink cartridges that are easy to find. It can print on regular letter sized paper fed one sheet at a time, or you can use tractor feed paper, which is easy to get at Staples.
For saving and transferring files, I have a Backpack drive that lets me use an SD card for storage, making it very easy to transfer files with my Macbook.
Details of my setup:
Happy to answer any questions!
I know the Mondial can be the Rodney Dangerfield of Ferraris for some people, but in green, as a coupe, I think it's an elegant grand tourer. Huge respect to the owner of this one that I saw at a past Monterey car week. I'd love to do a cross-country trip in this.
There’s been massive backlash against generative AI, and most of the public lumps all AI together. It seems that much of the negativity comes from the way companies have shoved it into almost everything whether it’s appropriate or not.
And of course there’s the AI slop that has shown up in pictures everywhere, and AI-generated text that often infuriates people.
But AI has lots of good uses as well, from being a better search engine to accelerating research or automating repetitive or tedious tasks.
Would the tech industry have seen more acceptance of AI if they’d rolled it out without the slop?
I love the photos of inspirational, beautiful visions of the solarpunk future, but when I saw this photo of a pueblo joven on the outskirts of Lima, it reminded me of the reason we care about solarpunk in the first place.
When I zoomed in and saw the dog sitting alone in the dusty playground, it made me so sad. It made me think of the children who grow up there and the adults who live their lives there, relegated to the literal edges of society by a system that has failed humanity.
It's a stark reminder that solarpunk doesn't only need to solve the ecological and environmental problems the world faces. It needs to solve the fundamental cruelty of capitalism, war, and corruption.
The bucket is 8" tall.
The term "bit bucket" originally meant an actual bucket where chads from paper tape or punch cards were discarded. When those storage technologies became obsolete, the term was used for any data that failed to end up where it was supposed to, such as lost in transmission or in a crash. This bucket for discarding old RAM chips was named a Bit Bucket as an insider joke.
In 1986, filling it to the top with the RAM chips of the era would equate to roughly 350 Mb of RAM.
Obviously that number was an approximation, as part of the joke, but if you were to fill it with standard desktop RAM today (UDIMM), how much RAM could this bucket hold?