I'm looking for guidance. I have a few old Thinkpads including an L40 and a 720C. Is there an online reference for the values of these old laptops?
Listed under Buying Advice because there's no Selling Advice flair.
797 steps was about all I could do in this heat. Yuk.
It's one of those 30 day months, so I thought I'd share the 2-day rollover. Enjoy!
Yesterday was a busy day! I checked this just before bed and saw the 100 activity score. I took the screenshot and it dropped to 99 a few seconds later.
On top of a short night of sleep, I still felt pretty good.
I just pulled this out from storage. I can't test it because I have no access to power where it is, and I don't want to bring it home right now. Folded up it's about the size of a school lunchbox. No battery but a slide out power supply that could be replaced with a battery back in the day.
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No hard drive, but the boot DOS floppy is in the 5.25 inch drive.
I'm running the latest build of A16 on my OP12. I have an old APK on a OP7 running Lineage that I'd like to move over. I pulled the APK to my computer and to the 12 but it won't install either directly or with adb. The error indicates missing runtimes. Is there any way to get the 32 bit framework running on my phone so I can install these old apps? Thanks.
Hi, I'm new here but was in IBM laptop support for a very long time. I've been digging through the storage room and found these two near the top of the pile. No idea if they work but I do have a few L40s and parts for same.
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I know the L40 is a PS/2 and not a Thinkpad but as the only IBM laptop made before the Thinkpad branding I hope it comes close enough for the mods here.
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Somewhere in the pile is a 701C. I'll definitely post pics of that when I find it.
Heavy rain came through today and gave me a free car wash. Earlier today I passed another Mk4 Jetta on the road, that hardly ever happens anymore. We waved at each other.
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2002 GLS 1.8t 5 speed, 152k miles. One owner, no mods.
Edit: I meant to include a shout out in the header to the third-party developers who made these apps work again, but I clicked too soon. I do give credit below, but specific thanks to aviation-hacker (NavMe), Reboot's Ramblings (Music Boss), and djda9l (Multifunctional 7 Segment Display) for bringing back my favorites.
It's been a bit depressing over the past couple of years, watching features of the Pebble and its software die out one by one as Google updated their APIs and developers drifted away. All that is over now, as the rising tide of work on the Time 2 has lifted the older models as well.
I've attached screenshots of three of what used to be the most useful Pebble apps and watchfaces: NavMe, Music Boss, and the amazing information panel from Multifunctional 7 Segment. All of these failed in some way as they lost their connection to information services. All have been brought back within the past couple of months, either by their original developers or by volunteers who have updated the code, to run on the Time 2 and, as a byproduct, on the older generation Pebbles too.
After I ordered my PT2, I pretty much drifted away from wearing Pebbles in favor of more traditional analog watches as the capabilities of these watches steadily diminished. Now, pretty much everything is back. Thanks to the dedication of people who aren't willing to see the previous generation fade away, as well as to Eric and Core Devices for re-generating interest and in keeping the new platforms backward-compatible.
I do wear my PT2, mostly when I'm outdoors and the sun makes the screen more readable, but more and more I have been wearing the OG Steel again. I love the industrial design, like no other smartwatch on the market then or now, and the indestructibility of the construction. Now that pretty much everything works again, it is on the way to becoming my go-to watch when I'm doing activities. The upgraded batteries give me close to a week between charges. I wear an Oura ring, so I don't need the health tracking info of the later models, and I'm willing to trade off the few other benefits of the Time 2 (battery life, color and speed, mainly) for the outstanding readability of the monochrome screen and the mechanical reliability of the Steel.
I'm looking forward to getting my Round 2, hoping they address some of the legibility and durability questions around the Time 2, but in the meantime, this 12-year-old watch is giving me everything it ever did.
My three fave lume monsters. Left to right - Timex Expedition Solar, Citizen Paradigm, and the original Lego watch by Crival. The Citizen is especially nice - when I charge the lume I can read by the light it gives off, and it is still readable in complete darkness seven hours later.
I bought this a couple of years ago and got diverted to other watches, then tried to sell but probably priced it too high. So I decided to take it out, set it and give it a chance for a few days. Green dial Corso chronograph, definitely on the large side but large was what I was wearing when I bought it.
Comments?
These were both set on May 1 to an Internet standard clock on a phone. I knew these watches kept good time, but here you see that in a month the Paradigm has lost one second and the Stiletto has gained three.
I've never had a watch this accurate, much less two. Given that the ability to tell time is the most important thing about a watch, it's hard to fault these.
Both have Eco-drive, so they'll basically run forever. And the Paradigm is a perpetual calendar, so I should never have to reset the time and date except for time zone changes and summer time, and both can be done without stopping the movement. The Stiletto will have to be hacked again in November and March for DST, but I'll probably want to correct the eighteen second error at that point anyway.
Is this unusual performance for a Citizen? Did I just get lucky?
I updated the watch software this morning, and now when I launch Muninn the app screen shows briefly, then the screen goes blank and the watch reboots. It happens every time I launch the app. Has anyone else seen this?
I found the box sitting on a shelf. I actually bought this new in 1976 and programmed it for a while. It was my first microcomputer.
I recall putting it away when the power supply failed so I don't know if it will still power up. Is there a safe way to test it, and what is a Rev F KIM-1 with all manuals in the original box worth these days, working or not?
I've been holding out with the old app because my testing with the new app on a spare phone showed problems. I haven't checked it for a while and I know there's been constant improvement in the app.
I have already unistalled and reinstalled the old app once and it's a pain on Android 16 since A16 blocks installation of older software like this. I'd like the next time I install the new version to be the last, but I'd also like to be able to switch between the Steel and my new PT2 as an actual watch, which requires the new version.
Does anyone have recent experience using the Steel with the current app? Let me know what you found. Thanks.
Here are two of my Citizen watches. The one on the left is pretty much my daily these days. The one on the right needs fixing - the minute and hour hand don't move, but the watch keeps accurate time based on the second hand and the movement of the date. Both watches have rotating bezels but neither has the lume dot needed for diving.
I use the bezel sometimes as a countdown timer or to measure elapsed time, but I'm curious what uses other people have found for this mechanical complication. I'm particularly interested in the bezel on the right, which has very little readable information on it.
Do you wear a watch like this, and if so, how do you use the bezel?
I just dug back in my storage room and unearthed a few bikes, which I'll put up here in some kind of order - interesting bike, best pictures (I couldn't move them all yet), age.
This one tops all three lists. This was my father's Raleigh DL-1 Tourist, which he bought and rode on AYH tours after leaving the US army post-WWII. The bike is in remarkably good shape and complete except for the chainguard which he removed and the saddle which just fell apart sometime in the 1970s. Even the frame pump is original.
The Sturmey-Archer AW 3-speed hub has a "48" date on the shell. There is a month also but I couldn't get under to read it. Classic trigger shifter from before they modernized the cover engraving. The front rod brake shoes are not on the bike but only because I moved them elsewhere to remove the front wheel the last time I moved the bike.
I'm not sure whether the tires are rideable, or how hard it is to get tires the right size and bead for 28 inch rod brake rims. I pretty much can guarantee, having ridden the bike long ago, that I wouldn't want to test the brakes on any street that isn't going uphill. Anyway, the bike weighs 45-50 pounds and I'm not going to take it off the ceiling hook just to snap a couple of pictures and put it back.
Enjoy the pictures. Between the giant wheels, the frame size I could just barely fit on, long wheelbase and the ridiculously shallow frame geometry, this bike was a hoot to ride back in the day. I could picture my father descending the back side of a mountain in the Catskills and wonder how he ever survived long enough for me to be born.
A few weeks ago I bought this watch for just under $60 on dhgate:
Overall I like it and I'm happy with my purchase, especially considering the price, but the one thing that bugged me is the off-center day display. It varies from one day to another - Sunday is well-centered, Monday is worse than the Saturday shown here - but for the price I'm willing to put up with it.
The other day I was walking past a local shop that sells vintage watches. Their inventory is well regarded and authenticated. This watch was in the window:
As you can see, the centering is even worse than mine. I'm not sure which of these possibilities is real:
Rolex is OK with off-center day registration, so I should be too.
The watch in the window has some serious damage, causing the registration problem.
The shop is selling a fake Rolex.
DHGate accidentally sold me a real Rolex that has the same problem as the one in the window. (A guy can hope).
Looking to this group for some insight. I've only bought the one watch and don't intend to grow the collection, but I'd like to learn how to spot a fake, which is the actual reason why I bought mine. Seeing this one for sale in a place that doesn't sell fakes made me wonder. Thanks in advance.
I got the watch April 20th with 51% battery. Ran it down to zero and charged for about an hour past full. Won't do that again but I wanted to get a full initial charge cycle. Just took it off the charger and updated the OS, and this is what Muninn reports. We'll see.
I was impressed with the 15 days I got on the initial shipping charge. I even turned off standby mode so it would drain faster. Now standby is back on and will see how long the thing lasts to 20%.
Hi all, I've just posted a YouTube video with sound clips of four banjos: a new Gold Tone Grandee, 1988 Gibson Greg Rich era Granada, a 1929 Gibson Style 6 original flathead 5-string conversion and one mystery banjo. The sound clips are audio-only, and there's a form for you to leave your opinions of the sound.
All of the Grandee reviews I've seen, including the comparison videos, show you the banjos as they're played. This is a chance to judge the banjos by sound alone. After enough responses, I will post another video identifying the banjos in the clips.
I proposed this video to Gold Tone a couple of months ago, and they were intrigued enough to send me a Grandee on loan. We've had no other conversation since, and they have not seen or had input on the video. To me, that shows tremendous confidence in their product, and as I've set it up and played it over the past few weeks I'd say that confidence is justified.
This video is purely about the sound. After the comparison test is over, I plan to post another video reviewing the Grandee itself, showing details of the banjo construction and pointing out some of the design differences between the Grandee and the original Granada design. I may also do a comparison (with video) of the Grandee and an OB-3 Twanger that I have owned for several years.
You can watch the video at https://youtu.be/aIAzY4MMGW4 . The link to the voting form is in the comments. Check out the sounds, and leave your opinion on the Google form. Enjoy!
