http://blogga.ru/2005/09/12/wooden_comp/

I woodent buy one.

Aidan wrote:

> I woodent buy one.


I agree, it'd go against the grain.

BTW, paste the link into http://babelfish.altavista.com/ and you can 
read it in English (well sort of)

David

In message <X9jVe.107369$G8.87604@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, ben 
 writes

>http://blogga.ru/2005/09/12/wooden_comp/
>

Where's the handle to wind it up ?

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On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:57:13 GMT, Lobster
 wrote:


>Aidan wrote:
>> I woodent buy one.
>
>I agree, it'd go against the grain.
>

That's knot funny.   You should check your warped sense of humour
before we have to shake it out of you.


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"Lobster"  wrote in message 
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> Aidan wrote:
>> I woodent buy one.
>
> I agree, it'd go against the grain.
>
> BTW, paste the link into http://babelfish.altavista.com/ and you can read 
> it in English (well sort of)


"no carmelized sugar additionally was established"

lol
Suzanne

Andy Hall wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:57:13 GMT, Lobster
>  wrote:
>
> >Aidan wrote:
> >> I woodent buy one.
> >
> >I agree, it'd go against the grain.
> >
> That's knot funny.   You should check your warped sense of humour
> before we have to shake it out of you.


Its plane silly. And if theres any thieves about it'll soon varnish.
Bet theres a very small market-ry for those.

NT

PSE its hard to see much in 16 colours.

bigcat@meeow.co.uk wrote:


> Its plane silly. And if theres any thieves about it'll soon varnish.
> Bet theres a very small market-ry for those.


It runs on Windows. Hardwood Windows.

I quite like the mouse though.

Aidan wrote:

> bigcat@meeow.co.uk wrote:
>
> > Its plane silly. And if theres any thieves about it'll soon varnish.
> > Bet theres a very small market-ry for those.
>
> It runs on Windows. Hardwood Windows.
>
> I quite like the mouse though.


Wonder if its a splinter operation from one of the global PC companies?

CM.

Charles Middleton wrote:

> Aidan wrote:
> 
>>bigcat@meeow.co.uk wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Its plane silly. And if theres any thieves about it'll soon varnish.
>>>Bet theres a very small market-ry for those.
>>
>>It runs on Windows. Hardwood Windows.
>>
>>I quite like the mouse though.
> 
> 
> Wonder if its a splinter operation from one of the global PC companies?
> 
> CM.
> 


PC World I think - I've seen them in my local branch

Richard Conway wrote:


> PC World I think - I've seen them in my local branch


You can tell by the mouse it is not apple wood.

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John Rumm wrote:

> Richard Conway wrote:
> 
>> PC World I think - I've seen them in my local branch
> 
> 
> You can tell by the mouse it is not apple wood.
> 


Maybe it is oak - or is that just an Acorn I can see?

In article <VjzVe.51826$al4.43475@fe08.ams>,
   Richard Conway  wrote:

> John Rumm wrote:
> > Richard Conway wrote:
> > 
> >> PC World I think - I've seen them in my local branch
> > 
> > 
> > You can tell by the mouse it is not apple wood.
> > 

> Maybe it is oak - or is that just an Acorn I can see?


Well they have branched out recently - you can see the Advantage of that even
if it is Riscy.

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John Cartmell wrote:

> In article <VjzVe.51826$al4.43475@fe08.ams>,
>    Richard Conway  wrote:
> 
>>John Rumm wrote:
>>
>>>Richard Conway wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>PC World I think - I've seen them in my local branch
>>>
>>>
>>>You can tell by the mouse it is not apple wood.
>>>
> 
> 
>>Maybe it is oak - or is that just an Acorn I can see?
> 
> 
> Well they have branched out recently - you can see the Advantage of that even
> if it is Riscy.
> 

I can't see that it will do any ARM

Richard Conway wrote:

>>> PC World I think - I've seen them in my local branch
>> You can tell by the mouse it is not apple wood.
> Maybe it is oak - or is that just an Acorn I can see?


Perhaps there's a subtle hint of Tangerine.

Owain

Owain wrote:


> Perhaps there's a subtle hint of Tangerine.


Or even Pear (remember them?)

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In article ,
   Owain  wrote:

> Richard Conway wrote:
> >>> PC World I think - I've seen them in my local branch
> >> You can tell by the mouse it is not apple wood.
> > Maybe it is oak - or is that just an Acorn I can see?

> Perhaps there's a subtle hint of Tangerine.


Be wary of travelling in that direction - there be dragons ...


> Owain


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John Rumm wrote:

> Owain wrote:
> 
>> Perhaps there's a subtle hint of Tangerine.
> 
> 
> Or even Pear (remember them?)
> 

Apricot?

In article <4326ee2f$0$22914$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net>,
   John Rumm  wrote:

> Owain wrote:

> > Perhaps there's a subtle hint of Tangerine.

> Or even Pear (remember them?)


There must be millipedes of such companies but that's one fruit 'n' nut
reference I don't remember.

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John Cartmell wrote:


> Be wary of travelling in that direction - there be dragons ...


I should Coco!

(Bonus points if you know why that is extra relevant!)

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In article <4326f578$0$97143$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net>,
   John Rumm  wrote:

> John Cartmell wrote:

> > Be wary of travelling in that direction - there be dragons ...

> I should Coco!

> (Bonus points if you know why that is extra relevant!)


Poire chocolat has me defeated! I'm sure the non-existent peanut will be
equally puzzling for most.

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In article <rrCVe.49650$Fb6.16811@fe09.ams>,
   Richard Conway  wrote:

> John Rumm wrote:
> > Owain wrote:
> > 
> >> Perhaps there's a subtle hint of Tangerine.
> > 
> > 
> > Or even Pear (remember them?)
> > 
> Apricot?


Apricot certainly - whilst the poor Amstrad had to do without a fruit 'n' nut
name but instead made do with a picture of the Cadbury's variety on the cover
of every issue of their main magazine.

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"Owain"  wrote in message 
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> Richard Conway wrote:
>>>> PC World I think - I've seen them in my local branch
>>> You can tell by the mouse it is not apple wood.
>> Maybe it is oak - or is that just an Acorn I can see?
>
> Perhaps there's a subtle hint of Tangerine.
>
> Owain



Hey -  a past Tangeriney! I didn't know that anyone else
ever had one. Did you have trouble getting an ASCII
keyboard out of them? Great fun though. I built a back
plane and racking system for mine, and designed and
built a 16k memory board. Got a job on the basis of
the work I did on that little project.

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John Cartmell wrote:


>>I should Coco!
> 
> 
>>(Bonus points if you know why that is extra relevant!)
> 
> 
> Poire chocolat has me defeated! I'm sure the non-existent peanut will be
> equally puzzling for most.


The Dragon 32 was partially "compatible" (i.e. a rip off) with the Tandy 
6809 based Colour Computer (CoCo).  As a result the dragon would run a 
fir bit of the coco's software...

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=91
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=117

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Peter Scott wrote:

>>Perhaps there's a subtle hint of Tangerine.
> Hey -  a past Tangeriney! I didn't know that anyone else
> ever had one. Did you have trouble getting an ASCII
> keyboard out of them? Great fun though. I built a back
> plane and racking system for mine, and designed and
> built a 16k memory board. 


I'm not sure whether it was a Tangerine or a Microtan or even if they 
were the same. One of them eurocard racks. It belonged to a neighbour 
and all I every did was draw pictures with a line-drawing program on a 
5" TV used as a monitor.

Computers back then didn't seem very pointful.

Owain

John Cartmell wrote:


>>Or even Pear (remember them?)
> 
> 
> There must be millipedes of such companies but that's one fruit 'n' nut
> reference I don't remember.


I must admit to not finding any references to it now, although I 
remember seeing the adds for them at the time in the early issues of PCW 
etc. Roughly about the same time as the rather outlandish looking DAI 
computers...



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In article <43273565$0$17498$ed2e19e4@ptn-nntp-reader04.plus.net>, John Rumm
 wrote:

> John Cartmell wrote:

> >>I should Coco!
> > 
> > 
> >>(Bonus points if you know why that is extra relevant!)
> > 
> > 
> > Poire chocolat has me defeated! I'm sure the non-existent peanut will be
> > equally puzzling for most.

> The Dragon 32 was partially "compatible" (i.e. a rip off) with the Tandy
> 6809 based Colour Computer (CoCo). 


Old age. I'm sure I once knew the CoCo abbreviation for the (expensive and
not very good spec) Tandy. ;-(


> As a result the dragon would run a fir bit of the coco's software...

> http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=91
> http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=117


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"Owain"  wrote in message 
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> Peter Scott wrote:
>>>Perhaps there's a subtle hint of Tangerine.

>
> I'm not sure whether it was a Tangerine or a Microtan Computers back then 
> didn't seem very pointful.
>
> Owain
>

One and the same. Tangerine was the company and Microtan the product.
All in kit form. No, it wasn't very useful except to build and play around
with. There wasn't even an assembler so you had to calculate program jumps!
As for games - a strange shooting game which was *very* fast because it was
handcoded assembler accessing the screen memory directly. I remember
writing a word processor and even started to plan a disk patch for an 8"
floppy I had acquired. That was never finished.
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> Owain wrote:
>
> > Perhaps there's a subtle hint of Tangerine.


I can see the whole Spectrum.

MBQ

John Rumm wrote:

> John Cartmell wrote:
> 
>>> I should Coco!
>>
>>
>>
>>> (Bonus points if you know why that is extra relevant!)
>>
>>
>>
>> Poire chocolat has me defeated! I'm sure the non-existent peanut will be
>> equally puzzling for most.
> 
> 
> The Dragon 32 was partially "compatible" (i.e. a rip off) with the Tandy 
> 6809 based Colour Computer (CoCo).  As a result the dragon would run a 
> fir bit of the coco's software...
> 
> http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=91
> http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=117
> 

Good site - thanks for that!

In message <VjzVe.51826$al4.43475@fe08.ams>, Richard Conway 
 writes

>John Rumm wrote:
>> Richard Conway wrote:
>>
>>> PC World I think - I've seen them in my local branch
>>   You can tell by the mouse it is not apple wood.
>>
>
>Maybe it is oak - or is that just an Acorn I can see?


Where do they ply their trade?
-- 
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Ying tong iddle-i po!

Richard Conway wrote:


>> http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=91
>> http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=117
>>
> Good site - thanks for that!


Not as swish, but also quite good is:

http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/

Also

http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/


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In message <43288241$0$1309$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>, John 
Rumm  writes

>Richard Conway wrote:
>
>>> http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=91
>>> http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=117
>>>
>> Good site - thanks for that!
>
>Not as swish, but also quite good is:
>
>http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/
>
>Also
>
>http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/
>

I've got a couple of Superbrains - which I might be looking to get rid 
of

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In article <432b46ad$0$12181$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com>,
   Andy Champ  wrote:

> John Rumm wrote:
> > 
> > The Dragon 32 was partially "compatible" (i.e. a rip off) with the Tandy 
> > 6809 based Colour Computer (CoCo).  As a result the dragon would run a 
> > fir bit of the coco's software...
> > 
> > http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=91
> > http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=117
> > 
> Takes me back.  I spent many happy hours playing with my Dragon.  40 
> chars per line, 50hz interlaced - how ever did we put up with it?


It was a step up from all your input and output being printed on a teletype
terminal (no monitor) and prohrams saved on punched tape!

I ignored the Dragon and Tandy and moved straight from a HEKTOR to an Amstrad
CPC (then PCW) - though I used an Acorn BBC computer whenever I could get my
hands on one. Next step after that was borrowing Acorn A3000s then purchasing
an Acorn RiscPC.

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Andy Champ wrote:


> Takes me back.  I spent many happy hours playing with my Dragon.  40 
> chars per line, 50hz interlaced - how ever did we put up with it?


Compared to my ZX80 or VIC20 that was a luxury ;-)

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raden wrote:


> I've got a couple of Superbrains - which I might be looking to get rid
> of


Is one called IMM?

I reckon we've got worse now.


NT

raden wrote:


> I've got a couple of Superbrains - which I might be looking to get rid
> of


Is one called IMM?

I reckon we've got worse now. But each to their own.


NT

In message , 
bigcat@meeow.co.uk writes

>raden wrote:
>
>> I've got a couple of Superbrains - which I might be looking to get rid
>> of
>
>Is one called IMM?
>

Well, so far neither of them have managed to flood anything, so my guess 
is ... no

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to be parted from my Souped up AMIGA 1200.


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> raden wrote:
>
> > I've got a couple of Superbrains - which I might be looking to get rid
> > of
>
> Is one called IMM?
>
> I reckon we've got worse now. But each to their own.
>
>
> NT
>

In message <xNjXe.10825$zw1.3281@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net>, BIG NIGE 
 writes

>The ZX80, VIC20, & COMMODORE 64 Have all gone now but I still cannot manage
>to be parted from my Souped up AMIGA 1200.
>
>


You do seem, however to have parted the natural flow of the thread

please don't top post



> wrote in message
>news:1126965101.699936.292220@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>> raden wrote:
>>
>> > I've got a couple of Superbrains - which I might be looking to get rid
>> > of
>>
>> Is one called IMM?
>>
>> I reckon we've got worse now. But each to their own.
>>
>>
>> NT
>>
>
>


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