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Re: Amiga - better graphics because of worse monitors?

Posted on 2024-05-31, 13:00

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All computers need killer applications to be successful, or to fill a niche well. You could do real, ordinary work on a PC or an Apple, so your family might have one, even take one home from work, and businesses, education and government would buy them droves. Spreadsheets and word processing back …

Re: Amiga - better graphics because of worse monitors?

Posted on 2024-05-29, 17:33

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Late to the party, but anyway.... There were pre-PC computers in various places I worked and studied (this is the UK), but in 1986 in a major Government department we had IBM XTs with CGA monitors. When the upgrade to IBM ATs with EGA came along, it was very welcome. No more blurry vision at the end …

Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2024-05-24, 09:12

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My main car is a 2002 Toyota Previa, with the XC70 as backup or for when conditions are bad. Previa has lots of room, surprisingly manoeuvrable, and I like the lack of sills, the dash-mounted gearstick and the fact that on this model there's no central console. Rear sliding doors. Two sunroofs. A …

Re: Do you think prices will stay high?

Posted on 2024-01-21, 11:42

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Here's a few things been crossing my mind. Younger folk who decide to buy retro stuff have a different view of the value of money, and don't have any historical perspective on what things "should" cost. So they are less likely to think a price is too high from the get-go. And they may have enough …

Re: Why is Windows still called Windows?

Posted on 2024-01-02, 21:53

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chinny22 wrote on 2024-01-02, 06:00: Now we get New Teams New Outlook […] Show full quote Now we get New Teams New Outlook and whatever else, thats not going to confusing when the new becomes the old. it seems like the marketing team at Microsoft actively try and make things hard to search! just …

Re: Decent used digital cameras Proconsumer-high end.

Posted on 2023-11-12, 21:02

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Sony A7 is nice but not affordable. Starts at 500 CDN and up. Cheers, Sure, I wasn't responding to you - for that I suggest looking at Olympus EM5II with 14-150 lens, seemed to tick a lot of your boxes. I was suggesting the A7 (can be obtained here in the UK for about £300) as a better alternative …

Re: Decent used digital cameras Proconsumer-high end.

Posted on 2023-11-12, 19:26

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This though... sell a kidney now in case there's one production run ever? wait for original price to slide down a bit? wait for knockoffs? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samellos/im-back-film Micro 4/3 sensor plus a frontal 0.45 wide angle? No thanks. I love the idea though. There have been …

Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-10-31, 23:33

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The two profiles are on the same computer running on the same windows 10 install. Edit: problem solved. Turned out the software was waiting for network I/O. I had a previous connection to an old Mac drive still showing in ThisPC, and when I deleted that the software ran fine. I wouldn't have …

Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-10-30, 23:02

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No, it's from a reputable Japanese company, it's something that's been around for many years and having reinstalled winodws (which took ages of course) I've now found that the software runs fine on another profile on the same PC - loads within seconds. But on my main profile it goes into a Not …

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