Archive for the ‘Technostalgia’ Category

The most perfect mouse for modeling   Leave a comment

I’ve found an optical three-button mouse that is just a dream to use when modeling! I never liked Logitech mice except for the Dual Optical (for gaming), but this little one is perfect. It’s a quite ordinary, $12 mouse for any computer with a PS/2 jack, the Logitech OEM Optical Wheel Mouse. What’s so good [...]

Posted August 30, 2006 by maximilion in 3D, Computers

Speed-modeling and Japanese tech gems   Leave a comment

Ahhh, another summer over. Got a tan and shaved my beard. Back to school with new energy. Me and my friend Patrik’s 3D game got finished in time for 10 extra uni credits. Sold unwanted stuff and bought some collectible stuff on eBay, as well as a telescope which will come in handy on the [...]

Posted August 30, 2006 by maximilion in 3D, Technostalgia

The Sunny Seventies   3 comments

Yesterday I went for a trip to the big city. Big compared to my little broadband-connected village of 800 people, anyway. The Z88 came with (see ‘Technostalgia Defined‘) and travel time disappeared as I wrote yesterday’s blog on it. The purpose of the trip was to go to my favorite electronics store, but it turned [...]

Technostalgia Defined   1 comment

Just got an expanded Z88, a neat little ultra-portable from 1988 by good old Sir Clive Sinclair that does database, spreadsheet and word processing work – running for up to 20 hours on 4 AA batteries! It’s about Letter size, 20mm thick and very lightweight. Fired up my soldering facilities today, cleaned the bench and [...]

Posted July 15, 2006 by maximilion in Homebrew Computing, Vintage Computing

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