Well, my Blackberry Storm is sitting idle in its own cradle; it’s man-genius click-screen days are all over. It has been replaced by a smarter phone, Droid X. I won’t bore you with all its technical details charms, but highlight only the things I find of interest. And there are a lot of things of [...]
Posts Tagged hardware
Smarter Phone
Jul 31
Harmony
Jun 13
My wife bought me this Harmony cartridge for my Atari video console system as a birthday present gadget. Like the Mega-Cart for VIC 20, it boots a friendly front-end menu for all the cartridge images stored within it. But unlike the pre-installed ROM in Mega-Cart, Harmony sports a SD flash memory reader and allows me [...]
The Price of Storage
Mar 28
Funny short story: today, a CMD HD with 80-megabyte storage solution for the Commodore 64/128 just sold for $375 shipped on ebay. That comes to roughly $4800 per gigabyte, with NO manual and NO warranty. I was tempted earlier today at BestBuy for a 1-terabyte storage solution that connects to your home router for one-button [...]
8-bit New Additions
Feb 7
This week marked the arrival of some more toys for my 1980s computer collection. This time they are for the Commodore “educational” line of home computers: C16 and Plus/4. What was remarkable about these two models — that succeeded only in production date to the popular VIC 20 and C64 and not in marketing & [...]
Legacy Engineering Group
Dec 25
A nice Christmas gift surprise arrived yesterday in the mail for me — it was a 14-month old order I made with this online store dubbed Legacy Engineering Group. From what was reported, between health issues and an unprecedented demand for this product, it made for an equally unprecedented wait for me. No worries, as [...]
