Doing more with stuff
After a period of lower-than-expected motivation, Friday was one of those days when I Got Things Done. I've had a piece of flat-pack furniture in the house since the spring, when I dismantled it at mum's flat and brought it here (it's one-third of a room-divider unit). At last, I've now fixed up the minor damage that it sustained in getting here, and reassembled it. It's much nicer than the five-drawer unit in white chipboard that previously stood in the dining room.
But that leaves me with the contents of the drawers to re-house. And most of it is manual focus Canon camera gear. And all sorts of other photographic gear that's only relevant to that now-obsolete format, "film".
Saturday was Linux User Group day, and for once, we got slightly out-weirded when two zombies turned up at the pub. Something to do with the new shopping facilities in Bristol, I think. But anyway, I gained a Pentium III motherboard and a screaming 600MHz CPU, plus some PCI cards and a DVD writer. They're now assembled into a Linux machine, with ISA slots for an IEEE-488 card.
Today was livened up by a visit from loopback0 and chrisy_m_uk, who brought a Sinclair Spectrum power supply (I was short of one PSU for my fleet of Spectrums), a telephone dial lock (for those who remember rotary dials) and some Sun SBUS cards.
Now I really must get on with the PCB etching and the electrolytic etching of those brass nameplates. Hope the motivation stays with me.
But that leaves me with the contents of the drawers to re-house. And most of it is manual focus Canon camera gear. And all sorts of other photographic gear that's only relevant to that now-obsolete format, "film".
Saturday was Linux User Group day, and for once, we got slightly out-weirded when two zombies turned up at the pub. Something to do with the new shopping facilities in Bristol, I think. But anyway, I gained a Pentium III motherboard and a screaming 600MHz CPU, plus some PCI cards and a DVD writer. They're now assembled into a Linux machine, with ISA slots for an IEEE-488 card.
Today was livened up by a visit from loopback0 and chrisy_m_uk, who brought a Sinclair Spectrum power supply (I was short of one PSU for my fleet of Spectrums), a telephone dial lock (for those who remember rotary dials) and some Sun SBUS cards.
Now I really must get on with the PCB etching and the electrolytic etching of those brass nameplates. Hope the motivation stays with me.