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Perhaps that is why your lyrics are so great and my lyrics so grate? 🤔

01.12.2025 17:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The closest thing to crazy? You'd have to be nuts to not buy a copy! 😀

01.12.2025 13:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Indeed. Long gone.

26.11.2025 22:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I may have some slides and possibly the service manual in storage. I'll look next time I have the opportunity. Floppies containing the BIOS source code et al got skipped. If I'd just waited until the Retro community truly gathered momentum 😢

(I have kept my beloved TRS-80 Model 1 Level 2 though)

26.11.2025 22:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

With separate disk drives and the Iotec branded boxy Microvitec monitor the system looked messy alongside the integrated H|H Tiger.

26.11.2025 22:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No, we didn't sell any. I don't recall any standout features other than the cases for the CPU/keyboard and floppies being fabricated from folded 2-3mm aluminium with a smooth black finish that fingerprints loved. The disk drives were sold singly and could be stacked on top of the CPU Apple2-like.

26.11.2025 21:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The Tiger also had a bus interface, rather like the BBC's Tube, to support additional external processors, each with their own RAM of course. I built a 8086 board running CP/M-86 for the Tiger (which worked well) and a 68000 board running OS9 (which worked less-well!)

25.11.2025 20:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Incidentally, our low-end CP/M offering was an even rarer British-made beast called the Iotec Iona. We also had one of these aluminium enveloped, jet-black beasts in the office. I don't think it ever made it in to mass production.

25.11.2025 20:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I latterly owned the office Tiger and used for software and hardware development well in to the 1990s. Unable to sell it, it was stripped for parts and skipped 😢 Great machine.

25.11.2025 20:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I worked for a Glasgow-based VAR who, alongside high-end CP/M and MP/M machines, offered the mid-range H||H Tiger. It never failed to impress business and engineering customers with its sharp colour screen, graphics, IEEE 488 interface, BT Prestel connectivity et al. Too late and expensive however.

25.11.2025 20:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Dog Goes Weightless In Airplane with Zero Gravity
Dog Goes Weightless In Airplane with Zero Gravity YouTube video by zbestwun2001

Good to see that Snoopy has gravitated from the rear to the left-hand seat www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NvB...

12.10.2025 11:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nice propwash from the RAF A400. Well done!

27.07.2025 13:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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HostUnknownTV Three idiots and a camera

Episode 225 (AKA 221) may be out but is it in the wild? 30 hours on and it is not on Apple Podcasts nor does it appear on hostunknown.tv. I fear I may be forced to listen to another security podcast published on Wednesdays. At least I'll sleep quickly tonight

09.07.2025 18:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The cover image from "Peter Norton's Assembly Language for the IBM PC" 1986 book I believe. I fear that at least one of your followers not only recognises the crossed arms but also which pose, tie pattern and knot position goes with which Norton product. Yes, I do need a life.

15.06.2025 14:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In other news, the cost of invites to a Ping Pong Ball at the Chinese Wombling Ping Ball Hall have increased by 145%

10.04.2025 16:31 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

😂

15.03.2025 16:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Glen Sannox temporarily withdrawn from service MV Glen Sannox has been temporarily withdrawn from service due to a minor hull crack—but let’s have some perspective, this is not a big deal.

Yes, I totally agree that it pretty horrifying that so many are making an ill-informed moutain out of the proverbial molehill. I'm sorry that your weekend has been ruined but please read this for some balance ukdefencejournal.org.uk/glen-sannox-...

15.03.2025 15:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Did this AIFix obsession with robot dogs plus appendages result in you missing a bigger story at Christmas? An incarcerated master of disguise who brute forced a password, defeated a CAPTCHA, err CAPTCPA challenge to gain remote sysadmin access allowing him to build an army of evil smart gnomes.

23.01.2025 19:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I Sued Honey For Their Creator Scam*
I Sued Honey For Their Creator Scam* YouTube video by America's Attorney

And unsurprisingly Honey's behaviour has prompted a class action by three YouTube lawyers www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwBD...

02.01.2025 16:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Probably just a period wagon load on the O Gauge layout that is in the process of being rebuilt following the arson attack back in May.

29.12.2024 14:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A reference to the Churchill battle tank model in one of the pics?

29.12.2024 14:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

SSV-33 Ural?

25.12.2024 14:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin

25.12.2024 14:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Snap!

06.12.2024 17:45 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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A defaced but accurate sign in December 2012 when the ferry returned once more with the A890 again blocked by rockfalls. Pic: Me!

04.12.2024 16:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Automatic Bullseye, MOVING Dartboard
Automatic Bullseye, MOVING Dartboard YouTube video by Mark Rober

If you think the processing involved in a Marigold-wearing Tesla robot is impressive, you should check out Mark Rober’s AI-free bullseye-guaranteed dartboard from 7 years ago youtu.be/MHTizZ_XcUM?...

03.12.2024 22:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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And he predicted the future...

29.11.2024 16:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Looks like the industrial design is inspired by the great Gary Larson

29.11.2024 16:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Having subscribed for 10 years before a change in personal cicumstances mandated a prolonged pitstop, I'm delighted to say I'm back. From a quick peek during so-called working hours the mag looks as packed and as tasty as ever. I've missed you GP+

29.11.2024 15:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You’re welcome

20.11.2024 20:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0