[Martin Harrington]

This was my first computer....

http://www.vintage-computer.com/sinclair_zx81.shtml

Martin Harrington

On 19/12/07 2:08 PM, in article
, "Charles Tomaras"
wrote:



"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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"Charles Tomaras" wrote in message

"Igor" wrote in message
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I'm not too concerned about the limited capacity of
memory cards, as it's no big deal to just dump the
recordings to a computer and erase the card for re-use.
I'm now seeing 4 GB cards in stores for reasonable
prices; considering the hard drive in my first PC was 2
GB, and the first computer I did audio on (a Mac) had a
500 MB hard drive, I can get by with 4 GB.

My first computer had NO hard drive but it had "twin"
256k floppy drives!

I thought that 160 (single side) and 320K (double side) were the standard
size for standard density 5 1/4 floppies.

You're correct Arne. Here's a link to my first computer:
http://www.vintage-computer.com/compaq_portable.shtml




Martin Harrington

[Igor[_2_]]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:15:25 -0500, Igor
wrote:

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:02:31 +0000, Laurence Payne
NOSPAMlpayne1ATdsl.pipex.com wrote:

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:56:03 -0500, Igor
wrote:

I've been shopping around for a motherboard (I'm a PC, not a Mac, guy)
and there are surprisingly few that have Firewire. It's the same with
laptops. Apart from pro audio cards, I don't see a lot of peripherals
on the market that call for Firewire.

Just every dv camera.

Are you sure about that? I bought a Sony DV camera for a relative
about 6 months ago and I'm pretty sure it had a USB rather than a
Firewire connection.

Oops! Totally wrong about that. I found an old receipt with the model
number and looked it up. It does indeed use Firewire.

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freedom, it's time for a revolution, and nothing
less than a revolution."
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[Laurence Payne]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:15:25 -0500, Igor
wrote:

Just every dv camera.

Are you sure about that? I bought a Sony DV camera for a relative
about 6 months ago and I'm pretty sure it had a USB rather than a
Firewire connection.

Want to check that? Maybe it had USB as well, for a still picture
function. There are always exceptions, but I'd be very surprised if a
Sony, of all brands, didn't transfer dv by Firewire.

[Arny Krueger]

"Laurence Payne" NOSPAMlpayne1ATdsl.pipex.com wrote in
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:15:25 -0500, Igor
wrote:

Just every dv camera.

Are you sure about that? I bought a Sony DV camera for a
relative about 6 months ago and I'm pretty sure it had a
USB rather than a Firewire connection.

Want to check that? Maybe it had USB as well, for a
still picture function. There are always exceptions, but
I'd be very surprised if a Sony, of all brands, didn't
transfer dv by Firewire.

Agreed. Furthermore, there are some internal situations with USB transfers
that keep them from working with some popular video editing software. When I
do a transfer from a DV camera, I hope there's a firewire port.

[John Lamp]

Arny Krueger wrote:

I thought that 160 (single side) and 320K (double side) were the standard
size for standard density 5 1/4 floppies.

Only after IBM came onto the scene. First 5.25 I used was 100kb SS, and
later 308kb SS quad density (Exidy Sorcerer rules!).

Cheers
John

[John Lamp]

Martin Harrington wrote:

This was my first computer....

http://www.vintage-computer.com/sinclair_zx81.shtml

My first the Elliott 503. Not that I actually owned it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott...ter_company%29

Cheers
John