A couple of curious projects have recently sprung new releases. Of a sort. Mugs The simpler, and sillier, one first: I've entered the mug trade! Or strictly speaking, our company (hitherto entirely software) has. Either way, you can now buy a mug with two of my drawings of cartoon giraffes playing musical instruments on it.… Continue reading A new bit of software… and mugs!
Category: Actual physical objects made of stuff
Three cameras from around 1960
Here's a proper miscellaneous topic: The contents of a box of cameras passed down through my family. Ilford Sportsman, Zeiss Ikon Colora, Agfa Super Silette L I thought of these as "granny's cameras" — my paternal grandmother was quite a keen photographer — but it turns out they came from a couple of different family… Continue reading Three cameras from around 1960
On picking up the cello again after 30 years
For most of the last 30 years I've had a cello sitting in a case in a corner of the flat, unplayed. I described myself as a lapsed cellist, former cellist, sort-of cello player when younger, someone who is just not really playing these days. Occasionally I would get the cello out and tune it.… Continue reading On picking up the cello again after 30 years
Can you swap the keyboards between a Thinkpad T40 and an IBM SK-8845?
No. (I'm posting this because it's something I searched for and didn't find an answer to.) The SK-8845 and its sibling the SK-8840 are IBM-branded keyboards with built-in trackpoint and trackpad. They appear to be essentially the keyboards from Thinkpad T40 (or T41, T42, T43) laptops, pulled out and put in a separate case for… Continue reading Can you swap the keyboards between a Thinkpad T40 and an IBM SK-8845?
A Note on a Revox A700 Repair
We have a Revox A700 reel-to-reel tape recorder in our home. We sort of ended up with it, in a story I won't tell here. This thing is rather amazing as a device. It came out at the end of 1973, I think, and was madly ambitious as a consumer product. It had all sorts… Continue reading A Note on a Revox A700 Repair
Notes on the Minolta SR-1 (Model B)
Minolta SR-1 model A (left) and B (right) from the back A few months ago I published an epic about the first version of the Minolta SR-1 camera: Notes on the Minolta SR-1 (Model A). Released in 1959, that was the first in a series of 35mm film SLRs that Minolta branded the SR-1, a… Continue reading Notes on the Minolta SR-1 (Model B)
The Breakfast Post 