RayWright

Astro Sport 5 for F1. Monza P1 at 18:55 tomorrow.

Have had same issue for years even when purchasing hi-density Ziess lenses. ( Not cheap). My theory is how they are cleaned. Expensive optician a number of years made me buy the Ziess cleaning cloths. His comment was the Supermarket use once cleaners shouldn't be used regularly due to the abrasiveness of the material. Mine are beginning to etch, so will need to consider a new set soon.

Agree. Here's one from 1977. On stage the lighting guy would drop a 100 Watt bulb on a flex above Phil Mogg's head (Vocalist) towards the end of the song. Kill all stage lights except the one light. At the last words of "Lights out London", Phil would smash the bulb with his fist. Magic. Days before 'Elf & Safety.

Agreed Gates didn't write any of Digital Research's (DRI) DOS (Gary Kildall's company). Whilst Gates was contracting for IBM he initially suggested IBM approach DRI for the Operating System (OS) for their Personal Computer (PC). Rumour goes, Gates tipped off Gary Kildall saying "some important blokes are going to pay a visit, don't screw it up". On the day of their visit Gary was to busy flying one of his light aircraft, so the meeting didn't really take place. IBM were tasking Gates (Microsoft) to write / deliver a BASIC interpreter for the PC. During discussions with Gates they commented the meeting with DRI wasn't beneficial, so would Gates be able to deliver an OS as well? Gates approached Tim Patterson at Seatle Computer Products (SCP) about using their 86-DOS OS, which was similar in user experience to Gary Kildall's product. A licensing deal was struck between Microsoft and Tim Patterson, which in time lead to Microsoft owning the product. Microsoft employed Tim to enhance the product for the IBM PC as a product called IBM PC DOS. This was sold to IBM for $50,000. Microsoft retained licensing control of the product, hence MS DOS which was licenced to non IBM PC manufactures. Needless to say, Gary Kildall got the hump after finding some similarities in the PC DOS code with his own OS and threatened to sue IBM. The IBM PC was initially sold unbundled, i.e. extras like the OS & monitor were sold separately. IBM agreed with Kindall to resell his OS so customers had an option. At the launch of the IBM PC 1981 (RRP $1565) the IBM branded PC DOS retailed at $40, whereas the DRI CP/M-86 product retailed at $240, about $650 difference in today's money. Needless to say, most early adopters went with the branded IBM product, especially as the majority of the 3rd Party business applications ( Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect, WordStar, VisiCalc) of the day were based on PC DOS as the underlying OS. Key also was the industry catch phrase of the day "Nobody ever got fired by buying IBM".

Not heard of them either. Quick Google, started off in 2009 out of Tooting, and Produce / Market their own material, i.e. not signed to a major. As there name implies, they use / intercut old Government broadcast messages into their music. Did find this, which is their 2015 album, The Race for Space, (which the Ken Bruce played track Go! is on), from the 2019 season of the Proms celebrating the 50th Anniversay of the Moon Landings. Their 2017 Album, Every Valley covers Welsh Mining. Well worth a listen.

Did something similar with air-con drip pipe in Spain and UK. Supply is easy as copper. For drip used mini fixing plates every 150mm. BluTak/mastic/silicon to fix to chased plastic pipe. Left note stuck to A/C for any future owner/engineer.

Meant to add. Use a Google account and buy 2TB (max size) storage quota for a month, which is only £7.99. Get your colleagues to upload in the USA in a couple of tranches. Timings will be slower if you use a VPN. For added security encrypt the data.

Why not download it? 4Tb over a 1 Gbit/s link will take 9 hours. Got to be quicker then postage / courier rates.

Just found this. Advert from 1972.. Note the collection of 2.5MB removable hard drives on the right.

The first "Windows" concept was the Xerox Alto, which was designed in 1973 at Xerox's Research Center in Palo Alto, California (They also designed the first laser printer in '69 which was available commercially in '78, not the sort of product that has a RRP, but agree, price of a house.). Original cost of the Alto was $30,000+. Only sold a few thousand units, however the ideas of a graphical user interface (GUI) and a Mouse was picked up by Steve Jobs on a visit in 1979 and adopted (nicked) by Apple into their Lisa computer in '83 and subsequent Machintosh computers. Bill Gates on the other hand was consulting for IBM and offered to write the Operating System for their pending Personal Computer (PC). In fact he offered $50,000 to Seattle Computer Products for their QDos product and then tweaked it into MS-Dos before licensing it to IBM for their 1981 launch of the IBM XT PC. With the growth of Apple and their GUI, Microsoft started to develop their own, called Windows in '85, which was an add-on to their text based Operating System, MS-Dos. It probably wasn't till '90 when Windows 3 was launched that PC's powered up direct into a Graphical looking Operating System. Michael Dell started his PC clone business in '84 running out of a Condo with a handful of employees in Texas. Like Alan Sugar with Amstrad, the computers were sold direct to the end user. In '87 Michael launched his UK business. By '92 he was the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company. In '96 Dell starts selling servers, expanding into the Enterprise market. He's reported to be worth over $50 Billion.

I don't know if this father and son outfit are still working? Another option to try is a Entertainment production company, ie Roadies. They'll have an idea on lugging Heavy kit into venues. Best of luck.

I've found some hotels modify the TV's so that the non-used HDMI / VGA ports are disabled. Especially if they provide in-house movies. Also suggest travel with a right-angled HDMI extension cable to plug in, as find most hotel wall mounted TV's don't have sufficient space to connect a stick/dongle.

As Steve Wozniak said “Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.”

Them were the days...

Maybe if Gareth and the boys drank a few pints we could win that football tournament again!

Seam to recall Mr. Smoke-Too-Much never had any issues encountering Watney's Red Barrel whilst reminiscing about his previous Spanish holidays to Mr. Bounder Of Adventure!

My most memorable and consistently good pint of guineas out side of Dublin was the London Boat show during the late 70's / early 80's. Back in the day before all day drinking, use to head to the Guiness stand at Earls Court at 10:00 when the doors opened and sup the day away. Used to be on for a week or more, so went more than once each year. Oh to be a student again. Guiness use to make a unique brew specially for the boat show so it could travel, and still retain the full Dublin experience. Staff followed the golden rule of part pouring the glass and topped up when about to serve. At opening time, there were trays of the black stuff all ready and part ready awaiting the rush.

Guy Martin's 09:28 record, and his not so successfull follow up..

'Elf & Safety. Should have been wearing a tabard.

“My only problem is will my pussy feel at home in a strange place.” Mary Elizabeth Jennifer Rachel Abergavenny "Betty" Slocombe.

Maybe not now, but back in the late 70's / early 80's with the classic lineup of Doc Neeson (vocals, a Belfast born ex Army Sergeant), The Brewster Brothers (Rick lead guitar and John rhythm guitar), Buzz Bidstrup (drums) and Chris Bailey (bass), then definitely a band that put on a rageing show. Live production normally included Mark Opitz on FoH and Ray Hawkins on lights and Bob Daniels on FB, all big names in the Australian music business. They supported The Kinks on their USA tour in 1980, however were removed by Ray Davis towards the end, as there performance outshone that of The Kinks! Getting back to the OP, then Rick Brewster is definitively a good guitarest, his stage presence was to stand still, wear shades but play aggressively, with Doc Neeson providing the stage antics; normally dressed in a DJ and playing maracas.

Jeff and Tal @Ronnie ScoScott's.

Jeff Beck at Ronnie Scotts, base was Tal Wilkenfeld.

Stanley Jordan.

And Steve Hacket, who was influential to Eddie Van Halen, Brian May and Alex Lifeson among others.