My Dad's old Kaypro

Well, I have finally gotten to posting about my dads old Kaypro which he got in 1983... It is an awesome computer, it replaced his super old crappy Timex Sinclair z.80 which he bought for $80 (he bought this in 1991 or 92 so he could test out what having a computer would be like and if it was worth it), the new Kaypro 10 which he bought for $2995 was a great replacement. When he bought the Kaypro he had to borrow a loan of $3,500 for this computer because computers (all good computers) were very expensive at that time. He got a Okidata Dot Printer with the other $500 he had borrowed. He got this computer for his business and so that he could learn how to program in some programing languages. It served him well for many years. I had heard about it from his stories he tells us, so I finally decided to have him get it out for me to play with. We did and after getting it out, we turned it on. At first we thought it was broken because the screen was blank for a long time, but then he remembered you could choose the screen brightness with a dial on the back. It was turned all the way down. Once we had that working we were able to turn it on and the menu he had programmed for it came up. I was very happy, other then accounting, word processioning, a few different programming languages, and a few other programs, it had two games on it. Ladder, (the original with a copy right by Yahoo Corp. which at that time was in a suite in New York or some other big city. (they weren't a big company at that time...) The other game it has was Cryptic Clue, By my Dad, it was one of his first programs and is a very challenging game. It is like Grand Master Mind, except lots harder. I have played this game more then ladder because it is such a challenging and fun game... A few other things of note, the computer has 10 MB of memory, and I am not sure how big the hard drive is, but it very small, I don't know right know but maybe I will find out from Dad later. It's screen is very crisp and in good condition too, the letters it displays are a bright green with no lines through them, my Dad has taken good care of this computer which has helped it through the years. Here are a few pictures I took of it:

The first picture is just a side view of the computer with it's stand up and the keyboard hooked up, the second picture is the same thing except it is a front view.

These are pictures of the keyboard, I couldn't get a good shot at the keyboard with th letters and numbers still legible so I took two.

This is just a back view with it all still hooked up.

This is a top bottom view, and on the second picture the stand that holds up the bottom when it is set up is down.

Thats all I guess hope you enjoy reading and looking at the pictures...
Ben

Upgraded my blog

I finally finished my blog, I upgraded to the beta version of blogger, and did alot of content revision. Some of that content revision included adding a shoutbox, friends, and links... I am very happy with it. I also finally got around to upgrading my Ubuntu 6.06 to Ubuntu 6.10... well I guess I can't say I have upgraded yet it is downloading right know but I will post about how I like it tomorrow.

Ben

A shoutbox and much more...

Well, I finally got a shout box, hope you all post on it. Also if you don't know about online wishlists, http://metawishlist.com/ is the site. My wishlist is under the user name h4ck3r, check it out :). Also I have been disecting my favorite picture book lately. Trouble for Trumpets is the most detailed, and captivating story book I know of. It is a fabulous book which my Mom bought afew years ago for 20 or so dollars. It is worth about 100 dollars know. I enjoy looking through it finding all the hidden things in it such as faces and multiple things written in the grumpet alphabet that the artist made. There are hidden things throughout the book and discounting those things the book is amazingly detailed. My brother and I both pooled 18 dollars to buy the sequel Trumpets in Grumpet Land to the book which was almost as good but not as detailed. Still it was a great buy.

Ben

Old and new anime

Well, even though I haven't been active lately I just got an urge to post about one of my favorite animes of all times. The main reason I say that it is old and new is I haven't looked at it for awhile but just recently got it again, and have been watching it. The anime Tsubasa Chronicle is a wonderful, well drawn anime. It has a good plot with only one draw back, it doesn't leave off at a good place. This 26 episode anime should have another 26 episodes in my opinion. Although I just found out that they have more episodes, I haven't been able to get them. The basic plot is a girl loses her memory in the form of feathers which are spread out over many worlds. She will die after a time if she doesn't get them all back. So Sakura and Syoran are transported to the dimension witch to get the ability to go between worlds so as to get her feathers back. They meet up with two other people all running from something. For this ability the deminsion witch asks for something from each of them. From Syoran he takes everything about him from Sakura's memory (basicly they were in love). From Fye the wizard, she takes a special tattoo on his back. From Kurogane the sword fighter she takes his sword. Eventally they all gain weapons of different types back as they go from world to world getting Sakura's memory fragments back, as she gets them back she is able to remember many things but always can't remember Syoran. Although she isn't able to remember him she does build up another relationship with Syoran as he protects her. Maybe just maybe she might fall in love again ;). Here are a few images of the main characters and afew links to resources on the anime:












http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=4591
http://www.animenfo.com/animetitle,1682,sakpxt,tsubasa chronic.html

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