James Larsson

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James Larsson

James Larsson

@JamesLarsson

Inventor, collector, chocoholic

Katılım Temmuz 2009
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dorkbot london
dorkbot london@DorkbotLondon·
FREE "Dorkbot london 99.5" 7pm Wed Apr 3 @TheSekforde 34 Sekforde St EC1R 0HA between Farringdon & Clerkenwell - talks, bar etc with: @sarah_angliss - on her debut opera Giant @hoomansamani - Lovotics = Love + Robotics + OpenDorks inc @evanraskob no ticket required - info in bio!
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James Larsson@JamesLarsson·
@DorkbotLondon Many thanks for the heads-up. I *love* Ceefax (and Oracle and Teletext and 4-tel)
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James Larsson@JamesLarsson·
@DorkbotLondon Good idea, perhaps early in the New Year. Anyone planning to come ought to have a close look at the museum's website first so they know what to expect (vintage radios, radar, electromechanical stuff - *yes*, livecoding and generative music - *not so much*)
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BD4SUP
BD4SUP@lhf55472946·
Update #2 The modules were all unplugged from the wall, but I'm not very optimistic about what's coming. Although this is a very dry city, most of the modules are still heavily corroded. Only about 70 units are in relatively good condition, yet still covered with thick dust.
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James Larsson@JamesLarsson·
@sevenwheel1 @MLE_Online Agreed. Also, the CPU chip looks too complex for just 4 function arithmetic. Possibly a scientific calculator
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sevenwheel
sevenwheel@sevenwheel1·
@MLE_Online You definitely have a calculator there. Now all you need is to figure out the keypad. It looks like the two outer contacts are probably power and ground, and the inner contacts would to to the switches.
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James Larsson@JamesLarsson·
@FakeDaveGreen I'm certainly nostalgic for *all* those games. Another factor for the rise of video games / demise of EM games in the late 70s is that anything video-based seemed incredibly glamorous and hi-tech at the time.
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DaveGreen-Unofficial
DaveGreen-Unofficial@FakeDaveGreen·
sounds fun, but why isn't anyone nostalgic for pre-1978 coinops - Pong, Breakout, Sea Wolf - & electromechanical games? Maybe ROM-based cabinets were - less risk to owner - fewer moving parts -> more maintainable & ubiquitous? - less toy-like? - louder? twitter.com/RetroDan16/sta…
Dan Tearle@RetroDan16

If you played in UK arcades between 1980-86 (ish), I'd love to hear from you for a project I need to finish. I'm after anecdotes, memories and even better, photos. Drop me a DM if you can help, and please, please RT. UK gamers only, I'm looking for a specifically British angle.

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DaveGreen-Unofficial
DaveGreen-Unofficial@FakeDaveGreen·
haunted by vague memories of these Williams/ Sega/ Midway/ Namco electromechanical coinops which presumably co-existed with (easier-to-maintain?) Pong/ Space Invaders-style "video games" into the early 1980s... pinrepair.com/arcade/
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James Larsson
James Larsson@JamesLarsson·
@Sifisi @synx508 I don't think so (unless it's a faulty one). The contacts should be Normally Open
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James Larsson@JamesLarsson·
@BreakIntoProg It's easy to get into trouble with these. Put some sort of mark on the rings (e.g. tippex) so you can get back to a known, good-ish, orientation.
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Chris Jones
Chris Jones@mjtech01·
Help! My electronics lab has got stuck in 1985.
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James Larsson@JamesLarsson·
The Scalpel is my favourite modern building in London. I particularly like the way the cleaning cradle pops out of the roof like a cuckoo clock. Here's some behind-the-scenes footage: integral-cradles.mercury-web.co.uk/facade-access-… The video at the end of the page is worth watching.
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James Larsson
James Larsson@JamesLarsson·
@jonty I'd definitely come. More likely to buy stuff than sell (although it *ought* to be the other way round).
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Jonty Wareing ⍼
Jonty Wareing ⍼@jonty·
I am once again wishing there was a flea market for weird tech and tools in London. I want to sell my junk boxes and buy an acoustic coupler. ...so If we ran one, would you come? Would you sell things?
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