TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[dorsetknob]

The surveyors assistant or "chainboy" would lay out a chain (a bit over 20 metres)

We are British and a chains length is 22 yards None of this namby pampy EU Metric crap

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

bloody right..............im changing it now........."bring back the hapenny and farthing"

 

[dorsetknob]

spare a Groat ( not Goat ) for a poor hard done by country Boy sir !!! I'll polish your boots.................>> and service the wifey for an extra Tanner

 

[dorsetknob]

This fitting is either screw on or is designed to fit on a TRIG point or triangulation station for mapping purposes

would it fit on to a standard Camera tripod ? even ghetto style

 

[Retrorockit]

"British Morris and MG engines from 1923 to 1955 were built using metric threads but with bolt heads and nuts dimensioned for Whitworth spanners and sockets."(Wikipedia)

Can't we all just get along.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

would it fit on to a standard Camera tripod ? even ghetto style

When my feculant eldest gets home from college he will have to dig it out so i can try it.

 

[Bones]

Got this recently, it's all there (Complete) as the pics show.
Enjoy!

 

[Frick]

Was very close to buying a Samsung DEC Alpha motherboard the other day, but I don't really have the money for that kinda thing. I'm kinda regretting it.

 

[Trekkie4]

Nowadays we use lazers to give us lines and levels.
A theodolite is a precision instrument for measuring angles in the horizontal and vertical planes. I have never used this particular one but i could if i had the correct tripod mounting.


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Bubble to set level of instrument
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Bubble to set level of telescope
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This fitting is either screw on or is designed to fit on a TRIG point or triangulation station for mapping purposes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulation_station
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the view through the telescope, the view is upside down so the measuring staff (or big ruler) would be held upside down to make it easier to make the measurement.
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The surveyors assistant or "chainboy" would lay out a chain (exactly 22 yards) to mark the distance and the engineer/surveyor would use the theodolite to measure angle and height differences.

Early mapmakers used devices similar to this, i have no idea how old this one is, my guess is 1920,s, i know it was last calibrated 50 years ago.

Never got to see one of these in person, but I do remember my DOS days & Fate of Atlantis...

(Was also featured in Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror)

 

[stinger608]

Awesome score @Bones on the DFI board man!!!!!!

 

[Retrorockit]

This a Dell LGA 775 overclock from a friend at Tomshardware. Not as old as most hardware here. But unusual because it's a Dell O/C success story.
http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/7667634/fs/6679081/fs/7666510#
Dell T3400 workstation. QX9650 @ 4.15GHz. Dual Crossfire HD7850. He blew 1 cheap PSU. Don't know what he ended up using for that. Not bad for a 3 phase OEM motherboard.

I know this won't help you guys in EU very much, but I just ordered a refurbished T3400 with Win7 64 installed from Newegg.$119US $6 shipping. The only matching pair of AMD GPUs I have are R9-285ITX. I guess they'll have to do.

 

[hertz9753]

I still have that slot A CPU and a dog.

 

[stinger608]

Very cool @hertz9753 !!! Them were some of the most awesome overclockers in their day!!!!!!!!

 

[STIG_ZA]

Have one of those slot A Athlons too, just no motherboard to put it in

Found some cool stuff on a local pc classifieds, XFX 7800GS(AGP), HIS HD4670(AGP), Asus p4C800 , 4gb ddr400, 3.2ghz p4HT. Just need to go fetch it

 

[GreiverBlade]

I still have that slot A CPU and a dog.

so do i (minus the dog )

Have one of those slot A Athlons too, just no motherboard to put it in

so do i

 

[Trekkie4]

Approx. 6 months ago, I've had the chance to grab one of these Slot A boards (for free!), together with the CPU (I'm guessing Athlon)... Can't say for sure if it was in working condition or not, but anyhow - I turned down the offer Can't really justify why, it was one of those rushed (and obviously bad) decisions I've made over the years.

I was always a fan of Intel & especially Slot-1 systems, so maybe I didn't want to bother myself & waste time with copy of a Slot-1 board & CPU design, especially when I could easily get the real thing... But now, looking back I do feel bad for letting this one slip through my fingers It would have been my one (and only) Slot A system in the entire collection.

 

[Retrorockit]

Grim Fandango was a game from 1998. it's now a movie almost 5 hours long.

Unless you prefer the full long play which is over 7 hours.

I wanted to just post a couple of links. I didn't know 11 hours of video would show up!

 

[Trekkie4]

Ah, good ol' happy memories... Hijole, can't believe someone played through the entire game at once!!

I remember buying this game from a friend at school & playing through the story. Of course, I got stuck several times, so I had to take a peek at the walkthrough IMHO, one of the most beautiful & well-written PC adventure games, ever made!!

I'm aware they've made a HD re-release of Grim Fandango, but playing this game on the original hardware, Pentium 2 in particular & using 3dfx Voodoo2 card for 3D environment has a special & sentimental value to me, even today.

 

[stinger608]

Crazy thing, I had never ever played Grimm Fandango.

 

[Retrorockit]

Crazy thing, I had never ever played Grimm Fandango.

I never played it either. It's a fairly recent discovery for me. What's the point of old hardware if you don't have old software to run on it?

 

[Devon68]

Got this recently, it's all there (Complete) as the pics show.
Enjoy!

Wow. I like that board.

 

[Trekkie4]

Crazy thing, I had never ever played Grimm Fandango.

I never played it either. It's a fairly recent discovery for me. What's the point of old hardware if you don't have old software to run on it?

Wow, guys! You really SHOULD play the game Long story short, it's basically a love story, which takes place in the (corrupted) land of the dead, where you are working your time (to pay off for something you've done in previous life) as a sales agent. The whole game takes place throughout the 4 years, with every year being a separate "chapter" - which is basically how long the journey of a newly-arrived soul takes place, before he or she can board the number 9 train & "proceed", move on. Unless you led a very successful life, in which case you're entitled to proceed straight through, "in 4 minutes instead of 4 years" to quote Manny Calavera.

 

[STIG_ZA]

Picked up some nice retro(ish) stuff. All of it was in the original boxes with all the booklets, adapters, stickers etc... that they would have came with.

built a cool s478 rig with some of it, specs here:
P4 3.2Ghz HT(Prescott 1mb L2)
Asus P4C800
2x 1gb Kingston value ram(ddr400 cl3)
HIS 4670 1gb agp
160gb sata hdd
350W delta psu
windows xp pro
gigabyte x2 case

Also upgraded my athlon64 rig from the 6800Gt it used to have.



//there is a 6600 sitting in the 4670 box because i could not wait to try it before taking pics

 

[Trekkie4]

Question guys - I know it's kinda off-topic, but does anyone here owns 17" HP Pavilion laptop from 2014? If so, what's your opinion (and experience) with mentioned machine?

 

[DOM]

Burn it lol jk haha

I know I have an hp think it's a 17" had an and GPU but it's not like a gamer did okay back in 2014 but laptops are not gamers imo

I wish I had my pics of all the old gpus u have have like 30+ XD