This is actually from Simon originally, so anybody trying to work out the quotations should have fun...
Forwarded message: > From sendmail Wed Apr 27 17:51:56 1994 > Via: uk.ac.umist.central-services.sun; Wed, 27 Apr 1994 17:51:02 +0100 > To: Nigel J Kettlewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Simon Cooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 27 Apr 94 17:07:52 GMT > Subject: Re: The MiDGET > Priority: normal > X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v2.3 (R4). > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Is it my mail system going mad, or was this one posted twice? > > I emailed it both to you and SAM-USERS, just in case... seems I was > right about the "just in case". > > > Yep, I can convert JPEGs as easily as anything else. If using the PC's is > > OK, > > then not to worry. > > Goodie! > > > > Mmmm... still doesn't explain the slowness of the SAM. > > > > > > > Inherent lack of processor speed? Don't know, really. Graphic format > > conversions _always_ seem to be slow, no matter what the machine. > > Yeah... btw: after the show, full steam ahead is going on the 20MHz > Accelerator board... coming soon :) :) :) > > It may have space on the board for a possible MULTIFACE like hoofer- > doofer... depends -- we'll see, anyway. > > > > BTW: Poetry 'cos I'm writing a novel... 80 pages and still going > > > strong :) > > > > What's it about? > > This one's about time travel... the next one's about vampires... one > after that is alien abductions -- and after that, probably a thriller > thingy to do with the net. I *had* planned it to be a Deus Ex Machina > thing, but I decided that the plot I'd come up with was too week -- > so net thriller it now is. > > I'll mail the first page of both to the net today -- see whatcha think > > (oops.. only the vampire first page. Oh well). > > > > DAMN! They didn't have any!!! So now I've got 2x8bit DACs, and we > > > have to build the blue one out of resistors :( :( :( > > > > > > > Yuk. At least you're not having to build an ADC from individual components. > > Tried the Yellow Pages for other electronics shops? There's one round the > > corner from me when I'm at home in Bournemouth, which is very handy. > > Not enough time... Oh well :( > > Besides, the blue one doesn't need startling monotonicity or > anything, so we can make do with resistors... > > Again, apologies for people who've just joined us... I'll mail an > article about the MiDGET tomorrow night. > > Si Cooke > > +------------------INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | "You know... you can tell someone's vain when they quote themselves | > | in their own .sig file..." -- Simon Cooke | > +--------------------JANET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
