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DextersTechLab - The Quantel Guy
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UK/GB/Manchester. Saving the Quantel legacy one luma sample at a time, blundering with electronics, computers & other weird things, fixing stuff.
We remember... John Logie Baird - inventor 13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946 Age 57 John demonstrated the world's first mechanical TV system in 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube.
Sorry to hear the news of David Hockney's passing. Here he is trying out a #Quantel DPB-7001 Digital Paint Box in the BBC Painting With Light program. Without this the Paintbox would be even less known than it is now, so thank you David 👍 🫡 youtu.be/ZI8RbdPe4ro
BBC Painting With Light (Laserdisc Remaster - David Hockney - Larry Rivers - Jennifer Bartlett)
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Wall Street Follow my cartoons and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com For @rawstory.com
It's #retrofest2026 very soon indeed - just over a week! Saturday is SOLD OUT, but there's still tickets for Sunday - www.retrofest.uk/tickets.php - and it is, obviously, going to be awesome! Here's a few more photos from last year to get us in the mood ...
🤣 at myself for the message i left for me... Plugged an old 32Mb (yes Mb not Gb!) PC Card into a reader and found this on sector zero!
It's 2026 and to this day the whole of the Quantel community knows of no working #Quantel Henry systems. These were $1/4 million machines 20 years ago. They were so bleeding edge at the time they did not survive 🤯
Well it's done, after 6567km walked my Zygarde is now maxed out at 4093cp, best buddied and has three moves. It's taken about three years 😮 #pokemongo
What does this big empty space need? Well, it needs lots and lots of vintage computers - and YOU! It's just 5 weeks to Retrofest 2026 (gulp) and tickets are selling fast. Buy yours now and do your bit to fill this big empty space! www.retrofest.uk/tickets.php
This MeanWell RS-15 is so small and cute! 🥰
Three artworks painted on a #Quantel DPB-7001 Digital Paint Box by Martin Holbrook. These were made during the early period of the DPB Paintbox in the 1980s. There are only TWO working DPB Paintboxes worldwide, one will be at #Retrofest in Swindon, UK on May 30th and 31st. bsky.app/profile/shor...
Dated 1997, could this be any more 1990s and #Quantel HAL influenced? 😂 #bykergrove
#Quantel 2103-87 Clipnet P2. Allowed the Quantel Henry and Editbox to share video from another machine in real time over a 1Gbit fiber network. Looks to be dated around the middle of 2000. 14 layer PCB too which is impressive!
Been playing Pokémon Go since August 2016 so i am coming up to my 10 year anniversary 😱. Today i hit Level 70 😱😱. 85+ million xp, 19,500 km walked and 81,000 pokemon caught. @pokemongoapp.bsky.social
30 years ago this amount of Quantel would have set you back £1/3 million! In 2026 it's 50p, a Kia Ora Orange and an old Conker.
Powering on a 1980s Quantel DPB-7001 wearing an 808 State T-Shirt, with an Atari ST and a Panasonic ENG tube camera in the background. Could this be any more retro? It's a shame the #Quantel explodes though!
Taking care of business. We need to do this and move on.
