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Pimoroni began back in 2012 with the aim of selling laser cut acrylic cases for the Raspberry Pi. Yes, in 2012 our Pibow cases were our first and only product. Fast forward to 2026, and we're now 14 ...

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@m1geo.com Built and working. I got some 3/16" bolts which seem to be holding it ok, but the PCB will not sit flush with the case due to the height of the connector. I'll try trimming it down a bit.

Operating from the back of my car last Monday evening.

@m1geo.com 80m Inverted L fed against the car and one radial. It took me all 90 minutes to do one pass up the band for a grand total of 37 contacts. Everyone I called came back to be so I'm pleased with that :-)

Cleaned up a bit, lubricated and ticking and chiming !

A bit of family history !

Example of AIslop ? " Nikki Haley, his former UN ambassador, summed up the deal in four words: "If this is true, Iran wins." "

Can you spot the new addition to the Elliott 803 ?

Mandelbrot on the ELLIOTT 803.

Luckily it didn't rain much this morning !

I just submitted my first POTA activation log :-)

This is hilarious ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJTX...

Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026

YouTube video by Stephen Colbert

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Cor, Phew, what a scorcher ! A very enjoyable session of POTA activity at Old Warden today with @g7soz.bsky.social

One of the fans in @TNMOC's Elliott 803 has stopped working. After a good clean and lubricate it was back to full speed again.

In 1933 (93 years ago) the BBC were doing field strength surveys that lead to Droitwich being chosen for a Long Wave transmitter site. downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/repo... This year it closes down. www.bbc.co.uk/reception/wo...

I've spent some time over the last few days translating some FORTRAN code into ALGOL-60. The code came from an example for the IBM 1401 FORTRAN compiler. It used various array addressing "tricks" to access a matrix and a vector that made the translation very tricky. Not a good example in my view.

Today we had the Elliott 803 doing some FFTs and Inverse FFTs on X and Y coordinates of some line drawings. Progressively removing higher order spectrum components produced some interesting effects.

This topical art work was drawn on the real Elliott 803's plotter yesterday and drawn today on the virtual Elliott 803's plotter.

Some fault finding on a virtual Elliott 803 emulated at the logic gate level. Two of the timing pulses were occurring at the same time !

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FIVE WEEKS 😬 I'm sure it'll be fine and I'll have my Camputers CUB monitor working by then. Yes. It's going to be a fun weekend so everyone come!

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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

Who to believe ?

Classic SID (Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance) at 08:13 this morning. See how the 20m and 40m bands just got turned off for a while!

DHL have taken a week to deliver my parcel to the wrong place. Someone called "sara" has my parcel !

The first flower is appearing on the roses I'm growing from the seeds I picked last autumn.

DHL failing to deliver my package :-(

That thing where you google an error message and find the solution in a forum posting from six months ago when you last had the same problem. 🤦‍♂️

I could have just bought a new one. But I'm GenX :-)

Today's target was to get my Midi keyboard to control the PSGs. Only monotonic sofar.

Here is my RC2014 sound board now with both AY-3-8912 PSGs installed and the new active mixer daughter board fitted.