Now if the price would just come down with the size. This is the smallest wireless camera I have seen yet! :freak: It would defintely fit inside of an HO car. Maybe the price will drop as the year goes by. ????

http://cgi.ebay.com/Micro-Small-Mini-Covert-Color-Wireless-Camera-Receiver_W0QQitemZ7593894121QQcategoryZ48544QQtcZp hotoQQcmdZViewItem

What is up with that price? It is only a 1/3rd of an inch!

P A S S

'doba

ok that is just NUTZ... if you don't mind hacking the roof or using a convertible, you could mount that thing in the "drivers seat" of some HO cars and get a view out over the hood!

And the price? I hesitate to admit this, but in 1995, I bought a Packard Bell 486-DX2/66 PC for....


$2000. :freak:

Like everything else, it's just a matter of time till the price drops to where you can buy these things at Big Lots...

--rick

LOL- you sure that wasn't older? -those models were big in like 1991-2. I bought a Pentium 100 at the end of '94 with a big monitor (17"!) and fast graphics card- for $3,500! :o :p

Just look at the mini wireless cameras available today- you can get the whole color set up for @ $50 or cheaper if you shop around. That micro camera price will come down for sure.

Mine may have been '94 at the earliest. We got married in 1994, and the 3 big things we did right after that, within a year or so, were 1. leave New York 2. buy a new S-10 Blazer and 3. buy a computer. I remember hearing the word "Pentium" at the time, but the salesdude gave us the impression that stuff like that was WAY more computer than we would ever need... :rolleyes:

I thought I had seen those little cams as low as 20-25 bucks, but then they get you for like $20 shipping. I'm pretty sure mine came in at the mid 40's with that shipping included.

--rick

Now that I think about it, the 486/DX2 with the Mathco processors were still around into '94. The Pentium's were considered engineering only. The Pentium 100 was a big deal and Windows was making a big change from 3.11 with Windows 95 into 16 bit structure and you could name file names larger than 8 characters! :p That seems like ages ago. I remember waiting in a huge line at CompUSA for my first copy of Windows 95 that went on sale at midnight! Never saw so many computers nerds in one place in my life. :cool:

I started out in 1990 doing graphics in CorelDraw 1 on a 386 and in '92 went to using AutoCAD on a 486/DX2 and it operated in DOS command line. My first home computer was the Pentium 100 and it was state of the art with stereo sound and......Internet Explorer v1! You could buy a 14kps modem and go to the internet to chat. There were barely any "web" pages to look at.

HA! I got 'cha beat.

Late '80's...Commadore 64...I belive a 300 Baud modem...Prodigy "internet" (joke).

Man that thing was Sslllloooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

HA! I got 'cha beat.

Late '80's...Commadore 64...I belive a 300 Baud modem...Prodigy "internet" (joke).

Man that thing was Sslllloooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

OOHHHH MMAANNN I totally forgot about them. I had a Commodore vic-20!!!! then 64 then 128!!! they were awesome and lots of fun back then but 300 baud modem ???!!!! jeez we came a long way baby!

Wes

This thread got majorly hi-jacked but so what.

Was that Commodore the one you carried with the fold down keyboard and little 4 inch screen?

I still have a 1200 baud modem at home. Right next to my WWII telegraph. Both antiques in communication yet 40+ years apart. :cool:

The computer for my track is a 386/33, with no hard drive and a dead CMOS battery. You have to load CMOS manually, then boot from the 5.25" floppy, then run Trakmate from the 3.5" floppy. Old school baby. :o :p

This thread got majorly hi-jacked but so what.

Was that Commodore the one you carried with the fold down keyboard and little 4 inch screen?

I still have a 1200 baud modem at home. Right next to my WWII telegraph. Both antiques in communication yet 40+ years apart. :cool:

The computer for my track is a 386/33, with no hard drive and a dead CMOS battery. You have to load CMOS manually, then boot from the 5.25" floppy, then run Trakmate from the 3.5" floppy. Old school baby. :o

Man that hurts, you need an upgrade. Booting from floopy, memories.....:eek: rr

Booting from floppy, memories...
How about booting from a paper tape or magnetic tape reel? That was only after having set the interrupt vector to the bootstrap loader into the computer's registers using toggle switches with octal address encoding. I could also talk about analog computers about the size of a 8 x 8 foot cube or its digital replacement that used magnetic core memory, consisting of a single 128 bit bank of memory. Yep, 128 bits, which is a whopping 0.0001220703125 megabytes. No, you can run Doom on it, but a fair number of these ancient computers are still in use today in various parts of the world.

How about booting from a paper tape or magnetic tape reel? That was only after having set the interrupt vector to the bootstrap loader into the computer's registers using toggle switches with octal address encoding. I could also talk about analog computers about the size of a 8 x 8 foot cube or its digital replacement that used magnetic core memory, consisting of a single 128 bit bank of memory. Yep, 128 bits, which is a whopping 0.0001220703125 megabytes. No, you can run Doom on it, but a fair number of these ancient computers are still in use today in various parts of the world.

ok i can't resist, even though I'm sure you guys have seen this before...

and yes I know it's a photochop job...

--rick