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Love it Who me officer? No, I don't smoke drugs apart from this joint in my hand and the one I had yesterday and the day before too funny Nordie!

Nice coins Paulus. I especially like the 1902 Proof Half Crown!

Michael Freeman puts an occasional item on eBay, but is not a big seller there. I bought a Farthing Mule off of him on eBay, but it was quite a while ago. Peter Davies also puts in a show occasionally. He has bought a couple of bit from me. I can see the ticket now. Dadds 13/6/10 ebay £4.25. Also on eBay ocassionally are John Jerrams, Tony Crocker, and other notables. BTW...Michael Freeman, and Michael Gouby are sometimes contributors to this Forum.

Michael Freeman puts an occasional item on eBay, but is not a big seller there. I bought a Farthing Mule off of him on eBay, but it was quite a while ago.

"A TOTAL UNCIRCULATED POPULATION OF AN INCREDIBLE MEEK 22 PIECES" Isn't 5 grand a little high for that coin?

Noooooop, thats what coin dealers sell them for All I can say on price, is that my wallet is a lot lighter! Rare coins don't come cheap! Ha,Ha!

Here is the 1856 Penny from the Chicago Coin Fair!

I spent the Day in Chicago today, attending the Chicago International Coin Fair (CICF). One of my purchases was a NGC slabbed 1860/59 Penny, graded MS61. This coin has the unbroken 6 in the date. I have another that has the broken 6. The coin is pictured below. I also bought a really nice 1856. I send pic's of it tomorrow.

The digital microscope is a "Microcapture" USB, made by Leuchtturm. 2.0 megapixel (20x to 200x). Not sure of the driver. I will try to select the device, per your instructions. Thanks.

Need a little help!....This program is using my PC camera, instead of my digital microscope! How do you change camera config? I can't find that info in the PDF file.

If you are new to negotiating, just take a already priced coin (that you are looking at), and ask the Dealer what the "least he will take for it." Almost all Dealers will reduce the price somewhat, and sometimes you will get a big surprise how much it is reduced.

Is that a Digital PDP-11? (DEC). That looks like the usual config, CPU/ 2 Drives/9 track tape. That was a popular unit early on. It looks like you are ready for any contingency with the full set of replacement cards on top of the Tape Drive! Ha, Ha! See my reply just above yours - there's been some Photoshop jiggery pokery going on I can assure you there's been no Photoshop jiggery-pokery going on at all. It took an awful lot of looking after - PC1-2.jpg A Digico M28 with 3 Pertec 23Mb hard drives, a Pertec tape deck and around a couple of Meg of RAM. OK if you want to do some accounts, word processing or play DND. Ok, I believe you! But I NEVER saw a domestic unit like that - it looks like a computer you'd find in the IT department of some small to medium company of the early 80s. My inevitable follow-up question would be, why didn't you get the Apple II, which was pre-Mac (presumably the era we're talking about), but was the leading home computer of its day or, if we're past 1981, why not an IBM PC or even a clone? Or a DEC? That unit you have there is totally OTT for home computing. The system shown by Fubar is not a domestic unit and was probably one that was being de-installed (during a new system install), and as you probably know, those removed systems had little value, so they are sold for very little, or even given away, since they only had "gold contact" value, which was very little. As you can see, there is a oscilliscope near the unit in one of the pictures, which tells me the owner was a techie, and probably cut a deal for the unit, from one of his clients. I got one of my early units the same way. The older units were big and bulky, but still worked great in most cases, when they were de-installed and replaced with newer systems.

Interesting stuff Fubar...thanks for the walk down memory lane!

Everyone complains about eBay and their practices, but the fact remains, they are best show in town...because they reach the largest audience. When, and if they get some meaningful competition, that will change. Does anyone know of a real competitor for eBay available out there? Let me know if there is, I would love to switch. I don't have any problem with people selling junk on eBay, that is free enterprise, but I do have a problem with charging fees on shipping in an effort to promote free shipping in their auctions. Some of their take on these shipping commissions is .05-.10, and it doesn't make sense to tick the sellers off for such little return! But...where is the real competition...you are going to have to help me on that one.

They have been renewing that offer each month, for months now, trying to increase the usage of unhappy sellers (USA).

Is that a Digital PDP-11? (DEC). That looks like the usual config, CPU/ 2 Drives/9 track tape. That was a popular unit early on. It looks like you are ready for any contingency with the full set of replacement cards on top of the Tape Drive! Ha, Ha!

I stole the timeline from Wikipedia My first computing experience was was with CP/M (anyone remember that - Digital research) using a Z80 card in an Apple ][, we had a massive brute of a hard disk with the amazing capacity of 5MB! Later we migrated to DOS and then Santa Cruz Xenix - using a Tandon AT with a 100MB disk (this hardware cost £2000 in 1986) My favourite operating system has to be RiscOS running on an Acorn Archimedes, though Amiga Dos was interesting So yes Bob, I am that old, and I haven't written a line of code for over 20 years now,so everything getting a bit rusty David Too cool David. I started with a TRS-80, with two floppy drives (one for the Operating system), with a fabulous 48k Memory board. Then on to a Olivetti PC with PCos operating system, then IBM PC, then IBM XT (5 MB disk), Multiple IBM AT's, Dell (multiple), and currently have a HP Omni27, Multiple channel, with Beats Audio! It been a great ride! When I first started in electronics it was tube technology, then tranisters, Then integrated circuits, then large scale IC's, then PC's on a chip (286,386.486, etc), and now multi-Core, and multi channel... Your TRS-80 sounds just like the ICL DRS8801 I first used around 1979/80. A basic word processor using large floppy discs and with two drives, one of which was used to load the operating system. It had a brown screen and yellow characters on screen and the delete function worked the opposite way to a modern PC - the cursor had to be ahead of the character to be deleted. It took me a little while to get used to the change when my first real PC arrived in 1990 or so. https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS560US560&espv=210&es_sm=93&biw=1920&bih=947&tbm=isch&imgil=-gPZR0du6qyPhM%253A%253Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fencrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcRa718mzZWM-Y8oJdsgrj8mpig24CZYkdwRHTVqGhfH_-CFMIa-7w%253B1160%253B841%253Bk9qtviDgfJtjHM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fclassiccmp.org%25252Fdunfield%25252Ftrs80%25252Findex.htm&source=iu&usg=__HVxB4FKZAPN969xbjoQcpanv0pE%3D&sa=X&ei=RpIxU5HCIuGyyAHbuoDQBw&ved=0CEsQ9QEwBw&q=trs80%20processor#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=-gPZR0du6qyPhM%253A%3Bk9qtviDgfJtjHM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fclassiccmp.org%252Fdunfield%252Ftrs80%252Fh%252Fm3front.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fclassiccmp.org%252Fdunfield%252Ftrs80%252Findex.htm%3B1160%3B841 The above was my first Computer. A Tandy TRS80, Model III. This was about 1981. It has a Z80 processor, and was as slow as a turtle! I hooked a acoustical modem to it (used with a telephone handset) to get on line. It was the beginning of a era for me! LOL!

I stole the timeline from Wikipedia My first computing experience was was with CP/M (anyone remember that - Digital research) using a Z80 card in an Apple ][, we had a massive brute of a hard disk with the amazing capacity of 5MB! Later we migrated to DOS and then Santa Cruz Xenix - using a Tandon AT with a 100MB disk (this hardware cost £2000 in 1986) My favourite operating system has to be RiscOS running on an Acorn Archimedes, though Amiga Dos was interesting So yes Bob, I am that old, and I haven't written a line of code for over 20 years now,so everything getting a bit rusty David Too cool David. I started with a TRS-80, with two floppy drives (one for the Operating system), with a fabulous 48k Memory board. Then on to a Olivetti PC with PCos operating system, then IBM PC, then IBM XT (5 MB disk), Multiple IBM AT's, Dell (multiple), and currently have a HP Omni27, Multiple channel, with Beats Audio! It been a great ride! When I first started in electronics it was tube technology, then tranisters, Then integrated circuits, then large scale IC's, then PC's on a chip (286,386.486, etc), and now multi-Core, and multi channel... Your TRS-80 sounds just like the ICL DRS8801 I first used around 1979/80. A basic word processor using large floppy discs and with two drives, one of which was used to load the operating system. It had a brown screen and yellow characters on screen and the delete function worked the opposite way to a modern PC - the cursor had to be ahead of the character to be deleted. It took me a little while to get used to the change when my first real PC arrived in 1990 or so. https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS560US560&espv=210&es_sm=93&biw=1920&bih=947&tbm=isch&imgil=-gPZR0du6qyPhM%253A%253Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fencrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcRa718mzZWM-Y8oJdsgrj8mpig24CZYkdwRHTVqGhfH_-CFMIa-7w%253B1160%253B841%253Bk9qtviDgfJtjHM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fclassiccmp.org%25252Fdunfield%25252Ftrs80%25252Findex.htm&source=iu&usg=__HVxB4FKZAPN969xbjoQcpanv0pE%3D&sa=X&ei=RpIxU5HCIuGyyAHbuoDQBw&ved=0CEsQ9QEwBw&q=trs80%20processor#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=-gPZR0du6qyPhM%253A%3Bk9qtviDgfJtjHM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fclassiccmp.org%252Fdunfield%252Ftrs80%252Fh%252Fm3front.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fclassiccmp.org%252Fdunfield%252Ftrs80%252Findex.htm%3B1160%3B841 The above is my first PC, the Tandy TRS80 model III. It was Z80 based, and I added acoustical modem, that was used with a telephone handset to get on line. Talk about the iron age! LOL!

I stole the timeline from Wikipedia My first computing experience was was with CP/M (anyone remember that - Digital research) using a Z80 card in an Apple ][, we had a massive brute of a hard disk with the amazing capacity of 5MB! Later we migrated to DOS and then Santa Cruz Xenix - using a Tandon AT with a 100MB disk (this hardware cost £2000 in 1986) My favourite operating system has to be RiscOS running on an Acorn Archimedes, though Amiga Dos was interesting So yes Bob, I am that old, and I haven't written a line of code for over 20 years now,so everything getting a bit rusty David Too cool David. I started with a TRS-80, with two floppy drives (one for the Operating system), with a fabulous 48k Memory board. Then on to a Olivetti PC with PCos operating system, then IBM PC, then IBM XT (5 MB disk), Multiple IBM AT's, Dell (multiple), and currently have a HP Omni27, Multiple channel, with Beats Audio! It been a great ride! When I first started in electronics it was tube technology, then tranisters, Then integrated circuits, then large scale IC's, then PC's on a chip (286,386.486, etc), and now multi-Core, and multi channel...

Great time line David! BTW...if you were involved in all those different software/System changes, you must be nearly as old as me! Ha,Ha!

Simple Solution, get a Mac I use Windows 7 on my desktop, and Windows 8 on my tablet, and both are fully functional, and easy to use. I have a detachable KB on my Surface Tablet, but do not use it, as Windows 8 is built around the touchscreen (and a large touch-KB), and that works great for me. I have been a Microsoft User since MS-Dos, so I have kind of grown up with the Microsoft and Windows format.

I know.... time flies.... I'll be a member 9 years this August... I'll be 9 years in December!

After nuking the french quarter. Tell the Queen she is welcome to take over North America, and the USA! Anything to get rid of our current President (or lack thereof!)..... If the opposing party rules Congress, your President has about as much real power as our Queen. If that were only true...Our President thinks he is a Monarch!

After nuking the french quarter. Tell the Queen she is welcome to take over North America, and the USA! Anything to get rid of our current President (or lack thereof!).....

The Triumph TR-8 sold in the USA was a "Pocket Rocket" utilizing a small Buick V8! The car was a basic TR-7, with the small Buick engine. It was a cute car, but did not sell well. I don't know if it was offered in the UK or not.