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Simon Challands Message #81986, posted by SimonC at 10:11, 30/10/2006, in reply to message #81800
Elite
Right on, Commander!

Posts: 398
Where are you? I might consider that. It didn't cost me much in the first place, but OTOH almost all of it has been replaced (half of the case, the backplane, the PSU, and the floppy drive are the only original bits in there).
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van Engelen Thomas Message #81998, posted by highlandcattle at 13:31, 30/10/2006, in reply to message #81986
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Posts: 78
Hey , I'm in Belgium. I keep hoping that one day I get enough cash together for a modern riscos machine.But the A7000 is really getting on my nerves,so I really want to get a faster repleacement for it. It doesn't matter if it's all not original. The only thing I need is a mobo+strong arm(and of course vram) the rest I can transplant from the A7000. Think about it if you are willing to go to all that trouble to ship it to belgium and arrange a method of payment (paypak or banktransfer).
I would really appreciate it :)
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Simon Challands Message #82085, posted by SimonC at 09:54, 31/10/2006, in reply to message #81998
Elite
Right on, Commander!

Posts: 398
Hey , I'm in Belgium. I keep hoping that one day I get enough cash together for a modern riscos machine.But the A7000 is really getting on my nerves,so I really want to get a faster repleacement for it. It doesn't matter if it's all not original. The only thing I need is a mobo+strong arm(and of course vram) the rest I can transplant from the A7000. Think about it if you are willing to go to all that trouble to ship it to belgium and arrange a method of payment (paypak or banktransfer).
I would really appreciate it :)
Won't it cost a fortune to ship it to Belgium? I'd be worried about it not surviving the journey if I just stripped out bits. Can probably work out payment a bit more easily. You don't ever come over here for any of the shows by any chance?

The biggest problem with long-distance shipping is that I'm disorganised enough that it'll take me ages to get around to doing it.

[Edited by SimonC at 10:24, 31/10/2006]
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Sion Message #82088, posted by blasts of the xtre at 10:44, 31/10/2006, in reply to message #82085
blasts of the xtre
Suppose you were an idiot. Suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Posts: 326
I'm also looking for a SA RiscPC, my A7000+ is on it's last legs now.

[Edited by blasts of the xtre at 10:44, 31/10/2006]
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van Engelen Thomas Message #82095, posted by highlandcattle at 20:26, 31/10/2006, in reply to message #82085
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Posts: 78
I do plan to get to the wakefield show at least once ! But it hasn't happened yet. My A7000 was also shipped from the UK, I believe it was £30 which included the heavy RO3 guide. It wouldn't bother me if it took you ages. Again if your willing and can find the time, please do contact me :)

atarianallstar at yahoo dot com
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John Hoare Message #82914, posted by moss at 04:30, 14/11/2006, in reply to message #81006

Posts: 9348
Right. I've got rid of Safari, and am now using Opera exclusively.

Let's see how it goes :)
How did it go?
I gave up because I didn't like Opera :|
I'm now using Firefox. And it's great - faster, and doesn't hang.

Why the hell can't Apple write a decent browser? |annoyingme|
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Sion Message #82918, posted by blasts of the xtre at 08:39, 14/11/2006, in reply to message #82914
blasts of the xtre
Suppose you were an idiot. Suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

Posts: 326
Because they're too busy pimping their iPods.
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Phil Mellor Message #96394, posted by monkeyson2 at 22:17, 30/12/2006, in reply to message #82914
monkeyson2Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler

Posts: 12380
Right. I've got rid of Safari, and am now using Opera exclusively.

Let's see how it goes :)
How did it go?
I gave up because I didn't like Opera :|
I'm now using Firefox. And it's great - faster, and doesn't hang.

Why the hell can't Apple write a decent browser? |annoyingme|
I'm using Camino now. It's lovely. It's FireFox with a proper Mac UI.

I think it might have to become my default browser.
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John Hoare Message #96395, posted by moss at 22:20, 30/12/2006, in reply to message #96394

Posts: 9348
I'm using Camino now. It's lovely. It's FireFox with a proper Mac UI.

I think it might have to become my default browser.
I'll give it a try. I think I've got a demo version downloaded here somewhere, actually...
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Phil Mellor Message #96397, posted by monkeyson2 at 22:22, 30/12/2006, in reply to message #96395
monkeyson2Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler

Posts: 12380
I'm using Camino now. It's lovely. It's FireFox with a proper Mac UI.

I think it might have to become my default browser.
I'll give it a try. I think I've got a demo version downloaded here somewhere, actually...
Demo? It's free!

http://www.caminobrowser.org/
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John Hoare Message #99160, posted by moss at 08:26, 26/2/2007, in reply to message #96397

Posts: 9348
I'm using Camino now. It's lovely. It's FireFox with a proper Mac UI.

I think it might have to become my default browser.
I'll give it a try. I think I've got a demo version downloaded here somewhere, actually...
Demo? It's free!

http://www.caminobrowser.org/
Hmmm. I think I was thinking of another browser...

Anyway, I was still using Safari until a few days ago (I never really got on with Opera), but it hung on me one too many times. So I switched to Firefox - and never had a single problem.

I've just installed Camino, and got rid of Firefox on my Dock. Let's see how it goes
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Lee Shepherd Message #99766, posted by leeshep at 17:13, 11/3/2007, in reply to message #99160
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Posts: 24
Home
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Apple MacPRO (Quad 3ghz XEON) 4gb RAM, 1TB Storage, ATI Radeon x1900, 1x 30" ACD, 1x 23" ACD - Running VRPC SE via bootcamp (the fastest i've ever seen RISC OS run)

Acorn RISC PC - RISC OS Adjust 1i2 StrongARM overclocked 287Mhz in Phoebe 2100 case.

At Work
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A DEC VAX system of some discription

Gathering dust
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Home made AthlonXP 3200 System, 1gb RAM, 250gb HDD, Nvidia 7800

Apple SE/30, 8mb RAM, 80mb HDD

Apple iMac 20" (2ghz intel CoreDuo) 1gb RAM, 250gb HDD

Apple eMac (1.4ghz G4) 1gb RAM, 120gb HDD

Acorn A3010, RISC OS 3.1, 4mb RAM

[Edited by leeshep at 17:22, 11/3/2007]
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Phil Mellor Message #99767, posted by monkeyson2 at 17:29, 11/3/2007, in reply to message #99766
monkeyson2Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler

Posts: 12380
A DEC VAX system of some discription


What for?

Apple iMac 20" (2ghz intel CoreDuo) 1gb RAM, 250gb HDD
Why is this gathering dust?

Send it to me instead!
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Steve C Message #99795, posted by Steve at 00:09, 12/3/2007, in reply to message #99767
Member
Posts: 95
Work:
Some Pentium D dual-core thingumy, with dual graphics cards (obviously a business requirement, and not at all for playing Battlefield 2!) currently running Vista
A bunch of Xeon-based servers running Win 2003
O2 XDA Exec
A couple of Ubuntu Linux boxes

Home:
3 slice RiscPC 600 (upgraded with Kinetic, Viewfinder, Simtec IDE, STD Net100 and RISC OS 4.03)
A9
Athlon 64 Shuttle box (Windows XP Pro)
Custom silenced Ubuntu Edgy server, running MythTV
Acer Centrino 1.3GHz laptop, dual-booting XP Pro and Ubuntu

Gathering dust:
Sun Sparcstation IPX (complete with 19" CRT from ages past, - somewhat heavy)
Acorn Electron with Plus 1 and Plus 3
BBC Master 128
Sinclair ZX81 (with velcro 16K upgrade)
Commodore 64
Archimedes A410/1 (with ARM3 upgrade)
Acorn A4000
2 x A4 laptops, both working, but both with dead batteries
PII 400 box - it's been used by most members of my family at one time or another
PIII 450 machine, built inside Phoebe (RiscPC 2) case
Oh, and a Hydra upgrade, with a full complement of ARM 710 processors.



[Edited by Steve at 00:12, 12/3/2007]
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Phil Mellor Message #102725, posted by monkeyson2 at 10:15, 6/6/2007, in reply to message #99160
monkeyson2Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler

Posts: 12380
I'm using Camino now. It's lovely. It's FireFox with a proper Mac UI.

I think it might have to become my default browser.
I'll give it a try. I think I've got a demo version downloaded here somewhere, actually...
Demo? It's free!

http://www.caminobrowser.org/
Hmmm. I think I was thinking of another browser...

Anyway, I was still using Safari until a few days ago (I never really got on with Opera), but it hung on me one too many times. So I switched to Firefox - and never had a single problem.

I've just installed Camino, and got rid of Firefox on my Dock. Let's see how it goes smile
New version out now... http://camino.sb.samuelsidler.com/releases/1.5/

shock
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hEgelia Message #102726, posted by illuminatius at 11:30, 6/6/2007, in reply to message #99795
Member
Posts: 44
Work (studio):

Acorn Risc PC 600 running RISC OS 4.02
StrongARM 2xx MHz
64+16MB RAM
2MB VRAM
80GB HD
Philips CDR/W drive
AKA16 MIDI podule
Irlam i16 sampler podule
Acer 15" LCD screen

Living room (occasional job):

Apple Mac mini running OS X 10.4.9
Intel Core Duo 1.66 GHz
2x512MB RAM
60GB HD
Samsung 19" LCD widescreen
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John Message #102727, posted by mr-mac at 11:55, 6/6/2007, in reply to message #102726
Member
Posts: 148
Home:

Risc PC;
SA233
128MB
2MB VRAM
RISC OS 4.02
blitz

XP PC (mainly just for games);
Athlon 2400+ (overclocked to 3400+)
1GB CL2 Ram, Radeon 9800SE (hardmod to 9800PRO)

Laptop;
IBM X21
PIII 800 396Mb 4MB Ati grfx
ROX Desktop(ROX Filer, OROBOROX WM) running on NetBSD 4.0

PDA;
Sigmarion III
Xscale 400 (overclocked to 533Mhz and benchmarks as one of the most powerfull HPC's )
32MB ROM 64MB Ram
5" 800x480 touchscreen, keyboard
Wi-fi CF card and SD for storage

WORK;
Misc HP x86 box running NT (soon to be a diff box running XP)


John
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Dave Brown Message #102731, posted by daveb at 12:20, 6/6/2007, in reply to message #102727
Member
Posts: 41
Home:
Intel Core 2 duo E6600
2GB RAM
NVidia 8800 GTS
120GB hd
160GB hd x 2
Vista Ultimate Edition

Apple Mac Mini
PowerPC G4 1.5GHz
512MB RAM
80GB hd

Iyonix
256MB RAM
can't remember hd size

ACER Ferrari 4000
AMD Turion
1GB RAM
80GB hd
Vista Ultimate Edition

Broken SA Risc PC, 2 slice unhappy
BBC Master (in a box)
Acorn NC (somewhere)

XBox 360
PS3
Game Cube (no Wii yet)
PS2
PSP


Work:
2 x Pentium D 2.8GHz
4GB ram
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450
120GB hd x 2
Windows 2003 Enterprise + lots of VMWare images

Pentium 4 2.8GHz
4GB ram
can't remember what graphics card, something rubbishy
120GB hd
Windows 2003 Enterprise
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Phil Mellor Message #104034, posted by monkeyson2 at 17:10, 20/8/2007, in reply to message #79530
monkeyson2Please don't let them make me be a monkey butler

Posts: 12380
Mac mini (1.66GHz Intel Core Duo, 512 RAM (needs upgrading badly shock), OS X 10.4.?)
Oh, doesn't it just?

I've got *exactly* the same setup - and when you've got more than a couple of apps open at once, it bloody drags. I bitterly regret not getting 1GB when I ordered it, but I'm used to RISC OS and didn't think it'd need that much memory indiff

As it is, it's very expensive for me to upgrade. As I just don't trust myself not to bugger the machine up if I attempt to do it myself...
I got my Mini upgraded from 512MB to 1GB today. A definite improvement!
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Rob Kendrick Message #104040, posted by nunfetishist at 13:51, 21/8/2007, in reply to message #104034
nunfetishist
Today's phish is trout a la creme.

Posts: 522
FYI: Mac OS X is a bloaty piece of shit. smile
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keith dunlop Message #104043, posted by epistaxsis at 14:38, 21/8/2007, in reply to message #102731
epistaxsis

Posts: 159
Work:

dual boot xp/ubuntu box
xp laptop
A9 (sometimes) smile

Home(mine):

Iyonix - much fiddled with big grin current spec is RO5.13, 1GB RAM, DVD-RW, combined teac floppy/card reader, 2x USB cards (this is about to change - I've got a SBlive to fit) and 2x Geforce2 graphics cars oh and its on its third case!

A9 (sometimes) <-- ah the benefits of a truly transportable computer smile

Home(wife):

Iyonix - much fiddled with big grin current spec is RO5.13, 512MB RAM, DVD-RW, SBlive awaiting fitting and the card reader's in the dell 2405FPW monitor... oh and its on its third case too!

PS2

In the garage:

RiscPC - much fiddled with big grin spec afair is RO4.02, SA287, 4 slice, 256MB RAM, CD-RW, Zip drive, 4 HDs, NIC, Viewfinder and Simtec IDE card - not been switched on since I got my Iyonix

A440 - slightly fiddled with as in it did have the Simtec IDE podule in it smile RO3.11, ARM3, 4MB RAM (I think!) and the obligatory intel outside sticker - not been switched on since I got the RiscPC

and er thats it!

[Edited by epistaxsis at 15:40, 21/8/2007]
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fwibbler Message #104066, posted by fwibbler at 21:08, 22/8/2007, in reply to message #104043
fwibbler

Posts: 320
Home:
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MainPC
AMD X2 3800
2GB RAM
74GB Raptor HD
250GB Seagate HD
Windows XP

VideoPC
AMD X2 6000
1GB RAM
3x 500GB HD
Windows XP

Media Centre
AMD X2 3800
1GB RAM
250GB HD
Windows XP

Work:
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3x Intel PII 633
64MB RAM
2GB HD
Windows 95
!!!
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