More potential giveaway

[ewx]

What good is a glass dagger 4MB compact flash card? (now gone.)

I also have an NCD X Terminal to give away, if anyone wants it. Full giveaway list.

Comments

[pm215]

Is the X terminal one of those 17" colour ex-Cockcroft 3 User Area ones? (Not that I have any space for another terminal; just curious.)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

It was cast-off by some London firm in the mid 90s. IIRC the monitor is 17" though there were some 19" in the same batch. (Also IIRC) 1280x1024 8 bits. I don't remember what kind the UA terminals were but I didn't think they were NCD.

[reddragdiva]

I don't actually want the device itself very much ... but what I would love you to do is take a pile of good photos of it and release them under GFDL so I can write a nice [[X terminal]] article for Wikipedia and use pictures of an actual one.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I'll see what I can do...

[reddragdiva]

Thank you!

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Images (http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/gallery/photos/xterminal). I hereby place these images in the public domain.

[reddragdiva]

1, 2, 3, 4; article. Thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

4MB - I could almost get one picture on that.

Ah, that is scary. I'm vaguely keeping my eyes open for cheap 4GB compact flash.

[j4.livejournal.com]

I kept my 4MB compact flash card as an emergency extra for my camera (you may remember I had the same camera as you!). ISTR you can get about 20 photos on the card at lowest quality (which is all I ever bothered with).

I'm planning to try to sell my old camera plus assorted cards (4MB + 8MB + 64MB, IIRC) plus photo-printer, so if you're just binning the card otherwise, please can I take it to chuck in with the rest of the bundle? :-)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

It's yours if you want it.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Obviously though if you get a better offer feel free to change your mind. :-) Otherwise please could you ask LNR to stick the card in the UMS for me?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Actually it wouldn't be much of a detour to put it through your letterbox on the way to/from work...

[ewx.livejournal.com]

It went thru your letterbox at lunchtime.

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha. Excellent. I read that thinking "What's the problem with a four gig card - doesn't it work with the camera?"

MEGAbyte, Gareth: MEGAbyte.

[sweh.livejournal.com]

If your PC has a compact flash reader and you run Windows and you try to use something like GIMP then the libraries GIMP uses will try to enumerate your drives and on compact flash (only; SD/MMC etc don't seem to cause this) will throw up a read error (which you can "ignore", but it's annoying) unless there is a card plugged in.

That's what I'm doing with my old 8Mb card :-)