April 18, 2009

Fireball V90 CNC routes Hacked Gadgets into an Old Circuit Board

  I had mentioned in a few posts along the way that I would be getting a CNC machine shortly. Well as you can see it’s here and working. 🙂 The CNC machine that I purchased is the Fireball V90 CNC machine. If you are a Nuts and Volts reader, this was the one that they featured a few months ago (PDF). In the coming weeks there will be some

1977 Infotek Ad

  I stumbled on this old Infotek Ad today. It really puts the prices of computers and computer power today in perspective. I wonder how hard it was to sell one of their Word Processing packages which even after the $2,100 discount was $10,850? If that price isn’t bad enough we have to remember that a dollar in 1977 bought you significantly more than it does today! I sure hope

Name the Thing Contest - 84

Thanks to EASEUS for providing their EASEUS Partition Master Professional Edition as the prize this week. Partition Master Professional allows you to perform complex partition management with ease. This contest will run for one week (April 18 – 23, 2009) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. Please do not