	RS232 open....The Ipad is such a revolutionary device. It is the answer to world Peace and Oil spills, makes me want to iBarf.
January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2009 December 2009 January 2010 February 2010 March 2010 April 2010 May 2010 June 2010 July 2010 The "New" Lounge PET VIC TED LAB STORE My Collection ABOUT ME coming soon Disclaimer: All the information presented here, was taken from the following sources: Brain Bagnal's Book On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore. Available at Amazon.ca The new edition had been delayed at Amazon until Feb.2010 Also, a lot of information has come from Video interviews with Bil Herd and Dave Haynie. Dave has a lot of videos on You-Tube. Search them out.. I wish I could post them here, but I don't have permission. Lastly, more sites on the net have information. There are even a few dedicated sites to the C16. Do a Goggle search, because Bing is just a flash in the pan.:) Please help keep the lounge alive and donate Today.Your donation helps keep an Computer from ending up in a Landfill, and keeping the history Alive for future generations!	Last Update June 10, 2010 Bandwidth Pollution Part 2 and other stuff. Holly crap its June 10 already.. I received in another huge haul of Amiga stuff last week. In it was a boxed Commodore A1200, another A500 and an assortment of C64 stuff, including 3 more 1541 Floppy drives, so the past week, I have been busy going through it all and playing with a "Stock" A1200 with only a 20 meg Hard Drive and Workbench 3.0- it only has 3.0 ROMS. I wanted to touch back on my last blog about Bandwidth Pollution. I also wanted to bring out that all the software manufacturers' are guilty of this also. When you boot your computer, think about all the software trying to connect to the internet. If you have some computer savvy, you shut down allot in MSConfig to save boot time, but just how many things are broadcasting all the time from your computer? I can tell you that this last week on the A1200 has been an utter joy, because it took less then 3 seconds to boot, and I don't have to relie on the machine connecting to the net every 10 seconds. I have a old desktop computer connected to my big tv to play movies and Windows is always screaming at me to connect to the internet for updates. It even tells you how many days since it last was on the net. Have we become so reliant on the net, that your computer will throw a temper tantrum if it can't connect? That box is made just for watching movies and DVD's, so it doesn't need in anyway to be hooked up to the net, but all the software wants it's internet fix. This last week, Almighty Steve took to the stage and unleashed the new Iphone 4 to the slobbering masses. Guess what? Everything about that phone screams "Bandwidth Pollution". And now Apple wants to push Ads to your phone also, causing MORE Data usage and fees. I can see the Carriers killing the handheld market, because the phones will omit so much BP, and the data rates will get so crazy that we all might as well go back to just a cell phone like 12 years ago. Stream a movie to your iPad? Forget that, another $1000 bill to watch "Spiderman 2" (BELL Canada, charged a guy $2500 to watch Spiderman 2 on his phone, after they launch a whole bus campaign about "watching movies on your phone", a few years back). I was also asked this week if I was going to get an iPad. The short answer is/was "No", Even IF I liked Apple and was remotely interested in their products, there are MUCH better tablets coming out soon. I wouldn't even consider the iPhone 4, when the HTC EVO 4G is so much cooler. I would not even look at a smart phone or a tablet unless it could seamlessly switch to Wi-fi or was Wi-Fi Only. Not until the Cell phone companies offer a reasonable "Unlimited" plan, And when I say "Unlimited" I mean UNLIMITED because here in Canada, the cell phone companies "Unlimited" means 1 gig a month or so, which,to me, is just pain fraud and false advertising, but they have been getting away with raping the customers for so long with false advertising, its truly pathetic. a typical example is the cable company does NOT guarantee high speed internet, even though you pay for "extra" speed, they can not even guarantee you will be connected to the internet even if you pay them. They guarantee only "up too" a certain speed. I wish I could say I will only pay my bill "Up to" what they want, but it may be less or none because I won't guarantee anything. -G out.	SPONSORS OF THE LOUNGE ADVERTISE Your Company Here: E-mail the lounge for more information

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Disclaimer:
All the information presented here, was taken from the following sources:
Brain Bagnal's Book
On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore.

Available at Amazon.ca
The new edition had been delayed at Amazon until Feb.2010

Also, a lot of information has come from Video interviews with Bil Herd and Dave Haynie. Dave has a lot of videos on You-Tube. Search them out.. I wish I could post them here, but I don't have permission.

Lastly, more sites on the net have information. There are even a few dedicated sites to the C16. Do a Goggle search, because Bing is just a flash in the pan.:)

Please help keep the lounge alive and donate Today.Your donation helps keep an Computer from ending up in a Landfill, and keeping the history Alive for future generations!

Last Update June 10, 2010

Bandwidth Pollution Part 2 and other stuff.

Holly crap its June 10 already.. I received in another huge haul of Amiga stuff last week. In it was a boxed Commodore A1200, another A500 and an assortment of C64 stuff, including 3 more 1541 Floppy drives, so the past week, I have been busy going through it all and playing with a "Stock" A1200 with only a 20 meg Hard Drive and Workbench 3.0- it only has 3.0 ROMS.

I wanted to touch back on my last blog about Bandwidth Pollution. I also wanted to bring out that all the software manufacturers' are guilty of this also. When you boot your computer, think about all the software trying to connect to the internet. If you have some computer savvy, you shut down allot in MSConfig to save boot time, but just how many things are broadcasting all the time from your computer? I can tell you that this last week on the A1200 has been an utter joy, because it took less then 3 seconds to boot, and I don't have to relie on the machine connecting to the net every 10 seconds. I have a old desktop computer connected to my big tv to play movies and Windows is always screaming at me to connect to the internet for updates. It even tells you how many days since it last was on the net. Have we become so reliant on the net, that your computer will throw a temper tantrum if it can't connect? That box is made just for watching movies and DVD's, so it doesn't need in anyway to be hooked up to the net, but all the software wants it's internet fix.

This last week, Almighty Steve took to the stage and unleashed the new Iphone 4 to the slobbering masses. Guess what? Everything about that phone screams "Bandwidth Pollution". And now Apple wants to push Ads to your phone also, causing MORE Data usage and fees. I can see the Carriers killing the handheld market, because the phones will omit so much BP, and the data rates will get so crazy that we all might as well go back to just a cell phone like 12 years ago. Stream a movie to your iPad? Forget that, another $1000 bill to watch "Spiderman 2" (BELL Canada, charged a guy $2500 to watch Spiderman 2 on his phone, after they launch a whole bus campaign about "watching movies on your phone", a few years back).

I was also asked this week if I was going to get an iPad. The short answer is/was "No", Even IF I liked Apple and was remotely interested in their products, there are MUCH better tablets coming out soon. I wouldn't even consider the iPhone 4, when the HTC EVO 4G is so much cooler. I would not even look at a smart phone or a tablet unless it could seamlessly switch to Wi-fi or was Wi-Fi Only. Not until the Cell phone companies offer a reasonable "Unlimited" plan, And when I say "Unlimited" I mean UNLIMITED because here in Canada, the cell phone companies "Unlimited" means 1 gig a month or so, which,to me, is just pain fraud and false advertising, but they have been getting away with raping the customers for so long with false advertising, its truly pathetic. a typical example is the cable company does NOT guarantee high speed internet, even though you pay for "extra" speed, they can not even guarantee you will be connected to the internet even if you pay them. They guarantee only "up too" a certain speed. I wish I could say I will only pay my bill "Up to" what they want, but it may be less or none because I won't guarantee anything.

-G out.

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