Commodore VIC-20 Vintage Computer Link: PC Museum Tweeting VIC-20 Dick’s Gadget Warehouse Released in January 1981, the Commodore VIC-20 had, according to Dick, 8 KB RAM, running on a 1 MHz processor, with a 16 colours display output (which you just hooked up to your TV). It was the first computer that sold more [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2010
Episode 1033
Puppy Tweets Pet Tweeting Device Link: Amazon We’ve had the TwitterPeek (Episode 958), a device dedicated to tweeting, and the Withings Scale (Episode 997) that tweets Leo’s weight. It’s only a matter of time when our pets catch up, and here’s the device for it. From the recent Toy Fair, Puppy Tweets is Mattel‘s [...]
Episode 1032
Edna Meisner’s Up Chuck and Sugar Lobster Egg Separator / Brown Sugar Softener Link: ednasceramictreasures.webs.com Turn-The-Tables-Tuesday Two weeks ago, fans Steve and Stephanie from Nova Scotia made a special effort to go to the TWiT Cottage, on a Monday, in order to watch the recording of the Daily Giz Wiz. Stephanie’s mother, Edna Meisner [...]
Episode 1031
SeaLegs Amphibious Boat Link: SeaLegs Dick managed to escape the snow storm in New York a couple of weeks ago to fly down to the Miami Boat Show, where he saw this amphibious boat, the SeaLegs, an inflatable boat with a wheel at the bow and two at the stern which can be lowered [...]
