Comments on: That Really Cool Phone http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1149 Jason Scott's Weblog Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:59:02 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jim Leonard http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1149/comment-page-1#comment-4375 Jim Leonard Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:37:51 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1149#comment-4375 Stringing a composite cable to a remote monitor near your bed isn't geeky, it's one of the coolest things I've ever read! I swear, we lived parallel lives. I, too, hacked up electric things as best I could. Next time you're over, make me drag out the AT&T PC 6300 with the extra drive bay -- that I sawed into the case. And if I had my original AT&T PC 6300 (our first, which sadly has gone to that dumpster in the sky), I could show you the headphone jack I made using a jack, wire, and alligator clips (was afraid of soldering). I used this to hook my IBM PC to my boom box and compose music in Music Construction Set. It sounded a little bit more like actual music that way (and less like stunted robots in a murder-suicide pact). Stringing a composite cable to a remote monitor near your bed isn’t geeky, it’s one of the coolest things I’ve ever read!

I swear, we lived parallel lives. I, too, hacked up electric things as best I could. Next time you’re over, make me drag out the AT&T PC 6300 with the extra drive bay — that I sawed into the case. And if I had my original AT&T PC 6300 (our first, which sadly has gone to that dumpster in the sky), I could show you the headphone jack I made using a jack, wire, and alligator clips (was afraid of soldering). I used this to hook my IBM PC to my boom box and compose music in Music Construction Set. It sounded a little bit more like actual music that way (and less like stunted robots in a murder-suicide pact).

]]> By: Jason Scott http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1149/comment-page-1#comment-4374 Jason Scott Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:43:39 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1149#comment-4374 MAKE's an odd animal to me. I am delighted with how much they've done wonderfully and well, from design to PDF-issues to organizing events.. I'm just worried they're going to turn on a dime into everything being political and having a "point". Like I said, this is a very, very minor fear. MAKE’s an odd animal to me. I am delighted with how much they’ve done wonderfully and well, from design to PDF-issues to organizing events.. I’m just worried they’re going to turn on a dime into everything being political and having a “point”. Like I said, this is a very, very minor fear.

]]> By: Dan Moniz http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1149/comment-page-1#comment-4373 Dan Moniz Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:39:19 +0000 http://ascii.textfiles.com/?p=1149#comment-4373 I don't get why you think _MAKE_ will make neophyte tinkerers turn towards, shall I say, professional (for want of a better word) projects. I think _MAKE_ is enormously successful in getting people to play with the stuff they have around, and many of the projects I've seen have no serious point or end, they're just fun. I don’t get why you think _MAKE_ will make neophyte tinkerers turn towards, shall I say, professional (for want of a better word) projects. I think _MAKE_ is enormously successful in getting people to play with the stuff they have around, and many of the projects I’ve seen have no serious point or end, they’re just fun.

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