1st ade

@magpie patrick - is ours still in the garage?

A long time (read as > 30 years) ago I built a hardware box for level conversion RS232 <---> MIDI complete with "In", "Out" and "Thru" DIN connectors. Then (as @nicknorman says) played with reprogramming the UART in my Z80 based machine to get the right Baud rate on the RS232 port. Then (finally) writing routines to output the start and end of which note I wanted from Z80 Assembler. It sounded great through my Yamaha keyboard, although I'm not entirely convinced it was worth it from a musical viewpoint. Mentally, however, it beat (no pun intended) the Crossword or Sudoku any day!

It's worth mentioning that @magpie patrick and I are (in parallel) doing the same with the Ian Moss Collection (as it's formally known). Dad left around 50,000 slides, of which perhaps half are of RCHS / ROMA interest. Unfortunately (for us) Dad's memory was excellent - Three months after leaving home on a stretcher, he was asked to give a lecture at the Care Home where he was now a permanent resident. Without hesitating, he gave myself and @magpie patrick a list of which boxes of slides he wanted such as "Green PVC case No 126, capacity 200, probably in the Dining Room". The knowledge died with him. We've so far scanned around 33,000 slides - about 17,000 to go - none with meaningful captions. We're working with RCHS / ROMA as to the technical feasibility of having an Album (within ROMA) or a standalone website "The Ian Moss Collection" with 25,000 uncaptioned slides and asking for public help. Picking single slides and posting on either CWF or Social Media is simply not scalable.

At the risk of stating the obvious, do you mean the RCHS or ROMA, the RCHS Online Media Archive? https://rchsimagearchive.org.uk/

Have you tried the famous echo in the reading room in the British Museum?

@magpie patrick may recognise the reference - it was the car I learnt to drive in... (Bright yellow Ford Cortina estate, 1.6) But I did miss the option to get in the exaggerated "fower" (four)

You did when I took the exam (quite a few years ago). I practised by "reporting" index numbers as they overtook me on the motorway - "Just been passed by Tango Tango Charlie, eight six zero, Mike"

There was an incident (can't remember nor find the details now) where a group of school children had to be rescued from a minibus trapped in floodwater. The "terrified children" were interviewed by the media and said they had screamed at the driver not to go past signs saying "Danger, Flood" - the driver responded that the signs had been there since the previous flood several months earlier, the same children had sat quietly during sunny weather when he drove past the same signs, and he knew that the local authority were slow to remove warning signs...

But only in the US...

Now if only I could get the Ian Moss (AKA "Magpie the Elder") collection to the same state...

I'm still working (after some years...) on persuading Mrs 1st ade of this one - "But they must be hungry, I need to put more food out" she will say. I have just bought her a "feeder for small birds" to keep Pigeons etc at bay.

Yes - we have spotted the options for reporting A N Other as "an account no longer required"... One of many reasons the Mods seem to move at glacial speed sometimes.

Passed on to those who can action...

We are on it - thanks... With regard to one person having two usernames - the Rules (available on site) are (my highlight) Re-registering because you have been banned or temporarily suspended is "not on"; there is a reasonable argument that "I can't remember my old logon" is OK. And you'd be amazed at the number of messages we get on the lines of "Can you help so-and-so? He's forgotten his password and changed his email address and can't get back on. He would tell you himself, but he can't get in to tell you..." On behalf of the Mods.

Strictly... ... so one could argue that registering a second account because you can't remember the password for the first one is OK! But, the Site Admins are quite helpful at resetting lost or forgotten account details. With a certain "Catch 22" element. It won't be the first time I've had a message from an existing member, "Can you give 'so-and-so' a hand resetting his password; he would message himself, but he can't log in to do so..."

Pratchett?

As a request from the Mods, please also avoid opening an account called "Guest"...

Mrs 1st Ade doesn't wait for that - when the vortex chamber (or whatever it is called) has compressed the contents to a near Black Hole Density, she says "but it never loses suction"... It then takes an hour or two with forceps, kitchen knife and (in extreme cases) another vacuum cleaner to actually clean the filter...

Why don't you two both go ohm?

And we did - three foot flame over a solid oak workbench, what could go wrong? (even with 30 kids and the teacher in the room)

Damn - we normally walk the dog down there (Wolverton side of the aqueduct) but haven't the past few days as it's been too wet. Sounds like we missed a good photo opportunity?