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About
primrosebank.net
Welcome to my little corner of
the "Interweb"
My name is Dave and I live in rural Aberdeenshire, Scotland,
just inside the boundary of the
Cairngorms National Park.
I am a retired
Control Engineer in "real life" and given that my
pre-retirement location was Aberdeen, you
may not be surprised to find that I used to worked in the
Oil &
Gas industry. I am bit of a technogeek, but
also with a passion for "mature" technology - or as my wife
would put it "old rubbish". These pages are a mishmash of
various things of interest to me, but very likely, few
others.
Under the headings at the top of the page, you'll find :-
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Describes the various Automation systems that I
have set up around my home, ranging from basic
measurement of some physical properties such as
temperature and humidity to simple status
monitoring. |
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A grand title - but just a few retro computing
items that I have available for sale |
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Should probably have been more correctly titled
Retro Computers Describes my introduction to
computing through the early days of "home computers" of the 1980s,
along with some other vintage products before the
days of the PC. |
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An overview of my home network |
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Contains an overview of my photographic equipment and links to a
small selection of my photographs. |
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Documents the various "tools" that I have at my
disposal for working on my home automation and
computing systems, including 'Scope, Logic Analyser,
etc. |
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Describe various systems installed around my
home which interface with the services provided by
the utility companies. |
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An overview of the hardware used in my Weather
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This site is a "work-in-progress" and contains a range of
material from completed to barely started. The quantity / quality of the
various sections is a function of the amount of time that I have
spent on them and my interest in the particular area.
You will
find that the most comprehensive area on the site is dedicated
the Memotech MTX series, an 8-bit (Z80A) based system from the
mid '80s. I am particularly interested in this subject and hope
to have created one of the most comprehensive repositories for
Memotech MTX information on the internet - see if you agree by
going straight to the
Memotech MTX index page.
The content and structure of these pages evolved over many years
and started out mainly as a place to keep a personal record of
my hobbies. As is no doubt abundantly clear from the pages
themselves, I have had no formal training in web page design and
the site followed similar design style and layout to the first
few web pages that I cobbled together in the now obsolete
Microsoft Frontpage web page editor, I was not aware of good
website design practices such as
CSS or how pages
are rendered by client side browsers.
Perhaps the biggest error that I made is that the majority of
text here uses the default font which browsers display as
Times
New Roman, a font present on most (all?) client systems and
thus almost guaranteed to be rendered consistently on user's
systems, but unfortunately, one not best suited to web page
presentation. With hindsight, I realise that I should have
explicitly declared the font to be used as one more easily read
such as Arial
or Helvetica.
As time allows (which is likely to be never), I may get around
to tidying up the site, but don't hold your breath!
Comments / criticisms welcomed.
The pages here are subject to continual change, so :
If you find any
broken links or other problems,
please
report
them.
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