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Vinyl Fantasy “Five lasers read the grooves of the record, which the player translates into sound. The lasers don’t physically touch the record, so they won’t wear it down. $15,000” audioturntable.com

You have to type all of this just to print “Hello world” to screen: ***************************** IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. HELLO. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. DATA DIVISION. PROCEDURE DIVISION. MAIN SECTION. DISPLAY “Hello World!” STOP RUN. **************************** Still, it’s not as long-winded as Assembler-Z80-Console…

“I often get clients (or their print designers) telling me that I have to use a certain set of Pantone colours in web pages. I’ve created a Pantone to RGB conversion table to help change from print to screen colours. I hope you find this of some use.”

Version 2 Wow, this is the best one I’ve ever used. Triad is my favourite. I never actually use these to find my colours, but even so, its fun to flood the eyes for a few minutes with all these wonderfully matched possibilities. It even shows you what the colours look like to people with

The new XBox is going to be much more than a tool to play Halo 9. It’s going to (finally) integrate all of your media resources (including phone). The little silver box won’t just blur the line between PC and TV, but essentially turn the line into a big circle, with everything inside… “Xbox 360