Cool things in the classroom at @computinghistory.org.uk for Retro Computer Fest ‘25 3D software running on Amiga, @dexterstechlab.bsky.social with a beast of a Quantel Paintbox, @breakintoprogram.co.uk’s Einstein squirting code on to ZX Spectrum, @matteusbeus.bsky.social’s new Megadrive game Chords

the devils child will rise from the world of politics... said in 1976

The Sun’s attempt at punching-down on trans people with a poll positioned slap-bang in the middle of a leading transphobic propaganda piece, has spectacularly backfired on them! 😆

that's just a few years out of my era but... yea 😍

I am trawling through 1000s of #Quantel documentation files and found this about Paintbox Options. 'Options' was a way to buy a cut-down V-Series Paintbox but you could add on functions as you needed them saving you buying the full version. It shows a base Paintbox at £23,500, dated August 1994.

342 pages of documentation about how to make #Quantel documentation. 😍

#Boddingtons, the Cream of Manchester back on cask 😍

Best beer in the world. Next month it comes back on Cask 😍

I am afraid the Quantel Harriet will be quite operational when our friends arrive at Retrofest in Cambridge... www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/74558/Re...

Back in 1999 i had a video setup... this is it, full on DVD viewing and audio pleasure😁 Rear projection TV and 5.1 DTS sound. Twenty Six years ago... 😱

#OTD 45 years ago (7 Oct 1980) according to my diary, I drew these images for the Hitchhiker's Guide BBC TV series. Douglas Adams as both the ad exec and as Paula, the worst poet in the universe. I was 19 years old and having fun.

Windows 98 on a Pentium 3, Windows XP on a Xeon and a Quantel Paintbox Express. What should i put in the top right corner 🤔

2 October 1925 John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first television receiver in London, using greyscale technology. First, a ventriloquist dummy head, Stooky Bill, then a human being, William Edward Taynton, the first person to be televised in a full tonal range.

Retro computers, games and Quantel Paintboxes. Maybe a pint of good beer along the way. Come and join us in Cambridge!

Paintbox HD 😍

Anyone out there able to source me a copy of Corel Ventura 7 so i don't have to browse the warez sites?

I have been gifted with original old documents that allow you to record and document amazing old tech from the 1980s... This is one page from the #Quantel DVM-8000/1 (Mirage) Installation manual from 1987 converted from it's original MS Word for DOS format... wow😍

Eurotrip 2025. Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland.

Dated 2005 and earlier... there's too many images to comprehend on this disk. From a #Quantel Picturebox Express.

Can anyone help here, we're trying to identify this beige / turquoise box shown in a #Quantel video. It's inside their Graphic Paintbox 2 Demo suite in Newbury so might be print/photo related. The video dates to 1996. There's a Mac there for scale. Any ideas welcome!

One very expensive SD card! Time for some testing in a #quantel 😁

Every bloody day, trans people find their very existence challenged and experience repeated dehumanisation , meanwhile abuse by cis men goes barely mentioned and victims of Epstein are still maligned m.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Mo...

It's funny when you look back at content you created nigh on 10 years ago and you realise the world is now a different place...

Rate my battlestation! This is a Sony Anycast Station AWS-G500HD from 2007. It's essentially a Sony luggable PIII 933Mhz PC that runs Linux 2.4.20 with a ton of FPGAs to do the heavy lifting of a video switcher. Plus glorious physical buttons, faders, dials, and removable keyboard. And a jog wheel.

@stinkyox.bsky.social Hey Jeff, isn't it about time i fixed your #Quantel Paintbox? 😉

A beautiful addition to the flight sim collection at the museum, @microsoft.com Flight Sim 2 from 1984

New old stock 😍 Vintage old stock hardware, just like it was in the mid 1990s. 🤩

Love this, thanks to @opworkshop.bsky.social ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ipk3...

There are #quantel projects afoot 😁. Will post more details soon😜

31 July 1990 The final IBA Engineering Announcements for the Radio and Television Trade was broadcast from Crawley Court, Winchester. The ITA/IBA had been broadcasting this programme since 1970 and ended due to the IBA being disbanded in 1990. tvark.org/iba-engineer... tvark.org/engineering-...

I wager that Dexters Lab is the only place you can find HD Doom running on a Pentium 3 Tualatin and Windows 98 while a Xeon runs Windows XP and Alcohol 120% along side a Quantel Paintbox Express. Prove me wrong...

FREE! Sony PWW-EX1 camera (broken). I used this camera as a live SDI source but it doesn't output a valid SDI signal now. Other damage: broken plastics, LCD doesn't work. It does power on, menus/controls work, you get a picture/audio in the viewfinder. I can post it for the cost it takes to ship.

I remember when the entire operating system for my PC totalled 2.4Mb on two 1.2 Mb 5.25" floppies. Now my phone needs to download 1300Mb to update itself. 🤯

The #Quantel EM2077-76 Backstore 2. a later revision card for the Quantel Graphic Paintbox 2, 384 32mbit DRAMS for a total of 1.5Gb memory, it dates from around 1996/1997. The GPB2 didn't do video graphics it did print graphics in CMYK and needed a LOT of memory!

After resurrecting the Graphic Paintbox 2 at the weekend we now have a known global list of 24 working Quantel Paintboxes. An amazing achievement by the Quantel community! Notable omissions though are the Quantel Editbox and Henry, several do exist but unfortunately are non-working at this point.

Helping out a friend in Cologne fixing their #Quantel Graphic Paintbox 2. It has been broken for over 11 years! 😲 Quantel only ever sold 38 of these machines so it is a real privilege to see one running.

For some reason i get an amazing signal here, no idea why 😉. #koln #cologne

What most do you remember about #Quantel from the 1990s, good or bad?

The crew at BBC Manchester, Dock House smashing it tonight for BBC Northwest Tonight live from the gallery. This is as live as TV gets😁. I want to thank everyone there for being awesome and allowing me to be part of it! 😍

A #Quantel Paintbox and Ramcorder making a return to BBC North 😲. First time for me though which is why i look 😁

Big heads up to the team at Retrofest 2025 at Steam in Swindon last weekend. Amazing show of old computing and electronics. Next year is going to be epic! This is me with my rather simple setup playing Quake on Dual 3Dfx Voodoo 2.

How many out there remember making video graphics on the Quantel DPB-7001 Digital Paint Box?

Another #Quantel project being worked on an interface for the Quantel Tablet/Keyboard. This vampires the data from the tablet and exposes it as a Windows HID. As the project progresses it should allow modern peripherals to work on a real Quantel Paintbox. Big thanks to MerseyViking for the work👍

#Quantel Remote MO was a 1U rackmount box that contained a Snetcom board and a Sony MO drive. It boots over the Picturenet network and allows all Picturenet users access to the MO drive. Snetcom is also used inside Paintbox, Hal, Henry etc as the network interface. This particular one is from 1997.

There are video cables and then there are #Quantel Digital 422 Video cables 🤘

The #Quantel Paintbox in the early 1990s had a built in feature called VERIFY, it would write data into one of the stores and then manipulate it using the hardware and then read back a checksum of the result. If it matched it passed VERIFY. This test is running on a Quantel Harriet from March 1993.

Looks like someone has changed the MANCHESTER_ENVIRONMENT_MAP setting to SIMPSONS_TITLES_CLOUDS.BMP

A friend is currently working on their #Quantel Henry Infinity. The big guns from Quantel in the late 1999s. This would have set you back 1/2 million pounds 😱

Cheers!

IMO one of the best computer hacker movies of the 1980s that nobody has seen. Smart Money (1986) directed by Bernard Rose.