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Bobbing Boat

Beauty and calm, so close to Birmingham, the UK's 2nd-largest city.

Some historic bridges over the BCN Wyrley & Essington canal are cast iron. Like old bridges over most UK canals, the iron parts are painted black and white, the brick is unpainted.

It's jarring to see several Cannock Extension canal bridges tagged with a new, bright blue, Canal & River Trust sign. The image description (ALT text) describes original signage.

A steel-arched canal bridge that is level on top, and has a brick parapet (the sides, like railings, but formed of a brick wall). The brick has some decorative detail, where bricklayers showed their skill. In the photo, a narrowboat is passing under the bridge, and the photo was taken looking forward ober its roof. The bridge's signage, facing all boats passing below, dates back to Britain's industrial revolution. The largest sign reads: "Horseley Coal & Iron Company 1824" as black letters spaced across several meters of the white arch. A second sign reads: "Persall Works Bridge" and this sign resembles the signage on all bridges in this area, which are named, not numbered. There's a third sign that reads: "Site of Pelsall Iron Co. 1832 - 1892. Presented for the millennium, 994 - 1994". (Those last digits are very small and I may have misread them.)
#CanalLife#canal#bridge
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Jean-Francois Mezei

Some ISP news:

Bell Canada bought 8 ISPs in total.
It is keeping 2 uits. One in Toronto, operating as Primus, and one in Montreal operating as EBOX. The Primus unit is basically Distributel (which had had Primuse under its wings for years). EBOX combines Ebox, B2B2C, Oricom and the rest.

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Carlos Rodrigues 🪣

One interesting feature of that 1994 Sony design was the remote control. It was rather beefy, and if you pulled it apart from its hard sleeve (by pressing the tabs on the top), you'd discover it had buttons on both sides.

One side meant for power users, the other meant for your grandma.

As a teen, I thought that was super cool.

Sony RM-830/831 remote control. The remote is reversible (buttons on both sides) and fits inside a hard sleeve that hides the buttons on the back face. It's a rather large remote. One side has 52 buttons. The other only 23 (including large program and volume up/down buttons). I have very stong tactile memories of this remote. I vividly remember the weight, and how the keys, and the motions of reversing it, felt like. Weird...
#retro#hardware#crt
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Carlos Rodrigues 🪣

I also concluded from this long PS2 session that Sony dropped the ball regarding the aesthetics of their later CRTs.

Even though my KV-21FX30E is featureful, has good sound and picture, and is contemporary to the early PS2 models (2001), I'm not really fond of its silver paint and blocky lines.

Their mid-90's design was much better looking, especially the "compact" ones (no speakers hanging off the sides) like this random example from the Internet. 🤩

My curb-found Sony KV-21FX30E from 2001, showing "Tourist Trophy" (2006) for the PS2. It's silver and everything in it is right angles, at least when viewed from the front. Pehaps as a nod to its flat-faced picture tube.
A Sony KV-X2972U from 1994. It's black and with slighly rounded corners. The speakers have slim grilles angled towards the back. It has a strip of dark (almost black) red translucent plastic below the screen (vertically flat but slighly curved horizontally Trinitron). Behind the strip there are three rather large square LEDs (power, and two stereo NICAM left-light indicators) and a panel with some RCA inputs and buttons. This is a random picture from the Internet. Well... not so random because it took me a while to find one of this specific case design, which matches the one my parents had (albeit this one is larger, I believe). There were contemporary ones with speakers hanging off the sides, which looked cool at the time but haven't aged as well.
#retrogaming#hardware#crt
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