{"id":258,"date":"2013-04-03T09:41:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T16:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/?p=258"},"modified":"2018-10-01T06:30:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T13:30:24","slug":"almost-a-year-since-my-last-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"Almost a year since my last post!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yikes, almost a year since I updated the blog, going to make a concerted effort to put one post up a week. We&#8217;ll see how long that lasts. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p>On the retro computing front I&#8217;ve been purging a lot of my collection as I don&#8217;t seem to have the free time to pursue hobbies lately. Most of my time seems to be consumed with work and being a dad. A lot of it was junk really and life is too short to horde old computer hardware. I will admit that after working on computers all day my desire to work on old machines is diminished. <\/p>\n<p>I do still have an assortment of older machines, maybe 10 or so. A recent acquisition is an Osbourne One luggable for $2, has CP\/M and bunch of software and seems to work well. <\/p>\n<p>On the photography side I&#8217;ve made some good acquisitions. I picked up a Mamiya 645 Super with two lenses, power winder and accessories along with the original boxes. I also received a Mamiya RZ67 as a gift with a lens and waist level viewfinder. I also got myself a new Induro 214AT tripod and Manfrotto 498RC2 ball head. 2013 is the year of 120 roll film for me although I&#8217;m still shooting some digital and 35mm film. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yikes, almost a year since I updated the blog, going to make a concerted effort to put one post up a week. We&#8217;ll see how long that lasts. \ud83d\ude1b On the retro computing front I&#8217;ve been purging a lot of my collection as I don&#8217;t seem to have the free time to pursue hobbies lately. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/?p=258\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Almost a year since my last post!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-hardware","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sysop.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}