{"id":1570,"date":"2006-01-26T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1570\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T12:28:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:28:10","slug":"1570","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1570","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have come to the conclusion that anything can be obtained on eBay. For instance I am a board member of TAPR, which is a wireless R&#038;D organisation based in the USA. Anyway TAPR is now about 25 years old. One of the projects they released about 20 years back is being sold on eBay with a current bid of US$2. I am not sure if this will go up very much &#8211; I suspect that it will stay about that price. The person who is the top bidder is one of the other board members, and I think he has only bid so that he can have a complete collection of TAPR products. In this day and age there is no reason for a radio interface for a 20 year old computer. <\/p>\n<p>Low End Mac has a story on the <a href=\"http:\/\/lowendmac.com\/orchard\/06\/0123.html\">history of Pixar<\/a>. I have a friend in the USA how was deeply involved in the very early days with working on some of the hardware used by the company. I did not know about much of the history of the organisation despite closely following the company over the years. Also, The Register is reporting that they have found a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2006\/01\/25\/flying_car_launch_site\" \/>Flying Car in Western Australia<\/a>. Well, that is what it looks like. It is probably a sunshade actually&#8230; But it is impossible to prove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have come to the conclusion that anything can be obtained on eBay. For instance I am a board member of TAPR, which is a wireless R&#038;D organisation based in the USA. Anyway TAPR is now about 25 years old. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1570\">  Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5cfmK-1570","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}