Today's eBay bargains...

[ffutures]

...were an Intelplay QX3 microscope (the cheapo digital microscope Intel sold briefly; it was aimed at the kiddy market, but it's actually quite a good bit of kit, and someone has written a Mac driver for it so I can use it with the laptop) and a two-drive Acard DVD duplicator, which I want to use at work. Combined price was 49 quid including delivery, no warranty on either but both work fine. I'm rather pleased...

Having said that, the DVD duplicator didn't have any manual and Acard's site seems to be down. Most of the menu options are reasonably obvious and I've successfully copied a couple of disks to test it, but it'd be nice to get hold of the instructions if someone happens to have them in PDF form or something. Apart from anything else, it looks like it can be connected to a PC and used as external SCSI drives, it'd be nice to have the documentation on that.

Later

QX3 photos - The Queen on a 2p stamp at 10, 60 and 200x

Comments

[ebony-silvers.livejournal.com]

Now that's just cool!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

From the look of it that's actually area magnification, not linear magnification, so not as impressive as it might sound - x10 is actually x3.16, x60 is actually x7.8 and x200 is actually x14.1 - that's fairly common for cheap and toy microscopes.

What I want it for is low magnification work anyway, so it ought to suite me quite well.

[ebony-silvers.livejournal.com]

It's still cool.