DextersTechLab - The Quantel Guy

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Shock News! I appear to be editing a video!😱

The MicroBeast is a big hit at Geekery this evening.

Vintage overload? Windows 98 with GeForce 6800 & Dual Voodoo2, Windows XP with a nVidia Quadra and a Quantel Paintbox Express. No emulation, all vintage hardware 😉

Inside the top of my #Quantel Hal Express (s/n 13637), see that big chonky Lambda Omega MML600 600Watt PSU? It's just gone not worky 😒🙄. I am suspecting the control circuit start-up caps as it will intermittently start and run normally, a common fault on PSUs like this.

#Quantel repair time! Salvaged two NVRAMs from a dead CPU43 board so they can be used as replacements on CPU board that needs new ones. Quite a job to remove them as the 'Snaphat' ICs are SMD so Quantel made these adaptor boards with very fiddly turned pins. All good to go!

OP Workshop is the official sponsor of this year's VCFMW Talks! I'll have a table (A101) with an exhibit, "The Art of Computing" featuring hardware such as the Quantel Paintbox, Fairlight CVI, HD footage on a period HDVS monitor, & more! See you this Sep. 12-13 at the Schaumburg Convention Center!

Finally got the HPI Baja running! There are still some bits to fix though!

I bet there's quite a few 70s, 80s and 90s kids out there that know this tool!

Please sign this petition to help save Jodrell Bank. Thanks. c.org/hJPY2VFrkW

Really great evening at the Chiverton Tap tonight, such great company 😍

Amazing #pokemongo raid day in #stockport today. Picked up a hundo mega mewtwo 😲

Anyone else remember the eggxactly from #dragonsden?

We remember... John Logie Baird - inventor 13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946 Age 57 John demonstrated the world's first mechanical TV system in 1926. He went on to invent the first publicly demonstrated colour television system and the first viable purely electronic colour television picture tube.

Sorry to hear the news of David Hockney's passing. Here he is trying out a #Quantel DPB-7001 Digital Paint Box in the BBC Painting With Light program. Without this the Paintbox would be even less known than it is now, so thank you David 👍 🫡 youtu.be/ZI8RbdPe4ro

In a #Quantel #Paintbox there are stored brush stamps. They are bitmaps stored in Diskstore that are stamped into the image (in Mainstore) as you paint. This also includes the menu font. Using diagnostic commands we can copy the brush stamps and the menu font into the mainstore and then view it!

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When is it too much lens?

#manchester #england

A McDexter Bacon, Egg & Cheese Muffin. #breakfast

Been on Pokemon Go since 2016!

It's #retrofest2026 very soon indeed - just over a week! Saturday is SOLD OUT, but there's still tickets for Sunday - www.retrofest.uk/tickets.php - and it is, obviously, going to be awesome! Here's a few more photos from last year to get us in the mood ...

🤣 at myself for the message i left for me... Plugged an old 32Mb (yes Mb not Gb!) PC Card into a reader and found this on sector zero!

It's 2026 and to this day the whole of the Quantel community knows of no working #Quantel Henry systems. These were $1/4 million machines 20 years ago. They were so bleeding edge at the time they did not survive 🤯

Well it's done, after 6567km walked my Zygarde is now maxed out at 4093cp, best buddied and has three moves. It's taken about three years 😮 #pokemongo

What does this big empty space need? Well, it needs lots and lots of vintage computers - and YOU! It's just 5 weeks to Retrofest 2026 (gulp) and tickets are selling fast. Buy yours now and do your bit to fill this big empty space! www.retrofest.uk/tickets.php

This MeanWell RS-15 is so small and cute! 🥰

I challenge anyone to beat getting four networked #Quantel machines at the same time in 2026...

Thursdays 😵‍💫

I love the older parts and buildings of #manchester 😍. This is on Port Street.

Dated 1997, could this be any more 1990s and #Quantel HAL influenced? 😂 #bykergrove

#Quantel 2103-87 Clipnet P2. Allowed the Quantel Henry and Editbox to share video from another machine in real time over a 1Gbit fiber network. Looks to be dated around the middle of 2000. 14 layer PCB too which is impressive!

Been playing Pokémon Go since August 2016 so i am coming up to my 10 year anniversary 😱. Today i hit Level 70 😱😱. 85+ million xp, 19,500 km walked and 81,000 pokemon caught. @pokemongoapp.bsky.social

@antanddec.com Some original GFX from ITV, dated 2004 🤷

30 years ago this amount of Quantel would have set you back £1/3 million! In 2026 it's 50p, a Kia Ora Orange and an old Conker.