Welcome to Wouter's Page

Things I feel strongly about

Firearms : Some people hate guns, some people love them. Firearms in the hands of the law abiding public reduce violent crime dramatically. In South Africa, the ANC government is spending billions of rands trying to remove legally held firearms from society, even though legal firearm owners are the most law-abiding sector of society.

We've been fighting the new law for a decade, but that's the nature of gun control. It's all about control, and they won't ever let up.

Gun Owners of South Africa (GOSA) is a grassroots organisation with one goal : to scrap the new firearms act and to enshrine the Right to Keep and Bear Arms into the Constitution.

Read more about SPAM at SpamPrimer.com. If your web browser knows your real email address, so does any site you browse. Use a mail program for email, and a web browser for browsing.

The campaign for a non-browser specific WWW

"Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network." -- Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996

Things I am interested in

My blog. The latest entry is 40 Years.

Pinball -- Our collection is growing!
We have a 1968 Bally Alligator (a German version of the American Gator), a 1973 Bally Hi-Lo Ace, a 1975 Gottlieb Top Score, a 1982 Gottlieb Haunted House, and, hopefully the last machine for a while, a 1992 Bally Addams Family.

Arcade Games and Emulators

Play your favourite old arcade games at home. Build your own arcade machine. Astound your friends. Amaze your enemies. Antagonise your wife. :-)

Series Land Rovers
I have a 1959 Series II 109", which is pretty much my daily driver. I used to have a 1955 Series I 86", and we also had a 1965-ish Series IIA 109" diesel which we ended selling. I recently bought a Series IIA Forward Control.

Wouter's Computer Rescue And Preservation
"It was a golden time, a time before windows, a time before mouses, a time before the Internet and bloatware, and a time before every OS sucked. "

Puma Motor Cars
Built in South Africa and Brazil, based on VW beetle running gear, these little cars are a lot of fun.

[Motorola]

My homebrew computers. These are little computers I built a long time ago, which taught me a lot about how computers actually work. This information is mostly historical, although I have recently revisited the 6809 design (it never worked, I now know why :-)

8031 (8052 BASIC)
6809 Single Board Computer.
68000 Eurocard based system and more.

Amateur Radio: Radio Station ZS1KE since 1990, before that ZR1ACG since 1987.

My Apple ][ Europlus Taiwanese clone.

The Retro Society for Reverse Engineering
Icom BP-7, Pioneed DVD-525, Creative Dxr2, Bosch alternator, VW electronic ignition, EFI (D-Jet, Mono-Jetronic, Daewoo Cielo), NTSC vs PAL.

Archives.

Everything you need to know about Robert A. Heinlein -- Science Fiction writer #1 in my universe.

Things I find intriguing

Victorian houses.

About 90% of the reason behind why they built all those towers and brackets and bay windows
and turrets in the first place was so everyone could see that they had the money to afford
a house laden with towers and brackets and bay windows and turrets.
--David Taylor

I would have liked to build one, but we ended up buying and renovating a more conventional house in Fish Hoek.

Sinfest.
Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie, specifically Every OS sucks.
Nanofiction -- short stories using exactly 55 words.
What can I say about the Lyttle Lytton Contest?
The Nadsat Dictionary (I found this on memepool).
A game theoretic approach to the toilet seat problem.
Quotes: Eli the Bearded's quotes are up again at http://www.panix.com/~eli/C/quotes.html. Never write device drivers while on acid!
While we're on quotes, my small personal collection.
Nick Moffitt's $7 History of Unix shows that Nick Moffitt is also a Zork fan :-)
Cats have no handles.

Mail Wouter : [gif] wrm-at-retro-dot-co-dot-za
Why is my email address an image?

Last updated 2014-02-07.

[Image] Hit Count
hits since 1996-05-01.

	My blog. The latest entry is 40 Years.
	Pinball -- Our collection is growing! We have a 1968 Bally Alligator (a German version of the American Gator), a 1973 Bally Hi-Lo Ace, a 1975 Gottlieb Top Score, a 1982 Gottlieb Haunted House, and, hopefully the last machine for a while, a 1992 Bally Addams Family.
	Arcade Games and Emulators Play your favourite old arcade games at home. Build your own arcade machine. Astound your friends. Amaze your enemies. Antagonise your wife. :-)
	Series Land Rovers I have a 1959 Series II 109", which is pretty much my daily driver. I used to have a 1955 Series I 86", and we also had a 1965-ish Series IIA 109" diesel which we ended selling. I recently bought a Series IIA Forward Control.
	Wouter's Computer Rescue And Preservation "It was a golden time, a time before windows, a time before mouses, a time before the Internet and bloatware, and a time before every OS sucked. "
	Puma Motor Cars Built in South Africa and Brazil, based on VW beetle running gear, these little cars are a lot of fun.
	My homebrew computers. These are little computers I built a long time ago, which taught me a lot about how computers actually work. This information is mostly historical, although I have recently revisited the 6809 design (it never worked, I now know why :-) 8031 (8052 BASIC) 6809 Single Board Computer. 68000 Eurocard based system and more.
	Amateur Radio: Radio Station ZS1KE since 1990, before that ZR1ACG since 1987.
	My Apple ][ Europlus Taiwanese clone.
The Retro Society for Reverse Engineering Icom BP-7, Pioneed DVD-525, Creative Dxr2, Bosch alternator, VW electronic ignition, EFI (D-Jet, Mono-Jetronic, Daewoo Cielo), NTSC vs PAL. Archives.
Everything you need to know about Robert A. Heinlein -- Science Fiction writer #1 in my universe.