Regarding fabric, all kidding aside, all of the walls of my studio and a good portion of the ceiling is covered in fabric (concealing the acoustic treatments). Because this could be a potential fire hazard, I treated all of the fabric with a sodium silicate solution (commonly called water-glass) which I sprayed on with a standard spray bottle. I can hold a piece of the treated fabric in an open flame and it will discolour but it will not catch fire.
Something to think about!
Did those too. 255 character mail addresses, uucopy. Gopher and Veronica. When I first a saw the browser from CERN I knew our private little playground was doomed. Damn Internet! They let anyone in.
Working from the iPad but when I get to the computer I’ll post it. By the way Steve, if you use the plywood to make the missing panel, place a piece of quilt batting to the out side of it before you put the fabric on it, by building the loft under it, it gives a nice padded look
I remember before the internet (which in Canada was initially called iNet (I’ve still got the original documentation!) when we used to go onto privately hosted BBS systems (usually businesses after hours). I remember them linking together up and down the north american eastern seaboard for an early kind of E-mail system. Seem also to remember fidonet being popular from this time still got some printouts from that era.
I remember too that a program was considered great when it could offer a lot and use very little RAM. After designing a communications card for the Acorn Atom (ATOMOTA) I wrote a full com package - with modem control and remote control (of other computers) all in under 4k. I still program for my old modular synth in 6502 assembly language (using an emulator on a PC) but still have to type it into the synth in hex.