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That looks like 2400 baud to me (all of our VT100s ran at 2400 and when we bumped it to 9600 the animations were way too fast to watch).
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Terminal animations are also really inefficient, because for every character that's actually displayed on the screen it's also having to send 10-15 characters worth of escape codes to move the cursor around so that each part is drawn in the correct place.
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Also known as the “BUTTS” per second rate, or how many times 10 PRINT “BUTTS” 20 GOTO 10 can fill the screen at a Sears display kiosk.
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Hmm, with 9600 baud/8-N-1 you get 160 BUTTS per second, or about 137 if you need both CR and LF characters to do a new line. In the former case, that's 6.4 screens of BUTTS per second or only about 5.5 in the latter case assuming an 80x25 terminal.
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SLOSifl posted:Also known as the “BUTTS” per second rate, or how many times 10 PRINT “BUTTS” 20 GOTO 10 can fill the screen at a Sears display kiosk. I remember doing that when I was a little kid, but I don't remember what hilarious thing I used to make it say. In the best timeline it would have been "HELP ME" but I doubt I was that witty.
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I was an RA in college and we had a phone with caller ID in the RA office. At my school all the on-campus phones could dial each other by 4-digit extension, but if you called the RA office phone that way, the ID would show the full 10-digit phone number to reach that line externally. My dorm had a speakerphone box outside so guests could dial a room to get their friends who lived there to let them in. We dialed the RA office from it to get its 10-digit number, called that from a cell and turns out the box would auto-pickup the call and you could talk from your cell and it'd come out of the speaker in the box. Since the box was where everyone would congregate to smoke butts when they were drinking on weekends we used this to just goof off and mess with people out there, saying things like "dude I just pissed in a fuckin dryer bro check it out" and "help! I'm trapped in this box!"
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Many elevators have emergency phones with routable numbers and automatically pick‐up. Some of them pick up silently. It’s the perfect corporate bug.
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Ask me about working in a SCIF and the elevators keep getting survey calls.
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Platystemon posted:Many elevators have emergency phones with routable numbers and automatically pick‐up. Yeah some of the elevators had dial pad/callbox things and we thought doing the same prank in an elevator went from "cheeky fun" to "light terrorism"
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“You need life insurance!” “Sir, this is a McDonald’s drive‐through.”
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Platystemon posted:“You need life insurance!” Bless trump sir, please push your car to the next window
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Cojawfee posted:Ask me about working in a SCIF and the elevators keep getting survey calls. Same but a Chinese scammer. And it was my desk.
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One thing I don't think anyone will miss is the dizzying variety of plugs and sockets for mobile phone chargers. Why did it take them so long to standardise?
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they only went with a standard because the eu forced them to
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If a company didn't have to meet a standard, why would they? It was much easier to create buyer lock-in with your brand of devices if all of your devices had proprietary connectors. Plus, back in those days, cell phones weren't the end-all be-all devices, so if Sony used one connector for their walkman mp3 players that their phones also used (or didn't), it wasn't the end of the world. Plus 2 also they could then charge you whatever they wanted for a replacement because it was less likely that a that a third party would make a replacement. Add into that fact that USB was still fairly new on the scene, nobody at the time knew it would become so ubiquitous. I mean, at the time, firewire was a legit competitor, and USB still has a fucky communication standard at the board/IC level that has been hacked and willed into modernity through sheer processing power. Do you remember how lovely USB (1) was? The iPod used firewire for a few generations as well, because it was legitimately better. Why would any manufacturer go all-in on a port that may not succeed or may eventually be replaced? It was only after legislation that manufacturers finally bowed. tl;dr money and fear.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:One thing I don't think anyone will miss is the dizzying variety of plugs and sockets for mobile phone chargers.
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Platystemon posted:Many elevators have emergency phones with routable numbers and automatically pick‐up. One time in a hotel I accidentally hit the phone button when pushing the floor button with the hand holding my suitcazs (the bag booped the call button.) The front desk clerk who answered cut off my apologies with "it's ok, it happens all the time."
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Ghost Leviathan posted:One thing I don't think anyone will miss is the dizzying variety of plugs and sockets for mobile phone chargers. See also: SCSI connectors in the '90s, serial cables before USB, video cables before HDMI.... ...and some dark night we can gather around a campfire and I'll shine a flashlight up into my face and tell you all about pre-10-Base-T network cabling...hermaphrodite cables...AUIs...thicknet...vaaaaaampire taps.
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One of my old gripes with tech was the lack of a flat pack battery standard, sorta like AA, AAA, C, D, etc, but for laptops and cellphones and cordless phones. Then Apple innovated up a brilliant solution to that.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:One thing I don't think anyone will miss is the dizzying variety of plugs and sockets for mobile phone chargers. Because then Apple couldn't charge you $35 for 3 feet of wire.
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My only experience with 9V batteries every year is when I swap out the old ones in smoke detectors.
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SubG posted:Standards are good; everybody should have one. 
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Chinese Finger traps... get that poo poo out of here! Make yer way through this impossible maze.
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That ain't no terminator.Gonz posted:My only experience with 9V batteries every year is when I swap out the old ones in smoke detectors. I've got a whole bunch of digital meters that need them, like the humble fluke 87 DMM, cheap no name back up DMMs, high capacitance meter for large AC motor caps, tacho for fan speeds, digital tape/distance meter, vacuum gauge, thermometers, portable weigh scales, dB meter - there's some more I forget. I got so sick of buying them 10 years ago I resorted to rechargeables, but early versions sucked with only ~8.4V and the battery low icon or faults would show up far too quickly. I'm glad they finally came out with low self discharge 9.2V batteries but they ran at ~$20 ea, and then more for a dedicated 9v charger to keep care of such an expensive battery. But more than that I'm glad some meters finally now only needed AA batteries rather than loving 9v! So my new fluke is OK, but I have a fleet of meters that need 9v if I ever wish to use them again. Fo3 has a new favorite as of 10:07 on Aug 5, 2018 |
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Regular Nintendo posted:Yeah some of the elevators had dial pad/callbox things and we thought doing the same prank in an elevator went from "cheeky fun" to "light terrorism" There's a great Defcon talk about how Elevators are basically open doors that go wherever you want them to and you can do hilariously evil things with them trivially. For example, the bitting of the firefighter's key for Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Hampsire is public knowledge and cannot be changed.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:If a company didn't have to meet a standard, why would they? It was much easier to create buyer lock-in with your brand of devices if all of your devices had proprietary connectors. Plus, back in those days, cell phones weren't the end-all be-all devices, so if Sony used one connector for their walkman mp3 players that their phones also used (or didn't), it wasn't the end of the world. Plus 2 also they could then charge you whatever they wanted for a replacement because it was less likely that a that a third party would make a replacement. Add into that fact that USB was still fairly new on the scene, nobody at the time knew it would become so ubiquitous. I mean, at the time, firewire was a legit competitor, and USB still has a fucky communication standard at the board/IC level that has been hacked and willed into modernity through sheer processing power. Do you remember how lovely USB (1) was? The iPod used firewire for a few generations as well, because it was legitimately better. Why would any manufacturer go all-in on a port that may not succeed or may eventually be replaced? It was only after legislation that manufacturers finally bowed. I still have my first MP3 player in a box somewhere. I specifically bought one that used the printer port because I didn't think my computer at the time had a USB port. I found out a few months later that it had 2 on the back and they were not labeled in any fashion.
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Iron Crowned posted:I still have my first MP3 player in a box somewhere. I specifically bought one that used the printer port because I didn't think my computer at the time had a USB port. I found out a few months later that it had 2 on the back and they were not labeled in any fashion. Did you have to open up Word Perfect and print your songs to it?
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Cojawfee posted:Did you have to open up Word Perfect and print your songs to it? Nah, it had it's on software, but I did manage to find a review of the thing: https://www.anandtech.com/show/508
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And half are 50 ohm, the other half is 75 ohm, and even if you paint them red and blue you’ll STILL get them mixed up.
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loss edits getting 3-dimensional
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Neito posted:There's a great Defcon talk about how Elevators are basically open doors that go wherever you want them to and you can do hilariously evil things with them trivially. That'd be this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHf1vD5_b5I Yes, it's an hour long, but it's a fascinating watch. (Really, all of Deviant Ollam's talks are worth a look.)
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A portrait of multiple generations of obsolete network tech: A knot of BNC Ts (no terminators), an AUI to 10-Base-T transceiver (off my R4K Indigo), and a PCMCIA 10/100 adapter.
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Neito posted:There's a great Defcon talk about how Elevators are basically open doors that go wherever you want them to and you can do hilariously evil things with them trivially. To clarify, the bitting code is specified in the text of their laws.
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SubG posted:A portrait of multiple generations of obsolete network tech: I once used an AUI to thinnet connector, and then I think a dual thinnet/10baseT hub to connect a modern computer to a DEC Alpha box running VMS. This was circa 2008.
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Pham Nuwen posted:I once used an AUI to thinnet connector, and then I think a dual thinnet/10baseT hub to connect a modern computer to a DEC Alpha box running VMS. This was circa 2008.  My first shitposting on the internet was done from VAX running VMS.
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The first wintel box that I built myself from off-the-shelf parts from Fry’s (about 1996) had an Ethernet card with all three then-popular interfaces all plumbed into it: RJ45/10baseT, BNC, and ThickNet, all on the same PCI card. If this wasn’t in fact pre-PCI.
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Data Graham posted:The first wintel box that I built myself from off-the-shelf parts from Fry’s (about 1996) had an Ethernet card with all three then-popular interfaces all plumbed into it: RJ45/10baseT, BNC, and ThickNet, all on the same PCI card. If this wasn’t in fact pre-PCI. These were super common in donated computers that we build/used in my comp sci classes in highschool. This would be around 99-02. Most of them were old Pentiums and out of a pile of computers we maybe built 2-3 that could reliably run windows 98/2000 and a few file servers with hillariously small hard drives running some kind of linux.
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Plinkey posted:a few file servers with hillariously small hard drives running some kind of linux. They were file servers, not files servers.
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