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I have some itneresting electrical oddities in my house. One is when I turn the underhouse lights on I hear the sound of a USB disconnecting from my. It's a mystery what actually disconnects. Also when I open the beer fridge - anything I'm streaming in the livingroom mutes for a split second. It's repeatable too.
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klafbang posted:It may also be similar to the old effect where you have a cell phone next to your speakers, and you can hear a call coming in via the speakers before the phone starts vibrating/ringing due to them picking up the phone signals. Speaker/sound circuitry close to the bluetooth? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1mlponX_jw I justified buying new speakers (to myself) with balanced signal inputs because it would eliminate this kind of interference. I'm pretty sure my carrier turned off the 2G network maybe a year or two later. I still get interference from LTE on my clock radio sometimes, but the sound isn't the same. Thankfully it's not nearly as annoying.
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Feb 17, 2020 16:08
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Humphreys posted:I have some itneresting electrical oddities in my house. One is when I turn the underhouse lights on I hear the sound of a USB disconnecting from my. It's a mystery what actually disconnects. Also when I open the beer fridge - anything I'm streaming in the livingroom mutes for a split second. It's repeatable too. Clearly your house is haunted by 5v ghosts. 
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Feb 17, 2020 21:30
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Clearly your house is haunted by 5v ghosts. And that's why you never leave your TTL inputs floating ooooOOOOOOOoooo
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Feb 17, 2020 22:38
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klafbang posted:Just take out all your cards, wrap them in aluminum foil, and put them back in. The foil protects them from interference and also prevents the CIA from spying on you. I shouldn't have to say this, but don't actually do this. quote:#433064 +(1938)- [X]
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Feb 18, 2020 04:45
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I don't see what the big deal is. The case is supposed to be metal. The motherboard uses the screws as a ground.
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Feb 18, 2020 04:59
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Powered Descent posted:A year or two ago, my parents didn't believe me that I could hear the ultrasonic mouse-repeller thing that they'd put down in their basement. At least not until I proved it by going upstairs and calling down "it's on" and "it's off" as they flipped the power switch a few times. I may or may not have brought up a certain computer monitor we had in the 90s, and how they thought I was crazy for moving it around and wiggling its power connector trying to get it to stop making a high-pitched squeal that they couldn't hear... I can still hear high pitched electrical whine like that but only in one ear. It makes trying to hunt it down an exercise in supreme frustration. Like wandering around holding my left ear close to things to see if it gets louder type frustration.
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Feb 18, 2020 06:34
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Guy Axlerod posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1mlponX_jw that they put the GSM effect in GTA IV was super cool
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Feb 18, 2020 07:04
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TheMadMilkman posted:I can still hear high pitched electrical whine like that but only in one ear. It makes trying to hunt it down an exercise in supreme frustration. Like wandering around holding my left ear close to things to see if it gets louder type frustration. I know I've lost some frequencies due to age, but it doesn't seem anywhere near as bad as it rightfully should. And my hearing in general is weirdly acute, despite the various sonic abuse I put myself through over the years. But I also get occasional tinnitus that is awfully close to capacitor whine, so sometimes I have a hard time determining if I am actually hearing an electronic whine or if it's just my occasional mild tinnitus.
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Feb 18, 2020 07:13
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I know I've lost some frequencies due to age, but it doesn't seem anywhere near as bad as it rightfully should. And my hearing in general is weirdly acute, despite the various sonic abuse I put myself through over the years. But I also get occasional tinnitus that is awfully close to capacitor whine, so sometimes I have a hard time determining if I am actually hearing an electronic whine or if it's just my occasional mild tinnitus.
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Feb 18, 2020 20:51
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I've certainly abused my hearing at times but it's still excellent at 31, and I pick up a lot of high frequency noise that others miss.
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Feb 18, 2020 21:05
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Finally got a 1050 floppy drive for my 800XL. Sadly the drive isn't working, but it matches the 800XL so well  
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Feb 20, 2020 13:03
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And instantly I'm back in my 4th grade computer lab
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Feb 20, 2020 14:02
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An early PC game trainer - didnt nkow Action replay was for PC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usaioMbE8EQ
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Feb 21, 2020 15:16
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Huh same, the only ones I knew of for the PC era were TSR programs that activated with a hot key. They were generally pretty cool.
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Feb 21, 2020 15:24
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Humphreys posted:An early PC game trainer - didnt nkow Action replay was for PC This rules, its literally cheat engine.
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Feb 21, 2020 16:27
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You Am I posted:Finally got a 1050 floppy drive for my 800XL. Holy poo poo, I had no idea that Atari made controllers like that. Apparently they called them joypads, were not released in North America, and weren't that great. What's your experience with them?
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Feb 21, 2020 17:19
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Humphreys posted:An early PC game trainer - didnt nkow Action replay was for PC what the hell, that's amazing Also, I'm giving a friend of mine one of my spare C64s, a floppy drive and a couple of joysticks. I already gave him one of my 1702 monitors for retrogaming, but now he wants the rest of the setup, ha. He's really really excited to get into Best Computer, it's great. He's probably like 7-8 years younger than I am, and it makes me happy that someone who didn't grow up with the C64 is this excited about it in 2020. I'm going to shed a tear when he sends me his first 10 PRINT "BOOBS" 20 GOTO 10 screenshot. 
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Feb 21, 2020 18:30
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I think these are TI/99-4A games? Maybe? Based on what I have researched? But wow, nothing says "tech relic" like "data cassettes you find at the bottom of a forgotten garbage can in the depths of a garage," especially when Googin' one of the names on the cassette (PraCompuWare) returns literally zero results "York 10 Computerware" and "Microcomputers Corporation" both return some results about Texas Instruments gaming though, hence my guess as to what these are. Oh and "Let's Learn Notes" combined with TI/99 finally returned a useful result basically confirming these are probably TI/99 things. Great! Now, why are these in the bottom of a forgotten garbage can in a garage
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Feb 22, 2020 03:59
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I didn’t think any TI-99/4A software came on tape, I thought they were all ROM cartridges so TI could retain full control.
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Feb 22, 2020 04:54
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Battle at Sea, Battle Star and Let's Learn Notes are all programs that appeared in 99'er Magazine and were collected in a Best Of book which is where I found them, perhaps Math Tutor was in the magazine as well but didn't make the cut. https://archive.org/details/tibook_the-best-of-99er-volume-1/page/n199/mode/2up/ - Let's Learn Notes is p199, Battle at Sea (i.e. Battleship) & Battle Star are 229-236. Perhaps those tapes are from an entrepreneurial soul with less patient friends.
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Feb 22, 2020 07:35
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Oh dang. That would make a lot of this add up, between the un-Googleable name on the tapes and the other random company names who may have just sold the blank cassettes. I found another half-dozen beyond those four, so clearly now I should check how many of the titles come from that book. Hot tip; thanks!
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Feb 22, 2020 16:44
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Code Jockey posted:what the hell, that's amazing You gave him a 1702?? Jeez just offload a white VIC 1541 or an sx64 at him whole you're at it. Seriously that's awesome of you.
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Feb 22, 2020 17:55
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10 PRINT "BOBS" 20 PRINT "VAGENE" 30 LOOP UNTIL "MILKY NAVEL"
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Shitposting on the BBS's all drat night! MOM WE NEED MORE PEPSI!!!
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Back in the 1980s there were a few BBSes in my local area, and one was a site dedicated to playing board games and such that ran on BASIC. One night it let me dial in and connect but dropped me to a blinking prompt. Thanks to the time I spent on TRS-80s in elementary school I was actually able to figure out what was going on and restart the BBS software, but it logged me in as the guy who had crashed it. I proceeded to declare wins in all the games he was playing, change his name to end in -Leek, like John Smith-Leek, and posted a brief but weird anti-vegetarian statement under his name. I think I also changed his address to something like 666 Acheron Way, Hell. I was a dumb mildly edgy 15 year old, so thought it was funny. I didn't change his password, though, and figured he would fix things the next time he logged in. Instead, he logged in, said people had said they didn't think he won the games they were playing and he didn't either, changed nothing, including leaving his password the same. So, of course, I decided he needed go further on his crusade against vegetarians, and posted lengthier screeds about the evils of eating innocent vegetables. I think he eventually changed his password, but it took way longer than seemed reasonable.
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:Holy poo poo, I had no idea that Atari made controllers like that. Apparently they called them joypads, were not released in North America, and weren't that great. What's your experience with them? You are correct, the PAL 7800 and 2600 Jr had these pads. They are actually very nice to use. Works well with my C64 and Amiga as well with no issues
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uvar posted:Perhaps those tapes are from an entrepreneurial soul with less patient friends. In the early 90's my dad pulled out a big old box of cassettes for our by then disposed of TRS-80, so we could reuse them. I'd look at the labels and dream about how they were all games. I remember one was labeled "PANTSCOP," I was like 11, so I figured it was some kind of cool cop game, but my dad burst my bubble, because apparently they were all supposed to be utilitarian software.
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Iron Crowned posted:In the early 90's my dad pulled out a big old box of cassettes for our by then disposed of TRS-80, so we could reuse them. I'd look at the labels and dream about how they were all games. I remember one was labeled "PANTSCOP," I was like 11, so I figured it was some kind of cool cop game, but my dad burst my bubble, because apparently they were all supposed to be utilitarian software. FREEZE! YOU'RE UNDER ARREST, FOR WEARING PANTS! STOP RESISTING!
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Getting 8" IBM floppies working in tyool 2020 to rescue an ancient (literally) fossilised dataset https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FVwheTVWko Beve Stuscemi has a new favorite as of 16:16 on Feb 25, 2020 |
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Iron Crowned posted:In the early 90's my dad pulled out a big old box of cassettes for our by then disposed of TRS-80, so we could reuse them. I'd look at the labels and dream about how they were all games. I am sure in every single one of those cases the cassettes/disks/tape reels/punchcards being examined actually contained part 3 of 27 of last year's taxes
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Dr. Quarex posted:Thank you for unlocking a long-dormant memory of the "look at big incredibly boring container of media and fantasize about them being games" era of computing I had a plastic box of 5 1/4" floppies that had all my Apple IIe games plus a disk that was nothing but copying programs. Some software had pretty clever anti copy stuff going on, but that disc had programs that could overcome anything.
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Like everyone, I received mountains of AOL floppies, which I could reuse, and CDs, which I could not. I'd be a little irritated with those AOL CDs, because there would be all that space that they coulda put a movie or video game on, but no, it was just their crappy software. Remember all those Windows Shareware CDs? What if AOL put a handful of junky games on each of their CDs, and numbered them? Any household with a computer and a kid in it would have kept those little ad-bearers around indefinitely, and they'd be collector's items now (ok maybe not).
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Feb 25, 2020 18:52
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Getting 8" IBM floppies working in tyool 2020 to rescue an ancient (literally) fossilised dataset This guy (CuriousMarc) also has a playlist where he worked with some people to resurrect an Apollo Guidance Computer. His whole channel is cool tech relics. Highly recommend.
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Cojawfee posted:This guy (CuriousMarc) also has a playlist where he worked with some people to resurrect an Apollo Guidance Computer. His whole channel is cool tech relics. Highly recommend. He is also part of the team that repaired and restored an original Xerox Alto and then used it to archive a bunch of disk packs from Xerox. The whole series is on his channel. His series on restoring ancient teletype machines was also a fascinating watch.
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doctorfrog posted:Any household with a computer and a kid in it would have kept those little ad-bearers around indefinitely, and they'd be collector's items now (ok maybe not). There are people out there that collect AOL disks/discs.
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Dr. Quarex posted:Thank you for unlocking a long-dormant memory of the "look at big incredibly boring container of media and fantasize about them being games" era of computing I remember the first time I saw a box of CodeWarrior disks 
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I have very fond memories of copying the entirety of slackware to 3.5" floppy disks and then only needed a third of them for the actual install.
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