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3D Megadoodoo posted:Your what? It’s old SA lore, some goon trying to score points on some chick by carrying his printer to her and failing miserably. SlowBloke has a new favorite as of 20:41 on May 17, 2021 |
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SlowBloke posted:It’s old SA lore, some goon trying to score points on some chick by carrying his printer to her and failing miserably. borky posted: A loose female acquaintance of mine calls me at 1:00am today and asks me if I could print something on the computer for her and bring it over in the afternoon. “Hey yeah sure sure, whatever you need I’ll help you, I’m all yours,” I tell her. She sends me this file and lo and behold I can’t open it. It’s made in Microsoft Publisher and I don’t have that program so I begin panicing, trying to find this program or a way to print the file. Scouring the internet yields no results and I do my usual pacing in my room. I finally come up with an idea and I tell the girl, if I can proceed with it. The plan was I would carry my printer about 2miles to her house, print out the needed pages, maybe talk to her a bit while I was there. I was hoping for at least a hug out of this ordeal. By the time I get there, I’m wet all over from sweating in the +90 degree heat outside and carrying a heavy motherfucking HP Deskjet printer. The first thing I see upon entering her room (my first time in a girl’s bedroom) are some panties on her bed. After the initial shock of seeing such a horrific sight for the first time, I setup the printer and get my job done. However, I did consider sniffing the lingere when she left the room once, but with the wuss that I am, I just ended up staring at them the whole while. That was a sarcastic joke for those of you too stupid to realize that To make a long story short, just as I was finishing up with the printing job (which was hefty), her boyfriend and his gay friend walk in, say hello, and begin hanging out in the room as they waited for the girl to finish this work so they could go to the mall. This effectively ruins my chances of getting a hug and I walk another 2 miles home with the motherfucking printer in hand. The only thing that I got out of this were some very painful fingers and a “thanks” as I walked out her bedroom door. So, am I pathetic for doing all these things? It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve pledged my heart and soul to a girl and gotten back almost nothing in return. I would hate turning her or anyone else I knew down or making up some lie.
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Every time I've read that I've stumbled over why he would consider the panties to be a "horrific sight", but only just now did it click that the shock he was referring to was the girl seeing his sweat-drenched printer-lugging self hulking in the doorway. e: ... hmm. Maybe? ugh
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I've never given the panty part of the story much thought before. By "sarcastic joke," did he mean he didn't stare at them, or is he confirming that he did indeed sniff them?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:That guy rules. Ruled.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Ruled. Oh is he dead?  to a real one.
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He got cancer after huffing toner when he lugged a printer 4 miles.
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Cojawfee posted:He got cancer after huffing toner when he lugged a printer 4 miles. If he'd used one of these, he'd've gotten laid and lived to tell the tale: 
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So I now have a functioning Pro Tools 3.2 system with a 442 Audio Interface Got the hardware months ago, but the NuBus card had a broken FPGA so I had to wait on a replacement to arrive from Shenzhen, took a while but it worked right away! Also had to re-cap the power supply in the I/O module. Seems it can only do 1 channel at a time for recording (at least without buying multiple sets of hardware), but it can do multi-channel playback and monitoring! I do suspect that I need to find some effects for it, as it doesn't appear to be able to do all that much right now except multi track recording and basic splicing/fading etc. An equalizer and a way of doing digital level adjustment would be nice. Also appears that the file import/export is some ancient format that no modern software will touch (SND2 perhaps?), anyone know of a conversion tool?
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Got a PiStorm ready to pick up, got a Pi 3A+ ordered and just waiting on my A500 Plus
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I hope I don't get banned for posting on a WebTV... edit: https://twitter.com/drasticactionSA/status/1395216088175161352 The original video I did trying to show me posting to this thread screwed up, but I made another one posting to the test forum. Auth works, and you can post new replies and threads (something the Android app still can't do) Drastic Actions has a new favorite as of 04:15 on May 20, 2021 |
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You Am I posted:Got a PiStorm ready to pick up, got a Pi 3A+ ordered and just waiting on my A500 Plus I just saw this pop up on YouTube, that's a pretty nice solution, the video I saw also mentioned some of the other 68060 based mods etc.. I guess it's true that Amiga users are a special breed of spendy when it comes to modding their 30 year old computers. Not that I would mind a solution like that for my Mac. I got a RaSCSI in the mail the other day but haven't tried it yet, it's a Raspberry Pi SCSI emulator which seems to have a lot of advantages compared to the scsi2sd when it comes to speed and flexibility. Might set that up as a second SCSI emulator on the same bus to e.g. emulate "removable" storage and CD/DVDs. I left a spare Ethernet port inside the Mac just for this purpose. System 7.6 tops out at 4 GB per drive (or at least per partition) which means that e.g. getting data off a HFS formatted DVD image was simply not possible on the Mac since it can't store a 4.6 GB disk image anywhere to mount it (Toast refuses to mount off network disks). I ended up having to emulate a OS 9 system and mount the disk image that way to get the files I needed off it. I did figure out that Pro Tools 3 uses Sound Designer II files (.sd2), and SoundApp can convert to and from it on the Mac side. SD2 files appear to be big endian PCM files with some support for multiple channels etc., but it looks like it's a very Mac OS file format that stores all the "header" info in the resource fork so they're hard to use on anything modern. I was able to convert some music from my main computer to wave files, convert them to SD2, then load them up in a PT3 project, add some crossfades, and play them back using ~$20k worth of hardware back in the day. I guess I understand why computer audio took a while to take off, this was not exactly convenient. Sound quality was excellent though! Thinking this has some serious audiophile appeal, big endian is the most natural sample representation of course, and you simply can't achieve the required jitter performance using a modern preemptively multitasked OS.
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 Opened up the A500 Plus last night, all looks good with it. The battery replacement was a bit messy, but at least that time bomb has been removed.  Boots up fine. Sadly most of the disks that came with it are pretty stuffed, but since it will be getting the PiStorm soon, it doesn't really fuss me.  Gave the floppy drive a clean with my cleaning disk, and ran some disk based games off it. Most seemed to work, which is insane for 30+ year old media.
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Drastic Actions posted:I hope I don't get banned for posting on a WebTV...  Seriously though, that's neat.
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LGR takes on the Cybiko I love the idea of devices like this, that aren't reliant on external networks, and try to replicate the social and gaming features of the internet, but locally. Things like the Cybiko, the PirateBox/LibraryBox, or the chat feature on the Nintendo DS. I built a PirateBox some years back, took it to coffee shops and whatnot, it never attracted a single user. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38VEBOseAzM
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I hope that range was due to degraded electronics and not what performance was like out of the box. I wonder how many kids got one of those as their big Christmas present and then realized no one else got one and all they had was some lame games.
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As Cliff mentions in the video, the range was better indoors, so it's almost certainly due to cellular interference. The density of cell towers using that frequency range now is insane compared to when that device came out so wouldn't have made sense to spend money on good RF front ends and good filters to reject cellular frequencies at the time. These days SAW filters are typically used for devices operating in the 900 MHz range, but I think those were a lot more expensive at the time. They're used now since the performance without them is what he shows in the video. Keep in mind this was back when GSM phones would consistently interfere with TVs and stereo systems, nothing in the 90s was designed around the idea that everyone would be carrying a 2 W pulsed RF transmitter everywhere they go. Speaking of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BINQNedOxM8 Forget the 56k modem sound, that brings me back to visiting my grandma, leaving the phone by the TV, and hearing the tell-tale morse code like interference, and knowing that the phone would ring in about 1 second.
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That reminds me of working in a computer shop around 2008. When one of the speakers started making that sound, we'd shout up front that the sales guy's phone was about to ring.
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To get a bit technical, there are a few things going on with that sound. GSM phones were particularly bad about interference since they're pulsed and use time slot rates that are audible. I suspect CDMA phones may not have had that issue due to using spread spectrum modulations? An active GSM phone making a call will transmit in one time slot, which repeats every ~5 ms, so it will make a pulsed transmission lasting ~600 us repeating a period of ~5 ms or some multiple of it. The RF is rectified in e.g. the TV or stereo system, so you get a "high" level in the audio device when it's transmitting, and a low level when not transmitting. This is the kind of sound you could make with e.g. a Game Boy audio chip quite easily by setting a 10% duty cycle 200 Hz square wave. The "start" of the sequence is the phone responding to the base station on the control channel, setting up the call. The base stations didn't have this effect since they are always transmitting something, even if no calls are in progress. Earlier systems like AMPS or (where I live) NMT wouldn't interfere like that at all, since they transmit at a constant power when making a call, typically you'd hear a constant humming instead. It mostly went away around ~2010 since almost everyone got 3G and later 4G coverage, both of these can interfere but the effect isn't as ridiculously distinctive as GSM. Another effect is that makers of audio equipment started trying to fix these issues by adding filtering. At around the same time CMOS based analog amplifiers were becoming cheap, and these amplifiers are much less sensitive to RF than bipolar amplifiers while still having quite decent audio performance, so switching to those solved several problems at once. -- Token Ring & legacy server update: I now have a pile of token ring cards, 3 IBM and one Madge using a TI chipset. The last to arrive was the Apple Token Ring 4/16 NB Card for the Mac, which is frankly what started this whole thing, since that card uses an old school IBM ceramic flip chip IC as the actual controller, same type as described here https://www.righto.com/2021/02/strange-chip-teardown-of-vintage-ibm.html but a bit newer. I didn't find any Atlas Shrugged references in that ROM, so it will be a significant improvement over the Ethernet NB Card. I've installed a "IBM 16/4 Token-Ring Low Profile PCI Management Adapter" in the Windows 2000 server which I've decided to call "oldworld" on the network. The low profile card was actually new in box and seemingly unopened except for the outer seal, even came with an official IBM CD containing drivers and diagnostic tools all dated early 2000. Detected fine in win2k, and I've set up the oldworld server to act as an IP router, DHCP server, DNS, and NTP server for the future token ring LAN. I even set up the DNS server to replicate with the Server 2019 DNS server so it's legitimately serving a purpose on the LAN as a backup DNS. Also got the 64 GB IDE SSD, cloned just fine with a CloneZilla USB drive, just had to hook up a temporary SATA SSD to act as temporary storage for the disk image. I've decided not to build my own MAU, since I concluded that making my own would be a lot of work and cost about twice the total cost of a used IBM 8226 so I just ordered one of those from Singapore. Also ordered some "Media Filters", which are actually DC-passing impedance matching transformers to go from the 9 pin port on older Token Ring cards to RJ-45. Not strictly necessary for a small ring, but also fairly cheap to get.
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This youtuber is new to me but really liked the content, Techmoan is even in the comments applauding it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlQ8Qjg1NeY
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Quoting myself from the other old tech thread because I'm unreasonably happy about this:Trabant posted:I went through some old boxes and I found my old TI-92! The Game Gear of calculators and my trusty "saved my rear end a thousand times courtesy of symbolic integration functions" companion from last year of high school through grad school. Does it still work? Of course it still works!
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That's awesome! I never had a TI-92 but always wanted one as a nerdy teen because they looked so cool. I eventually got an 89 in college, but wasn't the same as a calculator with a qwerty keyboard. I'd bet there are a fair number of pretty decent Mario and Tetris clone games for the 92 that take advantage of that larger screen.
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longview posted:So I now have a functioning Pro Tools 3.2 system with a 442 Audio Interface Ok, I gotta ask... Nubus with an FPGA? am I imagining that someone in china is slapping FPGA's on Nubus cards to emulate old Nubus hardware? [edit] Just searched your IIfx journey through this thread - awesome. I've got a IIfx, a II, an SE/30, and a Classic all recapped and working right now. ... and a spare IIfx, two parts IIx's, and two parts II's awaiting me to try and repair/recap them. *sob* (I stole the SWIM chip out of the IIx for my II - the 800k floppy limitation was a bit too limiting, a set of new ROM chips and the SWIM chip upgrade, it's now rocking a 1.44 drive.) Managed to get Appleshare over Ethernet working here as well, as well as TCP/IP working. Haven't had much time to dive into running a server for it though, I've been lazy and using the combination of ZIP drives (a USB one, coupled with MacDrive10 on my windows 10 box to get it to write HFS and HFS+, and a bunch of SCSI ones on the mac side). I've managed to track down a NUBUS Pro Audio Spectrum 16, with the breakout box, but haven't had time to install it yet. And a BUNCH of NUBUS Ethernet cards. I've also got "A few" Toby cards and a RasterOps 8 bit card of some sort (that can do some impressive resolutions, but only at 256 colors, unaccelerated). ... this whole mess started because I wanted to get a IIfx for nostalgia purposes (always wanted one growing up), The guy threw in a II, and I started recapping the II first because I was new at it and if I was gonna screw something up, might as well be a II. And then I liked the II, and wanted to get it working better. And then my wife got into 80's/90's synths and wanted a period correct computer to use with them, so we grabbed an SE/30. And it just spiraled. IIfx is a gateway drug.  Doccers has a new favorite as of 05:47 on May 27, 2021 |
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Doccers posted:Ok, I gotta ask... Nubus with an FPGA? Here's all the details on the Pro Tools hardware, sounds like it would be a perfect companion to your wife's synth setup! If you can get the NuBus card for cheap (I got lucky by finding a broken one) then the MH031 codec unit usually goes for very cheap. http://longview.be/digidesignpro-logic-quad-audio-interface-four-by-four-442-audio-interface-mh031-4x4.html http://longview.be/digidesign-pro-logic-audio-card.html And yeah this whole thing started because I wanted to run A/UX. Then I found out why people didn't like A/UX, so I went 7.5, then 7.6 once I had the networking bootstrapped and could transfer files. I've seen the PAS-16 sound card floating around eBay but usually without the external box, I didn't notice them until I was already working on the Pro Tools stuff, let us know when you've got it working! Just finished putting a Raspberry Pi 4 in a box, will my innovation never cease? I think I've got the RaSCSI emulator working, but I'm missing the actual SCSI cables, which turns out to be important. So now I'm waiting for a pile of SCSI2 cables and adapters to connect to the 25 pin on the Mac.
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longview posted:And yeah this whole thing started because I wanted to run A/UX. Then I found out why people didn't like A/UX, so I went 7.5, then 7.6 once I had the networking bootstrapped and could transfer files. I've always been fascinated with A/UX, if nothing else then because of how much it foreshadows OS X. I assume the reason people don't like running it is a lack of software/drivers/stability - or is it also too annoying or unfinished in itself?
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Computer viking posted:I've always been fascinated with A/UX, if nothing else then because of how much it foreshadows OS X. I assume the reason people don't like running it is a lack of software/drivers/stability - or is it also too annoying or unfinished in itself? I might like it more if I go back to it now, knowing more about the MacOS side of the system. It's kind of slow even on fast hardware (barely usable on 8 MB of RAM, which was a lot back then, the IIfx typically came with 4 MB). Hardware support is limited, and you have to recompile the kernel to change the IP address (this is mostly automatic but come on). Basically all the software you'd want to run uses the MacOS environment so may as well use that instead for most uses. It was neat running Mosaic with the X server though. What really killed it for me was that I couldn't get networking operational except for terminal ftp (which was enough to bootstrap the rest of the network stack, so I guess it worked). I think this was more of a System 7 issue with MacTCP compatibility etc etc., so I think it's a solvable issue. Also if you crash the system, or for any reason power it off uncleanly you might as well pop the SD card out and re-image it, because that file system is completely toast, and it will spend the next 4 hours running fsck in the best case. This wasn't uncommon for Unix systems of the era (and for quite some time after A/UX was EOL), but this simply isn't a problem on Windows or MacOS. It does teach you the importance of regular backups, but considering equipment costs back then I can see why people wrote an entire book about why Unix is awful. I will note that A/UX was replaced by AIX on PowerPC later, which probably included IBM JFS, which was probably a huge improvement. Delivery guy just dropped off 4 new in box 15" multiQ monitors, USD 30 a pop. I definitely recommend anyone into retro computing to try pick up old LCDs like that when they come up, 800x600 or (like these) 1024x768 native resolution is very hard to get new. These things have a mediocre TN panel, but they run off 12 V which is neat, and the chassis is all metal. Since they're heavy as poo poo they can also get away with using a small base, which means it's actually quite thin over all. Unfortunately they didn't like the miroGraph card VGA output and put up a permanent "OUT OF RANGE" message over the clearly usable picture, but they were happy with the RasterOps card. Might be replacing the miroGraph soon anyway so hopefully I can get a matched dual monitor set then. E: the miro runs at 72 Hz, not the 75 I had assumed. Turns out this LCD only does 60, 70, and 75 at 1024x768. longview has a new favorite as of 13:55 on May 27, 2021 |
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I was reminded of this:You Am I posted:Oh look what came in the mail today: because RMC posted a video about donations he's been getting, including reproductions of retail boxes:   They are, as with anything in this space, absurdly expensive at ~$50 or more, but if you're a turbonerd completist with disposable income...
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longview posted:Here's all the details on the Pro Tools hardware, sounds like it would be a perfect companion to your wife's synth setup! Holy Crap! I saw that card on Ebay! I was tempted since I thought it might just be the pins (like they described). That's a fascinating write up! Thank you!
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I’ve been looking for a Nubus PAS-16 for awhile - I already have the breakout box and cable, so the card-only would be perfect. Is there any place other than eBay to look for things like this?
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JnnyThndrs posted:I’ve been looking for a Nubus PAS-16 for awhile - I already have the breakout box and cable, so the card-only would be perfect. Is there any place other than eBay to look for things like this? ... As luck would have it, I bought a nubus PAS-16 card sans-breakout box, hoping to find a breakout box later when one became available, shortly before the other one popped up (on Etsy of all places, sold by a lady who's main store sold floral print design napkins from a former hotel that was popular? Amusingly I had to select which floral print my nubus card would have when purchasing it...) I haven't been able to test either one yet tho, Could you give me a few weeks to test these and make sure they work? (I'm absolutely slammed with a combination of full time work / full time school / projects / etc lately) If they both do, I can send one your way. Doccers has a new favorite as of 04:56 on May 28, 2021 |
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Doccers posted:... As luck would have it, I bought a nubus PAS-16 card sans-breakout box, hoping to find a breakout box later when one became available, shortly before the other one popped up (on Etsy of all places, sold by a lady who's main store sold floral print design napkins from a former hotel that was popular? Amusingly I had to select which floral print my nubus card would have when purchasing it...) I haven't been able to test either one yet tho, Holy crap, that would be awesome. I picked up the box w/cable and no card at a thrift store at least 15 years ago, and have been low-key looking for the card since then. I kinda wish I’d have kept the box. Whenever you have time is fine, as you can guess, time isn’t critical.
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Ah hahah 'rap god' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0jECuwrn_U
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We always seem to circle back to MD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCK89V4NpJY And yay I just bought a few Matrix films on UMD...
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Great TechMoan vid today. Niche product that is definitely super cool, while being obvious why it didn’t take off. https://youtu.be/8_Yz0TT439Q It’s also peak TechMoan with regards to its preparation ”if you have a video printer… which I do” “lucky I didn’t just buy two…”
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I know video crews were using MD players as a reliable no-frills digital field recorder as late as 2010 or so, until those Zoom pocket recorders became the new standard. e: reading up, apparently the recorders actually even provide phantom power for your fancy condenser mics? https://www.minidisc.org/tale_of_two.html snorch has a new favorite as of 00:57 on Jun 8, 2021 |
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snorch posted:I know video crews were using MD players as a reliable no-frills digital field recorder as late as 2010 or so, until those Zoom pocket recorders became the new standard. Yup, that's what I used my NetMD for during univeristy to record lectures and then later when out in the field filming stuff.
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Action Retro has started messing around with A/UX a few days ago, looks like it will be a series! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Phk3qVUPqw Looks like he ran into most of the same issues I did, though he has better hardware and I suspect more patience with old Unix than me. Calling it the best operating system is pure trolling though. I just got a Supermac Spectrum/24 III card, replacing the miroGraph unaccelerated card, so now I have dual accelerated 1024x768 displays with matched 15" LCDs. Some fuckery to get the new card to start up right - I suspect my monitor adapter cables were not set correctly for this card, when starting initially it would work fine but after a reboot it would output a completely different mode that wasn't supported by the display (45 kHz HSync). The fix was to install the 2.7.4 version of the control panel (not the 3.x versions), then use that to "install" a Supermac 1024x768 display. I guess that sets up the PRAM correctly for the card to start up properly in the correct mode. It could be that I could use a magic key-sequence during startup to make the card enter its mode selection sequence I guess, but I couldn't get that working right. Some weird issues with red fringing but otherwise fine, kind of like the red channel has lower bandwidth than the other channels. No too worried about it, but something to investigate more later since it's definitely usable as is. Speed-wise, it's about as fast as the RasterOps card, might be able to benchmark better numbers but it feels about as good.
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