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lobsterminator posted:Must be an intentional rage bait image! Why would you have an Amiga 500 running RotT! Yeah you need at least a 68060 upgraded A1200 and AGA graphics for sure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMfYHT3rXdY
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Bought a prison tv at a garage sale today  The lady worked at a prison and was very eager to explain why it was unique. It will be a workbench tv for me, since it's only 13" and has all the inputs.
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wa27 posted:Bought a prison tv at a garage sale today Other than having a translucent case so you can't hide stuff inside, what is unique about it? Is it made from parts that you can't scavenge and turn into a radio or anything like that?
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Mantle posted:Other than having a translucent case so you can't hide stuff inside, what is unique about it? Is it made from parts that you can't scavenge and turn into a radio or anything like that? It costs 3x what it should, so the inmates making 19cents an hour end up paying $165 for the world’s shittiest 12” tv. Also, most of them don’t have internal speakers, only a headphone jack, so the tier doesn’t have 17 different stations playing at full blast. Other than that, no.
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JnnyThndrs posted:It costs 3x what it should, so the inmates making 19cents an hour end up paying $165 for the world’s shittiest 12” tv. Also, most of them don’t have internal speakers, only a headphone jack, so the tier doesn’t have 17 different stations playing at full blast. Yeah I didn't mean to imply that there was anything more than the translucent case. Though this one does have speakers. Also no remote, and I'm not sure if there's even an IR receiver in it for a universal one. But the controls are nice and easy to use on the top.
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Working on a 486 overclocking project and setup a peltier for the first time. Power supply is a hotswap dell server supply as the thermocouple draws like 6 amps at 12v lol. The TDP on my test box is 65w, probably 15w at idle or so. The 5x86 i'll be working on is like 4w lol.   Gettin frosty!
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wa27 posted:Yeah I didn't mean to imply that there was anything more than the translucent case. Though this one does have speakers. Also no remote, and I'm not sure if there's even an IR receiver in it for a universal one. But the controls are nice and easy to use on the top. The ones here don’t have IR remote capability, usually, but I have seen ones that do. I think different states have different regulations on their prison products. I was just being a contrarian dick about the price, it’s one of my pet peeves, the way inmates get shafted in so many ways on top of their sentences, not meant as an attack.
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You could turn it into a crude radio receiver and transmitter, by taking the switching transistors from the power supply, and using the wire from the mains interference filter to wind your own coil. The lack of those wouldn't be immediately obvious to people who don't know what to look for. But the TV wouldn't be functional anymore. And you need a soldering iron and solder. A hot nail could somewhat work as a soldering iron, but you can't really harvest solder from something. Just lead alone (from roof flashing or whatever) won't work.
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LimaBiker posted:You could turn it into a crude radio receiver and transmitter, by taking the switching transistors from the power supply, and using the wire from the mains interference filter to wind your own coil. The lack of those wouldn't be immediately obvious to people who don't know what to look for. I don’t think the COs would notice that. Just stuff it under your mattress.
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Mr-Spain posted:Working on a 486 overclocking project and setup a peltier for the first time. Power supply is a hotswap dell server supply as the thermocouple draws like 6 amps at 12v lol. The TDP on my test box is 65w, probably 15w at idle or so. The 5x86 i'll be working on is like 4w lol. Wow neat, peltier coolers are one of my fav technologies. You’d think they’d be everywhere, but their drawbacks are just too great for wide application. Are you gonna pour liquid NO2 on the hot side and see if you can get your cpu superconducting? 
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Techmoan, of course, did a prison electronics video that’s worth a watch. https://youtu.be/O3PfsndsihY
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Gotta wonder if someone ever ripped out a CRT and used it to electrocute someone.
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namlosh posted:Wow neat, peltier coolers are one of my fav technologies. You’d think they’d be everywhere, but their drawbacks are just too great for wide application. Lol I was thinking about using dry ice to see if it was feasable but the peltier unit is like 10 bucks for two of them on amazon so why not? I fried a fan being dumb and need to get some adapters to cool off that heatsink cause it gets real warm fast. But I did a little test POSTing earlier then ran out of time; 
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youre probably gonna have to disengage your turbo button any time you wanna game on that thing
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It’d be interesting to see what that compares to in benchmarks
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:It’d be interesting to see what that compares to in benchmarks Going off of the list I’m using, right now it’s at 67fps in Doom so about a pentium 120-133. It’s heavily dependent on memory timings and those aren’t optimized yet. The PCI clock divider is killing me right now too lol.
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Casimir Radon posted:Gotta wonder if someone ever ripped out a CRT and used it to electrocute someone. Wouldn't be that effective. The power supply capacitors, the flyback transformer and the CRT's own capacitance can all give someone a really nasty shock, but because in the case of the capacitors the shock duration is very short, and the flyback is limited to 3mA or so, it's rarely lethal. Mains voltage is available if you have a TV, so that would be much more dangerous and painful. TV repairsmen would, however, chuck charged high voltage capacitors at each other just for fun (Like 'Hey Joe, catch this!'). Not the biggest ones, but definitely enough to zap.
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MORE!!! I need more of this in my life. It seems especially prescient now considering the recent release of AMDs R9 7950x CPU gets up to 95c and stays there. This is as designed lol
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I for one am shocked and appalled by AMD gear running hot.
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yes, yessss  Are you just doing short runs to see how far you can push it? Any condensation concerns?
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an actual frog posted:yes, yessss Yep, it’s humid down here and even in the AC it condensates and freezes on the chip. The longer it runs the more ice it gets. Solution right now is to unplug the board, and leave the cooler running, turn it off and pop off the heat sink. Then knock off the ice and keep a fan on it. The other night the socket and whatnot was wet but dried out. Also; lol https://youtu.be/EJ8eIz3APQQ
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Disappointed that there's no sound. The clicks and clunks are an important part of the experience
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I was really curious about the Panasonic phone where the screen just popped off at a 90 degree angle. Looks like it was to give it a camcorder-y grip for filming (On that monstrous 0.3 megapixel sensor.)  It's kind of amusing that that has made a bit of a comeback with the Samsung Flip phones, I've seen colleagues hold those in a 'camcorder grip' as well. 
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I haven't really made any videos with my flip3, but I love that my pop socket allows me to hold it like a camcorder.
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Cojawfee posted:I haven't really made any videos with my flip3, but I love that my pop socket allows me to hold it like a camcorder. "How can i make this stupid fat phone even fatter? I know, I'll put a loving pop socket on it!"
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Catpain Slack posted:"How can i make this stupid fat phone even fatter? I know, I'll put a loving pop socket on it!" I guess when it's folded up it's about an inch thick with the pop socket, but it's not really a big deal. It's about the same as my wallet that I keep in my other pocket. Much better than a really long phone that I'd worry about breaking in my pocket.
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In which shelby from Tech Tangents clones a punishingly-rare ISA adapter card to get the world's first CD ROM drive working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W1t2_EJG9w
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 inject this obsolete nerd poo poo directly into my vains.
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Honestly amazed there wasn't some lens or drive or rubber band issue with the CD drive. Goddamn that's cool. And kind of scary how easily things get lost to time.
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Databits just put out a video demonstrating a 1970s home video format I've somehow never heard of before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NMfqjAzmR8
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Cojawfee posted:I guess when it's folded up it's about an inch thick with the pop socket, but it's not really a big deal. It's about the same as my wallet that I keep in my other pocket. Much better than a really long phone that I'd worry about breaking in my pocket. Your wallet is also too big imo
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Mr.Radar posted:Databits just put out a video demonstrating a 1970s home video format I've somehow never heard of before: How to build something the most complicated way.
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That's a 6/10 from me. * Printer missing from the ShinSplitter Rack * Is that an LCD my man wtf where is the chunko CRT that needs to be placed diagonally to fit? * Complete lack of CD storage for quick access to burned porn * Lack of gaming/computer magazines in the holder * No quick access to moisturizer and/or tissues * Lack of soda moisture rings on the counter * No external speakers with fiddly volume pots FilthyImp has a new favorite as of 00:27 on Oct 6, 2022 |
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It has the wrist destroying strip on the keyboard drawer, but there's not even one spindle of blank CDs.
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FilthyImp posted:That's a 6/10 from me. I gotchu, friend 
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monolithburger posted:I gotchu, friend Even includes the casters that will be forever in that position.
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monolithburger posted:I gotchu, friend I'm gonna open quicken on that badboy
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