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Dial 202-762-1401 if you're looking for a good time. 
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Not the type of party line I was referring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony) but I was just trying to be funny, I'm absolutely not in the mood to argue vague tech connections.
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Aug 17, 2023 17:56
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The full CRD episode featuring that Toshiba laptop is out, part of his Quick Start series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkMwLbIQlOg Surprise, it's a home theater PC laptop!
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Aug 17, 2023 18:04
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Dick Trauma posted:Dial 202-762-1401 if you're looking for a good time. Used to call this as a kid to synchronize my watch. Last time I tried calling that number it didn't work. The new number is 202-762-1069. It's the USNO master clock voice announcer. Also the 1401 number has a Walgreens rewards account last time I checked. Use that if you don't want the man knowing your phone number. And yes, I recognized that number on sight.
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Aug 17, 2023 19:51
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Dick Trauma posted:Dial 202-762-1401 if you're looking for a good time. Back when I was setting up a ton of phones on at a VOIP provider, I used this number cus it was a reliable choice for quality sound.
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Aug 17, 2023 22:06
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By popular demand posted:Do you consider the 'party lines' of decades past the precursors to modern VOIP services though, because I'll fight you on this. That would be the telegraph Cuz it encoded messages via long or short (0 or 1) pulses
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Aug 17, 2023 23:00
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Was it really that cost-effective to use a backward 2 as a 5 or vice versa in nixie tubes? Irksome! Was it just a Russian thing, and that's all we got left?
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Aug 17, 2023 23:49
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Majere posted:Was it really that cost-effective to use a backward 2 as a 5 or vice versa in nixie tubes? Irksome! Was it just a Russian thing, and that's all we got left? Yep! They haven't been made since the Soviet Union as far as I know. There are still thousands and thousands of them left. It does look like there is at least one type that does have an actual 5 https://www.ebay.com/itm/3240692094...emis&media=COPY 
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Aug 17, 2023 23:58
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Armacham posted:Yep! They haven't been made since the Soviet Union as far as I know. There are still thousands and thousands of them left. Millclock apparently makes or made their own. I'm hedging because they are based in the part of Ukraine that's very much the frontline so... Who knows what really happened.
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Aug 18, 2023 00:21
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Trabant posted:Millclock apparently makes or made their own. I'm hedging because they are based in the part of Ukraine that's very much the frontline so... Who knows what really happened. Dope! I haven't seen new ones in production that weren't just fake LEDs or something so that's very cool. Hope they make it.
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Aug 18, 2023 01:18
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I always thought Nixie tubes would make great score displays on a steampunk themed pinball machine.
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Aug 18, 2023 04:28
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Mr.Radar posted:The full CRD episode featuring that Toshiba laptop is out, part of his Quick Start series: lmao jesus christ the Qosmio. the most bizarre series of laptops to have ever existed
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Aug 18, 2023 08:08
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IN-16 tubes have different 5 and 2.
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Aug 18, 2023 15:44
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I am selling my Roland Cr-5000 and on the same day I acquired a free Roland E-36 so looking at fiddling with keyboards again...this guy does some nice videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpMMwc0Mn0Y
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Aug 18, 2023 16:06
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One Nut Wonder posted:The new number is 202-762-1069. Nice!
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Aug 18, 2023 20:16
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Something something DomesdayDuplicator project... (of course I'm up to no good with LDs)
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Aug 22, 2023 11:31
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Oh that is neat - how far have things come along in being able to play a captured image of a normal laser disc- and for that matter, in actually recreating the full BBC micro Domesday disc experience?
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Aug 22, 2023 13:04
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Humphreys posted:I am selling my Roland Cr-5000 and on the same day I acquired a free Roland E-36 so looking at fiddling with keyboards again...this guy does some nice videos Now all you need is an Atari ST
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Aug 22, 2023 13:14
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You Am I posted:Now all you need is an Atari ST I recently watched a documentary about Fatboy Slim's huge outdoor rave in 2002. Funniest thing was that he was still using an ST to make music in 2002. Pretty good return of investment for a 1985 computer. 
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Aug 22, 2023 13:16
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Computer viking posted:Oh that is neat - how far have things come along in being able to play a captured image of a normal laser disc- and for that matter, in actually recreating the full BBC micro Domesday disc experience? To the point that LDs are trivial and we end up the equivalent of 14km data with timed frame fields. 1:1 as best as possible. Capture is solved. The encoding to best possible visible image is the next step - and the old 'capture now decode later' runs true. They are expanding onto tape formats now which Im also interested in.
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Aug 22, 2023 14:00
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lobsterminator posted:I recently watched a documentary about Fatboy Slim's huge outdoor rave in 2002. Funniest thing was that he was still using an ST to make music in 2002. Pretty good return of investment for a 1985 computer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLjgXPDzeZo&t=177s cooool
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Aug 22, 2023 14:20
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I laughed when he asked the camera crew to blur out some of the samples he used because he never paid for the rights.
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Aug 22, 2023 17:32
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lobsterminator posted:I recently watched a documentary about Fatboy Slim's huge outdoor rave in 2002. Funniest thing was that he was still using an ST to make music in 2002. Pretty good return of investment for a 1985 computer. king
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Aug 22, 2023 18:16
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One Nut Wonder posted:Also the 1401 number has a Walgreens rewards account last time I checked. Use that if you don't want the man knowing your phone number. And yes, I recognized that number on sight. 867-5309 always has every rewards account, of course, and it's usually good for $0.20 off per gallon at the gas station. Now, last time I did that at Walgreens, I had to pick my name out of the list of dozens of accounts registered under that number, by which I mean I picked the first name that showed on the list.
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Aug 22, 2023 18:57
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lobsterminator posted:I recently watched a documentary about Fatboy Slim's huge outdoor rave in 2002. Funniest thing was that he was still using an ST to make music in 2002. Pretty good return of investment for a 1985 computer. The ST was incredibly good for making electronic music for a lot longer than one would think. PCs were dogshit at MIDI until the 2000s (and for a while even past then, some grogs would claim that even today), but you boot an ST and it Just Works and comes with zero distractions. poo poo, I would love to have one even now to run my pile of old garbage synths.
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Aug 22, 2023 21:30
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AFAIK Macs were pretty much becoming the standard in music production by then
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Aug 22, 2023 22:02
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the Atari ST had poor sound capabilities, but extremely low latency for MIDI, or something like that.
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Aug 23, 2023 08:53
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I'm just happy we're out of the 'gotta run the setup once more and play with the IRQs' stage, I can vividly remember some games refusing to identifying the sound card as a SoundBlaster compatible and having to make do with Adlib.
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Aug 23, 2023 09:01
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lobsterminator posted:That's close to what I have in my study now. Equally dusty, too. That Commodore tape drive was the bane of my young existence.
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Aug 23, 2023 09:52
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axolotl farmer posted:the Atari ST had poor sound capabilities, but extremely low latency for MIDI, or something like that. Pretty much. MIDI is nothing to do with the sound coming out of the computer, it's just a protocol for controlling external gear. The ST actually had incredibly lovely sound for a 16-bit computer.
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Aug 23, 2023 11:03
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Sweevo posted:Pretty much. MIDI is nothing to do with the sound coming out of the computer, it's just a protocol for controlling external gear. The ST actually had incredibly lovely sound for a 16-bit computer. Yeah, before every Mac came with a Garageband/Logic and all the software synths you'll ever need, you used MIDI to connect, program and control your very physical pile of dusty synths and samplers. The ST had a solid midi clock for keeping stuff in sync and a good hardware implementation when most computers had neither, and the alternative was dedicated sequencers which were often more expensive and more difficult to get anything done with. The ST really was a DIY musician's dream. (Amiga had the tracker scene, but that was a different thing entirely.)
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Aug 23, 2023 11:23
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By popular demand posted:I'm just happy we're out of the 'gotta run the setup once more and play with the IRQs' stage, I can vividly remember some games refusing to identifying the sound card as a SoundBlaster compatible and having to make do with Adlib. For some reason, whenever i hear IRQ I immediately think of the numbers 8, 220, 1 and then the phrase HIMEM.SYS and how lucky I was to have slightly dodgy copy of qemm386.
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Aug 23, 2023 22:37
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mr_jolly posted:For some reason, whenever i hear IRQ I immediately think of the numbers 8, 220, 1 and then the phrase HIMEM.SYS and how lucky I was to have slightly dodgy copy of qemm386. Default IRQ for the SB was 7, shared with LPT1. Were you printing a lot?
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Aug 23, 2023 23:03
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How else would I make my daily banner in print shop pro
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Aug 23, 2023 23:06
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Were you printing the motd every day
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Aug 23, 2023 23:25
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It's the only proper medium in which to say "I HATE TOM SERVO'S NEW VOICE".
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Aug 23, 2023 23:35
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Cojawfee posted:Were you printing the motd every day I was a child and I enjoyed pulling the carriage feed off in one big piece so p much Thank god I didnt have code:
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Aug 24, 2023 00:14
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Powered Descent posted:It's the only proper medium in which to say "I HATE TOM SERVO'S NEW VOICE". Great pull 
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Aug 24, 2023 02:41
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My buddy does junk hauling as side gig and found this beauty... It's in very nice shape. It had 8 ancient D cell energizers in it but they were barely leaking. It powers on but the tuning knob is borked. The cable that snakes around the knob shaft, tuner and indicator is slack for a reason that I have yet to determine. I can move the tuner around by hand and the FM radio reception is absolutely amazing. I'll probably use it just for that. Apparently you can use the external antenna input as a composite video input. I tried it with the only cable I have and a blu ray player with no results. I'm thinking it needs a VCR the channel 3-4 output. I'll try that eventually but for now I just want to fix the tuner knob.
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As a little kid i always sort of assumed that i would never see a crisper picture than that on a b&w sony watchman.
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