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I have a CD player/radio mounted under one of my kitchen cabinets. We "won" it during a yankee swap many years ago. The sound still works but the clock is weirdly fast and never comes close to the correct time. We pretty much only use it to play the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack when we're cooking around the holidays.
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ElwoodCuse posted:I have a CD player/radio mounted under one of my kitchen cabinets. We "won" it during a yankee swap many years ago. The sound still works but the clock is weirdly fast and never comes close to the correct time. We pretty much only use it to play the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack when we're cooking around the holidays. Maybe it's a 50Hz model you're running in a 60Hz country, or vice versa?
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Oct 27, 2023 21:31
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I grew up in a tv in the kitchen house and it was never one of those under the cabinet ones. Maybe the size of a computer monitor at most. I sort of miss that as an adult but podcasts have helped immensely
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Oct 28, 2023 15:41
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What's wrong with a tablet?
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teen witch posted:I grew up in a tv in the kitchen house and it was never one of those under the cabinet ones. Maybe the size of a computer monitor at most. Yeah, we had a kitchen TV by the time I was in highschool, it was a similar size as yours, white, and I remember it had a turntable in its base, which makes a lot of sense in a kitchen. I hear you about podcasts - I do have a Google hub mini in my kitchen, but it's small enough that it tends to get hidden behind the first thing I set down while I'm cooking.
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Oct 29, 2023 03:47
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Kitchen TV is a 20th century staple.
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wa27 posted:Kitchen TV is a 20th century staple. Mary Hartman Mary Hartman is a 20th century staple.
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teen witch posted:I grew up in a tv in the kitchen house and it was never one of those under the cabinet ones. Maybe the size of a computer monitor at most. My parents won one of those in a supermarket raffle and it lasted until we had to get a new microwave and therefore couldn't fit in its spot. It went into the basement and stayed there for probably a decade. I have such a strong memory of watching that TV with news (or a commercial looking like news) announcing that M&Ms had a new color - blue. Strange what stays with you.
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Oct 29, 2023 05:23
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Oh yeah, the kitchen TV. We had one of those in the late 80s. Tiny portable thing with a retractable antenna and a battery at the back. Found it, kinda. It looked like this Zenith 5" portable. Except it doesn't have the battery and the antenna isn't on the side. I think we must've had two of the things. 
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Oct 29, 2023 07:12
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GoutPatrol posted:I have such a strong memory of watching that TV with news (or a commercial looking like news) announcing that M&Ms had a new color - blue. Strange what stays with you.
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Oct 29, 2023 19:28
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Arsenic Lupin posted:George Carlin had an entire comedy routine about "There's no blue food." Blue cheese
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Oct 29, 2023 19:32
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Grassy Knowles posted:Blue cheese (timestamp 55 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l04dn8Msm-Y&t=55s
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Cool ranch Doritos bag is blue
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By popular demand posted:What's wrong with a tablet? What isn't?
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I knew a guy who owned a bunch of dollar stores, and he said he went from perpetually going out of business to being fuckin loaded for life when the colored ketchup fad failed, because nobody wants to buy that poo poo at a grocery store but he couldn't keep them on the shelves at Dingo Dollar or whatever the gently caress his stores were called
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credburn posted:I knew a guy who owned a bunch of dollar stores, and he said he went from perpetually going out of business to being fuckin loaded for life when the colored ketchup fad failed, because nobody wants to buy that poo poo at a grocery store but he couldn't keep them on the shelves at Dingo Dollar or whatever the gently caress his stores were called Cheap name brand ketchup was a huge boon for my picky siblings
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Arsenic Lupin posted:(timestamp 55 seconds) 
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Oct 29, 2023 23:35
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Bring back the loving green ketchup dude. poo poo was awesome and the bottle made it come out in like, thin strands instead of dumping huge red loads on your food.
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EZ Squirt was my nickname in high school
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monolithburger posted:EZ Squirt was my nickname in high school mine was Huge Red Loads
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Calculating machines like this Just kidding, they are still used by many accountants and this model is still in sale
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Oct 30, 2023 12:02
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Anders posted:Calculating machines like this on its face it seems pretty silly, but as someone who does piles of arithmetic all day (working in a quality control lab), it's very nice to casually glance and double check you did your operations in the right order and that you didn't fat-finger any values. I used to laugh when I'd find one of those in some forgotten drawer, but now I've got one in my own drawer
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Oct 30, 2023 15:39
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My grandparents had one and they likely hid it from me because I had to play with it nonstop. Good god that printer was loud
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https://twitter.com/RetroTechDreams/status/1718977036968960002?s=20
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this dude's videos are so next level. he's got some billionaire contact that has bought up all this old nasa hardware and lets him and his other cohorts reverse engineer and fix it up. the science and coding behind all the hardware is nearly forgotten so it takes some serious greybeard magic to get things working, but they do it often. videos like these just make you feel real stupid cause I can't do any of that poo poo lol.
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One thing that gets me is the Apollo program was one of the most well documented scientific efforts imaginable and they're still missing the programs that made it run. With the right technical know how you could build an AGC from scratch but you'd have to hand code the software that runs it.
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It was well documented, but there was also a lot of bespoke stuff happening to fix issues with the designs and that knowledge died with the people who were doing it. Also, due to the core rope memory, you'd have to hand code it anyway. Though I guess you could make a machine that does it now. Not sure why they didn't make one then.
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Why spend time building a machine when Francine here can crank out a meter of rope a day. Or some such nonsense.
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LifeSunDeath posted:this dude's videos are so next level. he's got some billionaire contact that has bought up all this old nasa hardware and lets him and his other cohorts reverse engineer and fix it up. the science and coding behind all the hardware is nearly forgotten so it takes some serious greybeard magic to get things working, but they do it often. videos like these just make you feel real stupid cause I can't do any of that poo poo lol. Marc Verdiell is a legend, a proper old electronics wizard. His videos are always a must-watch. And even a wizard like him is at times flabbergasted by the insane sorcery that is RF comms.
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I consider myself a somewhat bright individual, and that was a lot of gibberish to me. How the gently caress this was actually able to work is amazing to me.
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It's not that complicated, you can muddle your way through with logic gates, I think. At least that's how it sounded to me, with the wires and relays.
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Simply put, they put lightening in the rocks and made them do math.
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Nocheez posted:I consider myself a somewhat bright individual, and that was a lot of gibberish to me. How the gently caress this was actually able to work is amazing to me. The gist of it is you can store data by having a metal loop and either sending wires through it or not sending wires through it. You have a bundle of wires with each wire representing a bit in your word of data. If a bit is a 1, send it through the loop, if the bit is a 0, send it around the loop. You then send current down a different wire which induces a magnetic field in the metal loop, that magnetic field in the loop then induces a current in the wires that go through it. Then you can just read all your wires and the wires that went through the loop have current going through them for say 1, and the wires that don't go through the loop have no current, or 0. Then you have recovered the data you stored. The complicated bit is all the other wires they have to be able to select a specific loop.
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Kwyndig posted:One thing that gets me is the Apollo program was one of the most well documented scientific efforts imaginable and they're still missing the programs that made it run. With the right technical know how you could build an AGC from scratch but you'd have to hand code the software that runs it. https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 
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Cojawfee posted:The gist of it is you can store data by having a metal loop and either sending wires through it or not sending wires through it. You have a bundle of wires with each wire representing a bit in your word of data. If a bit is a 1, send it through the loop, if the bit is a 0, send it around the loop. You then send current down a different wire which induces a magnetic field in the metal loop, that magnetic field in the loop then induces a current in the wires that go through it. Then you can just read all your wires and the wires that went through the loop have current going through them for say 1, and the wires that don't go through the loop have no current, or 0. Then you have recovered the data you stored. The complicated bit is all the other wires they have to be able to select a specific loop. 
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What I don't get is that you have cores that have multiple inhibit wires running through them. If you drive the set wire and one inhibit wire, the core sees no net current and won't flip. But if you drive the set wire and multiple inhibit wires, the core does see a net current, and with the low coercivity of the core I don't see why you don't wind up with the same problems you would if you used those soft cores in a standard core memory configuration.
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