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Pham Nuwen posted:Wasn't aware it does fulltext search, I've been using it for years to manage books on my kindle so I'll explore a little deeper, thanks! Power Search Plugin
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Desert Bus posted:Apparently the CueCat is great for scanning books and that's about all these days. I have like 15 of these things in a storage tote out in my garage... Nearly all of them still wrapped in plastic with the included CD. A friend and I went around to several RadioShacks in the IN/OH/KY tri-state area trying to collect as many of them as possible. Why? gently caress if I know... We were huge nerds. My friend did end up doing the plain-text mod on several and selling them online. Ended up with both versions, the USB and PS/2 pass-through varieties. I messed around with using a plain-text modified one for cataloging the huge DVD collection I had at the time. They are a cheap LED/photodiode based scanner, and don't remember them particularly good at actually scanning.
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If you were using a scanner enough to fiddle with a cuecat you could just buy a new rechargeable 3 way (USB cable/USB wireless dongle/Bluetooth) barcode scanner that will be much easier to work with than a cuecat and can link to your PC / phone etc.. You can get them for around $25 new https://a.co/d/apaVnLb I picked one up for scanning serial number barcodes to inventory ewaste computers at my work and it works great. They even have miniature keychain sized ones for $18 open box and $10 used. https://a.co/d/0sgFNJn
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I do like the Motorola/Symbol/Zebra scanners we use at work, but I have a suspicion they're not $60 better than the generic ones anymore.
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Laserjet 4P posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGbHD65z4Ak I got bored with his negativity like half-way in. Is he being the absolute most loving miserable about it all the way?
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my turn in the barrel posted:If you were using a scanner enough to fiddle with a cuecat you could just buy a new rechargeable 3 way (USB cable/USB wireless dongle/Bluetooth) barcode scanner that will be much easier to work with than a cuecat and can link to your PC / phone etc.. Everything you posted just says "the options are ever-so-slightly worse in every way than a Cue Cat" 
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I got bored with his negativity like half-way in. Is he being the absolute most loving miserable about it all the way? Though knowing you are Finnish means you might not have spent years being sick of every store being full of awful garbage, as I understand it America is like the only country that has these things, so it must seem like we are not appreciating our wonders
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CRD is great and I very much enjoyed his tour of the thrift stores
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Anyone stan Apollo workstations around here? I ended up – through no fault of my own – with a 68030 processor card and a Token Ring (also Apollo, not IBM) card for a 400 series HP/Apollo. It's a 16 bit ISA card, so may technically work in a PC as well. Will get pictures later. The processor card is pretty unusual, it's a 68030 at 50 MHz with FPU, but it's designed to fit a 68040 socket so there's this massive card with CPU pins on one end. Apparently the 400 series was designed for the 68040 but had to go to market before the 68040 was generally available. So they made this emulator assembly with tons of glue logic and PAL's to ship in the mean time. I have it since I guess the original owner bought one of those then later bought the 68040 upgrade kit and left the original card in the box. Token Ring system is interesting, it uses a 15 pin D-Sub shell contact with two coax inserts, with a very strange bayonet plug on the wall end (looks like a lamp socket). I think the wall box had switches in it to bypass the outlet until something was plugged in. There's also relays on the controller card that probably bypasses the card when powered off. I guess Apollo didn't want to bother with building Multistation Access Units like IBM did for their system.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I got bored with his negativity like half-way in. Is he being the absolute most loving miserable about it all the way?
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OK I just don't find it entertaining to watch someone bullying a CD player.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:OK I just don't find it entertaining to watch someone bullying a CD player. Try skipping to when Gravis gets to RePC. There's more interesting stuff for him to talk about there.
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What's that? little baby can't handle the skipping?! Did your mama choose this melty plastic coating because she knew you were going to be worthless?
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longview posted:Token Ring system is interesting, it uses a 15 pin D-Sub shell contact with two coax inserts, with a very strange bayonet plug on the wall end (looks like a lamp socket). that might be a standard-ish dsub configuration. 
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Yeah the D-Sub looks standard, it's coaxes on either side with a couple of signal pins in the middle. The wall side is the weird bit. There's a low resolution picture of the cable here: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/X1166.94B Bitsavers has archived a description of the system at least! http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/apollo/010005-00_Apollo_Token_Ring_Media_Access_Control_Layer_and_Physical_Layer_Protocols_Oct87.pdf
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I got bored with his negativity like half-way in. Is he being the absolute most loving miserable about it all the way? CRD had just been through a huge amount of medical issues the past year, and some of the negativity could be due to the health issues he was getting over at the time However most of his stuff can contain snark like Tech Connections
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I didn't really see it as negativity, just a lot of snark and hamming it up a bit. EDIT: We all love demoscene stuff right? Title says it all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mes4yarC5ws Humphreys has a new favorite as of 07:46 on Jan 18, 2024 |
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Humphreys posted:I didn't really see it as negativity, just a lot of snark and hamming it up a bit. https://archive.org/details/essential-keygen-music?webamp=default
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You Am I posted:CRD had just been through a huge amount of medical issues the past year, and some of the negativity could be due to the health issues he was getting over at the time Yeah I blocked Technology Connections because he made an off-handed remark about Fahrenheit having some redeeming quality. I have principles. They might be stupid principles but I still have them. One strike and you're out.
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Fahrenheit has just one redeeming quality, to make America look even dumber on the world stage. See also imperial measurements.
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Humphreys posted:We all love demoscene stuff right? But in the meantime I will appreciate how I keep hearing about things running on 200 fans this week
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Dr. Quarex posted:I do love Demoscene stuff and should probably figure out what the deal with this is someday as clearly it is a Demoscene Meme/Demosmeme from after I stopped religiously following it Funnily enough I'm not familiar with Demoscene but I am familiar with Touhou/ Bad Apple I guess Demoscene explains why I was able to get Bad Apple on a Famicom cartridge from Ali express
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Bad Apple has nothing on State of the Art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89wq5EoXy-0
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Collateral Damage posted:Thrifting is a miserable experience, so it makes sense in context. Yeah, for every week you find an interesting thing there’s two weeks where there’s absolutely nothing but trash. He is correct, though—Savers/ValueVillage has always had a better hit rate for me when it comes to electronics and doodads because of the pegboard plastic bags and the fact that they still put out computers. Goodwill can still have interesting stuff if they do a good job curating a handpicked section, but this is highly variable depending on the store. The golden age of tech thrifting (at least, for the stuff most of us would be interested in I bet) was probably 2010-2016. Most of the time when it comes to thrifting it’s me posting some photos with a friend going “they’re asking HOW MUCH for this?” or “Oh, check out this weird thing.” You get the same vibes scrolling through CL/FBM except you get the addition of “NO LOWBALLERS I KNOW WHAT I HAVE.” So yeah, you get a little jaded/snarky after a while when you’re used to your local shops. When I was in the Seattle area last year I actually visited some of the stores he put in that video, so it was a nice trip down memory lane. Speaking of relics I recently made a video about an old boat anchor I bought because I was working on a different video: An IBM PS/2 Model 80. I’ll get right to installing OS/2 on it, I swear! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFZeSaMBnZw kefkafloyd has a new favorite as of 22:34 on Jan 20, 2024 |
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kefkafloyd posted:Goodwill can still have interesting stuff if they do a good job curating a handpicked section, but this is highly variable depending on the store. Goodwill's good poo poo (of any type; clothes, books, furniture, electronics) ends up being saved for their bidding website and the stores only have trash nowadays. You may get lucky but it's very unlikely anymore.
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And the worthwhile stuff that does stay in the stores is often priced higher than it would cost to buy new, even clothing and in-print books. These days I have the best luck by going to the sketchiest looking pawn shops I can find.
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lobsterminator posted:Bad Apple has nothing on State of the Art. Love that one. I think the appeal of Bad Apple is it's more of a backport to see how well various systems can play it. Star of the Art is time period bleeding edge example of what they could come up with.
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Amiga demos are great for their bit plane masking tricks that you don't really see in contemporary PC demos because the hardware is so different. State of the Art might be the best example of it.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Goodwill's good poo poo (of any type; clothes, books, furniture, electronics) ends up being saved for their bidding website and the stores only have trash nowadays. You may get lucky but it's very unlikely anymore. A lot of it does, but I think this is also region/store dependent. Shopgoodwill doesn’t have anything sourced from New England except for one store in Maine. And yes, they often have prices that are out of whack. But at least in my region there’s still one or two stores that sometimes manage to have something interesting now and again. Which are all dwarfed by other Goodwills that are full of trash. You definitely won’t find old computers though, they’ve been doing “recycling partnerships.” Barf.
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ExcessBLarg! posted:Amiga demos are great for their bit plane masking tricks that you don't really see in contemporary PC demos because the hardware is so different. And State of the Art is not the most technically impressive demo of the time, but it was like a music video you'd see on MTV Party Zone at the time, but running on your Amiga. Good technically, but great creatively.
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lobsterminator posted:And State of the Art is not the most technically impressive demo of the time, but it was like a music video you'd see on MTV Party Zone at the time, but running on your Amiga. Good technically, but great creatively. The reason no-one outside of the "scene" gives two shits about demos is that about 100% of them are extremely uninteresting and/or bad as works of art. (Some might have good music. Many don't.) Of course they're not works of art, they're masterpieces.
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The music from this crawls up from my brainstem on occasion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SdGkkp1aq8
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3D Megadoodoo posted:The reason no-one outside of the "scene" gives two shits about demos is that about 100% of them are extremely uninteresting and/or bad as works of art. oh no i'm agreeing with 3dmdd
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i fear that the demoscene is going to die out entirely due to a lack of turbonerds in future generations that were subjected to chatgpt and tiktok brain rot from an early age  even back in 2007 i struggled to find a single friend that shared the same appreciation of fitting stiff nipples and a crisp voice synthesizer in less than 65536 characters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svGk_pF67gc
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I hadn't kept up with the amiga demo scene since selling my a500 back in the mid 90s. Picked up a MiSTer last year and was pretty shocked to see that the scene is still active and putting out pretty cool poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD9xk3SDSYc
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Humphreys posted:I didn't really see it as negativity, just a lot of snark and hamming it up a bit. cowards, let's hear the raw sound of 200 fans too demosecne cool, this is one of my faves - it is only 256 bytes, smaller in size than this comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWblpsLZ-O8
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This demoscene thread could use some resurrecting (if yall didn't post in it already) https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3968422
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ymgve posted:cowards, let's hear the raw sound of 200 fans too God yes, A Mind is Born is so amazing. The only thing i wish is that it was longer.
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ymgve posted:cowards, let's hear the raw sound of 200 fans too That's æsthetically very pleasing but it makes my vision blur 
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The best thing that came out of the demoscene i is kreiger...  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger https://digiex.net/threads/kkrieger-96kb-3d-shooter.4683/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD1wWY1YD-M
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