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c0burn posted:Is that Dallas ttpe RTC in a socket at least? Sadly it is not, it's soldered in. Which makes sense given why these were made. But if I repurposed the card as just an XT-IDE or HD floppy boot BIOS it wouldn't be active either way.
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Clean, Smooth and Fresh AI: Angry, Horny Normal I: Killer robot posted:I got a box of old PC stuff and it included some interesting tech relics.
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Dr. Quarex posted:I think any new tech product should be handed to a group of ADHD tech enthusiasts before being allowed on the market, and if none of them can stand to use it long enough to actually achieve its purpose then it is not a good product The fact that a product was bad had no impact on hype, marketing or sales, as long as it was a tech gadget
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Thread: https://x.com/zephray_wenting/status/1761548861896606014?s=20
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can you post screenshots of the rest of the thread cause I don't have a parler account
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Same. I ain’t paying Elon ad dollars
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Here it is on Threadreader https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1761548861896606014.html
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First of May posted:Here it is on Threadreader ty
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LifeSunDeath posted:can you post screenshots of the rest of the thread cause I don't have a parler account https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1761548861896606014.html
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I think you're a bit late there Mantle.
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By popular demand posted:I think you're a bit late there Mantle. It's because I read the forums by going to my bookmarks and opening up my threads in new tabs, just like you all do. It sometimes takes a few mins to get to a tab I've opened
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ty it was an interesting read for sure. I like to imagine some dude in prison learning to code on this thing and somehow breaking they encryption with rudimentary tools, and all the time in the world.
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Kinda keep forgetting to fire up the Atari 800XL with all the other vintage hardware I have. I've got a hobby show set up coming up in the following weekend, and want to display this and the 1040STE. I was able to find out how to get Atari Artist, which came bundled with the Touch Tablet (but not present when I got this Atari 8 bit bundle) working. Not bad for hardware hitting 40 years old. 
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I laughed when I saw those speakers.
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Dick Trauma posted:I laughed when I saw those speakers. 
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 this is a Key Digitial Digital Magic 12. Yes, KDDH12 where the D is digital twice in a row (and the H is meaningless?), because the year was 2004 and they really wanted you to think this was important so they also printed "DIGITAL PATH" on the bezel. This is a 1-to-12 component multiplexer with built in scaling as well as an ATSC tuner that I might be able to get 2 channels on badly with a $200 antennae. That's a couple LZX/eurorack video synthesis modules sitting on top of it. Right now if I have the video rack set to output anything other than NTSC, I can't use my CRT display as a preview monitor, so sometimes I set up patches on a crt, then power everything off, switch to 1080p30, power back on, remix colors now that we're out of composite land, etc and then record. I am hopeful KD-12 solves half of that, given that I never expect color reproduction on a CRT to look the same as a constructed RGB stream from component outs, but being able to be in 1080p30 (or 720p59 or whatever the hell I'm doing) and also have that work on the various legacy SD things kicking around, would be sweet. The unit appears to only lock to one output mode at a time, but, at least I can have everything wired up this way and then I am only switching the output on this thing over to 1080i before recording. That's the hope, anyway, if it makes my life worse then the main problem will be wasted time, this was like footy five dollats shipped. The video encoder I use was five hundred dollars and also you set video mode with dip switches I'd rather not be flipping 3-4x a day, I don't think they were really made for that kind of use. quote:Why you need Digital Magic, Model # KD-DH12 I haven't been able to find an MSRP on this thing but I bet they were five hundred dollars new or something loving stupid back in 2004 at the apex of "Build a HIGH DEF home theater!" moment catching fire. Maybe more, if these were actually sold for industry uses. What do I do with all this poo poo? I don't even loving know. Make winamp visuals at 1000x the cost mostly  Next step is to build a 9-grid CRT wall. I may demolish the closet in my office to make this possible. Right now the closet is mostly just full of old DV cams and poo poo anyway. edit: poo poo, running my own in-home TV network actually doesn't look like that bad a lift especially if I resign myself to SD: https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/jomul0/my_analog_cabletv_setup_powered_by_many_raspberry/ Cabbages and VHS has a new favorite as of 09:37 on Mar 8, 2024 |
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Quake 3 tin being used to store screws in the garage:
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Screws? Not nails? 
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Not even nine inch nails.
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If I had one I'd probably use it as a chassis for an SBC. It'd look cool.
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this is a somewhat weirder one that's probably going to be more time consuming  It's a reel-to-reel 4-track that is mono only and was advertised as "mono, twice the recording length!" leading me to believe that the resulting recordings can probably only be played on this specific device without a bunch of post processing or other effort.  I have a small stack of mostly stuff my dad recorded with his friends in the 70s that doesn't exist in any other format.  The thing powers up briefly and then dies, no matter what you try to make it do, so that's problem one. I haven't taken it apart further than this to look for cracked caps or other obvious problems. When it does power on, the reverse fully engages. Forward doesn't, but it tries to and watching it, I think that can be fixed by replacing a bunch of the retaining springs that have lost their sproing. The electrical stuff is more mysterious to me and I may try to rope in a friend before wasting time confusing myself with a meter. Futzing with the play/record button makes the speaker crackle; there's also a 1/4" output on the back. Full restoration would be cool, but getting blank media looks unfun (I pretty much max out at spending $4-8 a pop on sealed Maxell XL II Gold cassettes when it comes to trying to source ancient blank tape), so if I can just restore it well enough to be able to play back this pile of reels and record it all that would be cool.
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For very basic recorders like that, don't bother getting brand new tapes. You won't get the best quality out of them anyway. If it completely dies, there's a wonky contact in the entire mains related circuit. Can be the switch, can be the cord itself (usually breaks near the plug or the strain relief in the machine). Occasionally the fuse holder has gotten crusty. The springs are rarely the problem. The issue is the hardening of the running surfaces of the rubber parts causing less friction between tape and rollers, and between the drive wheels, as well as hardened grease in sliding or moving parts that excert the force from the play button to the pinch roller for instance. All moving parts need to move in a snappy way - the opposite of nicely smooth opening cassette doors. If after following the procedure below you still don't have enough friction, you can try more spring tension on the pinch roller that pushes the tape against the capstan, but that comes with the risk of wow/flutter/the tape being pushed away from the capstan. For all Sony recorders with lots of rubber wheels, the way to start is to by: - Removing all the rubber parts - Getting a deep dish with really hot water and dish soap - Once the water has cooled to a human-tolerated tempearture, vigorously scrub all the rubber parts, especially the running surfaces, with a sponge. Then rinse well with water with relatively low mineral content, and let dry completely. Use demineralized water if your local tap water has a lot of calcium. Now clean all the bearing surfaces and shafts that you pulled the rubber parts off of with something like naphta or WD40. Lubricate the bronze bushings generously with THIN oil such as sewing machine oil, let soak, clean away all excess and residue that might pick up dust. Try and get some into the motor bearings too, though don't drown the motor in lube! Use naptha or WD40 to free up and clean sliding parts and relubricate with something like white lithium grease or moly grease. Binding sliding parts may be the reason why things don't press hard enough against each other. You don't always have to completely disassemble all the moving parts. Usually once they get moving and it has new grease, Finally, clean the entire tape path (heads, capstan, tape guides) with ethanol or isopropyl alcohol, using cotton swabs or strips of cloth. Now it's ready to be tested! If it runs smoothly, you can proceed to clean electric contacts and potentiometers with isopropyl alcohol. If that's not enough, use a contact cleaner, but use it sparingly. Never use contact cleaner for mains switches. LimaBiker has a new favorite as of 16:10 on Mar 8, 2024 |
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Quake 3 tin being used to store screws in the garage: The only retailer that I found it at was EB and I did pick it up. Pretty sure mine is still complete with disc/manual in a box somewhere.
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Yes it is the Linux version
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Tech Relics: Yes it is the Linux version
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Cabbages and Kings posted:
I have an acquaintance who does a lot of Eurorack AV stuff and tbh you can do some cool poo poo, especially live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_rXx1XymmI
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Milkdrop with an analog processing step would absolutely rule.
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I was hoping to track down a yellow sport Walkman to go with my yellow Soundburger, but this would be even better.
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I fully support the guys theory of why it is that disgusting color. it's a karaoke machine and karaoke was very smoking heavy so why not pre-stain the plastic with the color it would eventually turn into if always used around smoking karaokers?
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Dick Trauma posted:I want to turn one of those into a bento box.  but it's not pinku???
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Cartoon Man posted:https://i.imgur.com/q1mAoVT.mp4 Wasn't there a laptop from around the same time as that one that had a slide out second screen? I'm trying to find it, but I'm mostly getting new results. The one I'm thinking of is from late aughts/early teens and the second screen slide out but was much smaller than the primary.
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I'm pretty sure I've seen it on a Krazy Ken video but I can't remember which.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Wasn't there a laptop from around the same time as that one that had a slide out second screen? There was a thinkpad like that in 2008. Here it is, and some other early dual screen experiments: https://www.technologizer.com/2008/12/19/two-screen-laptops/
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Oh dear god in heaven (from the bad food thread)
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I've been on the look-out for suitable Compact Flash cards for years now (not like actively because I'm pretty much on a no budget, but it's been at the back of my mind) ever since I got an IDE-CF adapter, so I could revive my Nokia 386. Last night I got to tidying up some miscellanonunuesoesus boxes and... I have like five CF cards. I have literally no idea when and where I acquired them 
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I remember seeing a CF microdrive for the first time and thinking it's so neat. Of course solid state overtook that technology quickly as spinning disc tech isn't great for mobile devices.
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