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Dick Trauma posted:https://twitter.com/astromarkmarley/status/1787970965462544874 Is the, "in a meeting" thing related to an actual thing? Is that why this thing was brought out, or is that just... made up narrative to support a random post? I'm genuinely curious if this was produced because it was needed or if someone just wanted to show it 
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credburn posted:Is the, "in a meeting" thing related to an actual thing? Is that why this thing was brought out, or is that just... made up narrative to support a random post? https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/faculty/mark-s-marley hm yes, is there a reason why the director of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona would be in a meeting where someone says 'we need a visualization of something going on in space'.
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I was hoping that when they turned it that it made a jack-in-the-box sound.
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ishikabibble posted:https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/faculty/mark-s-marley Interesting, I've worked with a couple of folks on that faculty list before during my grad work. Mike Nolan is one cranky reviewer JFC
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Just learned about that time when a Czechoslovak agricultural cooperative produced... computers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqBmcNC6WDY (copies of western 8-bit micros but still) It also produced this amazing ad:  for a system that I think was 8088-based, unlike the Z80 systems shown in the video. (originally learned by watching this) Trabant has a new favorite as of 03:19 on May 9, 2024 |
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Trabant posted:Just learned about that time when a Czechoslovak agricultural cooperative produced... computers: More like 8008-based
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Trabant posted:for a system that I think was 8088-based, unlike the Z80 systems shown in the video. I wonder what that cost at the time, in local currency.
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Tunicate posted:More like 8008-based yes i am interested to know more about the benefits of your slušovice
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https://x.com/Historian_Steve/status/1788607987453751507
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You know, it's... actually surprisingly legible in both orientations. I mean, I can't read the handwriting, but I can actually see the individual words when I turn it sideways.
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I wonder if I still have that Win ME copy I never installed once...
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Gravid Topiary posted:suddenly i have the perfect gift idea for the next baby shower i'm forced to attend, i'll insist it has deep personal meaning to me so they're forced to keep a framed AOL 30-day trial CD hanging above their fireplace man that'll really show those breeders
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By popular demand posted:I wonder if I still have that Win ME copy I never installed once... If you tried that with a floppy edition of Windows 98, would you just be tiling the wall at that point?
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Randalor posted:If you tried that with a floppy edition of Windows 98, would you just be tiling the wall at that point? I installed Slackware from floppy once but I only had like 3 disks so I had to keep shuttling back and forth, writing a little bit at a time. I'm pretty sure it was something like 20+ floppies at the time.
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Windows 95 was 13 floppies, I think Win 98 had 39 lol Yes, I've installed those from floppies
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I should get a framed copy of Novell Netware 6 to hang on my wall to remind me how I wasted my time and money on a CNA certification.
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I think Windows 95 was the last OS I installed from floppies. I didn't even know you could get 98 on floppies.
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Unperson_47 posted:I should get a framed copy of Novell Netware 6 to hang on my wall to remind me how I wasted my time and money on a CNA certification. Next time I'm home, maybe I'll dig around for my first Linux CD, a stripped-down Redhat 6.something that came in the back of a giant book. Half the stuff mentioned in the book wasn't actually on the CD, because by that time a normal distribution came on several discs, but it was still gold for a kid on lovely dialup. Like a year later I saw FreeBSD discs for sale in a Gateway store (lol) and now I reflect how I would have been a different sort of sad nerd if I'd bought those first instead.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Next time I'm home, maybe I'll dig around for my first Linux CD, a stripped-down Redhat 6.something that came in the back of a giant book. Half the stuff mentioned in the book wasn't actually on the CD, because by that time a normal distribution came on several discs, but it was still gold for a kid on lovely dialup. Linux Mandrake 7.2 was my first ever Linux distro. I still fondly remember picking up the box from Walmart of all places, opening it up and reading the manual excitedly front to back, and then never being able to install it for whatever reason I've forgotten back in the day. Another one I would actually like to get a boxed copy of but they are stupidly expensive for some reason??
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I've still got a boxed copy of SuSE Linux 6.2 (I think) in the garage from back in the day.
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Unperson_47 posted:Linux Mandrake 7.2 was my first ever Linux distro. I still fondly remember picking up the box from Walmart of all places, opening it up and reading the manual excitedly front to back, and then never being able to install it for whatever reason I've forgotten back in the day. Another one I would actually like to get a boxed copy of but they are stupidly expensive for some reason?? Same but I bought it at Hastings when they were still around. I did not use it for long
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I bought a boxed copy of Red Hat when it came out and managed to get it dual booting but never quite working properly. It came with a card you could send in to get a free actual red hat sent to you. They never sent mine.
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I've encountered this. Even better, it was a copy of the letter on microfilm so there was no way to squint at the original pages which can be slightly more legible. I'm still angry at the dude who sent that letter to Winston Churchill in 1912.
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At least use two different colors of ink.
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deoju posted:At least use two different colors of ink.
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I would not be entirely surprised if someone came out with a set of colored ink and matching glasses, but I'm not sure if there was any overlap in time between letters being that expensive and colored inks and glass being good and cheap. And of course green glasses would emphasise red ink, and the other way around; the only way to get many layers onto a page would be what, fluorescent ink and narrow filters, a la immunofluorescence microscopy? Computer viking has a new favorite as of 11:29 on May 13, 2024 |
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Dolby 3D projection, used in a lot of theaters and in Disney parks, uses either banded gel filters or lasers to hit two different R, G, and B primaries, which are then filtered by glasses so the left and right eyes get different images. So with light you can indeed get 6 unique images depending on filters at a reasonable cost as of something like 20-30 years ago. Reflected light from a page is more interesting, a known light source (even the lovely yellow tungsten cinema lamps) should make it doable. Or just write in pee and warm up the paper to see the second layer.
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So they should have written the letter with lasers?
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Pham Nuwen posted:man that'll really show those breeders instead i would give them a lovingly framed CD-R of the Windows XP Installation disc with "FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8" written on it in black sharpie 
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Gravid Topiary posted:i wouldn't actually ofc I would treasure this actually
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Gravid Topiary posted:i wouldn't actually ofc I still have one in a 224 disc binder somewhere...
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