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Johnny Aztec posted:Hello Thread, I present to you, a new in box 
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LifeSunDeath posted:Love this, it's definitely said in the most smug voice possible: Did Funwaa do the typography on that ?
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Jan 26, 2020 19:44
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Johnny Aztec posted:Hello Thread, I present to you, a new in box I look forward to your imminent vaporwave Tumblre.
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Jan 26, 2020 19:59
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Jerry Cotton posted:Did Funwaa do the typography on that ? Its kind of a threat when you think about it. Come on you got the disk, just do it you candy rear end.
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Jan 26, 2020 20:37
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Computer viking posted:There's also something to be said for letting an outsider curate a block of music, both because I don't always want to do that myself and for the off chance of hearing something new (or at least something I wouldn't have thought of unprompted). That's why I subscribe to SiriusXM, even though I feel like a dummy when the bill arrives.
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Jan 26, 2020 22:18
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I canceled Sirius because it was just the same music over and over again. Now I just listen to podcasts. If I want to listen to music, I just think of a song I want to listen to on spotify and let it take the wheel from there. Better than when whatever channel I want to listen to on Sirius has decided to replay some live set they had for the third time.
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Jan 26, 2020 22:30
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This is my friend's Amiga 1000 booting off of a USB that it thinks is a floppy drive. He's been able to recover some floppies from way the hell back in high school. If he gets The Three Stooges running I'll let you know.
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Jan 26, 2020 23:48
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Older disks are waaaaaay more stout than later ones.
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Jan 27, 2020 00:24
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I didn't know the 1000 could run Kickstart 3.1
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Jan 27, 2020 04:14
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rndmnmbr posted:As a former newspaper paginator, this is fascinating. But given that you know of pasteup and are in Texas, we may have met at some point. Code Jockey posted:Watching the machine run, and watching him operating it, was fascinating. TBF, this is pretty much a universal thing when watching a man (or woman) who is a master of their craft. Chillbro Baggins has a new favorite as of 04:33 on Jan 27, 2020 |
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Jan 27, 2020 04:25
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Johnny Aztec posted:Hello Thread, I present to you, a new in box oh nice, this is an exact duplicate of the serial port 56k I had plugged into my Windows 2000 box from 2000 to 2001 EDIT: speaking of obsolete, bullshit copper wires. I remember when I splurged in late 1997 on a X2 56k modem (roffle owned k56flex scrubs  ). I excitedly hooked it up, dialed into my ISP's X2 line and....it maxed out at 26.4kbps. By 1999 it started connecting at 32kbps at least but due to the phone company's lovely degraded copper I was stuck connecting at 26.4 for the next two years.
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Jan 27, 2020 05:11
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Johnny Aztec posted:28.8 Macintosh External Modem The "I had one of those on my Windows box" post above made me realize: what is actually "Macintosh" about the modem? In the era when Macs looked like that, they had RS-232, just with a different connector, so it only needs a special cable and obviously Macintosh software, but the modem itself can just be the same as a PC one can't it?
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Jan 27, 2020 09:03
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You Am I posted:I didn't know the 1000 could run Kickstart 3.1 Apparently you can boot KS from a floppy using Twinkick, which is kind of neat. I would've thought KS3.1 would complain about non-AGA era hardware, though. Maybe it's modded.
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Jan 27, 2020 12:02
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An ad for IBM selectrix typewriters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNUEUth7qjc they had a weird ball printhead instead of a ton of individual arms, which allowed you to change fonts pretty easily. This must have been cool at the time here's a video about how the mechanics work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRCNenhcvpw bring back old gbs has a new favorite as of 13:57 on Jan 27, 2020 |
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Jan 27, 2020 13:53
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FilthyImp posted:Anyway, the Dodgers in particular famously gated their games to, like, Time Warner a few years back so it wouldn't surprise me that cost and length of broadcast keep that poo poo out of FM -- what station's going to cut 3-4 hours of their JackFM playlist to broadcast stickball. Here in Cincinnati, they definitely cut out blocks for the local sports on FM. The local active rock station runs the Bengals, and the local "contemporary hits" will stop playing Ed Sheeran for the Reds.
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Jan 27, 2020 14:23
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Iron Crowned posted:Here in Cincinnati, they definitely cut out blocks for the local sports on FM. The local active rock station runs the Bengals, and the local "contemporary hits" will stop playing Ed Sheeran for the Reds. Wait, really? I’ve been gone a long time, but I wouldn’t have thought 700 WLW had lost their stranglehold on Reds coverage.
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Jan 27, 2020 14:38
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namlosh posted:Wait, really? I’ve been gone a long time, but I wouldn’t have thought 700 WLW had lost their stranglehold on Reds coverage. They still have an AM feed on WLW, but per the Reds website, they do have an FM feed
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Jan 27, 2020 15:07
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My great grandfather had his own cola company so I'm always trying to find old stuff related to it. I recently found probably the only advertising plate left and tried to ink it and print the bottle graphic on paper. I probably underestimated the amount of ink they used and the force needed to make a good imprint. The best I could manage was a faint bottle shaped outline.  I haven't had a chance to watch those videos, but is the etching lead then? I thought it was some kind of wax on the wooden block, but lead makes more sense.
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Jan 27, 2020 15:59
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It doesn't have to be. The newspaper used lead because it could be melted back down easily to be recast.
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Jan 27, 2020 16:57
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Krispy Wafer posted:My great grandfather had his own cola company so I'm always trying to find old stuff related to it. I recently found probably the only advertising plate left and tried to ink it and print the bottle graphic on paper. I probably underestimated the amount of ink they used and the force needed to make a good imprint. The best I could manage was a faint bottle shaped outline. What's the name of the company? I stumble across all sorts of esoteric things.
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Jan 27, 2020 17:07
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Krispy Wafer posted:My great grandfather had his own cola company so I'm always trying to find old stuff related to it. I recently found probably the only advertising plate left and tried to ink it and print the bottle graphic on paper. I probably underestimated the amount of ink they used and the force needed to make a good imprint. The best I could manage was a faint bottle shaped outline. More likely brass or copper.
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Jan 27, 2020 17:12
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bring back old gbs posted:An ad for IBM selectrix typewriters: Those were incredibly handy in academia. Need to insert 12 mathematical symbols into a one-page paper? Without a Selectra, you handwrite them in. With a Selectra, you swap balls, hit the weird characters, then move on. Also handy, in a pre-computer age, if the Russian department has one; you can do all your normal departmental stuff in English, then learn to type Cyrillic on an English keyboard and you're good.
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Jan 27, 2020 17:15
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Those were incredibly handy in academia. Need to insert 12 mathematical symbols into a one-page paper? Without a Selectra, you handwrite them in. With a Selectra, you swap balls, hit the weird characters, then move on. Also handy, in a pre-computer age, if the Russian department has one; you can do all your normal departmental stuff in English, then learn to type Cyrillic on an English keyboard and you're good. bring back old gbs posted:An ad for IBM selectrix typewriters: Selectric. It's called the IBM Selectric. Anyway yeah they're neat as hell, I've written a few short stories on mine just for the novelty. Every typewriter with a moving platen has tended to "walk" across the tabletop as I use it, but not the Selectric. It also takes up far less horizontal space than the old kind. Wish I had a few more typeballs for it, but from a pragmatic point of view I use it so rarely there's no sense chasing one down.
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Jan 27, 2020 17:44
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I still don't know if the racing toy is Scalectrix or Scalextric or something else and quite frankly I'll never Bing[tm] it 
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Jan 27, 2020 17:47
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Johnny Aztec posted:What's the name of the company? I stumble across all sorts of esoteric things. Bob's-Cola. It was popular in the Southeast and lasted until around 1953. I think I've found everything that's existed at this point. There are always random bottles, matchbooks, and cardboard carry-outs on eBay, but we're now searching for tin advertising signs. We've found 3 in the last 17 years and two of those can be considered signs only in the strictest sense (faded almost to nothing).
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Jan 27, 2020 18:01
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LifeSunDeath posted:Love this, it's definitely said in the most smug voice possible: absolutely read this in Chandler's voice from Friends, which is period appropriate as well I suppose
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Jan 27, 2020 18:05
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Pham Nuwen posted:Selectric. It's called the IBM Selectric. GDI, I even googled to check. I have no idea how I got it wrong. Error between brain and keyboard. Old IBM typewriters, like old IBM keyboards, are built like highly functional bricks. You have to work very hard to break them.
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Jan 27, 2020 18:55
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Selectrinatrix.
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bring back old gbs posted:An ad for IBM selectrix typewriters: It's a fantastically clever bit of Cold War-era engineering.
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Jan 27, 2020 19:24
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SubG posted:If you want a good primer on how a Selectric works, check out the details of the Soviet Selectric bug, a listening device that detected movements of the print head and transmitted them to an external receiver, allowing the Soviets to remotely read what was being typed on Selectrics in US embassies. Just wanted to say that this is a great site, there's all sorts of old cloak and dagger stuff on there. This Russian microwave detector Osobnjak 8 lives in a suitcase and reveals any attempts to listen into conversations through hidden microphones:  Straight out of a James Bond film 
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Jan 27, 2020 20:23
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barbecue at the folks posted:Just wanted to say that this is a great site, there's all sorts of old cloak and dagger stuff on there. This Russian microwave detector Osobnjak 8 lives in a suitcase and reveals any attempts to listen into conversations through hidden microphones: This stuff is incredible, people have supposedly found was to screen peek computers remotely with EM interference devices but since I haven't heard poo poo about it in years I think it might not work that well. The Thing was a really cool piece of early spy equipment, was essentially a hand made mechanical NFC chip you could pick up audio from a building over if you blasted it with radio waves. So it required no power and was very small for the time.   Too bad america never learns when it comes accepting gifts from russians.
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Jan 27, 2020 20:40
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LifeSunDeath posted:This stuff is incredible, people have supposedly found was to screen peek computers remotely with EM interference devices but since I haven't heard poo poo about it in years I think it might not work that well. This was a big plot point in Cryptonomicon or some other Neal Stephenson book. CRT screens update the screen by shooting an electron beam at phosphors on the screen. It sends electrons along a row, sends a horizontal sync pulse, sends the next row, and so on, until the rows are sent and it sends a vertical sync pulse to start the next cycle of rows. If you can get an antenna to pick up these signals from the monitor, you could recreate that screen on your own device. Not as useful these days most likely. While LCD screens still receive the signal this way, they don't have a big honkin electromagnet broadcasting what it's doing like a CRT does.
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Jan 27, 2020 21:21
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Cojawfee posted:This was a big plot point in Cryptonomicon or some other Neal Stephenson book. CRT screens update the screen by shooting an electron beam at phosphors on the screen. It sends electrons along a row, sends a horizontal sync pulse, sends the next row, and so on, until the rows are sent and it sends a vertical sync pulse to start the next cycle of rows. If you can get an antenna to pick up these signals from the monitor, you could recreate that screen on your own device. Not as useful these days most likely. While LCD screens still receive the signal this way, they don't have a big honkin electromagnet broadcasting what it's doing like a CRT does. Same thing with a lot of old school surveillance and TSCM poo poo. Why bother with poo poo like the Selectric bug or the Thing when everyone's already carrying a microphone and camera on their person 24/7?
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Jan 27, 2020 21:30
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My understanding is that it was harder on later, better shielded CRTs, and much harder on LCDs. Plus yeah, it's easier to just get some spyware on the machine since basically everything is internet connected these days.
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Jan 27, 2020 21:39
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Zereth posted:My understanding is that it was harder on later, better shielded CRTs, and much harder on LCDs. I mean it's still way the gently caress easier to just compromise the system, but I'd waaaay the gently caress prefer to have to deal with the straighforward signal processing problem of an unencrypted digital signal intercept than to try any of the deep voodoo horseshit involved in anything but the most straightforward analogue signal handling poo poo.
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Jan 27, 2020 21:55
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SubG posted:If you want a good primer on how a Selectric works, check out the details of the Soviet Selectric bug, a listening device that detected movements of the print head and transmitted them to an external receiver, allowing the Soviets to remotely read what was being typed on Selectrics in US embassies.  quote:The bug was fairly large and consisted of state-of-the-art integrated circuits and single-bit core memory. It was completely hidden inside a hollow support bracket at the bottom of the keyboard mechanism, and was invisible to the naked eye, but also to the detection equipment of the era. Only an X-ray scan could reveal the presence of the device, which is shown in the image below. It contains special components to hide its presence even from non-linear junction detectors (NLJD).
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Jan 27, 2020 22:13
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Cojawfee posted:This was a big plot point in Cryptonomicon or some other Neal Stephenson book. CRT screens update the screen by shooting an electron beam at phosphors on the screen. It sends electrons along a row, sends a horizontal sync pulse, sends the next row, and so on, until the rows are sent and it sends a vertical sync pulse to start the next cycle of rows. If you can get an antenna to pick up these signals from the monitor, you could recreate that screen on your own device. Not as useful these days most likely. While LCD screens still receive the signal this way, they don't have a big honkin electromagnet broadcasting what it's doing like a CRT does. Doing Van Eck phreaking on an LCD (a laptop monitor specifically) was actually what the plot point in Cryptonomicon was about. They knew how to do it with a CRT, but one guy was claiming he could read the screen buffer of an LCD, and proved he could in a controlled setting (neighboring hotel room, either side of a wall, somewhat cooperative partner with the laptop). Later, a main character is tossed into jail, but allowed to use his laptop—battery removed, and the power cord plugged in outside his cell so that the only place he can set is on top of a box the guards provided.
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Jan 27, 2020 22:46
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Vavrek posted:Doing Van Eck phreaking on an LCD (a laptop monitor specifically) was actually what the plot point in Cryptonomicon was about. They knew how to do it with a CRT, but one guy was claiming he could read the screen buffer of an LCD, and proved he could in a controlled setting (neighboring hotel room, either side of a wall, somewhat cooperative partner with the laptop). Later, a main character is tossed into jail, but allowed to use his laptop—battery removed, and the power cord plugged in outside his cell so that the only place he can set is on top of a box the guards provided. Bet one of these would block that poo poo   Always assumed these anti glare/fatigue protectors were similar snake oil to "gaming glasses", and yet I'd see offices with one on every screen in the 90's. It's like people don't know there's a brightness knob.
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Jan 27, 2020 23:04
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It's also very much a real-world thing. The standard reference in the public domain is a paper by Markus Kuhn which includes images of screen images received from a laptop 10 m away through several walls. And now days you can find videos of live demonstrations of it on youtube. If you're searching for this sort of thing TEMPEST (the NSA term this countermeasures against this sort of surveillance, which has been adopted as a term for the surveillance itself in common usage) is a useful search term in addition to Van Eck phreaking. LifeSunDeath posted:Bet one of these would block that poo poo Edit: Work quite well to reduce glare. Not as TSCM. SubG has a new favorite as of 23:10 on Jan 27, 2020 |
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LifeSunDeath posted:Bet one of these would block that poo poo gently caress. This garbage was everywhere and it was so drat useless and irritating.
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