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Imagined posted:I've never met an engineer type IRL who didn't seem to believe that they were the only competent engineer alive, and particularly that whoever touched the thing before them was especially incompetent, possibly evil. Other engineers aren't the enemy, salespeople are the enemy. Especially when they make us cobble together untested systems and we take the blame when they don't work. My view of other engineers tends to be that they're trying to overcomplicate things that can get by being simple.
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CuriousMarc is a Youtuber who is a big fan of HP gear of that vintage, and does similar tear downs and repairs. Unlike Dave he's not an insufferable gobshite.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:The best interaction I've had with an engineer was with one who kept calling me and asking about the stuff he was working with. One time I told him I had no idea what some doo-dad was like, as we'd never had it in stock, and he got mad and said I was supposed to know so I said "no, you're the engineer responsible for this system, you're supposed to know" and he stopped calling me. (Just for clarification: he was supposed to know, it was his loving system.) Software developers do the same with me. "Hey, can you tell me what this stack trace means?"
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Sweevo posted:CuriousMarc is a Youtuber who is a big fan of HP gear of that vintage, and does similar tear downs and repairs. I brought him up before and some goon had some sort of weird complaint about him, don't remember what it was because it didn't make any sense.
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Cojawfee posted:I brought him up before and some goon had some sort of weird complaint about him, don't remember what it was because it didn't make any sense. He has access to all sorts of hardware I'm jealous of!
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Sweevo posted:CuriousMarc is a Youtuber who is a big fan of HP gear of that vintage, and does similar tear downs and repairs. He's also quite literally an OG. Not one of the OGs, but guy's been around computers and tech on a professional level since the 80s iirc and has a wealth of first and second hand experience using a lot of vintage equipment. He's even an Intel Fellow too. Basically guy has credibility out the rear end and if anyone's turned off by his thick accent (French born and raised ESL speaker), I highly suggest sticking through it anyways because there is almost no one uploading to youtube with more history and experience in the vintage tech world than him.
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His last few videos repairing a similar HP computer have been great for that. "We have some problems with this weird add-in board. Fortunately, we also have the original blueprints, and can video chat with the guy that designed it". "In the videos we've done about this machine, we keep referring to the product catalog press photo of it (and a rack of stuff), with a guy in very fancy 70's pants. We found the guy, and he worked his way up to head metrologist at Keysight. Let's talk to him". Computer viking has a new favorite as of 23:23 on Jul 3, 2021 |
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Yeah he's really cool. He gets into the nitty gritty and reverse engineers circuits to figure out why a board isn't working. And don't forget to check out his Apollo Guidance Computer series because it's really good.
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That's cool as poo poo.
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Jul 7, 2021 04:00
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It's the pipe that truly makes it, imo.
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Jul 7, 2021 04:02
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this image has an incredible aesthetic to it like non grungy cyberpunk
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the pipe is largely an extension of his beard
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Jul 7, 2021 04:16
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a black executive in 70s? 80s?
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mlnhd posted:a black executive in 70s? 80s? An executive who handles their own calls?
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Jul 7, 2021 04:32
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it's a fuckin deck. Like 1 step away from cyberdecks
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SniperWoreConverse posted:it's a fuckin deck. Like 1 step away from cyberdecks gently caress I want a retro cyberpunk game focused on phreaking now.
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Code Jockey posted:this image has an incredible aesthetic to it -snip- edit: na might be construed as racist
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Tell me that thing didn't have leds it had that vacuum tube display module like old credit card terminals
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Tell me that thing didn't have leds it had that vacuum tube display module like old credit card terminals Nixies or VFDs?
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It looks very much like a Radio Shack Pocket Computer PC-2, but it’s not. Perhaps a Sharp or Casio version of the same idea? http://oldcomputers.net/trs80pc2.html
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmBLsKV7Sx0 This guy talks about this a bit.
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JnnyThndrs posted:It looks very much like a Radio Shack Pocket Computer PC-2, but it’s not. Perhaps a Sharp or Casio version of the same idea? Supposedly a Panasonic RL-H1400 with an acoustic modem attachment. Had other (hot-swappable!) modules too:  The "RCA" attribution on the photo is confusing though.
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mlnhd posted:a black executive in 70s? 80s? 80s. And well yeah laughable with how likely that was in the real world, tech in the 80s was honestly weirdly up on being inclusive in their advertising. Lots of women and POCs - there was even an ad/a series of ads done by IBM iirc for the PC Jr that revolved entirely around a black family owning one and using it (despite it still being ludicrously expensive compared to basically any other home targeted computer). Dad uses it for work, the son uses it for school/games, mom uses it for household management, etc.
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Cojawfee posted:Yeah he's really cool. He gets into the nitty gritty and reverse engineers circuits to figure out why a board isn't working. And don't forget to check out his Apollo Guidance Computer series because it's really good. His series on restoring a Xerox Alto is a fantastic watch. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YupOC_6bfMI) It features the inventor of Ethernet and co-founders of 3Com in one episode. It was definitely a machine ahead of its time. His restorations of old teletypes are also interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NuvwndwYSY
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SniperWoreConverse posted:it's a fuckin deck. Like 1 step away from cyberdecks I'm on my phone so, no pictures. But look up the old MSX computers out of Japan. In the 80s when cyberpunk was forming, basing your future tech off what Japan was doing at the time is pretty reasonable.
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Wacky Delly posted:I'm on my phone so, no pictures. But look up the old MSX computers out of Japan. In the 80s when cyberpunk was forming, basing your future tech off what Japan was doing at the time is pretty reasonable. And yet you go there now and they all use fax machines like it's 1995.
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Jul 7, 2021 17:03
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Are they cool looking fax machines?
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KillHour posted:And yet you go there now and they all use fax machines like it's 1995. They peaked in the 80s it's true.
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Fax is the superior technology, why downgrade
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Wacky Delly posted:I'm on my phone so, no pictures. But look up the old MSX computers out of Japan. In the 80s when cyberpunk was forming, basing your future tech off what Japan was doing at the time is pretty reasonable. Cyberdecks are always VIC-20s in my mind.
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KillHour posted:And yet you go there now and they all use fax machines like it's 1995. I kind of get it in a country that uses complicated characters and has a huge focus on handwriting and calligraphy - writing on paper probably feels better.
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KillHour posted:And yet you go there now and they all use fax machines like it's 1995.
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:Cyberdecks are always VIC-20s in my mind.
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I work in UCaaS, and without fail when we're setting up, someone will ask how they get their thirty year old fax machine onto our network. If it weren't for that and overhead paging units, we would have maybe 25% fewer tickets.
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KillHour posted:gently caress I want a retro cyberpunk game focused on phreaking now. Blue boxes, modems, and old issues of 2600  I want it
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SavageMessiah posted:Blue boxes, modems, and old issues of 2600 One puzzle has you whistling at exactly 2600hz into your mic. I remember reading all about phreaking from random text files and maybe the Anarchists Cookbook and thinking that all sounded so cool and hackery.
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Zereth posted:MSXes are similar but look cooler. Yup: 
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Wacky Delly posted:I'm on my phone so, no pictures. But look up the old MSX computers out of Japan. In the 80s when cyberpunk was forming, basing your future tech off what Japan was doing at the time is pretty reasonable. Always had a nerd boner for MSXs. They still look amazing.
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Computer viking posted:I kind of get it in a country that uses complicated characters and has a huge focus on handwriting and calligraphy - writing on paper probably feels better. Typing kanji is much faster. It's more about having a physical paper trail and a very conservative mindset around changing how business is done. See also: 判子 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_(East_Asia)#Japanese_usage
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