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Kwyndig posted:Cats, in a computer office? Were they at least MS certified? IIRC it was just the company owner's cat which was allowed to walk around the office. This was a small German company; our garages are tiny so startups are usually founded in repurposed residential buildings, and this was one of that sort.
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packetmantis posted:I cast trans your puter. 
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Kwyndig posted:Cats, in a computer office? Were they at least MS certified? Every office I've been in has plenty of Cat5.
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Oct 17, 2021 11:53
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thepopmonster posted:So, with that out of the way, let us all praise the transputer. I hadn't heard about this one before, but I feel like the architecture has some semblance to the Connection Machine with lots of processors connected in a grid/cube layout. And later on you had Infiniband trying to do the internal point to point connections rather than a bus, and eventually that idea found success with PCI Express.
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https://i.imgur.com/eNkWQ1P.mp4 I need my next keyboard to have an INTERNET BUTTON
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Oct 20, 2021 20:11
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I had a keyboard with an internet button once, it just pulled up firefox since I was on Ubuntu. I've never bought a keyboard with media buttons since, too many cases of cats fatpawing the mute button.
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Oct 20, 2021 20:21
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Kwyndig posted:I had a keyboard with an internet button once, it just pulled up firefox since I was on Ubuntu. I've never bought a keyboard with media buttons since, too many cases of cats fatpawing the mute button.  Those modems were killer, they really liked having a Courier at the other end so they could use their fancy error correction and compression or whatever, and it was usually what the ISP's used so the connection was s very good 56K+ If you were around modems a lot you could hear if you got a Courier on the other end by the handshake noises.
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Oct 20, 2021 20:31
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Imagined posted:https://i.imgur.com/eNkWQ1P.mp4 If you have a nearsighted husband and kids, boy do we have the computer for you!
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Compaq had that roundish, pinky beige design that really set it apart from the slightly less roundish, beigey beige PCs. Goddamn computers took up so much space. I bought and assembled a monstrously complex $250 corner desk to hold all of my PC's stuff. When I moved I discovered it wouldn't fit through my bedroom door. doctorfrog has a new favorite as of 05:45 on Oct 21, 2021 |
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Oct 21, 2021 05:29
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VictualSquid posted:Yes, the pacemaker seems to have been a special dongle at it isn't even mentioned on the German language sites. I salvaged a paper tape reader off of a setup similar to that from an old machine shop near me. It was in a pretty dark corner so the picture of the unit sucks but I picked the Tally tape reader out of it. The rest of the rack was taken up by power supplies and hydraulics and some other stuff that was inscrutable to me. Based on some other stuff found with it I believe it was set up at some point to control a Bridgeport mill.  Found some documentation with it too, though a lot was unfortunately water damaged.  But the really neat part is the thing that was used to make the paper tape rolls to control it, a Friden Flexowriter. 
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Oct 21, 2021 06:28
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My dad would get a kick out of that, he was a tool & die maker(think elite machinist, for those who don’t know what one is) who did an apprenticeship with Ampex back in the day. He had to learn how to run one of those and modify the programs as needed as part of his apprenticeship.
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I seem to recall someone in yospos had one of the transputers and was doing something with it. 4 nodes or something… maybe Luigi Thirty? She’s always doing amazing stuff
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Yes it's Tron Guy but really interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnm8tVqMK0s
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Imagined posted:https://i.imgur.com/eNkWQ1P.mp4 A lot of those cheap mechanical keyboards have all sorts of one function hotkeys; there are a few that have a coffee button. It activates the screensaver because you've left to get coffee.
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Oct 23, 2021 21:58
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Techmoan comes to an interesting revelation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGWuVMo7ZEs
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Oct 23, 2021 23:28
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Another outstanding video from Technology Connections. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbbH77rYaa8
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I was looking for some ex- tech stuff and stumbled onto something I wasn't familiar with -- an apparently "multi-OS" PC made in Slovenia in 1985:quote:It had options for three different central processing units (DEC J11, Intel 80286 and Motorola 68010) and could therefore run several different operating systems that were popular at the time (such as μDelta/M - based on Micro/RSX, Xenix, OS-9, MS-DOS and RMX). Also supported was a hard drive with a capacity between 40 and 80 MB, 5.25" floppy drive and a microstreamer tape drive. I'm using quotation marks because it's not clear to me whether they truly had a system which you could option with three different architectures or whether you chose one when you bought it, but regardless -- just look at it:  It has some kind of... split ring latching system built into it? And what might be 5.25" floppy storage built in? I love it.
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Oct 24, 2021 22:38
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I feel like it's gonna spring to life and kill me. Where can I get one?
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Oct 24, 2021 22:41
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Trabant posted:I was looking for some ex- It looks like a hug robot.
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Oct 24, 2021 22:53
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Please tell me there's some kind of Power Ranger ID system thing in that latch and it's not just some kind of fancy lock dock for the monitor.
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Oct 24, 2021 23:03
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The way that image is shot makes it look like it's a macro photo of a toy that's actually 3" tall.
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Oct 24, 2021 23:33
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Arsenic Lupin posted:It looks like a hug robot. it feels like it's a transformer midway through transforming, like the monitor slides forward diagonally into the L shape and what's there right now is just some weird kibble
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I feel like it's gonna spring to life and kill me. I think you'd have to make a trip to Slovenia, which is a bit of a drive. You'd have to really want to commit suicide by a 1985 computer. FilthyImp posted:Please tell me there's some kind of Power Ranger ID system thing in that latch and it's not just some kind of fancy lock dock for the monitor. There's frustratingly little information about it out there. Alas, while it's not a fancy lock, it's apparently just to hold the keyboard in (I imagine) industrial applications:  Arivia posted:it feels like it's a transformer midway through transforming, like the monitor slides forward diagonally into the L shape and what's there right now is just some weird kibble While not a Transformer, it did co-star as an artificially intelligent supercomputer sidekick in a Slovenian movie about rival kid gangs (?) who join forces to solve the mystery of who's been stealing from their common local fisherman friend:    I'm particularly a fan of the considerately placed beach umbrella.
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Humphreys posted:Another outstanding video from Technology Connections. A good primer. The reason the box camera doesn't have a seperate window for the smaller 645 format is because roll film didn't have 645 numbers printed on it until much later. I shoot with a camera from the mid 1930's and it's got the same setup. Aperture and shutter speed also weren't standardized until post WWII so you see some goofy numbers on old cameras.
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Megabound posted:A good primer. The reason the box camera doesn't have a seperate window for the smaller 645 format is because roll film didn't have 645 numbers printed on it until much later. I shoot with a camera from the mid 1930's and it's got the same setup. Aperture and shutter speed also weren't standardized until post WWII so you see some goofy numbers on old cameras. I kinda want to get one but I look at my DSLRs and other fancy smancy poo poo that I don't use and think, hmm surely not ANOTHER camera on the shelf.
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Humphreys posted:I kinda want to get one but I look at my DSLRs and other fancy smancy poo poo that I don't use and think, hmm surely not ANOTHER camera on the shelf. Yeah, but you can also get a folder from that era for a lobster and that is absolutely gently caress around money. Anyway, is it obsolete or failed if they still make film for it?  And if you want to see how I repaired and restored it, and a couple photos I've taken with it the Restoration and repair thread documents that.
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Trabant posted:I think you'd have to make a trip to Slovenia, which is a bit of a drive. You'd have to really want to commit suicide by a 1985 computer. I'm gonna fight it and WIN.
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Megabound posted:Yeah, but you can also get a folder from that era for a lobster and that is absolutely gently caress around money. Thats a cool thread! That way to make new bellows is super interesting and I might do it just for fun, nothing regarding cameras.
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Trabant posted:I was looking for some ex- The wikipedia page for the manufacturer has this gem of an unsourced quote: quote:Delays with microcomputer technology and freer import brought its collapse in 1988. As always, the real reasons (for collapse of Iskra Delta) are deeper and hidden from public eye. It was disclosed recently that Iskra-Delta with Energoinvest installed computer network of 17 USA VAX computers to Chinese secret police in 1985. Export license was given under premise of preventing bicycles theft. DEC and CIA cancelled representation agreement soon after that.
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Trabant posted:While not a Transformer, it did co-star as an artificially intelligent supercomputer sidekick in a Slovenian movie about rival kid gangs (?) who join forces to solve the mystery of who's been stealing from their common local fisherman friend: 
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Trabant posted:I think you'd have to make a trip to Slovenia, which is a bit of a drive.
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This starts off slowly but turns into a mind-bending journey. https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1454230585933631488?s=20
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Dick Trauma posted:This starts off slowly but turns into a mind-bending journey. Every day we stray further from god's light
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That's really disappointing. Is a custom music box just something no one knows how to make anymore? I guess it's just cheaper to design some PCBs and put some buttons and a cheapo microcontroller on, but that's a lot of effort to do something stupid instead of doing it the right way.
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Wipfmetz posted:With sizes of up to 640 Mbit, a bit of a drive shouldn't really matter.  Dick Trauma posted:This starts off slowly but turns into a mind-bending journey.  Except there's a thousand cats.
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Cojawfee posted:That's really disappointing. Is a custom music box just something no one knows how to make anymore? I guess it's just cheaper to design some PCBs and put some buttons and a cheapo microcontroller on, but that's a lot of effort to do something stupid instead of doing it the right way. I can't see why it would be cheaper. The new style one has everything that the old version had, parts wise, except for the metal cone and the disk having the pegs on them to pluck the comb. This is just... stupid.
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That Twitter thread was so strange that I checked to make sure that I wasn't posting something from April 1st.
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Oct 30, 2021 09:48
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It's Foone. About half of their twitter threads are like that.
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