ever wonder what happens when you put a bare light bulb filament into liquid nitrogen?
懷舊技術、產品
那些什麼 Apple ][ 啦、倚天中文系統啦、三不五時要清滾軸污垢的滑鼠啦、SCSI 硬碟啦、MO 啦…我可是一個都不認識的(不是一個,你全部都認識)
ahh, the HP 9133A - the largest and heaviest external 3 1/2" floppy drive ever built. let's get it working! 🧵
@azonenberg you mean like this? https://www.elecrow.com/microsd-breakout-board.html
back when DIP chips had the pin numbers right on them. perfect for breadboarding! (stolen from fb)
@vga256 reminds me of the tools used to author Windows HLP files.
branding that goes hard: ERO-TANTAL for tantalum capacitors. what does it stand for? "erotically tantalizing"
@gloriouscow @thelobdegg hmm, that's odd, if composite is turned off, it should work. could be your monitor is picky about the video timings. the gremlin just has a scan doubler for VGA.
@bitsavers yup, good article, i saw it earlier.
now that the 7000 gallon tank of methyl methacrylate has turned to solid Lucite and potted itself, the time has come to cut it in half
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today's successful data recovery project is this ST-506 hard drive from a North Star CPM computer.
@MLE_online excited to see how it turns out
@david this one doesn't have that, oddly. but i really do like the pinch-to-close ones.
@root42 Windell and Lenore did all the packaging design and helped me with many design elements on the board itself.
@lcamtuf many years ago i built a clock (on commission!) with a set of giant Panaplex displays.
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/116598103935174825 boosted for micro channel plate and P43 Phosphor.
@darryl_ramm i have one in this machine.