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  1. #adaptec were really ahead of their time when they put RGB on their #SCSI controllers in 1998!

    Well, "R", but it was 1998.

    It fits PERFECTLY with my threadripper workstation!

    #retrocomputing

  2. Hello fellow #laserdisk and/or #electronics nerds. I bought a #pioneer CLD-2700 today for scrap pricing. It does not turn on, at all. No standby light, no nothing.

    I found a suspiciously rusty looking screw in the psu area that looks suspiciously like electrolyte damage?

    Can someone with a bit more experience than me weigh in? I'm pretty comfortable with soldering and such but I'm really not good with analogue electronics or power supplies.

    Thanks!

    #retroelectronics #lazyweb #lazyverse

  3. It's always best to, when you create debug messages, show them to your users.

    That way your users don't have to GUESS whether you give a shit or not!

    #ebay #ux #computerswereamistake

  4. Hey fellow #retrocomputing kids. In my quest to make the very bestest #PATA (#IDE) emulation device there's some tradeoffs to be made.

    The device would allow you to emulate up to two PATA devices as once. Any combination of HDD/CDROM/ZIP maybe more.

    Listed speeds are of course dependent on what you spend on the actual backing storage :) The 128mb card you got for free in "my first digital camera" is going to be slow :P

    Would you prefer, (ordered by device cost. cheapest first.)

  5. I've been playing around with #LiteX and #migen #HDL lately and I think it's finally starting to sink in that you can really just do almost arbitrary amounts of "stuff" per clock (limitations apply, objects in mirror may appear closer etc).

    It's really very fun! And between trellis, #yosys and #nextpnr you can just... Do it without begging any vendor for a free copy of an EDA.

    I highly recommend it! It's so much fun!

    You can make your own SoC with deranged peripherals!

    #electronics #fpga

  6. Another sweet #RolandMT32 tune! #sierra's #silpheed.

    The setup:
    - Celeron 300A
    - Roland MPU-401AT
    - Roland MT-32
    - Soundblaster 64

    Direct capture from VGA and Audio! The "snow" at the start is also visible on my monitor. Maybe an incompatibility with my VGA?

    (I promise this isn't a MT32 account now. I was testing my new capture setup and it came out beautifully. I hope you'll all enjoy!)

    #retrocomputing #retrogaming

  7. One more #RolandMT32 song, as a treat. The intro to #Sierra's Space Quest 3.

    MPU-401AT, MT-32, and an AWE64, all direct capture.

    I'm super happy with my new setup!

    Also, this song absolutely slaps.

    #retrocomputing #mt32

  8. MPU-401AT + MT-32 playing #sierra's Thexder II (badly)

    Testing my capture setup and video editing rig. I'm pretty happy with it!

    #retrocomputing #rolandMt32 #mpu401

  9. My current thinking is that in order to make a resolution independent UI toolkit one must first have a resolution independent drawing library?

    The things I've found on that were algorithms based on device independent pixels.

    Is that still actually the state of the art?

    My primary design constraint is that I want the scaling to be zero cost when there's no actual scaling happening.

    Can anyone point me to some good books/posts on the subject?

    #programming #uidesign #hidpi

  10. Finally got a memory upgrade for my #hp #b2000 #hpux machine. I'll be rocking 2 whole gigabibbles.

    Is HP shipping out memory modules or dinner plates?!

    #retrocomputing

  11. It occurred to me that I've had a #harddisk fail on me and lose data in like 2001 and vowed to only use #raid ever since.

    And I have, my primary laptop has 4 #nvme drives in raid10, my thin and light has 2 in raid 1, my desktop 4 in raid 10 also.

    It also occurred to me that even since the first sata ssd I've used I've never not even once had an #ssd fail without warning, ever.

    I'm probably gonna keep using raid but I'm beginning to think maybe it's not really necessary any more...

    #computers

  12. Wow, I had no idea #ibm #aix had so many desktop options by default! I thought #CDE and maybe #Gnome

    #retrocomputing #kde #unix

  13. If you were wondering if you could print from a #hpux system running a #windows3 application via Wabi via JetDirect being emulated on an Oki c542 printer.

    Yes, yes you can. It all just kind of works without much fuss, except that I had to change the snmp community name for my printer because the old hpux drivers don't seem to like the snmpv2 stuff?

    I'm kind of floored this all works.

    #retrocomputing #printers #unix

  14. For everyone worried that #unix and in particular #hpux might be hard to use, I made a short #tutorial video below on how to install software.

    In this video you see how easy it is to install some games!

    #retrocomputing #parisc #cde

  15. If you ever wondered if it is possible to boot a #hpux #b2000 #parisc system from an #ide drive:

    No no you can't. It seems like it can for an annoyingly long time, but no, only from an IDE CDROM drive, and only only if it set to master on the bus.

    #retrocomputing #unix #hp

  16. If you were wondering whether you could run #duke3d directly from a #dvdram disk now you know.

    Yes, yes, you can!

    #retrocomputing #retrogaming

  17. I #repaired a #fitbit Charge 5 today by replacing the battery.

    I feel like some kind of electronics god.

    SO SMOL!

    #righttorepair

  18. Can you #nerdsnipe yourself? 🤔

    Asking for a friend.

  19. The #iomega #jaz format truly has the best failure mode of any storage medium: it appears that even on a pretty messed up disk WRITES pretty much always succeed (at least, according to the drive)

    READS however, are a different story...

    Iomega: because it's your stuff™

    #retrocomputing

  20. Die ersten Bilder des Vera C. Rubin Observatory wurden der Öffentlichkeit vorgestellt. Allein schon die technischen Daten des Teleskops sind atemberaubend, gar nicht zu sprechen von den wissenschaftlichen Entdeckungen, die durch die Beobachtungen zu erhoffen sind.

    #VeraCRubinObservatory #Astronomie #Astronomy #RubinObservatory

    rubinobservatory.org/news/firs…

  21. I had performance problems in #Doom over #IPX, that turned out to be because one of my nics was running at 10 half duplex.

    So I replaced it with a PCI nic. But it wasn't getting an IRQ at all. So I had to move it to a different slot which was directly next to the AGP. So now there's capton tape on the back of the NIC so it doesn't short out against the VGA heatsink.

    Aren't #retrocomputers just the best? 😄

    #retrogaming #retrocomputing

  22. We all know that space quest 3 works best with a #voodoo3 😅

  23. Looks like a revision 1! And it's full of flux. Good job Roland.

    #retrocomputing #RolandMt32

  24. If you haven't heard of #retrobytes before go check out their #youtube channel! Their latest video is about the history of x86 from an #intel vs #amd perspective. I really enjoyed it!

    youtube.com/watch?v=2QEJC_ZPwW

    #retrocomputing

  25. @WinFuture hier geht es um die #Kulturfrequenzen!
    Dies hätte wesentlich weitreichendere Auswirkungen, als Telefonica glauben machen will! Kein einziges Funkmikrofon in ganz Europa würde mehr funktionieren.

  26. @golem Telefonica will an die #Kulturfrequenzen um billig Reichweite ausbauen zu können.
    Der Schaden für die #Kulturwirtschaft - bis zu den kleinsten Dorf-Vereinshäusern - wäre unermesslich hoch und würde für viele den Ruin bedeuten.