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Things I Bought Random @[email protected] · 2026-06-10 · 00:27 UTC

DDR2 memory I bought for my Gateway Windows Vista desktop computer from Amazon
#Computing #Amazon #ComputerMemory

#computing #amazon #computermemory

(Roughly) Daily @[email protected] · 2026-03-04 · 09:00 UTC

“Scuse me while I kiss the sky”*…

In 1967, Jimi Hendrix’s manager, Chas Chandler arranged for Jimi to meet Cream…

There was a particular night when Cream allowed Jimi to join them for a jam at the Regent Street Polytechnic in central London. Meeting Clapton had been among the enticements Chandler had used to lure Hendrix to Britain: “Hendrix blew into a version of [Howlin’ Wolf’s] ‘Killing Floor’,” recalls [Tony] Garland, “and plays it at breakneck tempo, just like that – it stopped you in your tracks.” [Keith] Altham recalls Chandler going backstage after Clapton left in the middle of the song “which he had yet to master himself”; Clapton was furiously puffing on a cigarette and telling Chas: “You never told me he was that fucking good.” – source

Hendrix’s extraodinary virtuosity has, altogether justly, gotten a great deal of attention; less well noted, his incredible mastery of the technology of music making, recording, and performance. Rohan Puranik explains…

3 February 1967 is a day that belongs in the annals of music history. It’s the day that Jimi Hendrix entered London’s Olympic Studios to record a song using a new component. The song was “Purple Haze,” and the component was the Octavia guitar pedal, created for Hendrix by sound engineer Roger Mayer. The pedal was a key element of a complex chain of analog elements responsible for the final sound, including the acoustics of the studio room itself. When they sent the tapes for remastering in the United States, the sounds on it were so novel that they included an accompanying note explaining that the distortion at the end was not malfunction but intention. A few months later, Hendrix would deliver his legendary electric guitar performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival.
“Purple Haze” firmly established that an electric guitar can be used not just as a stringed instrument with built-in pickups for convenient sound amplification, but also as a full-blown wave synthesizer whose output can be manipulated at will. Modern guitarists can reproduce Hendrix’s chain using separate plug-ins in digital audio workstation software, but the magic often disappears when everything is buffered and quantized. I wanted to find out if a more systematic approach could do a better job and provide insights into how Hendrix created his groundbreaking sound.
My fascination with Hendrix’s Olympic Studios’ performance arose because there is a “Hendrix was an alien” narrative surrounding his musical innovation—that his music appeared more or less out of nowhere. I wanted to replace that narrative with an engineering-driven account that’s inspectable and reproducible—plots, models, and a signal chain from the guitar through the pedals that you can probe stage by stage…
[And probe it Puranik does– fascinatingly, stage by stage…]
… Hendrix didn’t speak in decibels and ohm values, but he collaborated with engineers who did—Mayer and Kramer—and iterated fast as a systems engineer. Reframing Hendrix as an engineer doesn’t diminish the art. It explains how one person, in under four years as a bandleader, could pull the electric guitar toward its full potential by systematically augmenting the instrument’s shortcomings for maximum expression.

“Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer,” from @spectrum.ieee.org.

See also: “The Technology of Jimi Hendrix.”

* Jimi Hendrix, “Purple Haze”

###

As we plug in, we might send well-connected birthday greetings to another wizard with wires, Geoff Tootill; he was born on this date in 1922. An electronic engineer and computer scientist, he worked (with Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn) to design a computer memory. To that end they built the first electronic stored-program computer— the Manchester Baby— at the University of Manchester in 1948.

The Baby was not intended to be a practical computing engine, but was instead designed as a testbed for the Williams tube, the first truly random-access memory. Nonethless, Baby worked: Alan Turing moved to Manchester to use it, and the following year, it inspired the Ferranti Mark 1, the world’s first commercially available electronic general-purpose stored-program digital computer.

source

#computerMemory #computing #culture #electronics #engineering #GeoffTootill #history #JimHendrix #ManchesterBaby #music #Technology

#computermemory #computing #culture #electronics #engineering #geofftootill

(Roughly) Daily @[email protected] · 2026-03-04 · 09:00 UTC

“Scuse me while I kiss the sky”*…

In 1967, Jimi Hendrix’s manager, Chas Chandler arranged for Jimi to meet Cream…

There was a particular night when Cream allowed Jimi to join them for a jam at the Regent Street Polytechnic in central London. Meeting Clapton had been among the enticements Chandler had used to lure Hendrix to Britain: “Hendrix blew into a version of [Howlin’ Wolf’s] ‘Killing Floor’,” recalls [Tony] Garland, “and plays it at breakneck tempo, just like that – it stopped you in your tracks.” [Keith] Altham recalls Chandler going backstage after Clapton left in the middle of the song “which he had yet to master himself”; Clapton was furiously puffing on a cigarette and telling Chas: “You never told me he was that fucking good.” – source

Hendrix’s extraodinary virtuosity has, altogether justly, gotten a great deal of attention; less well noted, his incredible mastery of the technology of music making, recording, and performance. Rohan Puranik explains…

3 February 1967 is a day that belongs in the annals of music history. It’s the day that Jimi Hendrix entered London’s Olympic Studios to record a song using a new component. The song was “Purple Haze,” and the component was the Octavia guitar pedal, created for Hendrix by sound engineer Roger Mayer. The pedal was a key element of a complex chain of analog elements responsible for the final sound, including the acoustics of the studio room itself. When they sent the tapes for remastering in the United States, the sounds on it were so novel that they included an accompanying note explaining that the distortion at the end was not malfunction but intention. A few months later, Hendrix would deliver his legendary electric guitar performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival.
“Purple Haze” firmly established that an electric guitar can be used not just as a stringed instrument with built-in pickups for convenient sound amplification, but also as a full-blown wave synthesizer whose output can be manipulated at will. Modern guitarists can reproduce Hendrix’s chain using separate plug-ins in digital audio workstation software, but the magic often disappears when everything is buffered and quantized. I wanted to find out if a more systematic approach could do a better job and provide insights into how Hendrix created his groundbreaking sound.
My fascination with Hendrix’s Olympic Studios’ performance arose because there is a “Hendrix was an alien” narrative surrounding his musical innovation—that his music appeared more or less out of nowhere. I wanted to replace that narrative with an engineering-driven account that’s inspectable and reproducible—plots, models, and a signal chain from the guitar through the pedals that you can probe stage by stage…
[And probe it Puranik does– fascinatingly, stage by stage…]
… Hendrix didn’t speak in decibels and ohm values, but he collaborated with engineers who did—Mayer and Kramer—and iterated fast as a systems engineer. Reframing Hendrix as an engineer doesn’t diminish the art. It explains how one person, in under four years as a bandleader, could pull the electric guitar toward its full potential by systematically augmenting the instrument’s shortcomings for maximum expression.

“Jimi Hendrix Was a Systems Engineer,” from @spectrum.ieee.org.

See also: “The Technology of Jimi Hendrix.”

* Jimi Hendrix, “Purple Haze”

###

As we plug in, we might send well-connected birthday greetings to another wizard with wires, Geoff Tootill; he was born on this date in 1922. An electronic engineer and computer scientist, he worked (with Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn) to design a computer memory. To that end they built the first electronic stored-program computer— the Manchester Baby— at the University of Manchester in 1948.

The Baby was not intended to be a practical computing engine, but was instead designed as a testbed for the Williams tube, the first truly random-access memory. Nonethless, Baby worked: Alan Turing moved to Manchester to use it, and the following year, it inspired the Ferranti Mark 1, the world’s first commercially available electronic general-purpose stored-program digital computer.

source

#computerMemory #computers #computing #culture #electronics #engineering #GeoffTootill #Guitar #history #JimHendrix #ManchesterBaby #music #rock #rockMusic #Technology

#computermemory #computing #culture #electronics #engineering #geofftootill

NewsletterTF @[email protected] · 2026-03-01 · 11:53 UTC

SSDs: More Than Just Storage, They Are Flash Memory

Learn if SSDs are considered computer memory. Understand how flash memory works in SSDs and why the lines between memory and storage are blurring.

#SSDs, #FlashMemory, #ComputerMemory, #TechExplained, #StorageVsMemory

https://newsletter.tf/are-ssds-computer-memory-flash-storage-explained/

#flashmemory #computermemory #techexplained #storagevsmemory #ssds

NewsletterTF @[email protected] · 2026-03-01 · 11:47 UTC

SSDs use flash memory, a type of computer memory, to store data. This is different from older hard drives that used moving parts.

#SSDs, #FlashMemory, #ComputerMemory, #TechExplained, #StorageVsMemory

https://newsletter.tf/are-ssds-computer-memory-flash-storage-explained/

#ssds #flashmemory #computermemory #techexplained #storagevsmemory

Jazzynupe @[email protected] · 2025-12-06 · 02:41 UTC

WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9A-eeJP0J7c&si=mKadDfCFM1lGCCxl

> SUPPORT THE AI DYSTOPIA REPORT SERIES: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ai-dystopia
#GamersNexus #Micron #ConsumerRAM #ComputerMemory #AIBusiness #MemoryIndustry

#gamersnexus #micron #consumerram #computermemory #aibusiness #memoryindustry

Jazzynupe @[email protected] · 2025-12-06 · 02:41 UTC

WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9A-eeJP0J7c&si=mKadDfCFM1lGCCxl

> SUPPORT THE AI DYSTOPIA REPORT SERIES: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ai-dystopia
#GamersNexus #Micron #ConsumerRAM #ComputerMemory #AIBusiness #MemoryIndustry

#gamersnexus #micron #consumerram #computermemory #aibusiness #memoryindustry

Hacker News @[email protected] · 2025-12-04 · 20:22 UTC

The RAM Shortage Comes for Us All

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/ram-shortage-comes-us-all

#HackerNews #RAMShortage #TechNews #HardwareSupplyChain #ComputerMemory #IndustryTrends

#hackernews #ramshortage #technews #hardwaresupplychain #computermemory #industrytrends

Hacker News @[email protected] · 2025-12-04 · 20:22 UTC

The RAM Shortage Comes for Us All

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/ram-shortage-comes-us-all

#HackerNews #RAMShortage #TechNews #HardwareSupplyChain #ComputerMemory #IndustryTrends

#hackernews #ramshortage #technews #hardwaresupplychain #computermemory #industrytrends

__Miguel_ @[email protected] · 2025-11-02 · 09:59 UTC

Good grief... You'd think either most memory manufacturers would make memory modules that are universally compatible with any machine...

Or if that's absolutely impossible, that PC manufacturers would try to accept the most memory modules possible, or at least from the biggest brands like Crucial, Samsung, and SK Hynix.

But no, not even remotely...

So, Mac Minis (at least the 2018 version) apparently only accept Crucial memory, if you're not using their stock ones. SK and Samsung are out.

8th-gen Intel NUC, refuses to boot with SK.

HP T740, Samsung is fine, SK is no-go.

HP T630, SK is fine (didn't try with Samsung, since I only had a pair and needed those for the T740).

HP Elitedesk G4, SK is also fine.

Mind you, both the Elitedesk and the Mac Mini are using the same CPU generation and presumably PCH, so one accepting it and the other not makes even less sense... :blobcatnotlikethisgoogly:

#computermemory #computer #selfhosting

__Miguel_ @[email protected] · 2025-11-02 · 09:59 UTC

Good grief... You'd think either most memory manufacturers would make memory modules that are universally compatible with any machine...

Or if that's absolutely impossible, that PC manufacturers would try to accept the most memory modules possible, or at least from the biggest brands like Crucial, Samsung, and SK Hynix.

But no, not even remotely...

So, Mac Minis (at least the 2018 version) apparently only accept Crucial memory, if you're not using their stock ones. SK and Samsung are out.

8th-gen Intel NUC, refuses to boot with SK.

HP T740, Samsung is fine, SK is no-go.

HP T630, SK is fine (didn't try with Samsung, since I only had a pair and needed those for the T740).

HP Elitedesk G4, SK is also fine.

Mind you, both the Elitedesk and the Mac Mini are using the same CPU generation and presumably PCH, so one accepting it and the other not makes even less sense... :blobcatnotlikethisgoogly:

#computermemory #computer #selfhosting

Steve Dustcircle 🌹 @[email protected] · 2025-10-30 · 12:42 UTC

#Scientists Built a Working #ComputerMemory Out of #ShiitakeMushrooms

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-built-a-working-computer-memory-out-of-shiitake-mushrooms

#scientists #computermemory #shiitakemushrooms

Steve Dustcircle 🌹 @[email protected] · 2025-10-30 · 12:42 UTC

#Scientists Built a Working #ComputerMemory Out of #ShiitakeMushrooms

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-built-a-working-computer-memory-out-of-shiitake-mushrooms

#scientists #computermemory #shiitakemushrooms

ResearchBuzz: Firehose @[email protected] · 2025-10-07 · 08:39 UTC

How-To Geek: Some Raspberry Pi Devices Are Getting a Price Hike. “Raspberry Pi has announced price increases of $5 to $10 on some of its 4GB and 8GB devices, including popular Compute Modules and the Raspberry Pi 500 unit. The primary culprit is the unprecedented global demand for memory, which shot up the demand roughly 120% compared to a year ago.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/07/how-to-geek-some-raspberry-pi-devices-are-getting-a-price-hike/

#computermemory #hardware #pricehikes #raspberrypi

ResearchBuzz: Firehose @[email protected] · 2025-10-07 · 08:39 UTC

How-To Geek: Some Raspberry Pi Devices Are Getting a Price Hike. “Raspberry Pi has announced price increases of $5 to $10 on some of its 4GB and 8GB devices, including popular Compute Modules and the Raspberry Pi 500 unit. The primary culprit is the unprecedented global demand for memory, which shot up the demand roughly 120% compared to a year ago.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/07/how-to-geek-some-raspberry-pi-devices-are-getting-a-price-hike/

#computermemory #hardware #pricehikes #raspberrypi

Zach Nocturnal Artist @[email protected] · 2025-01-25 · 16:03 UTC

A-Tech computer memory I bought for my Gateway desktop computer with Windows Vista on Amazon
#Atech #computermemory #computerrepair #computing #Amazon