@foone @lethalbit Extra points available if you can actually get the ties to hold - those cables are thick and heavily shielded...!
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The cool thing about @cstross's The Laundry Files series is that it posits that magic is a branch of applied computation.@foone I have literally just started reading this series and I'm loving it. I just wish there was a way to keep the Kindle app and my paperback copy in sync...
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I just spent 20 minutes buzzing out the pinout of a 4-port serial card...@foone yeah! I'm just lucky it was easy to figure out, and the card wasn't expensive either. There's also a tantalising note on Quickpath's old website about "custom address decoding available on request" - so you can bet I'll be figuring out how to do that too.
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I just spent 20 minutes buzzing out the pinout of a 4-port serial card...@foone the REALLY good news is I just found a copy of the instruction manual for sale on ebay, and it's going to be scanned. At the very least it'll be on my website and I'll chuck it on the Retroweb discord too for them to include in the next update.
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I just spent 20 minutes buzzing out the pinout of a 4-port serial card...I just spent 20 minutes buzzing out the pinout of a 4-port serial card... input, input, output, output, ground... oh hello, that's a PC DB9 serial port, mapped 1:1 onto a DC37. Four ports, one after the other. Awful nice of them to make it easy.
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With all of the sexy vampire movies and shows over the past few decades I'm surprised nobody at General Mills has taken the initiative to redesign Count Chocula to be more fuckable.@tedmielczarek I'm furry-adjacent and can guarantee that a "Count Chocula's werewolf friend" character has probably been invented for that purpose. It's not Chocula, but hey, he'll keep you warm in winter...
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I've got two small monochrome CRT modules. They've got an unlabeled connection but from comparing with some other connectors I'm pretty sure it's just:Voltage/ground/video/H sync/V sync@foone It depends on the video mode it expects. A VGA card should probably be able to drive it, but if it wants composite video style timing (525 or 625 lines), you'll probably need a sync separator and a composite source.
edit: I think there's a way to hook a Pi up to generate VGA using an R2R DAC, but it's been ages since I looked. It has a parallel output too, on the GPIOs, it's meant for LCDs. I have no idea how to set the mode timing though.
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Does anyone have Sun patches 107235-01 (at Y2K fix) and 107436-01 (fsck fix for large FSes) for Interactive Unix 4.1.1?Does anyone have Sun patches 107235-01 (at Y2K fix) and 107436-01 (fsck fix for large FSes) for Interactive Unix 4.1.1?
They're are from around April 1999 and may be on a Sun Patches CD from then
Sadly they're not on Archive.org, or the ZX[1] and ICM[2] mirrors of Sun's ~2006 FTP.
[1]: https://ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/archive/ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/patches/
[2]: https://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/patches/
#retrocomputing #OldUNIX #UNIX #ClassicUNIX #Sun #SolarisBoosts and shares appreciated!
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HOT TAKE: if you design a laptop with a power supply that looks like this, you should go to jail.@foone Looks like the label is "8C" and that looks like a SOT89 package. Going by Marsport it's probably a 78L05:
8C NJM78L05A NJR KQ SOT89 78L 5.0V 0.1A regulatore: From left to right, the three pins on the bottom are Out, Gnd, In. The tab connects to the middle pin, which is GND.
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HOT TAKE: if you design a laptop with a power supply that looks like this, you should go to jail.@foone That wasn't uncommon on early laptops, everyone had their own form factor. Toshiba had a different module for every blasted laptop model. Infuriating when you want to upgrade your Satellite or Libretto, even when they were new.
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Hi.Hi. I'm the kid who liked to take things apart and figure out how they worked. Thing is, now I'm 30 odd years older, and I haven't grown out of taking things apart.
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Teaming up with my roommate to design the first phone system where you can have imaginary phone numbers@foone "dial sqrt(-1) for faxback service"