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>I felt so smart telling him that was impossible because you can't mod software with a soldering iron. Many old systems stored their software in a diode matrix
by mepian 2y ago
>I felt so smart telling him that was impossible because you can't mod software with a soldering iron.
Many old systems stored their software in a diode matrix, which could be modded with a soldering iron: https://www.cca.org/blog/20120222-Diode-Matrix.shtml https://www.cca.org/blog/20120222-Diode-Matrix.shtml
- squeaky-clean 2y agoWell damn that's neat. I'm going to pretend you were popping your head out from the kitchen as you wrote this.
- MonkeyClub 2y agoAlso note that Dave's https://CCA.org https://CCA.org deserves perusal. My favorite page remains the one about his computer: https://cca.org/dave/tech/machine.html https://cca.org/dave/tech/machine.html
- jonah 2y agoAwesome! I wonder what his electric bill is like.
- Izkata 2y agoI imagine this is how some sci-fi technology works. Certainly looks like a more low-tech version of some of it: Star Trek has both isolinear chips [0] in Federation technology and isolinear rods [1] in Cardassian technology that can be rearranged to change ship systems and Stargate has control crystals of various designs used similarly [2][3][4]. [0] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Naked_Now_(episode)?file=Data_configures_isolinear_chips.jpg https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Naked_Now_(episode)... [1] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Isolinear_rod?file=Isolinear_rods.jpg https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Isolinear_rod?file=Isol... [2] https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Control_crystal?file=Control_crystals.jpg https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Control_crystal?file=Contro... [3] https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Control_crystal?file=Door_control_crystal.jpg https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Control_crystal?file=Door_c... [4] https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Control_crystal?file=Control_crystal_2.jpg https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Control_crystal?file=Contro...
- thih9 2y agoMind blowing; both ways I guess. I’d like a tv show where someone building this gets to interview a time traveller from the 2020s and the latter knows nothing useful about hardware but can provide many unhelpful details about having GBs of storage, or things like DRM, pentalobe screws or electron framework.
- cmdr2 2y agoHere you go - https://pastebin.com/raw/dGP6W1m1 https://pastebin.com/raw/dGP6W1m1 (story courtesy ChatGPT). Fed your comment into it, and got this story.