FarmerPotato

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by FarmerPotato 1y ago
Haha--"in the wild". He's one of the regulars at VCFMW because he lives close by.
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by FarmerPotato 1y ago
The important thing about wire-wrap sockets: they have square-ish pins. As you wrap the wire around the square pin, there is a mind-boggling degree of force between the corner and the wire, creating a gas-tight seal. It's tougher to ge
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by FarmerPotato 1y ago
Because I want to play with original chips. Many of them are in DIP sockets and are 5V. Not to mention linear and analog functions! No matter what, there's always wires or traces between packages. When I want to do FPGA, I start w
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by FarmerPotato 1y ago
Present day: I can fabricate a wire-wrap version from my PCB footprints, much faster than I can route the PCB! With wire-wrap, you can route multiple traces between the same pins, or I like to neatly bundle a whole bus' worth. I'm
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by FarmerPotato 1y ago
At VCFMW it was not powered on.
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by FarmerPotato 1y ago
I'm old-young enough to be aware of the evolution of minicomputers implemented in MSI TTL with wire-wrap (1970) to VLSI integration (1975). Examples are the LSI-11 and TMS9900. My first home-brew micro was done in 1987 using the Rad
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by FarmerPotato 1y ago
At VCFMW last month, my table was adjacent to Lorraine and her friends. Ben Heck walked by during setup, and asked me what it was. I was clueless, so we started making educated guesses. The Amiga poster was a start. I do wire-wrap. This t
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by FarmerPotato 1y ago
I got the CED collecting bug in 2010 when I came across a player. I keep it to show as a curiosity, a reminder that you can do things (video) in weird ways (a vinyl disc). I have one memory of renting the SelectaVision player when I was ver
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by FarmerPotato 2y ago
You have to consider that modern CPUs don't execute code in-order, but speculatively, in multiple instruction pipelines. I've used Intel's icc compiler and profiler tools in an iterative fashion. A compiler like Intel&#x27
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by FarmerPotato 2y ago
I know what you're trying to say--But also, the (unintentional?) irony makes me chuckle: "Sure, my group sounds self-righteous, but our view is justifiably superior." Nobody wins a shouting match.
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by FarmerPotato 2y ago
File IO wasn't portable. Consider the book where this Animal appeared: David H Ahl was aiming at a wide audience. The content was previously in Creative Computing Magazine. It was up to the reader to adapt the BASIC programs to work on
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by FarmerPotato 2y ago
I cried "LLM garbage" too. Catchy title, article full of bizarre errors and repetition. It would be a prank--LLM writing about AI, badly. But the Medium account behind it has only articles like this.
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by FarmerPotato 2y ago
I played with WS2812 for a while, but now I have an AlphaPix system from HolidayCoro. My starter kit was ~$500 with 100 lights. They are large C9 bulbs, now permanently installed on the house eaves. The popular free software, xLights, has