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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
This [0] is the tweet the article is referring to, since it doesn't actually link to it. I cannot find any official BBC source confirming this - anyone able to help out? The official announcement [1] from NEXUS about their medium wave
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Ukraine: BBC adds two shortwave broadcasts, NEXUS adds MW service(swling.com)
12 points by betamaxthetape 5y ago|2 comments
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
I'm typing this from my rarely-used Chrome install. Firefox just broke for me, and killing all the processes and / or restarting isn't helping. Edit: I am on Firefox 91.4.1esr, so clearly it isn't just the latest version
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
Indeed it can - if the impedances are not matched correctly, the transmitted signals can end up being reflected back down the antenna, causing damage to the transmitter. The Wikipedia article on Standing Wave Ratios [1] has more on this top
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
It seems that the flow has reduced somewhat in recent months: Alexa haven't been providing crawl data to the Internet Archive since January 2021. (You can see this by looking at the "Items" graph on the Alexa Crawls collectio
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
No effect, I believe, since Alexa haven't been providing crawl data to the Internet Archive since January 2021. You can see this by looking at the "Items" graph on the Alexa Crawls collection [0] (I am not associated with the
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
HyperCard 3.0 was an unreleased in-development version of HyperCard that Apple was developing in the late 1990s before the entire project was cancelled. So I suspect that wasn't the version your parents got you! (On the other hand....
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
I'm impressed at the level of detail in this guide, and have bookmarked it for when I (eventually) get round to fixing my decks (one with an electrical issue affecting the left channel, one with mechanical issues, and several more with
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
Join Archive Team [1]! As that site says, "Archive Team is a loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage". We have a number of volunteers actively monitoring v
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
As someone who scrapes sites as a hobby..... I can only wish you good luck! ;) So long as you're small, and aren't either (a) stealing away too many customers or (b) imposing too large a load on the site's resources, you&#x27
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
This is an interesting idea. I agree with you that going to get a Covid test from a local pharmacy has made me wish that other similar diagnosis were available from pharmacies, rather than requiring a trip to a hospital. I'm curious as
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
I don't want to detract from the article, but that picture is a bit odd. You've got a Macintosh Classic (or Classic II, which shares the same case) with the Apple logo and model name covered over (why?). Then there's the keyb
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Bilsdale (UK) transmitter fire: TV and radio for 1M off air(bbc.com)
2 points by betamaxthetape 5y ago|0 comments
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
This is really interesting and not something I was aware of. (Although now the fact that an hour of MiniDV footage is 12GB makes more sense!). I wonder if this is what DV Rescue (linked in my above post) is doing? If it's not doing t
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
A quick online search leads me to Data8 [1], which I admit I've never heard of. Do you think that could be the format you're thinking of? I know that SCSI drives were made for DDS [2], which (at least, initially) used the same tap
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
Once the tapes have been digitized, the excellent and open source DV Analyzer tool [1] can be used to inspect the digitized file and produce a report indicating sections where there may be issues with the video and / or audio of the ta
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
I thought this was interesting due to the type of light bulb. LED and CFL lighting has been known to cause RF interference [1], but I wasn't aware that it was also possible with incandescent bulbs. [1] https://www.ukqrm.org.
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Interference to Air Traffic Control caused by incandescent light bulbs (2020)(ofcom.org.uk)
3 points by betamaxthetape 5y ago|2 comments
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
This tool appears to be using the Wayback Machine's CDX index to assist with the download. The CDX basically lists all the pages of the site that are archived in the wayback, as well as when each page was archived (e.g: "page x wa
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
Sony equipment use to have a way of doing this as well, via the S-Link[1] / Control-A1 bus on stereo equipment (and some video equipment too, I believe). There's a handy Arduino library[2] for doing this - a couple of years ago I
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
The machine I have is very similar to that (Tascam 38), although the Teac 80-8 has the advantage of being able to run at the correct speed (7.5ips while the Tascam 38 only runs at 15ips). From reading the papers published at the time (mid-t
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
They are half-inch wide 7-track tapes. It's the 7-track bit that makes them difficult to read (I have a half-inch machine but it's 8-track). I think it was NASA and a few other government agencies using this 7-track format (or 1-i
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
A great "tear down" of a really interesting device. I'd be curious how you ended up with this? I'm sceptical that the satellite is Ariel 1 or Ariel 2 for two reasons: (a) Ariel was the British satellite programme, and I
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
It is important to note that "debt" is perhaps a misleading term when considering student loans in the UK. The money must be repaid as a percentage of earnings (9% of everything earned above £27,295, so if you don't earn abov
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
The Twitter website on mobile devices. I've just timed myself to see how long it took to view my own twitter profile on my phone (I don't use Twitter on my phone, hence I'm not logged in). It took 15 seconds to load the profi
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
I'd agree that mechanical mechanisms may break more easily than microprocessor equivalents, but I'm not sure about the argument that they are more difficult to repair. With microprocessor-driven systems, the solutions seems to be
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
HyperCard did get a fairly substantial upgrade with HyperCard 2.0. Indeed, the second version of The Complete HyperCard Handbook included another interview with Bill Atkinson, discussing some of the changes made and the direction HyperCard
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
I believe so. At least, they accept donations of wax cylinders. https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360017876312-How-...
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
Optical turntables have major issues with dust and dirt. The records need to be extensively cleaned prior to being played [1], even for unplayed "virgin" vinyl. 78rpm (shellac) records are older than vinyl records, and tend to hav
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by betamaxthetape 5y ago
It's worth noting that the Internet Archive are always on the lookout for more records to digitize, so if you (or someone you know) has a collection and wants to see them go to a good home where they'll be preserved, you can donat

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