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by buescher 5y ago
This is a fantastic hobby project. Have you thought about doing something with the "extra" bit along the lines of tagging bytes for type or garbage collection or whatever like the lisp machines?
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by buescher 5y ago
Ternary on binary systems usually uses a 2-bit "trit" with an extra potential state. That's even how the later Setun machines did it, from what I understand. Oh yes, and the Soviets even developed their own trinary Forth di
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by buescher 5y ago
You know, if someone is astroturfing something around an Atari 2600 prototype, I want to know about it. When and where and by whom was the cartridge discovered? The screenshots have an almost too pitch-perfect 19A0 vibe. I guess that isn&
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by buescher 5y ago
I knew someone like that, and I always suspected he owed his boss money. Turned down a job with better benefits with a large, much more secure company to take a counteroffer from the entrepreneur who was going broke. He also had this weir
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by buescher 5y ago
Apologies for arguing the analogy, but the Benjamin Button car buyer would lose horsepower and weight (=safety and convenience features) to continue to make mandated fuel economy standards. You could buy a 50 mpg CRX HF from Honda over 30
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by buescher 5y ago
I used to like Electronics World, and even subscribed for a while, but I haven't seen an issue for years and it doesn't look like they are really set up for US subscriptions any more. They used to do a nice job of straddling the
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by buescher 5y ago
I think ice extrusion is better understood, but I could be wrong about that. Tin whiskers approach alchemical levels of weirdness, and are not well understood at all. The ones that look like little plants are so strange: https:/&#x2F
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by buescher 5y ago
If his current employer was a mom and pop, he may have owed the owner money on screwball terms, from deductions from his paycheck (unless he left) to "you don't have to pay this back unless you leave".
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by buescher 5y ago
Analog computing - the general sort, that includes physical solutions to hard problems - is underrated.
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by buescher 5y ago
I really wonder how many um, people, that buy these tests have been (implicitly) hornswoggled into thinking these gadgets are multiple-use devices. Or that these tests are intrinsically more accurate so will confirm a previous cheaper test
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by buescher 5y ago
For the extra $2.61 this doodad costs, the lady could buy a light bulb or something.
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by buescher 5y ago
Ditto. I was astounded when I read consumer reports’ test regimen for dishwashers - I recall a test that expected the dishwasher to clean out baked on brownie batter. No dishwasher I used until way too far into adulthood could do that or
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by buescher 5y ago
You have to write a lot to acquire good writing skills, and it's not guaranteed to take. Incidentally, I'm told the essay load in a top humanities program is brutally higher than what most people see in their undergraduate years.
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by buescher 5y ago
I didn't know that about the KA PDP-10 nor had I looked that deeply into the GA144. Thanks.
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by buescher 5y ago
I built the nwavguy O2 kit from jdslabs and like it. It does perk up the Sennheisers and would probably work well for your headphones. I don't hear a lot of difference between the Apple headphone adapter and jdslabs' "Object
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by buescher 5y ago
Periodically, I wonder if I could be faster on modest simulation problems - think a pair of coupled differential equations - with a small analog computer than I am with Matlab/Simulink. I don't try it, though, because software ta
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by buescher 5y ago
Like the posted article, this guy took an SB-101 all the way back down to "kit" and rebuilt it: https://sites.google.com/site/radiow2pa/Home/articles/Heathk... God save us all from the man with
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by buescher 5y ago
Doubtful. You're probably into the range of diminishing returns with those. Switching will get you something different, and possibly more to your tastes, or more comfortable, not necessarily objectively better. I personally love the
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by buescher 5y ago
Yes. It's not just fancy magnets, but that helps. The industry got much better at modeling and designing dynamic speakers about 20 years ago. Low cost IC amplifiers also got a lot better in the last twenty years, and anything decent
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by buescher 5y ago
> How do the chips not have clocks? That's a very good question. Asynchronous design is really cool, but has never gone anywhere that I know of. https://authors.library.caltech.edu/43698/1/25YearsAgo.pdf
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by buescher 5y ago
A IIgs with an accelerator card, maxed out memory, and solid state storage would really fit the bill, wouldn't it? You could run Apple Logo AND Hypercard. Or maybe one of the macs that took an Apple IIe card, same thing only differen
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by buescher 5y ago
It certainly isn't positive.
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by buescher 5y ago
Years ago I found a discussion of this on the web that involved a deep dive into optimal strategies for getting white beads, variations in paddle construction, root cause analysis on bead size and weight and hole depth in the paddles, and s
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by buescher 5y ago
The Apple II was not what I got at the time, and its graphics and sound were really sub-par compared to cheaper competition, but it was a really nice combination of things that are hard to match: 1) It had very fast storage for the time 2)
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by buescher 5y ago
There was SLS before it. By the time I could afford to cobble together a machine capable of running Linux, Slackware had superceded SLS and Red Hat and other distros you may have heard of didn't exist yet. Red Hat became the beginner
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by buescher 5y ago
The first distribution I downloaded to floppies at work and installed on a beater 386 at home. I am pretty sure the first one I installed still used a pre-1.0 kernel that I immediately upgraded to 1.0, so it must have been spring or summer
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by buescher 5y ago
The pickit guy was giving the other dev tools people at Microchip a run for their money for a long time, implementing the features of the fancier debuggers and more, like a simple logic analyzer. My impression was it was basically one engin
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by buescher 5y ago
The point is that most people overestimate the one danger and underestimate the others. So you have people having nightmares about a disposal consuming their arm - which literally never happens except in made-up stories - but not hesitatin
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by buescher 5y ago
"affordable" = $1295 at launch in 1985. I am pretty sure I used one of these, or a closely related HP plotter, in one of my internships to make charts for a presentation, using Harvard Graphics on a DOS machine. I remember they
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by buescher 5y ago
The good news is that most people have the good sense not to stick their hands in disposals when they're running.

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