Just a Device

@furan Instead of just complaining about RAM costs, you're *actually* doing something about it 😆

hp color recovery doing 1080p44 out of a 2MB sram

@furan Pouring one out for the G-Sync monitor that died so that whatever this is may live

something 9-ish coming

@needle Do you remember the name of the hotel? I never heard about this and would love to see if it still exists.

サンフランシスコのホテルのレストランで、座席の装飾として磁気コアメモリが備え付けられてたのを見た事がある。磁石1個が1ビットのはずで、こんなものがあったんだなあと感心した覚え。

@latinedisce Exception: Ass Pennies youtu.be/f9aM_dT5VMI?si…

(5/10) Pecūnia nōn olet — “Money don’t smell”

10 Latin Phrases Every Gentleman Should Know For Any Occasion 🧵 (1/10) Ālea iacta est — “The die has been cast”

@chrisprice @dosdude1 Circa then, a Motorola engineer told me it would take ~2 weeks of sw work to run NT on their unreleased StarMax CHRP box (the remnants of which I still have, the sad victim of a leaky battery 🙁)

@dosdude1 Even more amazing: That’s a Lombard. A Mac at least two generations newer than when NT4 dropped PReP. Guessing they did it with CHRP because CHRP is a superset of PReP. But the amount of work this took… it’s hard to describe. I’m just starting to look at the code. Amazed.

Well, here’s something I never thought I’d see... Windows NT 4.0 PPC running natively on a PowerPC Mac! It’s in very early stages at this point, so hardware support is very limited and it is buggy, but it works! Be sure to check out this amazing project! github.com/Wack0/maciNTosh

@Claude1079 Contrarian naming suggestion: "Hard Pass" 🙂

Routing the #PiStorm A1200 video pass trough thingy PCB (still no real name for it...) .

@tom_verbeure @chipsalliance1 Where "recently" = Dec 13 2022. I searched for any documented reason for the change, but came up empty…🤔

Hey @chipsalliance1, I noticed that all the SweRV RISC-V cores were all recently renamed to VeeR. Do you know what's up with that?

@vastidity Alameda is across the water from, yet also *in* San Francisco…kqed.org/news/11702058/…

This was done in Alameda, CA (an island next to Oakland, across the water from San Francisco... for the non-bay-area people)

@ActionRetro1 Delay/clock stretcher circuit?

Any ideas what this could be? Soldered under the keyboard on the SOL-20. Chip is MM74C14N. Some of the wires came off the keyboard PCB.

@ActionRetro1 SOL-20, the tell being the Personality Module in the lower right corner.

New game: Name That Computer By Its Guts!™

@siriusm46 There's no GUI, but a pre-built Docker container such as hub.docker.com/r/zberkes/xili… lets you run ISE from the command line, then load bitstreams using OpenFPGALoader.

Spartan-3... Vivado is not supporting it and I can not download ISE to my PC. What to do? I wanna use it at least once.

@furan Alex, I'll go with "What is The Apollo/Domain series of workstations?"

"The dual 68000 processor configuration was designed to provide automatic page fault switching, with the main processor executing the OS and program instructions, and the "fixer" processor satisfying the page faults."

@_tessr @court3r Here's a piece of the original edifice from the Palace of Fine Arts in SF. By the 70s, there were still piles of rubble around the back of the adjacent building where this chunk was retrieved from. The consistency resembles sandstone.

@court3r yes, the Wikipedia page for the expo confirms this!

it is actually just so wild that these buildings used to exist in San Francisco the Palace of Fine Arts is just the tiniest taste of what's left from the 1915 expo

@virtadpt @HackingLZ Yes, thanks! Mercury switch, not reed switch. What was I thinking?

I had one of these forever ago and lost it somewhere in various moves wanted to add one back to my collection of hacker history things

@HackingLZ In operation

@HackingLZ Reed switch + xtal mod

@Foone My sister used to take her VW to Berkey Lee

@janmarjanovic Congratulations. :) I used to work in that building. Trivia: it housed the US’ first knit bathing suit factory.

Got myself a replacement

My last work day at DESY was last Thursday, today a DESY-branded pen stops working. Is there a Kerberos client hidden somewhere inside? 😀

@furan RALF = Reprogrammable Array of Logic Fabric

If you were to bestow the modern FPGA with a new acronym, what would you call it?

@mikelectricstuf NED (Nuclear Event Detector)

Just spotted a thing on ebay I've been on the lookout for since I started Youtube. Can anyone guess what it is. Clue 1 : most people will have seen one in use. Clue 2 : contains a radioactive isotope. Clue 3 : it's bad news if it does what it's designed to do