techknight

I mean, Who doesn't have a complete cable TV headend full of operational Weather Channel equipment? Yes I am a nerd and proud of it! Don't judge me. >:-)

@compu_85 Does this use a drum scanner or is this galvo setup?

Here's the laser path on a 1981 Xerox 8040 Electronic Printer - the one sold with the Star office system. Note the helium neon laser - a modulator bends the beam. That's why there appear to be 2 beams in the photo. Light strikes the spinning polygon mirror causing it to scan.

@SCweather_wx Finally that nino pattern kicking in.

The atmosphere continues to drop haymakers on the drought. EPS between now & next Friday below.

@TubeAmpTinker I wish, It has been defunct since 2014

@techknight2 Awesome!😎 Is there still a satellite feed available?

It's been 7 years since I've looked at this, but I need to finish the reverse engineering of the data card to get back into a schematic

@TubeAmpTinker Data card for the weatherstar 4000

@techknight2 What is it, interesting LC networks.

The goal is also in parallel to create a 1:1 Weather STAR 4000 emulator which emulates all of the hardware, and is able to run the same program as the original machine. It will be the true emulation environment of the unit.

The Weather STAR 4000's Original ROM vector toolbox is fully working! More and more of the original spirit is being restored everyday, more to come later!

@PcPhilanthropy @majornelson 90 eurodance/organ house club music was peak. The good old Korg m1 tr909 combo ❤️

@majornelson Clubs in the late 90s and early 2000s was peak nightlife

One of the reasons I am reinvesting in my in-home music library is because a lot of the CD compilations I have simply are not available online anywhere. The licensing for those is complicated, so no streaming. A lot of my music is club mixes from the 90's.

The guardian of the prisonbook

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@NarcissistBox Damn... Can we talk about 4 and 10? Strong ones in my life. Every time I want to venture out on my own/vacation, it gets sabotaged in some way with their needs. And when speaking, there's that "naisily tone" which is child-like in nature.

#odd #narcissists #trauma

Physical media preservation?

@SCweather_wx Yep exactly. Up where I am, the valleys of the mountains of WNC its usually 40s and rain during El Nino years from what I have witnessed.

People think when they see blue (below average temperatures) across the South during a predicted El Niño Winter that we have better chances at Winter weather. But what is truly driving the below average temperatures is more clouds & rain storms. The average temperatures are lower but this is mainly driven off the high temperatures being lower than average & not the low temperatures. We have a rotten cold air source in El Niño a lot of times. That will work for areas further North & higher elevated regions but for most of the South, it won’t.

@so_phie_C Therapy

If Elon Musk sent you $1M, what’s the first thing you’d buy?

@NarcissistBox Sounds like you've been through a lot but you will come out on the other side, it'll be okay 🫂

The reality of hiring a lawyer is approaching.... Handing over a check with the money my father gave me after he shot himself with a gun....I almost deleted this post..but it's true and I can share that with you. #suicide #narcissisticabuse

@cdeightsix Nope, that was on the main audio feed from The Weather Channel.

@techknight2 Were the smooth-jazz soundtracks baked into the Weather STAR units, or was that mixed in from another source?

Just got my first severe thunderstorm warning of the Year

The storm didn't last super long but it was kind of fun

@kg4mxv Yeeaaaahhhhh I'm in the same boat with netatalk that runs on the NAS. But I still talk to Old world vintage 68K Macs so I try to keep things universal

@techknight2 Ya I am having to retire my two Time capsules that I hacked to run an external 5 drive raid array. With Mac OS 27 it will no longer connect to the server. So I am using my old 2015 Mac mini's to share the drives. I have one in the house and one in the shop on a fiber.

@kg4mxv Ahh yeah it's just chilling. I only activate it when I fire up an old Mac and I need to set up the file server

@techknight2 And that airport is cool.