Gregory's Serverneat gauges that you might expect to find in a power plant
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@tubetime had to read it three times because I really got stuck at thinking like what the hell is a “heaLthkit” calculator 😆   @tubetime I heard you like cards, so I put a card on your card so you can card while you card caution: radiation from polonium is dangerous if the said material is ingested or inhaled. do not @tubetime Might come in handy in the next decades! Just keep it generally below 2. extra long life battery. put in service before Feb 1943. think it's still good?  @tubetime …y'know what, I've been surprised before, it might actually have some charge still. I would still replace it if possible though  @tubetime the seller *gave* it to me! it's a D cell manufactured during World War II and it hasn't leaked and still has voltage! "extra long life battery" indeed! @tubetime I was really hoping you’ll do just that - measure if it’s still any good 😃 my other flea market finds include this prototype of the PrairieTek 240, the 40MB followup product to the 220, which was the first 2.5" hard drive on the market. i also got this Shugart 606 hard drive (10MB). i don't think they did very well in the PC market. another find is this WD-2120D, a 120MB drive meant for the first IBM Thinkpads, like the 700 and 720. it is not IDE nor SCSI -- it is IBM ESDI, a poorly named drive interface that is effectively IDE but over Micro Channel and with a different register interface. i imaged the drive, but it just contains the same garbage sector over and over again. the only thing that changes is this 32-bit number, which increments. i suppose it's been wiped. finally, i got a little plastic tray with an Apple part number. 073-0061. it seems to be a parts kit for an Enhanced IIe or IIe Platinum.  @tubetime oh, DANG! A logarithmic current meter?! That’s amazing! I mean, 10k mA is … carry the two… 10A, so not too scary. But the log scale is AMAZING. @tubetime "Well, either the battery's good or we've got a problem, it's too soon to tell..."  @tubetime My wife and I were discussing the other day that VLB is what truly killed 16-bit computers.  @tubetime  @tubetime all I can see is a turntable, I need one and see them everywhere :blobcatdunno:  @tubetime envious, that’s like a 3 episodes of YouTube videos hour long each ! @tubetime *sniff* Where they'll finally find the actual number for Pi and the square root of -1.   @tubetime I think that says "solid material" not "said material". Although I wonder what distinction the word might be trying to make. Is it safe to inhale and eat the dust? Or should we vaporize it first? :-) Yikes. @tubetime @tubetime hey! My parents toaster!  @tubetime Always wonder about the stories behind stuff like this. I mean someone assembled that and likely used the heck out of it. Those things were cheaper than a manufactured one, but still not cheap!  @tubetime I also have bunch of such gauges. Not sure what to do with them, but maybe hook them up to Home Assistant to display some important data.  |
a Heathkit calculator with a Panaplex display