@tubetime Great thread, thanks!

@tubetime I saw the image and instantly thought "Grimeton!" 😆 glad to see I was spot on, it's a fantastically interesting museum to visit.

@tubetime aka #Rundfunk

@tubetime I imagine it's the RS/6000 emitting “Let me die… let me" and the adapter returning “Not today, not foever” :)

@tubetime wait-wait-wait... this one?

I'm at the "blink an LED" stage of bringing it up.

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Brain the size of a planet and all they
have me doing is blink an LED

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“Rather complex”… it connects to MicroChannel slots on two different computers.🙂

@tubetime @Stormgren Neat!

I do remember that pretty much any 13W3-VGA adapter required that the monitor supported sync-on-green — does that rule apply to this?

(Granted, I had to offload my Sun hardware 12 years ago, and don't have any CRTs anymore anyway. 🥲)

@tubetime I wonder if it would also work with a NeXTstation.

@tubetime I always found it nuts how the industry came up with this fancy connector which preserved impedance matching to an almost obsessive degree then didn't standardize the pinout making it incompatible between vendors.

An insane degree of effort to then just do it wrong!

@tubetime oh gosh, I wish we had these on the East Coast

@tubetime doggone it. I’m in Menlo Park this weekend but forgot that the FM was this morning.

@tubetime We *almost* went today. Had plans and everything. But circumstances said no. Maybe next month. So glad its back.

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Wild guess...left is for a Kaypro PC-Clone ISA expansion bracket for a parallel port? :blobcatdunno:

@tubetime one is original the other is not.

@tubetime ...ting

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What is the origin of "boop" ie. touching someone's nose and going "boop" ??

@tubetime Why does that CRT have an electrode in the centre? I've never seen one like that.

@tubetime noooo, my boop deflector!

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Galloping millipede!!!

@tubetime I love the animated test(?) pattern. Looks like a sine wave scrolling over the screen.

@tubetime Hardly trying if it's not an MCA card 🙂

@tubetime Could you do it again or was it just a ... never mind.

@tubetime curious, does this not have repair functions like continuity, diode check, etc. Been notiticing the bench ones are more measurement.

@tubetime that one brings up good memories!

@tubetime nice. I've got a couple of those, but I'm not sure I have that specific model

@tubetime @foone Imagine finally find the only USB floppy drive in the IT supply closest to restore a long lost file, only to find that it has one of these suckers lock in it with no sign of the key.

someone's been hacking on the card, adding this bodge wire. it bridges 5V over to two pins on the CPU socket (AN1 and AN3) presumably to support a faster Pentium Overdrive.

@tubetime this is cool. I miss my model 95 which I got for $10 from a junk shop and used as a Linux internet router and file server for many years. Loved that display and the power switch with a sliding cover, turning it on was like launching a missile 😁

@tubetime Man, I've been looking for one of those for a long time. Jealous.

@tubetime Not sure how commonly it was used, but all versions of OS/2 support Ring 2 drivers. https://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Databook_for_OS/2_%E2%80%93_Chapter_2_%E2%80%93_Inside_OS/2_Warp#Ring_Protection_mechanism

@tubetime for some reason I thought 16 bit protected mode only existed on the 286 and wasnt preserved on the 386. Is that not the case?

@tubetime this is going to save tons of die space and power though. Its one of the major things holding #X86 back. I think this quite fundamental change regarding backward compatibility is a direct response to #riscv . I suspect #ARM will soon follow

@tubetime I Need invite code

@tubetime Soes this mean your leaving us here. 😢

@tubetime what is bsky.social? A mastodon instance of some sort?

@tubetime that’s really satisfying.

@tubetime @TechConnectify I've modified all my clocks to display only that time all the time.

@tubetime I'm glad we're on the same page, here

@tubetime @ReticentTurnip man its so hard to get into google cuz they only hire elite coders

@tubetime I recall reading some speculate about the damage to Google this Gmail thing could cause. The storage costs of free email vs the user expectations.

Those are not easy keywords to search for a news story however.

@tubetime #2 is worse than that.

Each non-pruned reply is an additional copy that dings your storage.

Top posting plus hiding below that MASSIVELY in outages each reply to include the full email thread from that message back to the original thread.

Yep, base64 takes 4/3 times the attachments normal size.

@tubetime Does this do serial protocols as well? Ive been looking for a serial / parallel analyzer. The tla714/5 also look good but this has a very nice large screen

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Brings back memories of ... Last week.

Yes, I still use one of these at work. Bought in 2009? Still works fine. We never, ever connect it to the network.

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find this particular hole in the air vents on each side at the back. poke something through to unlatch it.

@tubetime Oh yes, that's a fun one. I remember working it out by inspection.

@tubetime The double height version of this is super-obvious to open, almost like they're making up for this.