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Post #AQm0nIKbMBSlBWIWqO by [email protected] |
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check out this wackiness in a removable hard drive sled inside a TASCAM MMR-8: … |
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@foone this makes me think of devices that use software logic to implement circ… |
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@foone I’m sure that that’s just lovely when the electronics fail and you w… |
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Post #AQm1PuNYLSISBw5goa by [email protected] |
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@foone Solid Tesla-class design. |
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Post #AQm1XbVWOP5zymUHxY by [email protected] |
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@foone someone, somewhen had their reasons.Possibly questionably goofy reasons,… |
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Post #AQm1nMyiBBxfYEetbE by [email protected] |
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@foone I believe the software controlled lock was to keep from removing the dri… |
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@foone It’s like stochastic Russian roulette. Each time you open it, you’re… |
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Post #AQm2MnEaYHUD7OyaEC by [email protected] |
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@foone Do you know whether the key actually is intended to cause the lock to be… |
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Post #AQm2YZPpksEbjfqs6a by [email protected] |
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@foone I guess to interlock with unmounting the drive from the file system? |
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Post #AQm3IE5VNr6WuR76xc by [email protected] |
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heh. The manual lists the approved hard drives for use with it. I guess none of… |
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Post #AQm3U8Urzptt2oemxM by [email protected] |
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also the weird one in that list is the Nikon thing with the asterisk.It turns o… |
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Post #AQm3mfN8VPQiDYsKvI by [email protected] |
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Anyway, this is the TASCAM MMR-8.Sadly it's not as useful (for me) as I was… |
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Post #AQm3sCtFJXv3cTXK5o by [email protected] |
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@foone the wording on the protocol is a little scuzzy |
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Post #AQm409aVTYrTh7YopU by [email protected] |
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fun fact: it turns out that inside it's built on a Socket 7 motherboard. Fr… |
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@foone Every time I see a list like this, I interpret it as "these are the… |
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Also apparently the OS is stored on a Quantum Fireball IDE drive. |
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Post #AQm4NL8YhawMArXnua by [email protected] |
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@foone those things are bad ass, I wish I had the Tascam mixer it could sync to |
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Post #AQm4b4F2JelrpO7Uem by [email protected] |
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@foone oh my god, it's full of cards! (apologies to Kubrick) |
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Post #AQm4mNrvgNP5t0hx6O by [email protected] |
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@foone SCSI was less a standard than a constellation of notions relating to dat… |
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Post #AQm4ywnbddoVhBg012 by [email protected] |
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@foone small computer systems interface |
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Post #AQm5DI8F7VY7udAX6e by [email protected] |
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@foone it’s so beautiful 🤩 |
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Post #AQm5In0DlskV6V2RRg by [email protected] |
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So the motherboard is an ASUS TX97. That's based on an Intel 430TX chipset,… |
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Post #AQm5TamZXtvwOBo0Bs by [email protected] |
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And it turns out that CPU is a Pentium 133mhz, SY022. |
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Post #AQm5i8c8YbXTN1rP9c by [email protected] |
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@foone no amr slot?! Woah |
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Post #AQm5xwvVmLKrkuSiPY by [email protected] |
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@foone Speedy! |
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Post #AQm647D6SONvO5d9rk by [email protected] |
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@foone What's so special about this board? |
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Post #AQm6NNx8QueyocLmNs by [email protected] |
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@foone That was my first PC cpu 🤩 |
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Post #AQm6cEAP6DvCoBdMnI by [email protected] |
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@foone hey, I hope it's not a bother, but what range of ram do you reckon a… |
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Post #AQm7BGSwXlJe4f0qEy by [email protected] |
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@foone i can hear this picture |
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@foone mine is slower |
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@foone I had to take a picture of these before I scrapped them last May. Found … |
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@foone I've actually learned riding on that one <3 |
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@foone I miss those yellow asus pcbs. |
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Post #AQmBL3PMLYGgHxGA9Q by [email protected] |
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Let's go through the boards.The smallest one is this MMR Biphase Option (BO… |
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Post #AQmBVOGJfMuBrWxUY4 by [email protected] |
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Then a Symbios SYM8600SP SCSI board. Seems to be pretty standard, this is proba… |
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Post #AQmBe28NJ72Dq7MiaO by [email protected] |
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The first big custom board is this TimeLine Sync2 ASSY 70386.A bunch of FPGA ch… |
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Post #AQmBrDcPv3VrDshkLA by [email protected] |
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Then the MMR UIB, ASSY 70302.More FPGAs, ASICs, and EEPROMs. They integrated th… |
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Then the 70384 DIO. Digital I/O, I suspect. |
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@foone I LOVE IT that I don't have to do without you in my feed! |
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Post #AQmCXJwWnOPr04Bf2u by [email protected] |
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It's got 4 of these CS8411-CS digital audio receivers, and then 4 of these … |
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And four of these IDT7132SA20J 2 kilobyte dual-ported static-ram chips. Probabl… |
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Then another of the same board, but this one is missing the receiver/transmitte… |
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Post #AQmCXVbLRybN9qMuh6 by [email protected] |
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Then the final board is a Timeline PRX ASSY 70383. More SRAMs and lattice chips… |
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Post #AQmDUcHYFrRoxmIMAi by [email protected] |
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It's also got a Motorola DSP56002PV80, a 24-bit DSP. |
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Post #AQmDeDC8NreY3HKvpo by [email protected] |
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@foone Mathematical PTSD |
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@foone i just had a very visceral memory of the series of Quantum Fireball 4.3G… |
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Post #AQmDyIxgeURpjI9zIu by [email protected] |
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The front-panel display is a Optrex DMC-2026I display. 20x20 characters, each c… |
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The front panel is communicated with through this MMR FP/UIB Interface, Assy 70… |
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Post #AQmDyR6qMKWf00VPge by [email protected] |
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and it's got three 32mb SDRAMs.So 96mb in total. That's a bunch for a P… |
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Post #AQmEYk23TxCU70ZsEy by [email protected] |
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@foone or the God board. |
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@foone Hmm, I can't tell if those are AC coupling caps and termination resi… |
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@foone this brings back memories |
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Post #AQmF8Frv6fU0zEls9o by [email protected] |
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So it's got a separate power supply inside the case, plugged into a splitte… |
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Post #AQmFRhwYwtmTYsDbpQ by [email protected] |
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Those power these two boards (with room for a third, missing on this model)This… |
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Post #AQmFRnVUGTgiodb4SW by [email protected] |
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And an MMR Output Converter, ASSY 70372. |
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Post #AQmFRqe6atMeYEeUoC by [email protected] |
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And the floppy drive is a TEAC FD-235HF, one of the most common models of 3.5&q… |
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Post #AQmG6xIGmZT92f2YAC by [email protected] |
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The back panel has two PCBs.The top one is a Parallel Remote board, ASSY 70374I… |
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Post #AQmG72YPE0LbM9d0Vc by [email protected] |
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Then the bottom board is the MMR Rear Panel, ASSY 70389.Left to right, we'v… |
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@foone I was thinking "Huh, that's similar to my current workstation �… |
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@foone my K5-PR166 had 96MB before it was retired for a Thunderbird Athlon |
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Post #AQmH0FmxigsUKXlSvg by [email protected] |
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The power supply is a US Power SP2-4200F, a 200 watt AT supply. But modified to… |
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@foone huh, I actually expected something beefier from a system this large and … |
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Post #AQmHKZLYiHcymQdN9E by [email protected] |
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So the front panel. There's three PCBs.The big one is the 8 TRK FP-70311, w… |
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Post #AQmHRLc4AoOADFaUBk by [email protected] |
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@foone I love the soldered wire fix for a bad trace! :) |
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Post #AQmHf4f003NrgmVLPM by [email protected] |
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No chips on the other side. Just a bunch of buttons and LEDs. Interesting there… |
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Post #AQmHpjIVlZ9OcS4Dcu by [email protected] |
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@foone seeing your electronics photos makes us bird site refugees feel at home … |
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Post #AQmHzu0EoqSkiVN2FU by [email protected] |
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Doesn't seem to be any smarts on the board. Another of those UCN 5821A 8-ch… |
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Post #AQmIE67QZL5uLdVCd6 by [email protected] |
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Other two boards:first an MMR Headphone Monitor, Assy 70396 |
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@foone Heh, whenever I see boards with buttons that are normally inaccessible o… |
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Post #AQmIXWLZHHnjC9NUpM by [email protected] |
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and the MMR Transport SW, ASSY 70392.I think these are combination buttons/ligh… |
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@foone foone, you should rename yourself to "Hardware porn"! |
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Post #AQmJDcL7O4G1wZEzU8 by [email protected] |
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@foone :dragnsarc: Reh! |
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So yeah. That's the box! I'll plug in my archive box and try to dump th… |
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@foone I thought that was a waffle maker for a second there 😆 |
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@foone as a dragon i enjoy the REH button |
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@foone i'm going to assume you are holding that very close to the camera, b… |
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@foone More likely the data _was_ stored on the Quantum Fireball before it fail… |
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@fooneChecked by Rheinisch Westphälischer Tüv. Nice! 😅 |
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Post #AQmP1qM43JUDf3S6hE by [email protected] |
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@foone Not overdesign. That was pretty common back when you absolutely had to s… |
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@foone they look so... sugary |
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@foone We've lost our way and need to return to whatever made us design but… |
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@foone possibly a selling point for clients worried about piracy? This is a lit… |
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@foone they look, so... tactile...Must.. press |
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@mike a little of both. It's quite large, but I am pointing it right at the… |
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@foone RJ-12? Is it a modem with fax and phone pass through |
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@foone ughhh I want these buttons |
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@foone too bad this didn't do what you want it to do, otherwise you could s… |
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@foone Integral symbol I see...Also SA20J*delta**delta* |
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I lit up some of the buttons using a bench power supply. Nice glow! I wonder if… |
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@foone measure consumption? |
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@foone any electrics can be incandescent, for a while |
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@foone neon maybe? |
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@foone ok i must confess i do not know what "REH" can mean if not &qu… |
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@foone it’s incandescent… with RAGE. |
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Post #AQqebwodmfzq4LKf2m by [email protected] |
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@foone What does the REHord button do? |
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Post #AQs6m3fO9xWg5RZeSW by [email protected] |
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@foone Great opportunity to use your pocket spectroscope! |
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okay I dumped the hard driveit's DOS 6.22was not expecting that. |
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it also includes a shareware copy of PKZip 2.04gcome on TASCAM, pay for your sh… |
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@foone now I'm wondering if I still have my collection of DOS books hanging… |
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@foone ah, another endless foone thread I need to remember to look through later |
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Post #AQtg4j4ucc3JHz6qQa by [email protected] |
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@fooneDo you ever bump into something running DR DOS? |
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I put the motherboard together and stuck in a VGA card. unfortunately I grabbed… |
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@foone Ah, this brings flashbacks of poorly-connected VGA displays and the tech… |
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@foone Gotta say, I do miss the old Energy Star BIOS screens. |
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@foone new mystery: why is it only reporting half its RAM? |
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Post #AQub8R6B6drm4Wbx9E by [email protected] |
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@Brananarchy good question! |
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No, BIOS, it is not 1997.sadly. |
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also I think I was wrong about these memory sticks: they're 16mb each, not … |
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@foone that Energy Star logo is so damn nostalgic! |
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@foone feels like home somehow... Brings back memories! ❤️ |
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Post #AQuceXm3vDpXzr4mOW by [email protected] |
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I got bored and decided to yoink the BIOS EPROM.It's an Award PCI/PNP 586 b… |
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Post #AQuckpBM72CRiwtyKG by [email protected] |
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@foone Why did they used so many INSANE color palettes during this time! Does t… |
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Post #AQudGtWLW8E0Rk0o2y by [email protected] |
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And it's a Winbond W29EE011-15, 128 kilobyte flash chip. |
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Post #AQudGz2R0FrbYi40G0 by [email protected] |
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Dumped fine. And it just so happens I was installing the Award BIOS Editor the … |
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Post #AQudl0OQWyEGRpfLPM by [email protected] |
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@foone does Award BIOS 4.51 fix the Y2K bug in 4.50?Because if not, and you wan… |
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Post #AQue1p0291Ru2DH5gu by [email protected] |
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interestingly it has a 32kb rom embedded in it, for the SCSI controller, which … |
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Post #AQue1uGsXotWNuC78q by [email protected] |
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oh wow, the Award BIOS Logo format is WEIRD. it has a size defined in "cha… |
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Post #AQueV3EuHQ0Mb4AYRU by [email protected] |
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haha I am 10 years old |
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Post #AQuf0mDV6adZ4Jdhq4 by [email protected] |
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@foone time to do as I did as a smoll, patch the bios image with a custom image… |
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Post #AQuf8SWQDKbSIq9XPs by [email protected] |
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@foone Looks like hard dick failure on that one... |
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Post #AQufDhzk76ANjtN2jw by [email protected] |
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@foone well, Mount the system dick already. |
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Post #AQufSZm8xH7mai6CY4 by [email protected] |
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@foone reminds me of optimizing memory usage in DOS. Love hymen.sys. |
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Post #AQufXTnkat2dVjBmG8 by [email protected] |
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@foone “yoink” 😍 |
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Post #AQufx1sT2M02R3ZuWe by [email protected] |
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@foone I love learning about weird stuff like this 👀 |
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Post #AQugBiRLaSbeUktcES by [email protected] |
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@foone I'd forgotten just how visible that m/s terminology for hard drives … |
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Post #AQugoq4X93qPSWseUC by [email protected] |
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@foone |
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Post #AQugwCQcQKSQp4ijDc by [email protected] |
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@foone "No gods, No Masters, mount the dick" |
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Post #AQuhGMOj4DfhXBRroO by [email protected] |
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@flying_bun that's a good idea! I'll have to try that |
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Post #AQuhVOwzrGrZnMeOci by [email protected] |
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@foone Like programming for most 80s computers. Especially Sinclair, Oric, Tand… |
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Post #AQuiyDWnVQkQikhU48 by [email protected] |
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@foone Yes, yes you are. |
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Post #AQujdxjMd8XntAU3xQ by [email protected] |
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@foone by chance I have an Akai DD8 digital dubber, or three, they are built ar… |
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Post #AQujl17ERYIIPk0nKa by [email protected] |
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@forelioned oh neat! |
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Post #AQujrDVzFwGIbiXzEG by [email protected] |
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@foone That was a good year. Except for the whole pSOS on PowerPC stuff I had … |
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Post #AQujybWsMz6n76UACW by [email protected] |
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@foone Yup, I remember replacing the EPA logo back in the day (and bricking at … |
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Post #AQuwF9buchDctjV0fQ by [email protected] |
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@foone maybe it is, on your heart? |
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Post #AQuyFg3qAmeDRvwK0G by [email protected] |
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@foone I replace mine with cute cats while I'm doing other mods anyway :3 |
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Post #AQv9wygzsNATBM6Y9w by [email protected] |
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@foone What reader do you use for dumping BIOS chips? |
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Post #AQvBj0U6cGMwauXaCG by [email protected] |
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@foone Actually, probably kinda sensible. Probably allows software control to r… |
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Post #AQvNXhq6nStj23D5qC by [email protected] |
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@foone yeah sure, with “dick boot failure” that seems to be the case |
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Post #AQvQQNJB24uRBv0DWS by [email protected] |
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@foone Would that make it a PGA cable? |
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Post #AQw5wsHlUXb2eWxRUe by [email protected] |
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@fooneI always wondered why the Award logo looked like an afterthought drawn in… |
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Post #AQwKoVfDDJXBUKOVhQ by [email protected] |
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@foone How is it drawn given that it’s a text mode and the BIOS has to use a … |
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Post #AQwLfMd3XFwgobaYng by [email protected] |
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@js It's a VGA text mode, and by this point the BIOS knows it's VGA. Th… |
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Post #AQwLybcxzljYpnipn6 by [email protected] |
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@foone yeah but how does it render it? In VGA text mode, you just write charact… |
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Post #AQwT6zpObMuht2U37o by [email protected] |
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I finally got image editing working properly by using an old tool called "… |
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Post #AQwTMqShBzpxTIQIiW by [email protected] |
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@foone where are the pronouns in bios? |
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Post #AQwUPgv3ED8GhMbi1w by [email protected] |
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@foone You could also patch the "Energy Star Ally" text. It's alm… |
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Post #AQwUZZgiy4uFARcQIy by [email protected] |
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@retroprom I tried too but I apparently have corrupted my BIOS file so it can n… |
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Post #AQwUw3ojd3bWyy5VKK by [email protected] |
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and as for Pronouns in BIOS, I did that one long ago. (although as an edit, not… |
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Post #AQwVILHBOjvTV71Dto by [email protected] |
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@foone Could have turned the date into "No thanks" for some extra int… |
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Post #AQwWnV3lAnBem7A3t2 by [email protected] |
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@foone For the disks, maybe Primary/Secondary Boot/Other? |
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Post #AQwXrxar7vh0NqKfTM by [email protected] |
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@foone only you could make this joke and i would expect nothing less. |
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Post #AQwZQb5UtWwyflkEUa by [email protected] |
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@foone This is some kind of BDSM polycule BIOS, isn't it? |
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Post #AQwZQduGPkkNPnVnto by [email protected] |
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@cstross that's the best kind of BIOS! |
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Post #AQwZZ57T7Z4E8CiEam by [email protected] |
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@retroprom I actually tried, but apparently that's where my BIOS editing to… |
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Post #AQwa2pGQdTuHdz5QZM by [email protected] |
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@js it is redefining the VGA font! It changes some of the upper characters into… |
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Post #AQwfi16M1pZu07ppr6 by [email protected] |
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@foone but does it slay? |
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Post #AQwg793NbGw1u4QSWW by [email protected] |
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OKAY I fixed it so that it says "An LGBTQ+ Ally" instead of the Energ… |
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Post #AQwgX3cgPhQoadIKWG by [email protected] |
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@foone can you provide instructions on how to change the BIOS-logos?I need to p… |
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Post #AQwj1USTP9YuPj9sRs by [email protected] |
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@foone apologies for appearing mid-thread, but how do these character-based gra… |
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Post #AQwkkg7gyvsNZqY7km by [email protected] |
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@foone "Assigned Other At Boot" |
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Post #AQwkuE5M51lLW20cIi by [email protected] |
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@chorltonwheelies They're actually text! The BIOS is remapping some of the … |
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Post #AQwkzXSnSb0340VU12 by [email protected] |
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@foone Gender: "Assigned Other At Boot" |
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Post #AQwl5xxNs5x2y7sWwq by [email protected] |
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@dec_hl if the machine uses award bios, you need to dump the ROM, use awdbedit … |
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Post #AQwllfQ9B7v9duDVAW by [email protected] |
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@foone goodness. i haven’t seen one of these in almost 20 years, at a big-shi… |
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Post #AQwlygHBJFFq3nEEjY by [email protected] |
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@NotAVenus always |
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Post #AQwmJYkgTlj4o0z4N6 by [email protected] |
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@foone trans are the best at tech. |
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Post #AQwmW4kVLAfTWArspM by [email protected] |
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@auditorydamage a shitpost facility? isn't that mastodon? :) |
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Post #AQwpTjwc1LJEHD6q6y by [email protected] |
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@frostyw if I can, sure. editing that part is a little more difficult because o… |
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Post #AQwpXGGgIYtVOaAweu by [email protected] |
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@frostyw but I could definitely swap it out in the image, at least. |
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Post #AQwtXtYOdPO73S1FuS by [email protected] |
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@foone is there room for a ZIF socket? Although I do realise that soldering one… |
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Post #AQwuGOawaNm84JQkQS by [email protected] |
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@foone I’m disappointed you didn’t fix the drive labels of Master/Slave whi… |
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Post #AQwuGRexBvlVZcKUam by [email protected] |
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@Keen I'm gonna as soon as I figure out what font I used. This isn't my… |
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Post #AQwuQJRIboTyyUeEHA by [email protected] |
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@foone I hate to toot my own horn, but this would go great with https://gitlab.… |
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Post #AQwvPo0tY7ynSmcTzs by [email protected] |
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@hakfoo oh very cool! I've been meaning to get one of those cards. nifty to… |
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Post #AQwvx5dt1hy3h7jFgm by [email protected] |
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@foone @retroprom If you can figure out the checksum, or if your tool will let … |
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Post #AQxEl6GmlZizIJv5xw by [email protected] |
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@foone Merry Transmas! |
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Post #AQxsxjADysDrZ2QXBY by [email protected] |
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@foone Wonder if it's possible to do AMIBIOS variants (WinBIOS has a tiny g… |
