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World’s first desktop PC randomly discovered during house clearance
  • That does sound rather ominous. The world's first in something should have a lot of information on it on the intertubes. It's old, it's nice,but the first?

    It looks like a flat screen and not like crt, unless it is using some lights and a mask to display fixed characters.

    Rather compact

    Edit: first desktop computer featuring a single chip as a CPU

    https://www.thebyteattic.com/p/q1.html?m=1

  • props to AMD
  • I was tempted by Intel as a newcomer and having sane pricing. In the end and won because I tried my system ssd on a friends gaming PC and it worked perfectly. Otherwise ...

  • props to AMD

    I have (had?) A win10 machine for gaming with a nvidia 1080 for the past ten years since gaming wasn't performant enough for me on Linux. Nouveau wasn't cutting it fps wise and the nvidia drivers were a nightmare if you dared to alt-tab or expected more than 20fps.

    I bought a mid tier (radeon7600xt) from AMD and it was (I am not kidding) plug and play. And I don't mean the Microsoft blue screen presentation plugnplay.

    Natively I got performant 3d fps (glxgears must be celebrating its 100th birthdaynow) and thanks to valves wine fork it was even easier to get more demanding games up and running. Before icouldn't even run portal.

    Thank you AMD for doing something right where nvidia is obviously screwing up.

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    At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.
  • That would be interesting to see!

    This is probably the method that gives you the best quality (deskewing, lighting) without cutting the back of the book and feeding it into a scanner. (AFAIK)

    I saw a book scanner similar to this one that used a vacuum to turn pages but otherwise same principle.

  • project idea for low power motion triggered r2d2-sound source

    hi again, since i had a bad idea in my last post i wanted to try again to get some feedback i could understand and apply.

    the idea is to make a vacuum (the appliance) play a few seconds of r2d2 sounds. the vacuum is hauled around on the scaffolding on a construction site and wont be necessarily standing upright (while idle or in used).

    my original idea was to have some kind of trigger through a sensor (SW-18010, or something) that draws zero power (like a tilt switch, but position independent). that trigger should pull a pin high on the dfmini mp3 player (cheap player board) which in turn would play a few audio files while powered.

    so sensor -> 555 astable -> df mini player -> speaker (piezzo maybe).

    any ideas or pointers? is the idea of zero power in this case even possible (never used the 555 before), is maybe a attiny a better idea while in deep sleep?

    battery life of 1year + would be ideal.

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    Ferrit core as 555 trigger?

    To all the electronic nerds out there: I am trying to trigger a 555 timer by movement in a random direction that also occurs randomly and any change in position should trigger the 555. AFAIK tilt switches are not useable here. Does this idea make sense?

    Ferrite core In orange, spool in blue.

    ! ! Would there be a voltage generated by movement if the core is suspended by some kind of spring or rubber band?

    The idea being to play a sound from a df mini player by pulling a pin high for 3 seconds.

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    Where might I get German (mostly tv) content?

    I am on a private tracker but not German content is uploaded. Anybody that has a tip can pm me!

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