Viewing profile — crb3

Go carefully there. Kynar tends to wilt at soldering heat. Press insulated wires together when they're still hot and suddenly they can be kissing; a 1-diameter short is easy to ove…

Try 1972; taped out in 1971. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_timer_IC

So it was double-forks, not pitch-forks, all along?

That's Keith Baar; I looked it up. Keith Barr focused on musical technology at MXR, Alesis and eventually Spin Semiconductor. His legacy is MXR pedal effects like the Phase-90, the…

> The 8088's chief virtue was that it was readily available at a reasonable price; That, and it had a compatible suite of peripheral chips, while the M68K didn't... Something I vag…

If you come across a CZ230S, be aware that you can exfiltrate all 100 of the fixed voicings through SysEx. I got that far, saving those tables to disk; my plan, when I ran out of t…

Thanks, CVS.

It's off the shelf at my local CVS (e: and has been for weeks). I looked.

My anecdata is that, though it's not as effective as pseudoephedrine, phenylephrine actually is effective in an inhaler, and a helluva lot better at clearing up a stuffy nose than …

Lancaster CA is high desert.

The laptop is a Gateway MX8711. I tried the Exe-Gnu 64bit live-USB and it refused to boot, so I shrugged and booted it into the 32bit flavor. Inherent or model-specific (or offende…

Browsing is slow but not that unusable. firefox-esr is in the repos; I prefer palemoon but I'll take what I can get. Gnumeric is faster than LO; both are in the repos. The Broadcom…

Commenting to something said within the linked article: 32-bit Devuan (with Trinity Desktop aka KDE3.5 on maintenance) is still available at http://exegnulinux.net/ with Devuan/Deb…

Disagree. I'm a ham; my kids aren't... but they grew up with me using Morse (my computers talk to me when they boot up, and when a 'kitchentimer' goes off, and...) so they were nat…

And (guessing here) you'd be SOL if there were already 9999 Susies registered when you tried to sign up. Me, I'm gonna treat it like a firstnick.lastnick format when it arrives at …

A quick search on 'Ampro' turned up https://www.elite.parts/ampro/little%20board$z80 which might do. My first CP/M computer was an Ampro Little Board 1A, sold along with a floppy c…

Unless they're talking about layers, with the function prototypes and function calls being declarative, and the next layer down being where the code is actually written out. Even t…

We get that half dozen as what we call 'ghost calls' -- the caller has hung up by the time the outgoing message ends. It might have something to do with my putting SIT tones at the…

Except for (the complicated mechanical mess that is) Black & Decker, the cheap ones I've encountered don't have any one-time-only control mechanism, they just cycle the thermostat …

Haven't seen it in years, but I still remember naming the cat: "Script or Five? Which hurts less?"

Old.reddit.com still works -- just use it. So far they're smart enough to realize that some folks like an information-dense display in their browser, rather than a fluffy echo of Y…

I've read that Malda wished a 'dot' TLD was available back then so it could be 'aitch tee tee pee colon slash slash slash dot dot dot'.

mpg123 -C -Z *mp3 works for me.

Maybe what's needed is explicit Agree and Disagree buttons, with indicators, to skim off such pollution of up/downvotes-as-QC?

They could have used matte black tempera (Sanford's IIRC). Back in the day, I played around with (analog) photocopier rendition of pen-and-ink drawings and found that large black i…