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Time for some fun...and just to show how old/geeky some of us are:
What is the oldest bit of tech (as in it actually has a use, and might be a newer version of something kinda old (Anyone that has a USB real to real drive wins...are those a thing?)) kit you have computer wise?
I have a 3.5 inch floppy (disk drive..before the obvious jokes).
I eventually lost my 5.25 a couple of years back...but still have a number of disks..so am kinda looking for a cheep usb set up.
Note: the 3.5 inch drive is still useful work wise...I believe were a Gazelle, before I joined, then all hell broke loss...we still have to track stuff down on floppies....old contracts from the damdest places that we still have and have to figure out where the hell the code is.
So what old tech can you still work with?
do books count? not meaning to be cleche about it, but i do actually use and enjoy them occasionally.
i've also used direct percussion, beating two rocks together, to get a flat surface on one of them, which i then proceeded to use as an abrasive, to sand the surface of a piece of furnature i was refinishing for myself.
my current model railroad uses the old analog d.c. method for control of speed and direction of trains.
polyhedral role playing dice.
construction of physical scale models, from designs in my head, using a diversity of physical tools, materials and adhesives.
are these pertinent or have i misunderstood the question?
If we're just throwing out old tech that we have, I don't have any crazy old computer stuff, but I've got a Nintendo 64 and a SNES that still work.
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I have recently gained possession of my mother's NES, which still works fine.
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Here, in the 'old consoles' list, we have: Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, PS1(small and big versions), PS2, Gamecube. All in working condition, with games.
Also, a WII and a New 3DS.
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Greetings to the furry folk of the Commonwealth! I'm extremely pleased to have been allowed to lodge an embassy here. I've never been particularly active in the furry community, but I have been hanging around the edges for thirty years or so. In addition to the Delta, I am also a resident of the Furry Federation as Port Starboard and the Malevolent Misanthropomorphs ('Cause sometimes I just want to play the bad guy).
As to the question at hand, I have an Atari 2600 at my mother's house that worked when I last checked fifteen or so years ago.
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Hmm for full on computers I have a CBM 4016, that works....Might turn it into a terminal...though that would take some soldiering on the interface side...and I need to wright driver for it (I actually have the machine's handbook...that includes machine the code to get the serial port to do rs323 coms...nothing as simple as a port...it's a a strip of conductors on the mother board.....) as I don't fancy writing it all down and typing it all in again so I need a drive.
I figure a pi of any type should do the job as a host..not like 9300 bps is going to over load the pi.
my first one that worked, was an osi c1p. never could get the parts for the power supply the 400 board kits wanted.
second was a vic-1001 the manual called it, or vic-20 as it said on the box.
none of those game boxes even existed yet. no drives either except to hook up an audio cassette for storage. then came the floopies.
unihammer adding machine role printers and a plotter with four little ball point pens. fun fun. and an expansion board to add mem beyond the 8k on board, and then precursor to those game machines, rom cards that plugged into ram slots.
and then there was the coco term, and dial up bbs's with 300 baud acoustical couplers, because at first ma bell wouldn't let us connect a real modem without charging an arm and a leg. the internet was still another ten years off in the far distant science fiction future.
never understood what the attraction was for something that could only play games written by someone else.
lots of other early advanced technologies i would have had if i could have afforded them though.
(analog computers and modular synthasizers. i did have an analog x-y plotter once upon a time. and some paia modules from kits. would have loved buchla or moog, and a tascam mixer recorder.)
Hmm, poking @ the scots gov track and trace app (for the current plague) on me phone...so far it doesn't seem to be a privacy issue (seems to use the google api and only logs tokens from other phones, it only asked me if I was over 16 and asked for bluetooth access, nothing else...so it doesn't have permission to do anything except play with bluetooth and doesn't know anything about m.)...The UK preposed app (which they blew stupid money on and did work...like most things the UK gov has been doing of late), was a centralised info sucking mess.
Any of you ppl have something similar installed?
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Is that the only Provence/ territory in Canada to get their act together or a commonwealth government thing?
The looks of things England and Wales have an app..but seem far more creepy than the scots one, data wise.
Riviere Renard...I'm a scot..northern nations stick together...though you lot are a fsck ton bigger than the celtic and nordic nations together....we know about canada.
I think you lot are allowed in to the nordic council now...scotland will be there soon, I hope...just have to deal with an idiot neighbour (you got shot of the same one in the end)....you know the feeling.
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sorry I was lying...the England and Wales app...wow.. still data sucking...WTF are they doing down there?!?!?
Track and trace app in scotland/NI are you over 16...cool...right the phone pick up tokens from others with the app near you with the app..if one of them gets it and tell the gov..the phone will check if you've been near one of them...then give you the Ah..best lock down. (the gov can't trace.)
England and Wales app..we do that but want to know allot about you...so the gov can trace,
Which are you more likely to use?
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The app is run by the federal government, but they haven't made it available outside of Ontario for some reason. They said, like, a month ago that they're working on getting to all the other provinces (except Québec I think, their premier is kinda stupid, from what I've heard), but the effort is remarkably slow.
That Scottish app sounds basically the same as the government run Canadian one. I think its much better. Less invasive, and means more Canadians trust it, leading to more downloads, assuming its brought to the rest of the country.
TBH I can't see why that would be, we basically have a tweeked version of the Irish app...I think we used the same devs. The App seems to require very little in the way of infrastructure, assuming you are already doing tack and trace. (Scotland runs a non-centralised method...hell they pulled in the environmental health lot (they weren't doing much, with everything shutdown, and they are experts at tracking outbreaks, usually of food poisoning , but a bug, is a bug)) the local health boards are in charge...As they would knida know the local set up and already have people in place to trace flu , etc.
That seem to be working up here (over 1 mil downloads, which isn't bad for a nation of about 6 million), it is very clear about saying it doesn't track your location or any thing. It helps it's a really simple to install.
Neutral news: It's already sent some flags out. (Neutral as it seems to work, but some poor beggars have been exposed.)
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Lets get over if possible, possibly, political things...Do you lot dumster dive (skip dipping where I'm from)...basically taking stuff others bins (I got an Imac 2 out of that). Any of you lot do car boot sales...not sure what they are call over the pond...but people just selling stuff out of the back of their car in a market (I bought a lampstand mac for £5 from some one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G4 <- yeah that one.)
Do any of you lot do that?
Note: If you haven't done one before...watch yourself....there is likely to be dodgy stuff, and it's cash in hand...no refund possible....but hell you can get good stuff.
Note: I really should get an ebay account rather than collecting this crap.
Well lads I just realized something wild. I started nation state’s freshman year of highschool and here I am the last of my friend group playing it 5 years later.
It’s time to colonize space
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people throw away the damdest almost new almost perfectly functional things. if land were free i'd dumpster dive, plus some of the amazing and inexpensive things at hardware stores, plus what nature gives away for free, and just build all kinds of stuff. as it is, i live in a bed-sit type unit, that just tools and model building, i don't have room to collect or hang onto anything. no living relatives with houses and no car, so i don't have the option, but it really does annoy me, for an economy to so completely depend on people having to throw away stuff with perfectly good parts they could make other things out of. sure a lot of bulk is unsalvagable, but there is just so much that is just so wasteful, in a world where resources really aren't unlimited and population is pushing the limits of their availability. and even what the average person might not be able to personally recycle if they had unlimited space, all that single use plastic, on a larger scale, or with particular tools, that too can be recycled into a kind of plastic lumber, or even filiment for 3d printing.
5 years? I've been around since almost the beginning of the game. Pretty much the only way you get Top 1% for Population, yeah lol....
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I'm in that lot now...fellow grey bread :-P
Give it time, us grey breads drop off (not that way) so the top 1% in population is possible...if you hang around enough.. Weirdly it's harder to get there in the region than the world :D
We have alot of grey beards here....Not a bad thing.
It is kinda tricky sending an ambassador nation when it is bigger than the region it is sent to, but hey.
(The recent recovered nations are mine, for that purpose...they are kinda huge now).
To other things, before all the crap hit, was I the only one picking up DVDs for nothing?
*Looks at the pile in the couner of the box room (windowless closet). I have box sets that cost me less than £2.00.*
To cheap not to have.
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