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I go brave and left the SWTPC 6800 alone for 2 days. It had before needed to warm up if off for long periods of time, but this time it fired right up. So that is 1 project off my to-do list, lol.

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Got a meeting/interview with the VP of engineering at a 100 person ad tech company on Monday. I am sadly indifferent about it, lol.

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He bears a big part of the blame for where our country is right now. I don't wish Hell on many people, but he is one of them.

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You know if I would have stayed a philosophy major and I never bought a 3D printer I wouldn't have these problems in my life, lol.

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I have discovered Protocase. I am going to get in so much trouble, lol.

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I spent the last 2 days trying to figure out why the SWTPC 6800 had to warm up before serial would work. It was one of those weird-ass stupid 70s "closed" sockets. I am assuming there is reason you can't really find them anymore, lol. Replaced the socket and it works perfect now, sigh.

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i love it when you get a spool of filament that comes pre-tangled, lol.

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The anglerfish dying after seeing light probably for the first time is poetic.

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This isn't a political post, but it won't be my problem if I get cutoff from my mental health meds, it will be everyone on the local zip codes problem. Before meds I was a danger to everyone anywhere near me, lol.

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Its not pretty, but I soldered together a resistor, some dupont wires and a transistor and now I can remotely reset the Cromemco Z-2 via a Raspberry Pi!! That plus ser2net and I can use the Z-2 from the comfort of my office and not in the cold ass garage.

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I need to take a picture, but my over engineered drive setup for the Cromemco Z2 actually works. Its four HxC drive emulators mounted in the rack with selector switches on the front of each drive to select the drive number without having to get in the rack. It even supports drive 3/4/D.

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This is one of the funniest videos I've ever seen in my life

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

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Me (to 10yo): Get me the duct tape. 10 yo IMMEDIATELY hands me duct tape Me: What were doing with the duct tape? 10 yo hauls ass out of the room I have yet to figure out why she had the duct tape!!

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God damn it or awesome, I haven't decided yet. I have an interview on Tuesday, lol.

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The console card in my SWTPC 6800 is fucking possessed. Its working, put the case on, it not longer works. Take case off, no longer works. Get pissed and go do something else. Come back and its working. Hit reset, not working. FUUUUUCCCCKKKKK!!! I am losing my mind, lol.

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The PSP can now connect to WPA2 WiFi Networks, thanks a newly released wpa2psp plugin from the PSP homebrew Discord. wololo.net/2025/02/14/t...

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Me (to 15 yo): Hit that power button, the computer needs to warm up before it works correctly. 15 yo: Warm up like a car? Is that normal? Me: Not really, but the damn thing is older than me, so I don't ask questions. 15 yo: Why are you like this?

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I make a lot of things and almost every single one of them is overengineered for something that will likely never leave my garage!

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ser2net is pretty cool for remote serial port access, but not being able to remotely reset the machine limits its usefulness. So of course I have to build a solution to this, lol.

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I would buy more stuff at Jameco if their search wasn't completely dog crap!

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Every time I see a wild cat do the same shit as my house cats, I think of this comic.

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I am one fucking mystery away from having the SWTPC 6800 fully operational. The MP-C card doesn't work in the enclosure. It works on my test bench, but not the enclosure. My only theory is the +/-12V supply is WAY higher than 12 volts and that is messing with the RS-232.

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Building modern stuff I have never had a socket "fail," so I always thought it was weird that one of the big fears from the older guys in my hobby circles is bad sockets. Since starting to work on SWTPC hardware I am beginning to understand their concerns. These sockets are garbage!

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I wish I was better at designing sheet metal enclosures. There is a desperate need for a SWTPC 6800/09 enclosure reproduction. Ok, I have a desperate need for one, but that should count, lol.

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