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1. Tube🌞Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 13:48:34 JST Tube🌞Time

   with all these workstations on my bench, i designed a video adapter to convert 13W3 connections to standard VGA. https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/110726122938943639

   • Tube🌞Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 13:49:31 JST Tube🌞Time

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     at the last Electronics Flea Market (in September) i found a strange bit of electromechanical aircraft avionics. check it out! https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/111043677193721723

     CaptainArcee :win: repeated this.
   • Tube🌞Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 13:49:31 JST Tube🌞Time

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     some old DOS utilities had a graphical mouse cursor in text mode! i’ve investigated how they did it. https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/111123817309591559

   • Tube🌞Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 13:49:32 JST Tube🌞Time

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     remember that Thinkpad 700 from earlier? i started a massive project to build a replacement solid state hard drive for it. the drives were not IDE; they were a special IBM interface called DBA-ESDI. https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/110783604330499249

   • Tube🌞Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 13:49:32 JST Tube🌞Time

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     did you know that some early radio transmitters were electromechanical? i didn’t either! https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/110970146022678448