@foone which makes me ponder, if MIDI hadn't chosen the DIN connector form factor it might have been everywhere in serial peripherals before ADB or USB. "As usual, on my system the mouse is on midi channel 4, and the keyboard on channel 3…” -- something that someone in an alternate reality said
I've recently been looking a lot at desktop modular synths and beatbox controllers, and started to realize the aesthetic is very similar to my mechanical keyboard builds. Hmmm.
@mjgardner@foone the 8 bit Commodore machines use 300bps communication speed to the tape device. Using 120 minute tapes, with no error checking or correction (usually the ROM load routine would read the data twice to confirm the data was read correctly, incredibly inefficient) it would take about 533,130 (!) tapes to store that many 1.44MB floppies so somewhere around 1070K hours (about 5 years of continuously changing tapes every two hours) loading, assuming they were using 1.44MB floppies in the game joke. The mechanism is kind of harsh on thin 120m tapes, so I doubt it would be possible to do it a small multiple of times, even if it worked the first time. [edit: dropped a MB to KB conversion in my first version, whoops]
some people just put sound dampening tiles on their walls in a simple interlocking pattern and are done with it but this fae atrocity can’t leave well enough alone
she/her trans woman in her third age, reintegrating and recovering • sometimes a fae bog witch, sometimes a combat doll/protector • good at making sand do my bidding though to what end is unclear • minors dni#nobridge #nosearch #nodejs #nodeities #nonmeansno