@foone it's actually amber! My phone camera isn't picking it up very well
Notices by philpem (philpem@digipres.club), page 3
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philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 19:53:04 JST philpem -
philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 12:30:42 JST philpem A little finishing work on the #AnalogCable ANIC tonight. Turns out General Instrument tapped the base screws for UNC 4-40 screws, but left the side screw holes untapped. These are going to be taking M3 screws.
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philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 12:30:41 JST philpem Aside from fitting the right angle F connectors and moving the ANIC back a bit, I think this is pretty much done. I'm hoping that the tape drive works, it'll be a pig to replace if it doesn't.
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philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 12:30:41 JST philpem Topboard jumpers, just in case I knock one off by accident...
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philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 12:30:40 JST philpem Sadly both of the HP DAT8i drives I picked up - including the new in box one - were dead. I've swapped back to the rough-looking but at least working Seagate/Archive drive (it's either a Python or a Peregrine flashed with audio firmware).
I don't really need it, but it's nice to have. I also have a HP DAT72 in SCSI, which is a tempting upgrade option - except it's got a black panel, so it'll make this machine look a bit odd -
philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 12:30:39 JST philpem Hands up if you have a cable TV headend in your living room #AnalogCable
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philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 12:30:38 JST philpem I had some concerns about the scrambler - it seemed to have quite old firmware. Turns out it's working fine though!
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philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 12:30:37 JST philpem Darn. Software is too old to support the international version of the CFT2000 and CFT2100 boxes :(
Good news is it supports the US CFT2000 and International DP7000, so (at least in theory) I can use the iDP mode to figure out frequency maps, and the US CFT2000 mode to figure out barker messages and OSDs. -
philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 12:30:37 JST philpem And now I know the upstream frequency range - 8.3 to 10.4 MHz. No idea about the spacing but the config file says 100kHz steps.
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philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 12:30:36 JST philpem My current #analogcable wants list...
- a later version of the ACC-4000 software (DEC Prioris or Proliant server running SCO OSE)
- documentation, especially the Wirelink protocol spec -
philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 12:30:35 JST philpem Ugh. The headend runs for a while then crashes with a network error :(
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philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 12:30:34 JST philpem Upgraded Interactive UNIX to version 4.1.1 and the issue became immediately obvious: it was running out of STREAMS queues. On 4.1+4.1a this seems to cause kernel memory corruption and eventually a TCP/IP stack crash.
On 4.1.1 the kernel barks loudly about the problem on the system console. A quick kernel tweak to increase NQUEUE to 1600 and we're golden.
Did some spit and polish on the window arrangement too, now the Wirelink windows look sensible. -
philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 12:30:34 JST philpem Hmm. Seems like the Etherlink card is upset.
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philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 12:30:33 JST philpem Nope, still crashing. Argh.
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philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 12:30:32 JST philpem Okay. I'm thinking I might try a different 3C509 card.
And what the heck is "hdrops++"? -
philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 12:30:31 JST philpem The UI looks very nice on a text terminal. Wish I knew how to trigger the function keys. Oddly the help button just makes the terminal beep.
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philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 26-Feb-2024 11:42:22 JST philpem @foone @NekoEd @koko Wow, thanks for this. I have a feeling the 486DX will be getting a 3C509 shoved inside.
I was debating whether to use Laplink but this (likely shoving it on a walled-off VLAN) seems much easier. -
philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 10:59:04 JST philpem @foone "is thermal compound flammable" is a question I didn't want to ask this evening
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philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Feb-2024 22:29:28 JST philpem From the department of cursed IC packages ... the DIP20 with odd pins, and a heatsink screw. Plessey SL414A, single channel 3W audio power amplifier.
#cursedChips #CursedPackages #Electronicsphoto credit: com-place on ebay, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/142567928927
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philpem (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jan-2024 04:32:52 JST philpem I get the meaning behind "eat the rich" but read literally it sounds like a really good way to get a really nasty prion disease.