Notices by Tube🌞Time (tubetime@mastodon.social)

wow remember these old DOS error messages?

yep, this little guy.

oh wow, the Titan Sub accident investigation has a bunch of new documents on the US Coast Guard site: https://www.news.uscg.mil/News-by-Region/Headquarters/Titan-Submersible/

final hull testing was done to a safety factor of uhhhhhhhhhhh 1.09. that's more of a danger factor.

omg they reused the titanium domes and rings from the prototype!? also they covered the outside of the hull so there was no way to visually inspect it.

looks like the prototype hull failed. i can't really see the crack the report discusses but it looks like some sort of spalling or layer separation.

omg the CO2 scrubber system is just a plastic container (for the chemical pellets) with a PC fan hot glued on top

more unplanned shock testing. the thing was pointing straight up with everyone in the sub up against the back wall, then it kept slamming into the launch platform for an hour. that must have been miserable.

ahh yes unplanned environmental testing. this thing was stored, uncovered, outdoors, near the ocean, for 6 months! unbelievable.

got some cable pr0n for you all. 🤮 who in their right mind would trust their life to this crap. smh.

i'm getting some strong "my first gamer PC rig, what do you think guyz" vibes here

the onboard computers appear to be off the shelf Neousys Nuvo automotive embedded computers. wow, i've worked with these before.

@foone oh yeah plenty of chips with their legs rusted off

(before being split, this means there were over 216,000 parts that we had to sort through manually!)

a couple of statistics: there are 3,622 different part numbers and a total of 72,108 parts in this collection.

HSC/Halted has had several other locations over the years, but served as a steady source of parts for hobbyists and engineers. many famous individuals bought things here.

HSC was on Ryder street for many, many years, but they had to move in ~2016. the building was demolished in May 2017.

these parts started out at HSC Electronics (aka Halted) in Santa Clara and were collected over a period of 40 years.

unfortunately, the company had to shut down their retail outlet in 2019.

we ended moving 80 cabinets -- containing 4,000 plastic drawers, to an undisclosed location where we could slowly pick through the collection, catalog it, and separate it out three ways.