I hope this isn't anyone's grandma here...


Crack is better than tea

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(tezdude, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:17, archived)

o shit
NOOO!! GRANDMA!!!!!
(bigfatdick077 lol..., Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:18, archived)

It is for her glaucoma.
 
woo!
( Rapitinui comes in a wrapper of cellophane, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:22, archived)

does anyone think this would be hard to make?
negativland.com/audiogadgets.html#howto

I think im going to try it.
(captain freedom : a walking abortion, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:25, archived)

well, no
fairly simple stuff but....

being as the instructions are american, and old you may have problems getting the bits.
( TBL facebook is not a substitute for real life, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:28, archived)

i am american.

(captain freedom : a walking abortion, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:29, archived)

one problem down, two to go.

( TBL facebook is not a substitute for real life, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:31, archived)

Is 1998 all that old?
 
Should still be do-able.
( Rapitinui comes in a wrapper of cellophane, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:31, archived)

possibly, but 9 years is a long time in electronics

( TBL facebook is not a substitute for real life, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:33, archived)

sure is.
just had a thought.
back in '89 when i started university, the most powerful computer on the campus had 88mb of memory, and was the size of a caravan.

18 years later and i've got 16gig on my keyring.
(that makes Johnny Mnemonic look pretty fucking stupid too doesn't it?)
(coobeastie I wish I was in Greenall Whitley Land, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:36, archived)

yep
my mates new PC has 2TB storage ( 4 X 500Gb sata raid thingy)

2 X 768Mb 7800GTX Sli graphics cards (I think thats the model number)

4 Gb ram (as yet, 4Gb seems to be the maximum)

Blueray drive + DVD Ram drive and all the other usual bits.

and I was in his place yesterday and he was playing tetris on it.
( TBL facebook is not a substitute for real life, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:41, archived)

I still remember when 32MB RAM cost £500
and that wasn't all that long ago.
(Dave Trouser will waste your time, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:43, archived)

indeed not.
I bought a 56k modem, and it cost me £95


I now have 15 of them in the workshop that nobody wants.
( TBL facebook is not a substitute for real life, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:44, archived)

!
I need a Rockwell chipset external modem, as mine died. Are they available to outsiders?
(Dave Trouser will waste your time, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:49, archived)

all the modems I have are internal
both ISA and PCI
( TBL facebook is not a substitute for real life, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:50, archived)

doh!
no use - it's for my router mainly, and my old Acorn Risc PC :-)
(Dave Trouser will waste your time, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:51, archived)

I'll keep my eyes open
the external ones do show up from time to time.
( TBL facebook is not a substitute for real life, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:52, archived)

i wish i still had my cluster of Acorn R140 machines.

(coobeastie I wish I was in Greenall Whitley Land, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:54, archived)

I have an A3010 and RPC
The A3010 can get internet access via a 38K serial link to the RPC :-)

I still use the RPC for IRC access, as it has the best IRC client ever written.
(Dave Trouser will waste your time, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:59, archived)

i bow down before your collection of out-dated tat!
at one time i had a cellar full of old stuff, all working, including:

Cifer Megaframe
Honeywell Bull XPS 100
4 x Acorn R140 RiscOS machines
DECStation 5100 (Ultrix)
VAXStation 3100 (Ultrix)
and a ruck of 386 boxen running linux

they were either junked, sold off or given away.

our leccy bill was fucking huge
(coobeastie I wish I was in Greenall Whitley Land, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 3:09, archived)

doh!
Did you know RISC OS is still going? It's on version 5 or so now, in a PC called Iyonix, running on an Intel XScale CPU. If they weren't Apple Mac rip-off prices, I'd have one (£2000+).
(Dave Trouser will waste your time, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 3:11, archived)

really? i thought it would be long dead by now

(coobeastie I wish I was in Greenall Whitley Land, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 3:20, archived)

Yep, still alive.
There's even a virtual RiscPC software for windows, but I've not used that.
(Dave Trouser will waste your time, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 3:23, archived)

oh bobbins
i've just spent 2 weeks trying to track down a couple of dirt cheap ones to install into a machine at work.

just so i can dial in to a geographic number when i'm on the road, and connect to the net through the works broadband, rather than call an 0845 number which isn't counted in the inclusive minutes on the mobile.
(coobeastie I wish I was in Greenall Whitley Land, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:50, archived)

This is what I want to do with my home broadband
as my router supports dial-in.
(Dave Trouser will waste your time, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:53, archived)

sadly our router doesn't
so it has to be bodged the old fashioned way.
(coobeastie I wish I was in Greenall Whitley Land, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:56, archived)

Circuit bend them all into a minimodular synth rack.

( Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:50, archived)

tried that
ran out of patch leads
( TBL facebook is not a substitute for real life, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:51, archived)

does anyone know where some good circuit bending instuctions are?
I wanted to try that, too.
(captain freedom : a walking abortion, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:52, archived)

Matrix Synth has links and showcases new ideas.
Flap back thru pastposts for more ideas and links.
matrixsynth.blogspot.com/
( Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:53, archived)

you think it would be hard to do with no knowledge of them?

(captain freedom : a walking abortion, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:56, archived)

Only a few initial things to get down.
Locating the key parts to fuck with is actually
quite simple. Most toys are built on simple
boards and even if the chips have ben goo'd
it's easy to find the places to put knobs in,
hook in audio out(/in if it had mic) taps, etc.
Cheap hobby if you yardsale or junkshop.
( Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 3:09, archived)

at least it wasn't solitaire.

a co-worker just spent 600 notes on a very posh laptop. and all he does is play sol and winmine on it.
(coobeastie I wish I was in Greenall Whitley Land, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:46, archived)

the only reason he was not playing solitaire, was because
i uninstalled all the windows games when i set up the system.
he found the tetris game himself.
( TBL facebook is not a substitute for real life, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:48, archived)

yeah
b3ta.com/board/7438787
(captain freedom : a walking abortion, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:37, archived)

although, using older more primative technology does however force you to be a little more creative.

(captain freedom : a walking abortion, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:44, archived)

That's what she said

( intesvensk vimeo.com/candela, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:40, archived)

Yes...
but if you don't make it, and one for me, i may unleash that grandma on you. I'll tell her you took her Woman's Weekly, so god help me.
(tezdude, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:28, archived)

seems fairly easy.
but then i do have 1/4 of an elecronic engineering degree.

don't mess it up, or you'll really piss off your phone company, as it isn't approved for use and could theoretically cause damage damage the exchange.

but this is unlikely.
(coobeastie I wish I was in Greenall Whitley Land, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:30, archived)

ahhahah! Even better!

( Rapitinui comes in a wrapper of cellophane, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:31, archived)

really, i'd go a different route completely.
got some software somewhere that allows you to do pretty much the same thing using a pc & modem.

i'll try to find it.
(coobeastie I wish I was in Greenall Whitley Land, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:33, archived)

record the results
post on /links
(EvilFred is investing in scuba gear., Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:30, archived)

what is it meant to do?

( Paster of Muppets Join the 39,000 club!, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 3:05, archived)

Pfffft
You have the hummus, Tez. All of it! Give some back!
( Mr.Ons knows you can hear him, Earthmen., Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:28, archived)

James...
Is this more b3ta terminology you're gonna slap me with? Coz you know i go through the phases.
(tezdude, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:32, archived)

Hummus is the mythical substance
which grants the owner a great degree of humour.
( Mr.Ons knows you can hear him, Earthmen., Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:36, archived)

or
crack
(tezdude, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:37, archived)

that works too.
But hummus has CHICKPEAS!
( Mr.Ons knows you can hear him, Earthmen., Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:42, archived)

Delicious
Btw James, check out the Movement for Finance image i did. It may not make much sense here....I'll post it anyway.
(tezdude, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:45, archived)

hummus = creative ability
as in "Can you fucking hummus?"

I think it originated with Lumpbucket..

*scurries off to the archives*

www.b3ta.com/board/64273
( Rapitinui comes in a wrapper of cellophane, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:38, archived)

hehehe :D
Good night b3tards!
( Caewan SIDEWAYS ICECREAMS YOU <3, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:29, archived)

night
yeah, i'm gonna sleep now
have a bus to catch in 8 hours
(EvilFred is investing in scuba gear., Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:32, archived)

yay for oldies and cones!

( Zank Frappa Dahmer Llama Karma Drama!, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:43, archived)

ahhhahahh!
 
DON'T BOGART THAT BONG, BITCH.
( Rapitinui comes in a wrapper of cellophane, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:45, archived)

And then...

(tezdude, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:49, archived)

i hate the royal family.

(captain freedom : a walking abortion, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:51, archived)

i dont mind them
when they're stoned!
( Zank Frappa Dahmer Llama Karma Drama!, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:52, archived)

And...
...ready to strip! Er, scratch that...
(tezdude, Wed 25 Jul 2007, 2:53, archived)