DIY Techno-hacksOld hard drive platters make wonderfully good drinks coasters - they look dead smart and expensive and you've stopped people reading your old data into the bargain.
Have you taped all your remotes together, peep-show-style? Have you wired your doorbell to the toilet? What enterprising DIY have you done with technology?
Extra points for using sellotape rather than solder.
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chthonic, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 12:30)
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NopeOctal is made up of digits from 0-7 (corresponding to three bits). I actually got that a bit wrong - it was five octal digits to give an 18-bit value, for which the two highest bits were always 0 for 16-bit words. Confused? You will be. The earlier PDP-8 used 12-bit words, which had four octal digits, so the values ran from 0000 to 7777.
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WTF?My brain has just melted out of my ears after reading this.
Definetly one for the 'outgeeking of teh internets' category.
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