Radio Paradise

Posted: Mar 31, 2014 - 7:31am
Proclivities wrote: Obviously the player on the right will win. Player left has just about finished her triple shot of frozen Stoli.

Red_Dragon

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Location: Gilead

Posted: Mar 31, 2014 - 7:12am
Found this in my dad's garage this weekend: NCR 3150. He was gonna trash it so I brought it home. Complete with power supply/charger and manual, the battery will not charge and it won't boot up; gonna give it to one of the IT guys at the office who likes to tinker with old stuff like this.

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Location: Powell
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Posted: Jun 20, 2013 - 2:19pm
SF Library gets coin-operated computer

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Location: sou' tex
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Posted: Jun 18, 2013 - 6:35am
miamizsun wrote:

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Posted: Jun 17, 2013 - 3:14pm

DaveInSaoMiguel

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Location: No longer in a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA
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Posted: Jun 17, 2013 - 2:45pm

I worked on 100's of these CDC 9766 drives. They has Twenty 14 inch platters for a whopping 300 mb and about 150ms seek time. they used a huge linear motor and 20 heads that cost $852 our cost each. Even in clean rooms these needed their HEPA filters changed once a month. When they crashed it would destroy the heads and the platters would look like a car brake rotor that was run metal to metal forever, I designed and built a portable tester for putting the heads to the alignment track and for doing long seeks to adjust the servo etc. was fun stuff.

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Location: Gilead

Posted: Jun 17, 2013 - 2:28pm
Proclivities wrote: Apparently 1981 or '82 from what I could find out. $3,400.00! - an average new car probably cost around $7-or- $8,000.00 back then. I have one of those on my desk at the office, along with several others of diminishing physical but increasing storage size.

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Location: in exile, as always
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Posted: Jun 17, 2013 - 1:03pm
Proclivities wrote: ...and it comes with a box of Jell-O pudding ... which outcomputes it nine times out of ten.

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Location: Paris of the Piedmont
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Posted: Jan 25, 2013 - 9:01am
oldslabsides wrote: 1980 or so? Apparently 1981 or '82 from what I could find out. $3,400.00! - an average new car probably cost around $7-or- $8,000.00 back then.

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Location: Gilead

Posted: Jan 25, 2013 - 8:52am
Proclivities wrote: 1980 or so?

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Location: topsy turvy land
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Posted: Jan 25, 2013 - 8:51am
Proclivities wrote: Ha ha!!! Just bought a 1T HD for less than $100, including shipping.

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Location: Paris of the Piedmont
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Posted: Jan 25, 2013 - 8:49am

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Location: Gilead

Posted: Aug 22, 2011 - 8:57am
AT&T confirms that there is indeed a DSL outage in my town. They have no estimated time for restoration of service, but most outages last 24 hours. Really? wtf

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Location: Paris of the Piedmont
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Posted: Aug 22, 2011 - 8:30am
Is this Mr. Watson? Umm...what are you wearing?

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Posted: Aug 22, 2011 - 8:17am
oldviolin wrote: Kinda' cool pairing - in an odd way.

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Posted: Aug 22, 2011 - 8:02am

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Posted: Aug 22, 2011 - 7:54am

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Posted: Aug 22, 2011 - 7:50am
...and it comes with a box of Jell-O pudding

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