Re: MHz display pins

Posted on 2015-12-26, 12:51

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Hmm!!! What an interesting design! The IC there is quite the mystery, I can't find the datasheet for it. But judging on the presence of a backup battery, I'd wager that the "JIC F51231E" is a microcontroller, and the 3-digit display is multiplexed. Another person on the Arduino forums appears to …

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Re: My Case is Yellower Than Yours

Posted on 2015-12-26, 00:31

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gdjacobs wrote: Nice. Looks like you now have the lesser known "Urine Yellow" aftermarket face plate. Ahem, the colour is called "Ski Free Dog Pee"

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Re: Merry f*cking X-Mas

Posted on 2015-12-25, 22:04

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6x86 spotted

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Re: Merry f*cking X-Mas

Posted on 2015-12-25, 21:35

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Merry Christmas folks!! Sadly I do not have any photos of X-Mas trees, as our family just by way of circumstance never put one up!! I live alone with my cat, she would (and has) destroy a X-Mas tree. My mum lives by herself in a small house, no room. My sister has two toddlers who, much like my cat, …

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Re: Compatibility: 128-512 mb RAM ?

Posted on 2015-12-23, 02:41

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by SquallStrife

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Remember that DOS is barely an operating system (cf. Windows). It does no memory management of its own, your applications need to do that themselves. Notwithstanding HIMEM and EMM386 providing services for applications to access memory above 640KB. So really the question is not how much memory DOS …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2015-12-21, 10:01

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by SquallStrife

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Follow protocol is more important than content? Seems backwards. No no no, it's not like that!! When you use the FTP service, you upload to a staging area that only you can see, then when you go through the procedure to process them, they get added to the DB and copied to permanent storage for the …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2015-12-21, 07:42

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by SquallStrife

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Why are all the files gone, from the upload folder? I have uploaded a big chunck of megabytes, and I am not going to do it again. It just takes too long to upload complete manual's, scanned at 600dpi. I have deleted them from my local drive, and not going to scan them again. Has this gotten …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2015-12-21, 05:19

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I think for now, that if you have files to contribute, but you are NOT a long-standing and/or active member of the VOGONS community, you should put your files somewhere (Dropbox, Mega, Onedrive, Google Drive, whatever) and request that an existing here upload them on your behalf. If you want to get …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2015-12-21, 03:29

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by SquallStrife

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Hi all, looking for your thoughts on something. In the last few weeks I've got PM's from people with 0-2 posts asking for access. I have no hard-and-fast written policy on who is allowed to access, but the informal rule has been "members of the VOGONS forums", which I always took to mean people that …

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Re: Thermal pastes

Posted on 2015-12-18, 15:36

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How well you apply the thermal paste will probably have far more bearing on the outcome than the content of the thermal paste. No thermal paste is as good at transferring heat as "actual" metal-to-metal contact. Emphasis on "actual". Thermal paste is only there to fill the microscopic air gaps …

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Re: Recapping gear!

Posted on 2015-12-18, 04:25

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I'll be more through reading this topic tomorrow, when I"ll start looking for these solder stations nationally (things from China can take well over two months to arrive here). This is true. I was lucky enough to be in Hong Kong on holiday, and I picked up one of the desoldering guns on a day-trip …

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Re: Recapping gear!

Posted on 2015-12-18, 03:34

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I'd love to see you pull an SMD cap out of the bottom of a CPU socket with a suck-gun without loosing the part down the tube. It will certainly take you a while to fish that out. Why would you use a vacuum gun for SMD parts, especially something small enough to go down the nozzle? Ya goose!! :P …

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Re: Recapping gear!

Posted on 2015-12-18, 03:24

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by SquallStrife

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The first 4 joints (equivalent to 2 caps) took this guy 40 seconds so he could pull 3 caps/minute. . This is "very fast" for you?? The very first thing I tried with my electric vacuum pump was removing a 34-way floppy header connector from an ISA I/O board. I had the whole thing removed in less …

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Re: Recapping gear!

Posted on 2015-12-18, 02:17

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by SquallStrife

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And wick is very fast if you learn how to do it right. "Very fast" is an exaggeration. I say that from experience. Especially for components with high pin counts. Give me a solder sucker over wick any day! Especially when the Chinese ones are <$100 now. As Phil says, you just gotta decide how …

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Re: Recapping gear!

Posted on 2015-12-18, 01:58

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Wick is too time consuming for more than a couple of components. As Phil said, get a vacuum desoldering iron. You can either try to find a used Hakko 808 series, or get one of the Chinese clones (S-993 or S-997 is what they're usually called, with varying brand names). I bought one of the latter on …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-12-17, 02:09

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Perhaps so, but in that industry, everyone basically copies everyone anyway - and some of the things Apple were claiming to be infringed on were beyond ludicrous. You're right. Likewise in that industry, everybody races to patent stupid things, and everybody races to sue everybody else for …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-12-17, 01:16

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by SquallStrife

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Lukeno94 wrote: Probably in the exact same way Apple "proved" that Samsung infringed their patents... and got away with doing the exact same thing with Samsung's patents. In fairness, we've seen emails where Samsung management basically told their designers outright to copy Apple.

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2015-12-16, 11:14

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Hi all! ignore this So the hosting provided upgraded to PHP 5.5, and that started causing a benign "Fatal Error" message to appear at the bottom of every page. Despite this "Fatal Error", the site seemed to still work just fine. I have forced the PHP version back to 5.4, and this has fixed the error …

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Re: Spelling and grammar pet peeves around here

Posted on 2015-12-05, 13:58

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Learning another language opens your eyes to some of the dumb things English does. I can't even fathom how a person from a non-English-speaking country manages to become fluent, but they do! There are so many superfluous mechanisms in it, like definite/indefinite article and plural forms. We're not …

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Re: "The international hardware museum of Vogons"

Posted on 2015-12-05, 13:00

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I, for one, welcome our new exhibition overlords.

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