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Motorola Set Top Box VIP 1963 is basically a noiseless 12.5 watt PC without fans and holes in it. (266 mhz !)
Title: Motorola Set Top Box VIP 1963 is basically a noiseless 12.5 watt PC without fans and holes in it. (266 mhz !) One more thing I would like to write and inform you about. I found this Motorola...
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128 bit addressing for harddisk/block addressing.
(Time to fire up your embedded compilers and write some new API code ! ;)) I will share with you what I have learned so far from excursion into the ms -dos age and "retro-gaming" and such: Addressing...
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Lowe Bathroom remodel
David, We have a quote from Waterplace for the Schluter items, a shower door (double sliding), and the Delta fixtures. We paid for the Delta items, but I wanted to run the Schluter parts past you...
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AoE 3rd Ed heavy discount on Amazon UK
A UK heads up, I had the first edition at college, and sold it on to a new student. Second edition came out, I was still broke so hunted down an old first on eBay. For me third edition now on the way...
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Refresh yourself on the finer things...
 
Nikon coolpix eg-cp11 cable/connector question
I have one of these: The yellow plug is composite video. But what is the black plug ? Is that mini/micro USB ? or something else ? Does this connector have as name ? What kind of technology is this ?...
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SuperSpice install under Parallels yields a broken .lnk file
It's been a long time, but I'm tooling up to design and build a small impulse magnetizer, based on an old patent (US 4,258,405) done up with SCRs and silicon diodes (versus the original ignitrons)....
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OT: Electronic vs. Traditional Information Sources
Sadly this will go completely over the heads of some of the posters here, but for the benefit of the others, here is the danger when you give up your possession of the physical hard copy of your...
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Climate of Complete Certainty
FYI. On the ongoing Climate Change debate, I recently ran across a relevant opinion piece in the New York Times, originally published on April 28, 2017. . Brett Stephens moved mid-career from the Wall...
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DIY reflector paint
Hi I have a prototype setup where I need to turn a 145 degree intensity field from a LED into a parallel field There is no readily available lenses so I was thinking about 3D printing PLA to make a...
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Re: OT: USPS, the only company that doesn't automatically give a receipt?
Many stores ask, and you don't get one unless you say yes. What's weird is that some go ahead and print one anyway and throw it away, as you watch.
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OT: Getting climate change under cotrol.
The lasts Proceedings of the (US) National Academy of Sciences has an intereswtign article It's about the social changes that will be needed to stop us making too big a mess of the planet over the...
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No jackscrews
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Playing with dice
SiC JFETs from United SiC are very useful, but the TO247 package is very large. The dice are very small at about 1.1mm square. Is it beyond riches to have say a hundred dice packaged in SOT-223, are...
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Confusing wording?
Gentlemen, I came across this instruction in a service manual and for some reason find it hard to understand its meaning. It's probably my fault, but I'd appreciate confirmation of that. :) The...
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