smallest wired keyboard?

We bought the Kodak sensors to make parking alarms way back then. The price seemed reasonable at the time.

Same with the speech synthesizer ICs that we bought from Radio Shack. I think I got all my SAMs books there too (although I don't recall).

My parts bin still has some of those Radio Shack parts.

I don't remember ever doing mail order for basic TTL ICs, but maybe. I'd buy the Forest Mims' series and make circuits like with the 555 timer.

You've never told the truth in your life so why would I believe you now?

Bullshit that you even know what Dec made at that time w/o looking it up.

And yet you denied the very existence of hex coding just yesterday.

The difference between you and a normal adult like me is you bullshit.

At least I own a raspi (although it was given to me for free long ago).

Nothing from you is believable because your credibility is s*it, nospam.

Nicely illustrating how ridiculous Radio Shack's prices were.

Your "ERZC14DK201U" varistor is still available today...

...for $1.00...

...for a package of 2.

You paid $1.59 for one what must be conservatively estimated as at least

Got em.

Triggered.

those look like they're from the 1970s. why are they still unopened?

i did.

the back pages of popular electronics, radio electronics and similar magazines had numerous ads, including polypaks, james, olson, lafayette, plus heathkit for entire kits.

the 555 was an incredibly useful chip.

why would anyone believe someone who changes his nym more often than his underwear?

only one? i have a bag full of them. they're cheap.

unfortunately, they're very backordered, with estimates that it will resolve sometime in 2023, causing the prices on ebay to be ridiculously high.

fortunately, i have a bunch which should last through the drought.

the 1970s is a more likely estimate.

using 1975 for the middle of the decade, $1.59 then would be $8.50 now.

a bigger question is why does he have 50 year old parts in unopened packaging?

Re: Re: smallest wired keyboard? By: meff to Richard Falken on Sun Apr 24 2022 01:28 am

They don't, because attempting such is bonkers. That is the point I am making.

For example, I used to work at a store with no wired Internet in which the only connectivity was a 2GB capped cell plan. 2GB is plenty for day-to day store work (sending and receiving emails, updating catalogues, you get the idea) but you certaingly could not stream music and work and expect the plan to last the whole month.

Which is the reason why I bought a radio.

Trying to compete with burnelli is setting a pretty low bar for yourself.

Simple. He never figured out how to use them.

I'm hard-pressed to find a person who spend 4-6 hrs a day listening to music on a 2 GB data cap. This feels to me like a bit of a unicorn. I have lots of family in India, and you can buy data plans with 2 GB / day there. There's probably some country out there where this is true, and I hope their governments allow some sort of unmetered IP streaming to help out, but I don't know.

I'd love to see statistics about this FWIW if you're based in the US. I'm helping out a few friends working for a local government trialing out telecoms regulations. Data caps this low are indeed terrible, and rural service is often the one where providers try to cut corners the most (understandably because rural areas have low population density and generally low incomes from the potential subscriber base.) Rural users are often treated the worst due to the economics and a lack of awareness for rural users to be able to complain in the necessary places. But generally, according to the surveys my friends have run, internet isn't _this_ bad. Data caps are higher (high enough to consume some Youtube) and speeds are, well, okay but not good.

But I'd love to see numbers. A lot of this digital veganism on the net is equity handwringing used to conveniently justify the handwringer's favorite old technology; it's not, verifiable fact that can be used to justify regulation.

I'm not sure if there is a specific reason they're unopened, as one is a MOV which, I'm sure you'll remember, we all used to put across our power lines back in the day to shunt spikes.

The other is an LED digit, as I recall (I'm not looking at the photos at the moment as it doesn't really matter since I have boxes of these spare parts), which, as you will also recall if you ever built circuits, we used to indicate the displays on the myriad electronics projects we built back then.

As I said, I have parts all over since we would design circuits to work, and then we'd see what we had by way of parts in stock, and if we needed to change the design to fit the part, that's what we'd do.

It's what everyone did in those days... as far as I know.

Actually, now I remember... digikey was a biggie, as I recall. I used to get the TTL IC's in long plastic packages, stuffed with decoders and muxes, and, of course, everyone's favorite other than a 7400 nand gates, the 555 timer.

Yup. I had a book from Forest Mims, as I recall, which was written on "graph paper" that he wrote out a score of useful circuits using that 555 timer.

Hehhehheh... again, that comment shows instantly that you lack even the most basic of adult comprehensive skills given I've said why the wrapping paper is just to prevent people from seeing what the package is inside for people who aren't the rightful recipient of that valuable package in the body.

That you can't comprehend something that simple is a clear indicator of not only your lack of even the most basic of an IQ, but your lack of education.

It's always the same with people like you who are truly despicable people.

You _hate_ you lack intelligence & education of others; so you make idiotic claims like that one which shows more about you than it does about us.

Bullshit.

Bullshit.

Nonetheless, I've been working on improving Android mirroring onto Windows but some day I might take a look at that free raspi and see what it can do.

The Canadian government is obsessed with bringing high-speed internet to the frozen north. Currently there are 50 communities which don't even have potable water, but hey, you gotta have priorities...

given that you can't even get android sample code to work, you are going to have all sorts of problems getting a raspberry pi to do much of anything.

Bullshit. *You never wrote a _single_ line of code in your entire life.*

What's interesting is I published well over a dozen tested Android apps. You published exactly _zero_, nospam.

I wrote this tutorial expressly so that _others_ can cut-and-paste examples. *Tutorial with over a dozen tested Android apps with all SRC & steps given*

That's because I'm everything you're not nospam, given you're a low-IQ no-education bullshitter who has _never_ written a line of code in his life.

so which apps on the google play store are yours?

and how do you reconcile that claim with the fact you could not get android sample code to work?

Bullshit.

a. I tested the code myself before publishing it b. I published the src code with all the steps necessary c. Others tested that src & steps and said it worked for them too

You, on the other hand, have _never_ written a line of code in your life. You have never published any tutorial (while I can't count how many I've donated to the Usenet newsgroups - there are hundreds that I've written).

You haven't written even one. All you _can_ do, nospam, is bullshit.

HINT: *We're still waiting for just one of your "many ways" to mirror iOS* *onto Windows using FOSS tools* (which I'm clearly using for Android).

The _adults_ will notice how Lewis & nospam always prove to be bullshitters. Neither Lewis nor nospam has _ever_ written even a _single_ line of code.

The fact remains this one thread adds more value in terms of writing apps on Android than they have ever contributed to Usenet in their whole lives.

Something which you cannot know is a fact, and moreover, you know you cannot know it to be fact.

So stating it AS fact makes you a liar.

In that case all scientists are liars.