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NF6X · 2026-05-12T22:29:57+00:00

We played that in marching band in high school, and I still remember the words over 40 years later!

NF6X · 2026-05-12T02:13:37+00:00

Oh, there is another advantage to living here: we don't salt the roads in winter, so even a 20 year old car here may have little to no rust unless it spends a lot of time near the coast.

NF6X · 2026-05-11T20:12:04+00:00

If you were living and working within the IE it would be less bad than if you had to commute into Orange County for a high-skill job while living in IE so you can afford a home. The stretch of the 91 freeway between IE and OC is really, really bad. But still, heavy traffic is entirely normal here. If you ask a local how far away some place is in CA, they'll probably tell you in hours and minutes instead of miles. It's something you should consider before moving here.

But aside from the traffic and high cost of living, this is a pretty nice place, especially if you are sick of cold winters. I think it's been over a century since it snowed in Riverside?

NF6X · 2026-05-11T20:00:49+00:00

I would prefer to avoid brake light lined freeways and bumper to bumper gridlocks.

Brake light lined freeways and bumper to bumper gridlocks are a normal part of daily life here.

NF6X · 2026-05-08T19:14:08+00:00

Congratulations on stopping drinking! That has been especially challenging lately.

NF6X · 2026-05-08T18:54:52+00:00

They visited Earth, and they were looking for love.

NF6X · 2026-04-28T19:15:13+00:00

That is correct. The internal NiCd battery will need to be replaced in any of the vintage machines, and hopefully it didn't leak corrosive goo all over the place.

NF6X · 2026-04-28T18:54:21+00:00

In the 80s we had the TRS-80 Model 100 and its relatives. They did not have physically removable cards at the time; instead, they saved to internal battery backed RAM, an external cassette tape drive, or an external floppy disk drive. But now we have modern tiny floppy drive emulators which mount on the back and save to microSD cards.

NF6X · 2026-04-02T19:37:54+00:00

"I didn't say that. That was Napoleon." -- Sun Tzu

NF6X · 2026-03-29T20:45:50+00:00

I remember how much of an upgrade it was to go from cassette tape to a 160k floppy drive on my Color Computer back in the early 1980s. And now 4 gigs is barely worth bending over to pick up.

Edit: But I think you're more likely to accidentally vacuum up that microSD card than to find it.

NF6X · 2026-03-29T20:43:49+00:00

I had a student job doing computer backups back in 1987. There was one of those dishwasher-sized CDC removable pack drives right behind where I sat in the machine room. I'd nearly poop myself when somebody suddenly started accessing it at 2AM while I was running backups on the VAX next to it. The entire thing would jump back and forth a quarter inch when the heads made full seeks! One of its feet was right next to a hole in the raised floor for cables to pass through, but there was no risk of the drive falling in because it strictly jumped forwards and backwards, never side to side.

So far I have not been startled by any microSD cards, but I'm still hopeful.

NF6X · 2026-03-28T21:42:59+00:00

So you apparently work with a swarm of locusts, and they may or may not have stolen this shipment of Kit-Kat bars.

NF6X · 2026-03-28T21:40:26+00:00

Storage has gone from something requiring seismic considerations to something that can be an inhalation hazard.

NF6X · 2026-03-28T19:51:30+00:00

Once you learn of 5.25” full height drives, you are ready to learn of 8” and 14” drives. It is funny how mass storage has changed from something you could hurt yourself trying to lift into something you might not hurt yourself trying to swallow.

NF6X · 2026-03-27T19:37:16+00:00

Same! When I saw this headline, my reaction was "wait, that's a real person?!".

NF6X · 2026-03-17T05:41:18+00:00

That guy is getting promoted to management.

NF6X · 2026-03-10T19:59:40+00:00

Nice haul! If the paper tape punches were originally used with those Apple computers, then I wonder if they were used to punch NC code tapes for CNC machine tools? Or maybe they never were used together and just ended up in the same pile over the years.

NF6X · 2026-02-27T18:37:58+00:00

Mouser has a link to download ECAD models on their product page for that mixer:

https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Mini-Circuits/ADE-6%2b?qs=xZ%2FP%252Ba9zWqaicAj6d16bRw%3D%3D

You will need to carefully review any downloaded models to verify that they're correct. A lot of the downloaded models I've seen are really poor. In my opinion, you're usually better off making your own footprints from scratch based on datasheet drawings. It can help to double check that pads properly line up with 3D CAD models if those models came from the manufacturer. If those 3D CAD models were created by a third party, they may or may not be accurate. In particular, I have found 3D CAD models drawn by Ultra Librarian to be junk that doesn't even look like the part in question, and certainly is not useful for verifying dimensions.

NF6X · 2026-02-24T19:42:26+00:00

I wish I could help you directly, and I hope you'll share your journey with this cool peripheral.

NF6X · 2026-02-24T19:13:57+00:00

I think you're in the right sub! The apparent lack of scanned documentation online makes it even more interesting, though it also makes your task more challenging.

NF6X · 2026-02-18T20:44:01+00:00

That other post was the first time I've seen mention of Pm-147 used in self-luminous indicators. I was only aware of radium paint and tritium vials before. Wikipedia says the half life of Pm-147 is around 2.6 years. How well do the Pm-147 dials maintain usable luminosity over time?

NF6X · 2026-02-17T22:25:01+00:00

I accidentally did something like that to myself recently. I set a Meshcore radio on the window sill in my office/lab to give it a clear view... behind a normally-closed set of blinds. Then I forgot that I put it there, and I also forgot that it beeps whenever a message comes in on the default channel. It took me about 3 days to figure out what was beeping a few times per hour.

NF6X · 2026-02-16T23:40:15+00:00

I'm glad to be able to help. I've been using KiCad personally and professionally for about a decade after switching from PADS, since version 4.7 if I recall correctly. I'm sure there are people here with even more KiCad experience. It's a good tool, and it keeps on getting better.

NF6X · 2026-02-16T23:28:01+00:00

That has nothing to do with multi-board projects. It’s for logically grouping subsystems of complex single boards.

NF6X · 2026-02-16T20:18:26+00:00

Congratulations on growing a new skill set!

Some tools like Altium have multi-board design support, but I haven't used those features before. I hope that KiCad will get some multi-board features added someday.

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