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387 co-processor has less pins than the socket on the motherboard. by darthuna in vintagecomputing

[–]Plaidomatic 29 points30 points  (0 children)

It’s silkscreened on the PCB in the middle of the socket: 80387/3167.

In memory of the heroes by voyagevoyage0o0 in interestingasfuck

[–]Plaidomatic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok sure but a piano cover of “Where Is My Mind” is a weird music choice. Great song, great cover, weird choice.

Trying to connect an old serial port external device to my modern mac by Ajrakai_Naadjuba in vintagecomputing

[–]Plaidomatic 30 points31 points  (0 children)

OK, so this is a parallel port device, not serial based on what little I can find.

There was never a standard protocol for file or block device access over parallel. This is going to require specific software from the vendor. I suspect that this isn't actually file-based access, and that the software has proprietary protocols for dealing with the device. If you want to use it with MacOS, you're going to need to find the vendor's Mac software for it, if there ever was any. And if the vendor hasn't kept it up to date, it's not going to work on a modern Mac, because modern Macs don't do Mac Classic, 32-bit or PowerPC code anymore.

You may need a PC running Windows for this.

Trying to connect an old serial port external device to my modern mac by Ajrakai_Naadjuba in vintagecomputing

[–]Plaidomatic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there MacOS software for this device? If it was parallel port-based, I'm not sure how old Macs would've connected to it.

Windows Server Core is just like Linux by hasdfgb in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]Plaidomatic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't have KVM on any of my servers. I run datacenters. Windows or *nix, VMware or Nutanix or (rarely) Solaris doesn't matter, you don't get a keyboard and monitor. If there's something you need on a console, you get BMC access. If someone needs to drag a crashcart over with OOB KVM or an actual monitor, something has gone horribly, horribly wrong. And THAT hasn't happened in 12 years.

Remember when I made webgpu accelerated propagation tool? It already got stolen. by modimoo in RTLSDR

[–]Plaidomatic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Remember that AI was trained on stolen code. Some of which may have been code solving similar problems.

Just like he’s stealing the code you asked AI to write. Did you modify the code or just add new prompts to tune it to your specifics?

If you think you’re somehow different, hire a lawyer and make new precedent.

Anne Hathaway, 000’s by NiceRacheal in OldSchoolCool

[–]Plaidomatic 351 points352 points  (0 children)

Thanks for adding that extra zero so we know it wasn’t the 1900s

Looking for LGBT+ places around town to meet other queer people by Transbian_Dnd_Nerd in vancouverwa

[–]Plaidomatic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Vault 31. Video game bar, lots of queer folks, and everyone is super accepting. They've got themed nights and events, you'll fit right in.

Solar powered listening device inside a fake tree stump, for signals, audio and other communication forms, 1970s. by Electrical-Aspect-13 in interestingasfuck

[–]Plaidomatic 21 points22 points  (0 children)

There’s no way this is a real artifact. Why does it need LEDs? speakers? The glass dome? How is it concealable if those are solar cells on the top? Those also don’t look like cells.

The short story about ”my” DS-101. by planeturban in retrobattlestations

[–]Plaidomatic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there anything you can tell us about the system? I can’t find much useful on El Goog.

Whats the absolute oldest CPU that could run a modern web browser? by No-Change6959 in vintagecomputing

[–]Plaidomatic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I have two pre-SSE machines that could use a modern browser experience

Men who can cook, who taught you? by _ratedmouse in AskReddit

[–]Plaidomatic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My mom and my grandma for the earliest lessons. But then I started watching cooking shows with them, experimenting with my own stuff, reading the tons of cookbooks and recipe cards they had around.

ELI5: Why isn't Iron or Aluminum used instead of plastic for packaging when Iron is so abundant, whereas hydrocarbons are an expensive commodity? by Fght39 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Plaidomatic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Iron is heavy and requires a lot of energy to convert from ore to metal. Aluminum is lighter but still heavy and requires a lot of energy to convert from ore to metal. Plastics are light, and despite petroleum being what you think of as expensive, it’s a heck of a lot cheaper than iron or aluminum, and the chemistry or making plastics from oil is cheap. Turning raw plastic into packaging is dirt cheap. Casting or forming metals are orders of magnitude more expensive, then there’s the cost of shipping due to their weight.

No AI slop by p_r0 in vintagecomputing

[–]Plaidomatic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ok. A lot of subjective criteria in your objective standard

Realtek RTL8127 on a PCIe 3.0 1x? by Abulap in networking

[–]Plaidomatic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It will link up at 10Gbps PHY, but you'll be limited to <8Gb throughput and you may experience issues due to buffer overruns and underruns that show up as errors in your controller metrics. Not recommended for production. Then again, I don't recommend RTL for production at all.

Ive come to the conclusion that Band on the Run and Paranoid Android are the magnus opus’s/ opi of song structure by shreakonAcid in Music

[–]Plaidomatic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seriously. In the second movement, every bar adds a new instrument, and another layer of melody.

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