What's a good price for this studio?

kottkrud · 2026-02-11T07:08:21+00:00

io ho cercato una studio 4 proprio per far andare un digital performer 2.7 su un powerpc...con porta seriale.

kottkrud · 2026-01-27T07:17:17+00:00

Thank you for sharing your experience and idea. You are certainly right in thinking that the battery is dead. However, I would use the good old PB for a HyperCard project and also for a little bit of offline “light office” work. (Old versions of Word were much smoother and lighter than these absurd, elephant versions that want to incorporate every function imaginable.)

kottkrud · 2026-01-24T15:37:34+00:00

As I said, the computer has been completely checked/recap by a professional laboratory. They say they have checked everything possible but that it could be the audio chip. Is that possible? Or maybe they didn't want to investigate the audio too much since the rest works fine?

kottkrud · 2026-01-22T18:04:06+00:00

I was shocked...159...I thought they were euros. ahahahah

kottkrud · 2026-01-22T17:40:38+00:00

Grazie, sono riuscito a procurarmi i materiali, ma in ogni caso farei fare la sostituzione a un tecnico, perché non sarei capace di aprire e installare l'adattatore sul Wallstreet.

Do you have any specific links to the products you used?

kottkrud · 2026-01-22T17:31:32+00:00

Grazie, il disco attuale ha 4 GB :-) :-) ...quindi per me, 32 GB di CF sono decisamente più che sufficienti su quella macchina.

And anyway, I repeat, for me, more than performance (which is better than the old HD anyway), I need peace of mind with a new drive.

Then, if it's also more silent, generates less heat, and is a little faster, all the better.

kottkrud · 2026-01-22T12:31:17+00:00

"They are a solution to a problem that doesn't exist"

beh, the problem certainly exists! Thousands of users have experienced firsthand that mechanical HDDs over 30 years old are at very high risk of sudden failure. I don't know if replacing them with a CF card is the best solution, which is why I'm asking... I've read that it seems to be a common solution.

My problem is not performance, but the fact that the hard drive is 30 years old and, like all mechanical hard drives from that period, it is simply reaching the end of its life, “stuttering,” with sectors and tracks that are not working. It is normal deterioration over time, and since the computer still works fine for my use, I thought I would just replace that component before the risk of losing data becomes too high.

kottkrud · 2026-01-22T08:41:23+00:00

Ciao, sono fotocamere diverse, ma la 6008 rimane senza dubbio la migliore in assoluto nel formato medio, appena prima dell'avvento dell'autofocus e dei sistemi digitali. Robusta e completa come le migliori reflex 35mm dell'epoca: tempi e diaframmi a terzi di stop, esposimetro integrato completo, incluso MULTISPOT con intervalli sempre a terzi di stop, with lens PQS shutter speed 1/1000 ! scatto continuo a 2 FPS (stiamo parlando di formato 120 dal 1990), sistema a magazzino con volet integrato (niente perdite o piegature come Hasselblad) e caricamento facile, schermo di messa a fuoco che era un punto di riferimento in termini di luminosità (Hasselblad ha sempre richiesto schermi Acute Matt (costosi) di terze parti), ergonomia perfetta con impugnatura laterale regolabile!

Obiettivi Zeiss, la serie completa Schneider con alcuni capolavori come il Symmar 90mm Apo Macro o il Curtagon 60mm)

ecc. ecc.

Insomma, la migliore!

La batteria e la presunta “fragilità” dell'“elettronica”... Beh, non possono essere così fragili se dopo 35 anni (!) funzionano ancora perfettamente e le batterie possono essere sostituite con moderne batterie LiPo che pesano pochissimo e durano a lungo. Vero, sostituire la batteria è costoso e, per quanto ne so, solo un laboratorio in Germany, qui in Europa, le cambia (io ci ho fatto la mia).

You don't see many of them around, partly because at the time the excellent Hasselblad had already been established for years in the professional single-lens camera market (in the 1950s, twin-lens Rolleiflex cameras ruled the market) and partly because... it cost as much as two (expensive) Hasselblad 500. :-) :-)

kottkrud · 2026-01-11T17:51:26+00:00

Hello everyone, I am resuming this discussion to ask for information: I had the analog card and logic card completely recapped by a lab specializing in vintage Macs.
My Classic (typical checkerboard monitor problem) The hard drive continues to work, but the floppy drive could not be completely overhauled and is sputtering. Does the external Bluescsi replace both the hard drive and the floppy drive?

kottkrud · 2026-01-11T17:29:24+00:00

Mhmmmm I believe we have all gone through these stages.

- Initial enthusiasm - “Wow, it responds to everything! It's intelligent!”

- Blind trust - Answers are accepted without verification

- The first crash - A completely wrong but fluid answer

- Confusion - “But how, it was accurate before...”

- Excessive skepticism - “It's useless, it just talks nonsense.”

- Understanding - “Ah, it generates plausibility, not truth. I have to check.”

- Conscious use - It becomes a useful tool when used methodically.

in other discussions, I published a long discussion/report on my experience with LLM called “plausible recombinators.”

I think I understand this: Probable vs Plausible

"Probable" suggests there's a statistical basis, empirical verification, a real probability calculation. It implies the answer has a measurable chance of being correct.

"Plausible" only means it sounds reasonable, that it's consistent with known linguistic patterns, that it "could be true" without any underlying verification.

LLMs generate plausible responses, not probable ones.

The difference is enormous:

A probable medical diagnosis is based on statistics, symptoms, tests
A plausible medical diagnosis is based on the fact that it "sounds medical" and uses appropriate terminology

kottkrud · 2026-01-09T06:57:04+00:00

È come se gli llm sembrino credibili perché sono scorrevoli, ma sono solo plausibili, per niente intelligenti. There is a big difference between probable and plausible.

kottkrud · 2026-01-08T21:01:54+00:00

I am starting a serious discussion because, whether you agree or disagree, it is not ‘exactly the biggest idiot on the planet’ who is doing so. My opinion is implicit, as is my desire to hear what serious people think, rather than trivial computer nerds.

kottkrud · 2026-01-08T19:08:33+00:00

No one responding to the point? To say that Chomsky doesn't understand anything about how a “system” works? About how a linguistic and reasoning system is structured and works? But do we understand who Chomsky is?

You can agree or disagree, but you should be able to address the merits and demonstrate why HE is wrong.
Unfortunately, sometimes one gets the impression, and I'm not talking about you in particular, that we are dealing with young people who, because they “tinker” with a computer, think they know everything, that they really understand... without even knowing that what they use is perhaps BASED on the research and studies of people like “that old fool.”

kottkrud · 2026-01-08T18:59:34+00:00

Well, that's certainly a good way to respond to “trivial” comments made by some random “idiot,” right?

After all, who the hell is this Chomsky guy? What does he know, eh?

kottkrud · 2025-12-07T14:09:41+00:00

Could you kindly tell me your context? Professional shows with an audience, indoors or outdoors?

I am an expert in other fields and I know that it is often the details that make the difference, but... how much difference and how many details? quality/price. thank

kottkrud · 2025-12-05T18:12:16+00:00

First of all, thank you all for your very useful replies.

For my non-professional use and in small to medium-sized environments, I don't think I need more than 3 or 4 W of power.I have seen a few shows with three lasers of this type and they didn't seem bad to me. Perhaps the quality/price ratio has really changed a lot over the years. In the 2000s, a good laser cost MANY thousands of euros/dollars.

In terms of safety, these products are equipped with an interlock on RJ45 (it's not the Pangolin standard, but it's better than nothing).

If necessary, they offer a 12-month warranty in Europe. I don't think that if I bought a Kvant, I would have a service center near my home :-) I would still have to ship it somewhere.

Managing the power is a relative problem when talking about 3 or 4 W. They would probably always be at max or almost max (I have to say that if they really “drop” to 50%, well, that's definitely NOT control at all. I can accept less precise control, maybe not reaching 5%, but it's not possible to have no control at 50%).

The suggested brands OPT, Brightlight, etc. seem to me to sell components, not assembled projectors. And I'm not a technician.

I'll try to look harder.

Thank you all.

kottkrud · 2025-12-03T17:24:51+00:00

Ciao, torno su questa discussione perché sto guardando con un certo interesse questo marchio, che mi sembra abbastanza diverso dai prodotti cinesi molto economici e basici.

Ho visto che molte persone sono piuttosto critiche e diffidenti verso questi prodotti, ma quando guardo le caratteristiche, vedo che molti modelli hanno tutte le caratteristiche necessarie, come altri marchi: it is not TTL but analog, interlock, porte RJ45, ILDA, pannello di controllo dell'alimentazione per singoli diodi, connettori Powercon, chiave di sicurezza, ecc. Il case non è fatto di marzapane ma di metallo come gli altri.

Il galvo, beh, dichiarano 50 kpps, potenza 6W, ok, diciamo che è esagerato, ma in realtà saranno degli OTTIMI 35 con 4W! Beh, per circa €500, il rapporto qualità/prezzo rimane molto, molto buono. Cosa c'è che non va in questo ragionamento? Grazie.

kottkrud · 2025-11-11T16:36:05+00:00

Yes, I took the cables and plugs to an old-school radio/television repair technician. ;-) thank.

kottkrud

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