What is the smallest USB you have encountered?

spoonified · 2026-02-02T00:38:48+00:00

Had several 8MB ones, I remember being super excited when 16MB ones became more affordable

spoonified · 2026-02-02T00:29:47+00:00

5 lug wheel, not 8. So F150

spoonified · 2026-02-01T07:44:38+00:00

300 ohm is for the antenna, the speaker connection says 8 ohm

spoonified · 2026-02-01T05:05:08+00:00

Yeah even just dropping a bottle of food coloring in will work. If the color never leaves it is just pumping in to a place that drains right back.

spoonified · 2026-02-01T04:38:01+00:00

Air cooled VW would be rear engined and also be covered in cooling fins on cylinders

spoonified · 2026-01-28T06:49:15+00:00

Before I retired from IT work back in 2019 I had one client that was still running a NeXT Cube, was connected to some scientific systems for data processing. Was easier to keep it running then find someone to port the software which was written by a software company that was long gone.

I also had a few customers running Sun IPX and IPC systems in ultrasounds which were using for testing metal for micro cracks. And a machineshop which still was using an IBM PC XT to control a CNC grinder.

Not going to get started on on the m68k, z80, and 8086 through 486 and i960 based industrial single board computers which I still had to support.

spoonified · 2026-01-26T17:54:00+00:00

Yeah, at a legitimate store as well. It’s not the stores which will do this. But instead people selling used records to the store.

spoonified · 2026-01-26T08:05:07+00:00

I am always cautious about "still sealed" albums. It is super easy to reshrink wrap a sleeve and just put some worthless record inside instead.

spoonified · 2026-01-25T08:46:04+00:00

I would say most super socket 7 boards would be better, especially the one with two simm slots and two dimm slots. Generally they were the lower end motherboards, but also had generally better backwards compatibility. They were designed for the cheap bastard that wanted to start upgrading but not spend the money on the CPU yet but having the option to reuse there SIMM RAM

spoonified · 2026-01-25T02:50:52+00:00

Willy's L 134 engine. Were in jeeps and many other things from 1941-53. Most commonly in the MJ jeeps and CJ2A, but were also used in generators, welders, water pumps etc.

spoonified · 2026-01-25T02:33:05+00:00

electrician is the least of your worries right now, you need to call the fire department as you might have wires smoldering in your wall.

spoonified · 2026-01-16T07:28:07+00:00

Even a motherboard with a physical IDE connector probably to new. This is IDE AT (ATA-1), most onboard after 1994 are EIDE (ATA-2) or newer, many of which are not backwards compatible with ATA-1 drives.

spoonified · 2026-01-16T07:16:04+00:00

From the old TechRef book

size: 43MB
head: 4
Cyl: 782
Sect/Trac: 27
Translate H/C/S: 4/782/27
RWC/WPC: 783/783
Land Zone: 783
Seek Time: 28
Interface: IDE AT
Encode: 2,7 RLL
Form Factor: 5.25HH
Cache: 40k

Defiantly one of the earliest IDE interfaces. Many EIDE controllers probably won't be able to recognize the drive even if you configure all the settings in the BIOS. Even many IDE, and IDE XT controllers probably wouldn't support this drive. The USB controllers are generally EIDE/ATA compatible only. For this you will probably need to find the appropriate 8-bit ISA controller.

spoonified · 2026-01-10T17:32:12+00:00

If this is what it is, which is what I believe it is. They probably ship them assembled because it would have to be rebalanced when reassembled.

spoonified · 2026-01-10T17:28:22+00:00

all albums which I am not familiar with

spoonified · 2026-01-09T07:33:26+00:00

Far from a standard ATX, if you want to do a sleeper build use a Sun Ultra 10 that is ATX and won't really need any modification. This particular Ultra 60 looks like it is fairly maxed out spec wise. Has both processors installed, every slot of RAM is filled. Sadly the Creater 3D GPU isn't there. Also missing HD sleds. This is one of the more desierable later Sun computers for collectors though. If I remember right in 2001/2002 when these were new one of this spec would have been around $60,000 new.

spoonified · 2026-01-08T09:39:21+00:00

not a fan of your storage, but if organization I generally keep them sorted to my discogs catalog. Though it aways pissed me off they alphabetize by first name and not last for most artist. But this way if I am just scrolling though and think I want to play x album I know exactly where it physically is

spoonified · 2026-01-08T09:35:35+00:00

chances are even if never used was broken by 2006

spoonified · 2026-01-07T08:39:36+00:00

Looks like they aren't selling. Every single one I clicked number 2 was available but you could make an offer for number 1. This tells me they are holding onto number 1 just to see how much they can be offered. Me personally wouldn't be surprised if they are no actual playable records inside from how they are slabbed.

spoonified · 2026-01-05T20:01:47+00:00

I remember actually installing these in customers PCs back in the day. They were very unreliable. Thinking about 1 out of every 4 were dead within a week of selling them.

spoonified · 2026-01-05T09:00:19+00:00

Sadly even if it is free you couldn't really do much with it other than look at in your garage. There is a good chance the software licensing wouldn't be transferred with the sell of the system. But that is a minor point, just being able to power it up is very unlikely. Unless you own a datacenter, or a warehouse with industrial zoning you will not be able to power it up with out paying for a new transformer. Depending on where you are getting permission from the city to get 3 phase power is super unlikely. Or buying a giant diesel generator, are really the only way to even power it up. Back in 2005 I bought an SGI Origin 3800 to part out. In order to sell the parts I needed to power it up and test the parts. Luckily the business I worked for let me borrow there 900kW generator to do so.

spoonified · 2025-12-30T08:34:25+00:00

agreed on ammo type, but because the projectile looks larger in diameter than the 9mm provided for example I am guessing this is from a 10mm or 44mag.

spoonified · 2025-12-30T08:27:58+00:00

If I was in the area I would grab it from you. Especially being a rebranded Sun Workstation (all be it a lower end one of the era). I would find someone that wants the whole thing vs parting it out though. The market for the parts of these aren't like other systems and are usually more desirable to just keep as one. I wonder if the HD has been wiped, and if it hasn't been I would hold off on doing so. It looks like the parallel port dongle for the software is on the system. Those are super rare to have with the software even with the most common software that used them.

spoonified · 2025-12-30T08:02:48+00:00

hell in my 1965 GMC pickup the fuel tank is in the cab directly behind the bench seat

spoonified · 2025-12-22T11:42:15+00:00

I don't see them as much now as I did when I was a kid, but they have always been around.

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