Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread

[med6753]

Notifications to my gmail with a few minor hiccups have been working fine for the past 2 weeks or so.

[Specmaster]

I'd wait it out. It's completely knackered still. Report it to the mods at least though. Also if you change any settings on eevblog forum it requires reconfirmation by email so you might end up shit creek without a paddle.

Customers should never have to move a mountain when the problem is at the other end!

Yep, you're right, thats how I got into this mess with regard to notifications, I locked myself out because of the not getting the confirmation email in order to confirm  I did message Dave directly asking him if he could pass my request to get myself unlocked, onto the moderators, but nothing ever came of that request. Luckily, I managed to find a way into the system to switch it back to gmail.com, I was having withdrawal symptoms without my daily fix of interactions on here 

[mnementh]

Also Emacs hasn't shipped with OSX for a long time. You've got vi on there though 

And ed don't forget:

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cerebus@shu:~/Desktop$ ed EdgeToPulse.v
277
1p
module EdgeToPulse (input edgeLine, input clk, output reg pulseLine);



Sick sick sick individual.

If ever the world collapses and all we're left with is line printers you'll be the king of humanity though 

          Bwahahaha!

mnem
I'll make sure to be the bastard with all the working ribbons then. 

[Specmaster]

Also Emacs hasn't shipped with OSX for a long time. You've got vi on there though 

And ed don't forget:

Code: [Select]

cerebus@shu:~/Desktop$ ed EdgeToPulse.v
277
1p
module EdgeToPulse (input edgeLine, input clk, output reg pulseLine);



Sick sick sick individual.

If ever the world collapses and all we're left with is line printers you'll be the king of humanity though 

          Bwahahaha!

mnem
I'll make sure to be the bastard with all the working ribbons then. 

Dot Matrix printers?

[tggzzz]

Also Emacs hasn't shipped with OSX for a long time. You've got vi on there though 

And ed don't forget:

Code: [Select]

cerebus@shu:~/Desktop$ ed EdgeToPulse.v
277
1p
module EdgeToPulse (input edgeLine, input clk, output reg pulseLine);



Sick sick sick individual.

If ever the world collapses and all we're left with is line printers you'll be the king of humanity though 

          Bwahahaha!

mnem
I'll make sure to be the bastard with all the working ribbons then. 

Dot Matrix printers?

Ah, the screech of a DecWriter as it prints your program's listing.

And kids nowadays moan about fans whining.

[BU508A]

May the fourth be with you!

[Cerebus]

I'd wait it out. It's completely knackered still. Report it to the mods at least though. Also if you change any settings on eevblog forum it requires reconfirmation by email so you might end up shit creek without a paddle.

Customers should never have to move a mountain when the problem is at the other end!

Another point to poke people running their own mail servers on: if tomorrow, Microsoft blacklisted you, what's your exit plan?

Sue them and retire on the earnings.  Anyway, it's more likely to be the other way around - I recently had to block swathes of Azure address space (one of the packaged microservices bits) because spam is pouring out of it and Microsoft aren't on the case.

[mansaxel]

Also Emacs hasn't shipped with OSX for a long time. You've got vi on there though 

And ed don't forget:

Code: [Select]

cerebus@shu:~/Desktop$ ed EdgeToPulse.v
277
1p
module EdgeToPulse (input edgeLine, input clk, output reg pulseLine);



Sick sick sick individual.

If ever the world collapses and all we're left with is line printers you'll be the king of humanity though 

I regularly use ed. I had to learn it when I had more or less free supply of Ultrasparc 1 workstations -- they come up with a completely b0rkened terminal type if you boot them without graphical console, and to get it right, and be able to fix things before you've got networking OK (and can ssh to them from an xterm), you need ed. Or, as Saskia wrote, you can batch it with sed and awk, but please remember that the SunOS sed & awk are very old. The good ones are in /usr/xpg4/bin/.

The human memory is a strange place. I can't for my life remember what to shop for dinner unless I've noted it in my shopping app, but things like the above, they come to me like it was yesterday. When it's been more like 15 years..

[mansaxel]

Another point to poke people running their own mail servers on: if tomorrow, Microsoft blacklisted you, what's your exit plan?

I'd mostly not care. I've got one account in that shite-hole, because work has sold its soul and NSA reads all our email, after GCHQ are done with it, so if need be, I can communicate in that bubble, and with the people on the outside following standards.

[bd139]

I'd wait it out. It's completely knackered still. Report it to the mods at least though. Also if you change any settings on eevblog forum it requires reconfirmation by email so you might end up shit creek without a paddle.

Customers should never have to move a mountain when the problem is at the other end!

Another point to poke people running their own mail servers on: if tomorrow, Microsoft blacklisted you, what's your exit plan?

Sue them and retire on the earnings.  Anyway, it's more likely to be the other way around - I recently had to block swathes of Azure address space (one of the packaged microservices bits) because spam is pouring out of it and Microsoft aren't on the case.

Yeah that's why we use AWS 

Actually one of the egress SES IP addresses got blacklisted recently which gave us a couple of hours of headaches. Fortunately AWS were on it like a seagull on chips and got it sorted.

[bd139]

Another point to poke people running their own mail servers on: if tomorrow, Microsoft blacklisted you, what's your exit plan?

I'd mostly not care. I've got one account in that shite-hole, because work has sold its soul and NSA reads all our email, after GCHQ are done with it, so if need be, I can communicate in that bubble, and with the people on the outside following standards.

Email was never secure as such in any way, shape or form. I wouldn't use it for anything the NSA or GCHQ may care about. In fact in the finance sector it is 100% forbidden to use it as a primary comms channel for anything customer-centric. Thus they can waste all that money getting a court order to look at a million Jenkins spams a year and invitations to shitty conferences...

[mnementh]

Also Emacs hasn't shipped with OSX for a long time. You've got vi on there though 

And ed don't forget:

Code: [Select]

cerebus@shu:~/Desktop$ ed EdgeToPulse.v
277
1p
module EdgeToPulse (input edgeLine, input clk, output reg pulseLine);



Sick sick sick individual.   If ever the world collapses and all we're left with is line printers you'll be the king of humanity though 

          Bwahahaha!

mnem
I'll make sure to be the bastard with all the working ribbons then. 

Dot Matrix printers?

Ah, the screech of a DecWriter as it prints your program's listing.   And kids nowadays moan about fans whining.

In answer to your question, @Specmaster, a proper line printer is to a common dot-matrix as Bigfoot is to your grand-dad's Power Wagon. They date back to the 50s and print the whole line at a time; each column is a printwheel which rotates into position and then the whole line is struck at once. Dot-matrix was developed more in the 60s & 70s. Of course, they are still around today in certain harsh environments and where multicopy/multipart printing is a necessity.

When I was a teenager I rescued a prehistoric Florida Digital commercial dot-matrix printer from beside a dumpster behind a Police Station... and I soon discovered why it came bolted into a huge MDF Box/Enclosure with 2" of eggcrate foam all around it except for the 1/4" Lucite cover.

This thing was a wide-carriage 9-wire bottom-feed commercial printer (this thing was that old; I guess they hadn't started calling them 9-pin or 24-pin printers yet), and rated at a mind-numbing 1200CPS; the printhead was a ginormous finned heat-sink as big as a dwagon's paw, and it was designed to be serviceable.

When I got the thing it wouldn't initialize; the blink code showed printhead fault. I took it apart and found every coil and the wires (a hardened bit of piano wire sintered to a metal slug inside each solenoid coil) of a modular design such that they could be individually repaired or replaced. One of the coil/slugs had gotten bound up and a bit rusted due to something sticky spilled inside; likely soda or sugared coffee from the smell. Dismantling the coil and cleaning everything made it work freely, and the manual even showed how to align the coils after service.

But hoo-doggy, when that thing ran... it made a racket like a fucking air ratchet going back & forth, and it ate fanfold paper like a black hole. You simply could not be in a room with the damned thing outside that enclosure, I tell you what; it would drive you batshit crazy.

*mnemories...*

[med6753]

IBM 1403 chain printer running with the cover open.

[mnementh]

Oklay... so round 3 tonight. One of the packages delivered today was my replacement Miyota watch movements... this time just going to assemble the face & hands on the whole movement like a "normal" timepiece technician would do.

This should be much more relaxing than testicular torment with the psycho-bitch redhead PC... 

Installing the face was easy-peasy, once removed without damage. The "hands" were a bit more problematic, as they have to be synchronized pretty precisely. I got it tho.



The movement and the LED backlight assembly (very crude leaf switch & single semi-white/yellow LED requiring 2 cells for power) go in together; pop in the watch-stem and it starts running, simple as that. w00t!



Oooh... this watch has a really nice, heavy feel; all polished stainless with varnished wood inlays. In a word... Deluxe. A bit too tight tho; I need to find some extra links or a dead one priced reasonable to rob them from. 

mnem
 

[mnementh]

@med: I'll see your 1403, and raise you some jigglies. 

On the same exact system, IIRC.

mnem
Also note Tek 2230 makes a cameo, but not lit up.

[med6753]

Spent many hours typing up punch cards for test cases for prototype test cards using Motorola MECL 10K logic. Fed punch cards into an IBM 1130 Computer which would apply the tests to the card and results came out on a 1403 printer.

Had one brand new card that was a massive shift register but the engineer designed it so the wrong logic level fed back and turned it into a giant oscillator/transmitter instead.  Was running about 140MHz which took down half the computers in the room.     

[bitseeker]

I've been working on the display counter board on it's own, so far I've confirmed the problem with the NIT stuck displaying a two as the 7475 having failed, that has now been changed, it does seem to count OK but only when the shorting link is added.


Think I need to find manual to progress this further, radiomuseum have the circuit diagram but it will take two months to download the set as I'm not a member and don't want to join.

Here are some teardown pictures as mine has some differences to the one on RM.

...

Nice! Teardown added to POI list.

[bitseeker]

Thread archiving proceeded without a hitch while I was doing "real" work today. Just checked in on it and it's on post 51550. Moving right along.

[bitseeker]

Oklay... so round 3 tonight. One of the packages delivered today was my replacement Miyota watch movements... this time just going to assemble the face & hands on the whole movement like a "normal" timepiece technician would do.

This should be much more relaxing than testicular torment with the psycho-bitch redhead PC... 

Installing the face was easy-peasy, once removed without damage. The "hands" were a bit more problematic, as they have to be synchronized pretty precisely. I got it tho.



The movement and the LED backlight assembly (very crude leaf switch & single semi-white/yellow LED requiring 2 cells for power) go in together; pop in the watch-stem and it starts running, simple as that. w00t!



Oooh... this watch has a really nice, heavy feel; all polished stainless with varnished wood inlays. In a word... Deluxe. A bit too tight tho; I need to find some extra links or a dead one priced reasonable to rob them from. 

mnem
 

Wow, that's pretty cool. Haven't seen one of those before.

[bitseeker]

Woah, this thread with all its requisite elements is 5.4 GB so far. So, maybe when it's all done, it'll be 8 GB. Of course, this includes images that are hosted outside eevblog, too. Only 1.6 GB (less than 30%) is from eevblog.com.

[mnementh]

Oh, I'm sure my little stash of silly gifs & pics has nothing to do widdat... 

mnem

[bitseeker]

 

That and all the pics of pork cooked every which way. Yum!

[mnementh]

   Oooh... this watch has a really nice, heavy feel; all polished stainless with varnished wood inlays. In a word... Deluxe.
A bit too tight tho; I need to find some extra links or a dead one priced reasonable to rob them from. 

Wow, that's pretty cool. Haven't seen one of those before.

They were a "thing" right around the time I was back in school the 2nd time... of course, far too ridiculously expensive. I found this one in a Thrift excursion a couple months ago; felt it was worth spending $8 on a replacement quartz movement(s).

We'll see if links can be found; I'd really love to be able to wear it.

mnem
 

[med6753]

And all my linked ImageShack stuff. 

[mnementh]

$40 worth of assorted Li-xx protection & BMS PCBs arrived in today's Post. For "projects" and just because everything that's fun needs juice. 

mnem
*juicy*