Silly question, regarding digitizing 78s. If one can get the right stylus, can't one take a 33 1/3 TT and sample at a 2.34:1 ratio so the net result is like 44.1/48/96 what have you. 78s are likely pre RIAA filters and as such base response shouldn't be that much of an issue.
500+ years ago scientists thought the earth was flat. Scientific theories only hold out until something else comes along with more facts that change our understanding. My 2 cents.
This is dogma. Eratosthenes is one example of a man who measured the earth with a stick, or rather by the shadow it cast. That was 2248 years ago. http://www.millersville.edu/~physics/exp.of.the.month/58/ The Greeks we know discussed the earth's shape well before Eratosthenes. Anaximander for example proposed a cylinder model.
Aristotle proposed the Celestial spheres model of the universe, where Earth was a sphere. He observed that moving further south you could see constellations rise higher in the sky, not to speak of separate southern constellations. And the obvious moon phases are circular.
The Ptolemy geocentric view with complex mathematics (epicycles) to explain why the planets appeared to move backwards was accepted as Catholic dogma for centuries. Saint Augustine for example (about 350-400 AD) argued against people living on the other side of the earth.
Anyone who was educated to any degree within the past 2000 years would not believe the earth was flat.
A volley of the kind of nuclear warheads we have now would not effectively change course of any asteroid big enough to be a threat.
I wonder. I have to admit, I don't have a model to work with, but wonder whether a 20-40megaton nuke would have more or less effect than let's say a 3042 ton Saturn V launched from earth, which IIRC can get 45 tons to the moon. The first thing I'm thinking is the water saturated in the rocks of the asteroid belt, which will be vaporized. The second thing I'm thinking is the ROCK which too would be vaporized to a certain extent. IIRC a 40mton on the ground will create a creator about 3km across by.5km deep.
So I agree we have to take into account most of the damage caused by high yield weapons is the atmosphere doing the work, I do have to ask how much thrust would be provided by converting that much rock into vapor.
Really, really bad move. Now, instead of two years at summer camp, he will go to many more years of Federal Pound-me-in-the-a$$ Prison. It is really, really hard in today's day and age to avoid being captured, even with a lot of money if you want to live at some decent level. His best bet I think is to go to a foreign country where he could blend in, and live inconspicuously.
Even in some place like Mexico he would be quite a stand out if he flashed cash, and in the US you'd ultimately fall temptation to going to the local drugstore and risk being nabbed on camera. Any lawyers know if there are any countries which would absolutely refuse extradition? If so, he would still need to 1) get there and 2) transfer enough money to survive, and much more if he couldn't work.
Well, there are a ton of places in Mexico and further south that a person could hide out and never be found, so long as they had enough in the way of cash. Hell, if he had card cold cash I imagine he could swim to Cuba and start up an e-business.
But as with most crimes, it ain't fucking worth it. His jail time IIRC was minimal and he could easily get a tech job when he gets out.
If the shipping department doesn't know what they're shipping, then make sure they know it.
This presumes it's worth management's time. For all we know they already looked into it, and made the choice to put everything in a box. Boxes are great ways to store things even bits of paper which to be fair may otherwise get lost, misplaced. I don't know the value of the license but but let's presume 130in^3 @ in excess of $1.00 per in^3.
System analysis is always tedious and time consuming and it takes a ton of effort.
If corporate regulations are 50 years too old and have no provisions for shipping individual pages, and disgruntled people slip into drone mode and apply the dumb rules verbatim, then update those rules. That's what management is supposed to do: manage the whole damned thing.
Have you ever worked in shipping? I haven't my self but I've heard the stories. Usually there is one guy who thinks they know a better way. They bring it to the attention of management. Let's say we're talking bolts, and they employ 12 people to count the bolts, something that could be done much more efficiently by weight. Management tells you you're paid to count, not to think.
Often times when you ask the shipping department to take care of a package containing hardware, let's say in a 12 x 12 x 4 cube, they are nice enough to protect by putting it in a box with extra padding. Sometimes, when you note it's out of IT and don't notice it's already reboxed, they'll do it again.
This is not that unusual. Clearly they ship out their licenses in a box. I'd just use an envelope like those free ones from the shipping companies. But why ask why, put it in a box. Got many boxes? Put the boxes in a box.
Why not be thoughtful and put 32 pages in one box? This presumes the shipping department knows what's in the box, and even they know, why would they want to deal with all these extra boxes when they can ship them off to the customer.
If they can polish the two and combine that with a useful GPS minimap that's not too distracting, why not have it as an option for ALL models across ALL brands?
Hmmm... I've used GPS from time to time, and under ideal conditions it's great. Less than ideal well, they have me crossing over open water. I wouldn't want to depend on GPS to keep me on the road. Call me silly but you rather need some more local feedback on that subject, like reflectors that get computed and displayed on a HUD.
Hey, the guy has his own article on Wikipedia. Cut the guy some slack. How many of you are listed on Wikipedia??
It's not a question of being popular, it's a question of whether there are any secondary sources siting you. The guy has been in a few newspapers, and poof there's a wiki entry.
Well, yes and no. They definitely had more of a turn-key, consumer product focus. Unfortunately, their model consumer product was the Speak & Spell. With the Home Computer, they went into the toy business.
Well, not only was it a decent turn key solution, they released enough in the way of technical specifications to choke a horse. The system was released with tapes with instructions on how to program basic. Good instructions.
Education, Plato software was quite good and an agreement for 100 titles by September 1982, that's not too shabby.
I think it was their game place to sell software development packages on their mini computer, but that may have changed.
TI Extended BASIC fixed many of these issues, but it was still rather slow. TI XB II, which would have come with the TI-99/8, appears to fix all those issues. I don't know--I've never gotten to play with it. It's notable though that the TI-99/8 announces itself simply as "Texas Instruments Computer," rather than "Texas Instruments Home Computer." The shift in mindset is a big thing.
I had extended basic pretty much from the get-go. I only met a Tomy Tutor once.
But that doesn't cut it as an explanation for why Music Maker stored pretty much the entire Video RAM, whereas other programs (including the built in BASIC) only stored what they needed. The routines were there for storing structured files in all sorts of formats. The only explanation that really works for me is laziness on the part of the programmers.
I have to admit, I'm fuzzy on the workings of the TI now it's almost 3 decades after the fact. In fact I could only say I thought the tape file for Music Maker was a tad bit bulky. Laziness I can accept. It's not like you could load tapes independent of basic or anything like that. I am curious so if you could find out I'd be interested.
While a tad sloppy on the music maker front, TI really had their shit together as far as putting together a platform during a time when people didn't know what you could use a home computer for.
or cover it with tinfoil to run a sterling engine??
Do you even need to cover it with tinfoil? If the dish is metal, which odds are it is you can remove the paint, use a nice rubbing compound to remove the acid etching, and paint with a clear paint. You may wish to give the dish a good spin to paint as that will encourage the paint to flow parabolicly.
Sorry, I didn't mean to mislead you.:-) That's why I had the;-) in there. I still think that that was an amusing use of the audio from that tape.
Well, keep in mind that you presented what was a legit question, which at the time you got a "you can't get there from here" answer.
1) The program didn't support tape to disk 2) The OS or disk utility didn't support tape to disk 3) TI computers went tits up 4) Scott Adams adventures went tits up
I gave the problem some thought, but the only means I knew of at the time to convert tape to disk was perhaps the use of "Terminal Emulator II", and upload the tape to a site, and then download. But IIRC TE-II didn't support upload with protocol and BBSs were in short supply in 1982-1983. I tried using compuserve, but they complained I was trying to pirate the game, the game that you could only play with the cartridge, which happened to come with the game.
It is however an amusing use tape, and you have to respect the geek who knows based on sound which game it came from.
The Scott Adams adventures irritated me greatly back in the day. I could never get very far and gave up quickly. Maybe now that I'm 20+ years older, I'll appreciate them better.
This is why it was so easy to believe that someone out there might have a save game they wanted to continue playing, though the sad truth is it would be easier to just start from the very start.
Those games were a bit of pain in the fact that often times the barrier wasn't so much figuring out the puzzle, but figuring out how to get the game to parse what you want to do. I remember Mystery Fun House where I was stuck trying to use the gum on the stick to get the coin.
And then there's all my Music Maker compositions. Music Maker was a blast. Why the hell did it save all 14K of usable VRAM to tape for even the shortest composition?
Something to do with the fact that anything being processed by the graphics processor needing to be compiled first. Keep in mind that we are talking a first generation home computer, and it was impressive enough that the program allowed you to save your compositions. This wasn't the norm at the time.
Slightly OT, but will it decode this copy of Pirate Adventure?;-)
You'll have to try.
At first I thought this was a serious post, since Scott Adam's adventures were a bit of a pain in the fact that if you loaded the game with tape, you could only save with tape. There was no obvious way to take the tape and put it on disk.
One statement I found amusing and frustrating was the comment on piracy. It was my first PC so I was kind of vague on piracy, but it was clear that they didn't want you buying the Adventure games and copying them. Fair enough, except no bugger sold them, and I didn't know anyone who had them. So, it was rather moot.
At this point, you can get all the Adventures from Scott Adams him self for the PC for free with the exception of Return to Pirates Isle which was for the TI exclusively, and RTPI 2 which is a 21st century release for the PC and not free.
So while this was a joke, I'm sure there were a few people who actually did want to convert tape to disk. I wasn't aware of a utility at the time that would do this.
I have a TI-99/4A that has been dead for nearly two decades, along with several hours worth of data stored on cassettes. I would love to recover the data off of those tapes. Most of it is the type of stuff a 10 year old would write in TI BASIC (and Extended Basic!), and it would really bring back some fond memories and certainly some good laughs.
Are there any generic utilities that can extract binary out of low-baud modem audio files? With the advantage of performing various audio processing and analysis in a non-linear, non-realtime manner, certainly data could be extracted by modern software that not even the actual legacy computer could decode.
I'm sure there are emulators for the TI there. I met a few that came with a pretty complete cartridge collection including extended basic. Copyright is bound to be a little querky as there is TI stuff and there is Geneve. I think TI might have given up on their copyright, since their stuff has NO commercial value presently save the speech synthesizer.
A non-glare glass plate that does not reduce picture quality is probably too much of a dream, but I'm open for suggestions.
If it was me, I'd undo the staples, scan, reassemble. I presume this is not an option.
But scanner or photocopier glass, a ring light. It would be the way I'd go about it. 8MP cameras are common. You might want to go SLR, something like a Pentax or Nikon where you can get the a stock manual focus 50mm. For something that is, I presume, 9x7 inches I doubt you need a macro lens. I didn't say Canon as the mount changed from the manual focus days, but that's an option as well, just good bang for the buck with a used manual focus 50mm lens.
I forget the name of the platform to photograph flat things. But you have the easel, rod, and camera mount. One can construct such a thing with moderate ease and low cost since it would be for something of a standard size, you don't need something which can telescope.
You can get higher resolution from a flatbed without a doubt. I doubt you need beyond 600dpi. The rule of thumb is twice print resolution to convert to digital. That being said the more bulky scanners, as in the ones that have height, these guys often have some depth of field to them making them more ideal if you wanted to rig up a reverse scanner, as in one that scans downward.
So, the question is, what is the best way to capture all the information in old magazines in digital format? Does anyone have a home-built rig taking after the angled-pair-of-scanners setup that Project Gutenburg uses?
Unless we are talking about glued binding like national geographic uses, odds are we are talking about something stapled. Remove staple and use either a sheet fed or a flat bed scanner. Replace staple.
If that's not an option, then one can setup a photograph rig where you place the camera on an arm at a right angle and press down each page with a piece of glass. 8MP cameras are common place which AFAIK are going to be slightly better than 300dpi.
Spit, at a minimum. Yes, my wife & I still (at least) kiss even when one or both of us is ill, although perhaps not as frequently or passionately as when we're both feeling fit. I doubt we're all that different from most of the population. Even if that weren't true, most couples still sleep in the same bed while one has an ordinary illness (cold, flu, etc.), so unless you're wearing biohazard suits, you're sharing viruses/bacteria.
Hmmmm, you share spit with your wife when you've got a fever of 103?
If you've already had a given strain of the flu, you generally won't catch it again; your immune system is primed against that virus. So the laptop is little danger to you. Your immediate family probably got exposed through a thousand other shared items, so the laptop isn't making things noticeably worse for them, either. In short, I wouldn't worry about it.
What do you share with your spouse?
Toilet - disinfect dishes / silverware - disinfect (presuming you use a dishwasher or bleach) Clothing / linen - disinfect (Presuming DRYER) Pens pens pencils - disposable Light switches - disinfect TV, Radio - disinfect
Most everything can be washed and disinfected with ease. Laptops and keyboards are more problematic. Even if you are a neat freak you're going to get dead skin cells trapped in the keyboard.
Light bleach solution tends to discolor plastic. I'd go for alcohol, it costs a little more for the 99% isopropyl alcohol but that stuff drys more quickly, which is rather important. I'm sure there is a better laptop screen solution. That in conjunction with a good blow job and heavy vacuuming
They bought out Compuserve IIRC, which i'm sure is included in those numbers. In fact, the solution to Vista was to switch to AOL.
AOL has been around a long time. It's been well, a decade since I looked into it, but for number of access numbers they rivaled Compuserve, and compuserve was huge in the 1980s. If you were a world traveler, and needed to access your e-mail, AOL was a legit option.
Another AOL perk is keeping your old e-mail address. Ok, most ISPs will be happy to forward e-mail, or maintain a mail box for a nominal fee, but this certainly adds to their numbers.
Yet another factor is the fact that you can get an AOL & Cable bundle. Earthlink is rather the same, though I've only heard of this offering over Dish.
But likely the biggest factor was their flood of floppy disks and CD-roms to anyone and everyone.
it's hard to argue that they should pay $50 a month for broadband.
You've got those "but what about the extra phone line" people, but we don't even need to think about that.
The cheapest internet I know if is Clearwire. It's $30 a month for 768kb downstream. Next cheapest is $32.95/month for 3mb/download 256k upload, that's for local cable internet. Then followed by the "comcast" and "dsl" deals, where the DSL can start as low as $33/month, and that's not just the triple play deal.
Now, most any place that has such a low price has tiered service, and you're getting the lamest option available. But if all things are equal in price, would you pick 56kb or 256kb?
If the cheaper options are not available in your area, I can see price being an issue. Where I live, DSL/Cable/WiMax cost about the same as dialup.
The elements are not "destroyed" by being put into electronics -- or anything else, that does not leave the planet. They don't disappear from Earth.
Where do your electronics go when you are done with them? You can re-pc many things, but for the most part, they are trashed. Forget geologists, trashologists would be required, and that's presuming the stuff is buried and not burnt.
Unfortunately the only electronics recycling programs are in villages in China and Africa, and those are an ecological nightmare.
Why not just ban cigarette vending machines like we did here in Canada? It's much simpler than trying to invent silly age verification schemes that any tech-savvy kid can foil.
That's a good idea. I know in Washington cigarette machines were the sort of thing one could only find in a bar, until the bars went non-smoking.
As a teen, everyone knew were the cigarette vending machines were, and they were always in the very front of places.
But there is bound to be heavy resistance banning them... they make money. Seriously they are cheaper than what it would cost to employ a single person full time. This is ignoring the let's hook kids factor.
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Silly question, regarding digitizing 78s. If one can get the right stylus, can't one take a 33 1/3 TT and sample at a 2.34:1 ratio so the net result is like 44.1/48/96 what have you. 78s are likely pre RIAA filters and as such base response shouldn't be that much of an issue.
500+ years ago scientists thought the earth was flat. Scientific theories only hold out until something else comes along with more facts that change our understanding. My 2 cents.
This is dogma. Eratosthenes is one example of a man who measured the earth with a stick, or rather by the shadow it cast. That was 2248 years ago.
http://www.millersville.edu/~physics/exp.of.the.month/58/
The Greeks we know discussed the earth's shape well before Eratosthenes. Anaximander for example proposed a cylinder model.
Aristotle proposed the Celestial spheres model of the universe, where Earth was a sphere. He observed that moving further south you could see constellations rise higher in the sky, not to speak of separate southern constellations. And the obvious moon phases are circular.
The Ptolemy geocentric view with complex mathematics (epicycles) to explain why the planets appeared to move backwards was accepted as Catholic dogma for centuries. Saint Augustine for example (about 350-400 AD) argued against people living on the other side of the earth.
Anyone who was educated to any degree within the past 2000 years would not believe the earth was flat.
A volley of the kind of nuclear warheads we have now would not effectively change course of any asteroid big enough to be a threat.
I wonder. I have to admit, I don't have a model to work with, but wonder whether a 20-40megaton nuke would have more or less effect than let's say a 3042 ton Saturn V launched from earth, which IIRC can get 45 tons to the moon. The first thing I'm thinking is the water saturated in the rocks of the asteroid belt, which will be vaporized. The second thing I'm thinking is the ROCK which too would be vaporized to a certain extent. IIRC a 40mton on the ground will create a creator about 3km across by .5km deep.
So I agree we have to take into account most of the damage caused by high yield weapons is the atmosphere doing the work, I do have to ask how much thrust would be provided by converting that much rock into vapor.
What the hell kind of a cube has 12x12x4 dimensions?
A deformed one :P
Really, really bad move. Now, instead of two years at summer camp, he will go to many more years of Federal Pound-me-in-the-a$$ Prison. It is really, really hard in today's day and age to avoid being captured, even with a lot of money if you want to live at some decent level. His best bet I think is to go to a foreign country where he could blend in, and live inconspicuously.
Even in some place like Mexico he would be quite a stand out if he flashed cash, and in the US you'd ultimately fall temptation to going to the local drugstore and risk being nabbed on camera. Any lawyers know if there are any countries which would absolutely refuse extradition? If so, he would still need to 1) get there and 2) transfer enough money to survive, and much more if he couldn't work.
Well, there are a ton of places in Mexico and further south that a person could hide out and never be found, so long as they had enough in the way of cash. Hell, if he had card cold cash I imagine he could swim to Cuba and start up an e-business.
But as with most crimes, it ain't fucking worth it. His jail time IIRC was minimal and he could easily get a tech job when he gets out.
If the shipping department doesn't know what they're shipping, then make sure they know it.
This presumes it's worth management's time. For all we know they already looked into it, and made the choice to put everything in a box. Boxes are great ways to store things even bits of paper which to be fair may otherwise get lost, misplaced. I don't know the value of the license but but let's presume 130in^3 @ in excess of $1.00 per in^3.
System analysis is always tedious and time consuming and it takes a ton of effort.
If corporate regulations are 50 years too old and have no provisions for shipping individual pages, and disgruntled people slip into drone mode and apply the dumb rules verbatim, then update those rules. That's what management is supposed to do: manage the whole damned thing.
Have you ever worked in shipping? I haven't my self but I've heard the stories. Usually there is one guy who thinks they know a better way. They bring it to the attention of management. Let's say we're talking bolts, and they employ 12 people to count the bolts, something that could be done much more efficiently by weight. Management tells you you're paid to count, not to think.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Often times when you ask the shipping department to take care of a package containing hardware, let's say in a 12 x 12 x 4 cube, they are nice enough to protect by putting it in a box with extra padding. Sometimes, when you note it's out of IT and don't notice it's already reboxed, they'll do it again.
This is not that unusual. Clearly they ship out their licenses in a box. I'd just use an envelope like those free ones from the shipping companies. But why ask why, put it in a box. Got many boxes? Put the boxes in a box.
Why not be thoughtful and put 32 pages in one box? This presumes the shipping department knows what's in the box, and even they know, why would they want to deal with all these extra boxes when they can ship them off to the customer.
If they can polish the two and combine that with a useful GPS minimap that's not too distracting, why not have it as an option for ALL models across ALL brands?
Hmmm... I've used GPS from time to time, and under ideal conditions it's great. Less than ideal well, they have me crossing over open water. I wouldn't want to depend on GPS to keep me on the road. Call me silly but you rather need some more local feedback on that subject, like reflectors that get computed and displayed on a HUD.
Hey, the guy has his own article on Wikipedia. Cut the guy some slack. How many of you are listed on Wikipedia??
It's not a question of being popular, it's a question of whether there are any secondary sources siting you. The guy has been in a few newspapers, and poof there's a wiki entry.
For the home market
Solid State Cartridge
Tape
Magnetic Disc
Optical Disc
So what are we back to?
Solid State Cartridge
So so long as they make 5 inch jewel cases to store them.
Well, yes and no. They definitely had more of a turn-key, consumer product focus. Unfortunately, their model consumer product was the Speak & Spell. With the Home Computer, they went into the toy business.
Well, not only was it a decent turn key solution, they released enough in the way of technical specifications to choke a horse. The system was released with tapes with instructions on how to program basic. Good instructions.
Education, Plato software was quite good and an agreement for 100 titles by September 1982, that's not too shabby.
I think it was their game place to sell software development packages on their mini computer, but that may have changed.
TI Extended BASIC fixed many of these issues, but it was still rather slow. TI XB II, which would have come with the TI-99/8, appears to fix all those issues. I don't know--I've never gotten to play with it. It's notable though that the TI-99/8 announces itself simply as "Texas Instruments Computer," rather than "Texas Instruments Home Computer." The shift in mindset is a big thing.
I had extended basic pretty much from the get-go. I only met a Tomy Tutor once.
But that doesn't cut it as an explanation for why Music Maker stored pretty much the entire Video RAM, whereas other programs (including the built in BASIC) only stored what they needed. The routines were there for storing structured files in all sorts of formats. The only explanation that really works for me is laziness on the part of the programmers.
I have to admit, I'm fuzzy on the workings of the TI now it's almost 3 decades after the fact. In fact I could only say I thought the tape file for Music Maker was a tad bit bulky. Laziness I can accept. It's not like you could load tapes independent of basic or anything like that. I am curious so if you could find out I'd be interested.
While a tad sloppy on the music maker front, TI really had their shit together as far as putting together a platform during a time when people didn't know what you could use a home computer for.
or cover it with tinfoil to run a sterling engine??
Do you even need to cover it with tinfoil? If the dish is metal, which odds are it is you can remove the paint, use a nice rubbing compound to remove the acid etching, and paint with a clear paint. You may wish to give the dish a good spin to paint as that will encourage the paint to flow parabolicly.
Sorry, I didn't mean to mislead you. :-) That's why I had the ;-) in there. I still think that that was an amusing use of the audio from that tape.
Well, keep in mind that you presented what was a legit question, which at the time you got a "you can't get there from here" answer.
1) The program didn't support tape to disk
2) The OS or disk utility didn't support tape to disk
3) TI computers went tits up
4) Scott Adams adventures went tits up
I gave the problem some thought, but the only means I knew of at the time to convert tape to disk was perhaps the use of "Terminal Emulator II", and upload the tape to a site, and then download. But IIRC TE-II didn't support upload with protocol and BBSs were in short supply in 1982-1983. I tried using compuserve, but they complained I was trying to pirate the game, the game that you could only play with the cartridge, which happened to come with the game.
It is however an amusing use tape, and you have to respect the geek who knows based on sound which game it came from.
The Scott Adams adventures irritated me greatly back in the day. I could never get very far and gave up quickly. Maybe now that I'm 20+ years older, I'll appreciate them better.
This is why it was so easy to believe that someone out there might have a save game they wanted to continue playing, though the sad truth is it would be easier to just start from the very start.
Those games were a bit of pain in the fact that often times the barrier wasn't so much figuring out the puzzle, but figuring out how to get the game to parse what you want to do. I remember Mystery Fun House where I was stuck trying to use the gum on the stick to get the coin.
http://www.msadams.com/downloads.htm
And then there's all my Music Maker compositions. Music Maker was a blast. Why the hell did it save all 14K of usable VRAM to tape for even the shortest composition?
Something to do with the fact that anything being processed by the graphics processor needing to be compiled first. Keep in mind that we are talking a first generation home computer, and it was impressive enough that the program allowed you to save your compositions. This wasn't the norm at the time.
Slightly OT, but will it decode this copy of Pirate Adventure? ;-)
You'll have to try.
At first I thought this was a serious post, since Scott Adam's adventures were a bit of a pain in the fact that if you loaded the game with tape, you could only save with tape. There was no obvious way to take the tape and put it on disk.
One statement I found amusing and frustrating was the comment on piracy. It was my first PC so I was kind of vague on piracy, but it was clear that they didn't want you buying the Adventure games and copying them. Fair enough, except no bugger sold them, and I didn't know anyone who had them. So, it was rather moot.
At this point, you can get all the Adventures from Scott Adams him self for the PC for free with the exception of Return to Pirates Isle which was for the TI exclusively, and RTPI 2 which is a 21st century release for the PC and not free.
So while this was a joke, I'm sure there were a few people who actually did want to convert tape to disk. I wasn't aware of a utility at the time that would do this.
I have a TI-99/4A that has been dead for nearly two decades, along with several hours worth of data stored on cassettes. I would love to recover the data off of those tapes. Most of it is the type of stuff a 10 year old would write in TI BASIC (and Extended Basic!), and it would really bring back some fond memories and certainly some good laughs.
Are there any generic utilities that can extract binary out of low-baud modem audio files? With the advantage of performing various audio processing and analysis in a non-linear, non-realtime manner, certainly data could be extracted by modern software that not even the actual legacy computer could decode.
I'm sure there are emulators for the TI there. I met a few that came with a pretty complete cartridge collection including extended basic. Copyright is bound to be a little querky as there is TI stuff and there is Geneve. I think TI might have given up on their copyright, since their stuff has NO commercial value presently save the speech synthesizer.
http://www.mrousseau.org/programs/ti99sim/README.html
Claims to be able to convert .wav file TI files to binary.
But it's rather funny, the TV tape drive was pretty fast by the standards of the time. Many a time I transfered programs to answering machines.
Life is change. You should probably try to get used to that idea if you have any hopes for happiness.
Happiness makes me unhappy!
A non-glare glass plate that does not reduce picture quality is probably too much of a dream, but I'm open for suggestions.
If it was me, I'd undo the staples, scan, reassemble. I presume this is not an option.
But scanner or photocopier glass, a ring light. It would be the way I'd go about it. 8MP cameras are common. You might want to go SLR, something like a Pentax or Nikon where you can get the a stock manual focus 50mm. For something that is, I presume, 9x7 inches I doubt you need a macro lens. I didn't say Canon as the mount changed from the manual focus days, but that's an option as well, just good bang for the buck with a used manual focus 50mm lens.
I forget the name of the platform to photograph flat things. But you have the easel, rod, and camera mount. One can construct such a thing with moderate ease and low cost since it would be for something of a standard size, you don't need something which can telescope.
You can get higher resolution from a flatbed without a doubt. I doubt you need beyond 600dpi. The rule of thumb is twice print resolution to convert to digital. That being said the more bulky scanners, as in the ones that have height, these guys often have some depth of field to them making them more ideal if you wanted to rig up a reverse scanner, as in one that scans downward.
So, the question is, what is the best way to capture all the information in old magazines in digital format? Does anyone have a home-built rig taking after the angled-pair-of-scanners setup that Project Gutenburg uses?
Unless we are talking about glued binding like national geographic uses, odds are we are talking about something stapled. Remove staple and use either a sheet fed or a flat bed scanner. Replace staple.
If that's not an option, then one can setup a photograph rig where you place the camera on an arm at a right angle and press down each page with a piece of glass. 8MP cameras are common place which AFAIK are going to be slightly better than 300dpi.
What do you share with your spouse?
Spit, at a minimum. Yes, my wife & I still (at least) kiss even when one or both of us is ill, although perhaps not as frequently or passionately as when we're both feeling fit. I doubt we're all that different from most of the population. Even if that weren't true, most couples still sleep in the same bed while one has an ordinary illness (cold, flu, etc.), so unless you're wearing biohazard suits, you're sharing viruses/bacteria.
Hmmmm, you share spit with your wife when you've got a fever of 103?
If you've already had a given strain of the flu, you generally won't catch it again; your immune system is primed against that virus. So the laptop is little danger to you. Your immediate family probably got exposed through a thousand other shared items, so the laptop isn't making things noticeably worse for them, either. In short, I wouldn't worry about it.
What do you share with your spouse?
Toilet - disinfect
dishes / silverware - disinfect (presuming you use a dishwasher or bleach)
Clothing / linen - disinfect (Presuming DRYER)
Pens pens pencils - disposable
Light switches - disinfect
TV, Radio - disinfect
Most everything can be washed and disinfected with ease. Laptops and keyboards are more problematic. Even if you are a neat freak you're going to get dead skin cells trapped in the keyboard.
Light bleach solution tends to discolor plastic. I'd go for alcohol, it costs a little more for the 99% isopropyl alcohol but that stuff drys more quickly, which is rather important. I'm sure there is a better laptop screen solution. That in conjunction with a good blow job and heavy vacuuming
Most everything that is shared
Wow. I'm surprised AOL still has that many customers.
I'm not, though they were at 9.3 million at the end of 2007.
http://www.isp-planet.com/research/rankings/usa.html
They bought out Compuserve IIRC, which i'm sure is included in those numbers. In fact, the solution to Vista was to switch to AOL.
AOL has been around a long time. It's been well, a decade since I looked into it, but for number of access numbers they rivaled Compuserve, and compuserve was huge in the 1980s. If you were a world traveler, and needed to access your e-mail, AOL was a legit option.
Another AOL perk is keeping your old e-mail address. Ok, most ISPs will be happy to forward e-mail, or maintain a mail box for a nominal fee, but this certainly adds to their numbers.
Yet another factor is the fact that you can get an AOL & Cable bundle. Earthlink is rather the same, though I've only heard of this offering over Dish.
But likely the biggest factor was their flood of floppy disks and CD-roms to anyone and everyone.
it's hard to argue that they should pay $50 a month for broadband.
You've got those "but what about the extra phone line" people, but we don't even need to think about that.
The cheapest internet I know if is Clearwire. It's $30 a month for 768kb downstream. Next cheapest is $32.95/month for 3mb/download 256k upload, that's for local cable internet. Then followed by the "comcast" and "dsl" deals, where the DSL can start as low as $33/month, and that's not just the triple play deal.
Now, most any place that has such a low price has tiered service, and you're getting the lamest option available. But if all things are equal in price, would you pick 56kb or 256kb?
If the cheaper options are not available in your area, I can see price being an issue. Where I live, DSL/Cable/WiMax cost about the same as dialup.
The elements are not "destroyed" by being put into electronics -- or anything else, that does not leave the planet. They don't disappear from Earth.
Where do your electronics go when you are done with them? You can re-pc many things, but for the most part, they are trashed. Forget geologists, trashologists would be required, and that's presuming the stuff is buried and not burnt.
Unfortunately the only electronics recycling programs are in villages in China and Africa, and those are an ecological nightmare.
Why not just ban cigarette vending machines like we did here in Canada? It's much simpler than trying to invent silly age verification schemes that any tech-savvy kid can foil.
That's a good idea. I know in Washington cigarette machines were the sort of thing one could only find in a bar, until the bars went non-smoking.
As a teen, everyone knew were the cigarette vending machines were, and they were always in the very front of places.
But there is bound to be heavy resistance banning them... they make money. Seriously they are cheaper than what it would cost to employ a single person full time. This is ignoring the let's hook kids factor.