Fine editor for working with Duet boards
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@fcwilt said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
@mikeabuilder said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
I still have a prototype HP Intel 486 machine in my basement. It was really hot stuff at the time. My processor was double clocked - from 20Mhz to 40Mhz. That was hot stuff in it's time, about 30 years ago.
Fun times for sure. I remember upgrading an IBM desktop from 4 to 6-8 Mhz - heady stuff.
Who dreamed where we would be today with gigahertz clock speeds, gigabytes of memory and terabytes of solid state drives.
Frederick
My first was a Sinclair ZX81 (8 bit processor with 1K memory and cassette tape for "non-volatile" storage) circa 1981 that I bought in kit form. My second was a Texas Instruments TI-994A that I bought a couple of years later (so circa 1983) with a 16bit 3Mhz processor and separate VDP (Video Display Processor as they were called in those days).
By 1983 I was 30 years old and these machines were big steps up from calculators, which in turn were big steps up from slide rules and books of log tables that was all we had in my school days.
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Until 2009 i've built special machines with a Z80 controller board (2MHz, 2kB RAM).
The complete controller board and all other electronic boards was soldered by hand...
I loved it to write programs in Z80 assembler. But the begin was hard!
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@deckingman said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
By 1983 I was 30 years old and these machines were big steps up from calculators, which in turn were big steps up from slide rules and books of log tables that was all we had in my school days.
I still have mine.
The white one is a typical one while the yellow one was for all things electronic.
They are a bit more than 50 years old.
Frederick
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Seeing as this has turned into an after school computer club thread, I'll share with you a "retro" computing device that you might find interesting.
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki
It uses a FPGA board to do hardware emulation of old computers, consoles, arcade machines, etc. The list of supported devices is long. You can even emulate a PDP-1 if you like, and all the way up to a 486 class device capable of windows 95.
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/PDP1_MiSTer
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@phaedrux said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
this has turned into an after school computer club thread
… of grumpy old men
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@infiniteloop said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
… of grumpy old men
.........of which, I am the oldest and many would say the grumpiest, therefore the most senior member of that auspicious club.
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@deckingman - love the slide rules. When I was in high school, my class was the last year that pocket calculators were prohibited in chemistry class. We had to use slide rules. The reason was that pocket calculators were so expensive that it was considered an unfair advantage for those that could afford one.
I also learned programming with punchcards.
Good times...
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You guys and your new-fangled toys ..... my first computer was an Abacus. Fingers and toes had to suffice before that!
I also did the bit with toggling individual bits with switches and then 'loading' the resulting 'word' into the computer ... .one friggin' word at a time! Punch cards was such a huge step up!
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@phaedrux said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
Seeing as this has turned into an after school computer club thread, I'll share with you a "retro" computing device that you might find interesting.
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki
It uses a FPGA board to do hardware emulation of old computers, consoles, arcade machines, etc. The list of supported devices is long. You can even emulate a PDP-1 if you like, and all the way up to a 486 class device capable of windows 95.
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/PDP1_MiSTer
I wish you could buy a full blown one ready to go.
I'm a big fan of nostelgia.
Frederick
Printers: a E3D MS/TC setup and a RatRig Hybrid. Using Duet 3 hardware running 3.4.6
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@deckingman said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
@infiniteloop said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
… of grumpy old men
.........of which, I am the oldest and many would say the grumpiest, therefore the most senior member of that auspicious club.
Really? I thought I was the elder. I just turned 72.
Frederick
Printers: a E3D MS/TC setup and a RatRig Hybrid. Using Duet 3 hardware running 3.4.6
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.........of which, I am the oldest and many would say the grumpiest, therefore the most senior member of that auspicious club.
Really? I thought I was the elder. I just turned 72.
No beauty contest, please
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@fcwilt said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
@deckingman said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
@infiniteloop said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
… of grumpy old men
.........of which, I am the oldest and many would say the grumpiest, therefore the most senior member of that auspicious club.
Really? I thought I was the elder. I just turned 72.
Frederick
AHH, then I bow in submission oh master. I'm merely a spring chicken at only 68 (soon to be 69).
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@deckingman said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
I'm merely a spring chicken at only 68 (soon to be 69).
I do envy you young folk.
Frederick
Printers: a E3D MS/TC setup and a RatRig Hybrid. Using Duet 3 hardware running 3.4.6
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@fcwilt said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
I wish you could buy a full blown one ready to go.
A mister, or a PDP1?
For the PDP1, check ebay, for the mister, check here: https://misteraddons.com/collections/kits-1/products/mister-pre-configured-bundle-with-aluminum-case
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@phaedrux said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
@fcwilt said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
I wish you could buy a full blown one ready to go.
A mister, or a PDP1?
For the PDP1, check ebay, for the mister, check here: https://misteraddons.com/collections/kits-1/products/mister-pre-configured-bundle-with-aluminum-case
Thanks very much.
Frederick
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People also like to build them into wedge style keyboard cases for the extra authentic look.
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@phaedrux said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
People also like to build them into wedge style keyboard cases for the extra authentic look.
I don't recognize that one.
I had a Atari 800, a Commodore 64, a big CompuPro chassis with a 68000 cpu card, a HeathKit H89 (two of them actually) before moving onto DOS based machines.
Frederick
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One of my "back in my day" sayings for the new kids used to be showing them a 3.5" dual density (2.88MB - size defined to 2 decimal places) floppy disk in a hard case and tell them this was the "premium" small portable storage 30 years ago. Then I'd tell then how many it would take to store the same amount as a modern device. Today, that's a 1TB micro SD card (that us old guys can barely handle, they're so tiny). So, roughly 350,000 old-style disks. They were about 1/8 inch thick, so a stack of 350K would be over 3600 feet tall.
Oh yeah, and we had to write to those old ones with a piece of charcoal by candle-light. After walking 5 miles to work through snowdrifts.
And they hadn't even invented espresso.
Harumpf.
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@fcwilt said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
I do envy you young folk.
Young folks? Welcome to the geriatric squad!
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@mikeabuilder said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
Today, that's a 1TB micro SD card (that us old guys can barely handle, they're so tiny). So, roughly 350,000 old-style disks. They were about 1/8 inch thick, so a stack of 350K would be over 3600 feet tall.
That reminds me of something I heard once: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 packed with hard drives."
This actually proved true recently with radio telescope data spread out across the globe gathering terabytes of data. The fastest way to process it all is to take the drives as carry on luggage to a central location for processing.
