Fine editor for working with Duet boards
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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 small Utilmaker style, a small CoreXY and a E3D MS/TC setup. Various hotends. 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 small Utilmaker style, a small CoreXY and a E3D MS/TC setup. Various hotends. 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 small Utilmaker style, a small CoreXY and a E3D MS/TC setup. Various hotends. 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.
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The freeware program WinSCP should also work to edit the files on the Duet via FTP.
Yes, the good old days.
My first computer had 3" diskettes... exactly, not 3.5" but 3". It was a Schneider CPC, one of the first with a color monitor at the time.
In DOS and Win 3.11 you used to know every file and what it does... unthinkable today.
You fought for every byte in Autoexec.bat and Config.sys
Our Internet was called BBS (Bulletin Board System) and our modem was called "Acoustic Coupler" where you had to put the telephone receiver on it, the WWW came out much later.
It was a good time.Google Translate / German > English
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Only by 4 years, @deckingman!
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@nightowl999 said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
Only by 4 years, @deckingman!
But those last two were really long!
70 was a piece of cake, 72 is looking a bit tougher.
Frederick
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@phaedrux said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
That reminds me of something I heard once: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 packed with hard drives."
… or, back then, a car full of floppy disks. High bandwidth, but with a latency of hours or days
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@owend said in Fine editor for working with Duet boards:
I don't know if there are any rules per se.
Mostly they use some sort of regex or keyword list to determine what to highlight.I dug into the Custom Syntax Coloring Scheme Editor that was available from the vendor.
Since the Java scheme provided some basic coloring that made sense I started with that and edited it into a scheme for GCode.
It was much easier than I thought. And you were right it was basically a set of regex expressions each one handling a comment, variable, reserved word and so forth.
Having not used regex expressions very often I had to learn a bit but the vendor has two tools for dealing with them - RegexBuddy and RegexMagic.
It was actual kind of fun to see the elements start to be colored according to the rules I was creating.
Thanks for pointing that is was possible.
Frederick
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@mikeabuilder I can go back a bit further and distinctly remember the 8" floppy that wasn't in a hard plastic case but more like a thin cardboard sleeve. IIRC, it could hold about 720k of data.
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@deckingman My first computer: Timex-Sinclair ZX81, then got a Color Computer 2 16k, upgraded to 64k and extended basic , floppy drive , multipak interface, use Microware's OS9 Level One.
Then got a Color Computer 3, upgrade 512k, DISTO floppy controller, and Microware's OS9 Level Two, then got a SuperIDE interface, now using NitrOS9. Still have them.
