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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
TERRA Operative:
Me and Vince will sit over here with our huge TDS scopes and our cool floppy drives because we are the cool kids. :D
bd139:
USB sticks is where it's at :-DD
As for a Nano, don't think I could sub one in there. PROM has 30ns turnaround. Even a simple C LUT can't touch that I don't think.
Vince:
Exactly.
And floppies are still way cheaper and faster and more convenient to move data around, than HAM radios data links or smoke signals. I will have a floppy any day thanks ! :-DD
Vince:
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 29, 2022, 02:33:06 pm ---USB sticks is where it's at :-DD
As for a Nano, don't think I could sub one in there. PROM has 30ns turnaround. Even a simple C LUT can't touch that I don't think.
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Yes why bother programming a micro when you can just program a ROM instead and be done with it, anyway ?! :-//
I guess as an exercise for kids why not, but as a practical and efficient solution not really ;D
tggzzz:
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--- Quote from: tggzzz on June 29, 2022, 09:31:35 am ---
--- Quote from: mansaxel on June 29, 2022, 05:25:14 am ---Floppies are an electromechanical part that is unreliable.
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My Apple Smalltalk floppies from the 1980s still work.
I'm not sure that flash drives won't leak electrons over that time interval. ISTR I've seen statements of "years" rather than "decades", which is enough for me to want to keep multiple copies of backups.
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The core concept to keep in mind here is that if you are relying on one single instance of <anything> to safekeep bitstreams regardless of content, you're doing it wrong. Because <anything> will break. At the most inconvenient point in time, at that.
Edited to add: I dislike floppies for their lack of speed and them forcing me to be present to execute the sneakernet transport, and that is in addition to GENERAL ERROR READING A:
(Who the fuck is General Error and why is he reading my drive? )
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Just so, but the options were (and are) rather limited for these:
Smalltalk was glacial, partly because it didn't even have L Peter Deutsch's seminal JITter.
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