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srb1954:

--- Quote from: factory on June 29, 2022, 09:40:35 pm ---
I thought you won one of the 180 series SA mainframes, in the last PP auction, it should work in the SA mainframe, just some of the later ones haven't got the scope cal outputs, as they were made long after the scope modules became obsolete.
I'm I the only one on here with some 180 scopes in my collection?

David

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I've got a couple of 181 storage mainframes and a selection of plug-ins. Unfortunately both mainframes are dead and have been languishing at the end of the repair queue for more than 5 years.

tautech:

--- Quote from: Vince on June 29, 2022, 09:43:14 pm ---I am tired and soon going to bed, so I will leave it at that.

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Not so fast.....  :horse:
You mentioned punch cards but not what came along soon after them, yes floppies and for us consumers 5 1/4' jobbies not them newfangled hard 3 1/4" things that aren't floppy at all !  :P
Got a stack of both in the cupboard that should all be chucked out and come to think of it we do have a big bonfire to light soon.
The grandboy was here the other day and smart little poo he is too but no idea about things rural ....scared of mud, cow poo and dogs FFS but wanted to know about floppies FFS .....what on earth is his mutha teaching him ?
So poppa pulled one outta the cupboard and disemboweled it with him for which he seemed very grateful and packed it away to take home to show his farter.

USB sticks, well I'm nearly over them too and onto MicroSD cards in USB adapters or these new fangled USBC drives, tiny little fuckers holding half a terabyte !

srb1954:

--- Quote from: Vince on June 29, 2022, 09:02:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: mansaxel on June 29, 2022, 08:50:47 pm ---
--- Quote from: Vince on June 29, 2022, 08:39:02 pm ---
--- Quote ---In fact I didn’t even use floppy disks back in the 90s. Had moved to Zip disks and CDRs.

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Floppies are absolutely marvelous, I much prefer them to punch cards, sorry  :-//

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I think you can make a pretty good argument for punchcards having an edge to the floppy in reliability.  Mostly, I suspect, because no-one ever built punches, readers or reader/punches to a price; they were built to spec. 

Floppies, not so much.

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One could make a better more reliable floppy drive, potentially. Not the floppies' fault...

No, I still maintain floppies are much better.


How large and heavy would be a 1.4MB worth of punch cards ?
I bet it doesn't fit in your shirt pocket like a floppy would  >:D

And, once you have typed this metric ton of punch cards that amount to 1.4MB... run it through the computer and then it tells you sorry you made a mistake / typo, do it all over again... you are happy.

Floppy you can just correct your mistake in seconds.

How long does it take to punch holes for this 1.4MB worth of punch cards, versus a floppy drive ?

Yes, much longer... so long it's unpractical.

Sorry, floppy wins by several orders of magnitude.  >:D

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Also floppies generally don't get all their bits thrown into random disorder when you accidentally drop them on the floor.

I shudder to think how long it would take to reorganise 1.4MB worth of punch cards if you dropped them.

tautech:

--- Quote from: mnementh on June 29, 2022, 09:49:24 pm ---The LeSiglent T3DSO2102 is my big Father's Day present from wife and dad

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IIRC it's a SDS2102X with inbuilt 25 MHz AWG and 140 Mpts mem depth. You should be able to improve it to 300 MHz however it probably comes with 100 MHz switchable probes although it has autosense which IIRC will detect 10x and 100x probes.
I had the 300 MHz 4ch model for a few years and have a pile of FW versions for these although you might need some tv84 CFG magic to convert it back to a Siglent.

Specmaster:

--- Quote from: bd139 on June 29, 2022, 08:30:05 pm ---Yeah quite frankly fuck floppy disks. They were shit when they came out. Corruption, speed problems, reliability problems, tiny storage. Add 30 years to the problem and now you have mechanical and magnetic degradation to contend with.

Note I’m so high tech I had to go round someone’s house the other day and borrow their PC to put a CD-ROM contents on a USB stick. I don’t even have a CD drive now.

In fact I didn’t even use floppy disks back in the 90s. Had moved to Zip disks and CDRs.

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I also moved over to zip discs, but sadly I also discovered that they also were far from being perfect, had a few mishaps along the way with those as well.

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