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BU508A:
Just saw this video on YT. Looks like, med6753 has a follower.  :-DD

med6753:

--- Quote from: BU508A on July 22, 2022, 08:04:42 am ---Just saw this video on YT. Looks like, med6753 has a follower.  :-DD



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Along with Carlson. Capacitors are the devil.  ;D
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: mansaxel on July 22, 2022, 04:53:30 am ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 21, 2022, 10:50:30 pm ---
Not long afterwards I saw this car, and sniggered!



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It's an Audi. No-one is surprised.

Having just covered around 7000km of European roads, and having a puny 410 km left to get home, I have now formed an opinion on motorway drivers in several countries.

It's a well established fact that in Germany, and Sweden, BMW and Audi drivers sort of gang-thug-assertive-but-still-nervously expect everyone to move when they come. Mercedes drivers are much more relaxed; they know you'll move.

In France, the rôle of the bully is taken by Peugeot drivers. They are much more aggressive while not more competent than all the other brands. Citroën drivers (both "DS" and normal) are the kindest, and Renault drivers are like Volvos in Sweden or VW in Germany; they're so many that they're all over the spectrum.

All Belgian drivers are thugs, and more so if they're driving a premium car. Rude and assertive driving. I give those number plates on an Audi wide berth. It's going to be needed.

Italians are generally reasonably good, and mostly kind. Unless you're being a prick.

All these are stellar and very competent compared to the average US driver. Though.

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While I've no sympathy for Audi drivers whatsoever, in this case "Audi" was irrelevant.

Those idiotic tombstone bollards were manifestly and obviously an accident waiting to happen. Yup, I did predict it!

FFI:
http://bristol.mag-uk.org/Tombstones.htm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-34527784
Specmaster:

--- Quote from: med6753 on July 22, 2022, 04:28:34 am ---
--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 22, 2022, 01:27:04 am ---This was both entertaining, and informative.



Do the Knipex pliers win?

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How so? Regardless of the total destructive force required to break them which one still at least still had some function? But we can't have that, can we? Oh no....never.  ::)

So my contention is that none of them won. They all broke.  :-BROKE

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I think that the true facts are that almost any of the ones with insulated handles will be adequate for the type of use they are going to be receiving on any electronics bench. 
m k:

--- Quote from: TERRA Operative on July 22, 2022, 12:38:03 am ---
--- Quote from: Zoli on July 21, 2022, 05:39:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: TERRA Operative on July 21, 2022, 04:16:08 pm ---Anyone know how to see what file system is formatted on a floppy disk in MS DOS?

I may have a bad/marginal disk, or it may be formatted in something other than a standard 1.44Mb FAT file system..

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FAT-12; but better check the the (TE)manufacturer forum/(news)group/discussions.
BTW, did you get your FD-505?  :-DD :-DD :-DD

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I do have a fully rebuilt 5.25" Teac FD-55BV, and even managed to find an unused new-in-original-plastic 3.5" Mitsumi D353M30 FDD, the latter of which I was able to read the disk. Just gotta figure out what format  the disk is.  :-/O
Does Win10 not like FAT-12 for some reason?



--- Quote from: capt bullshot on July 21, 2022, 05:54:48 pm ---I'd try the command 'file' from linux (as in file /dev/whatever_the_floppy), or just try to mount it with linux, it recognizes a lot of file systems automatically.

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I'll have to see what version of Linux I can run on a Dual-CPU Pentium 3 Dell Precision 410 workstation. :D

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You need a software that can go under the formatting.
It used to be a regular thing for hex editors.

Then you just start reading from block/sector 0.
In case of DOS it ends to 0x55 0xAA.

Best route would be Linux and ddrescue, don't forget a log file.
Afterwards you can write it back to other disk if needed.
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