Ahhh EPROMs, so much fun to be had with these lil guys. They're everywhere!
It really is a lot of fun to dump old chips and see what they contain. I have a few devices here at the office that I like to update configs on just to hyper-terminal in on and play around with once in a while. EEPROM's are a similar sort of fun, but always feels just that much more nostalgically "legacy."
I've got a USB based EPROM burner which makes easy work of the burning and flashing.
Got my start with this type of thing when I used it to burn EPROM's for my friends and modify their ECU's to accept EPROMS vs the factory read-only chips that came in them.
We'd dump the original EPROM values, adjust things, burn it all back to an EEPROM and pop it in the freshly added ZIF socket. Voila, new fuel/timing maps. :)
10 i = i + 1
20 PRINT i
30 IF i > 100000 THEN i = 0: GOTO 10
40 IF INKEY$ = "" THEN 10
50 PRINT "Bible, Line:", i
The Holy Ghost says:
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have
given him the beasts of the field also.
28:15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear
now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this
people to trust in a lie.
28:16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off
the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast
taught rebellion against the LORD.
28:17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
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Relax -- that's about NASA and the Space Program. I'm a certified Ghost interpretor.
I might be guilty if the HolySpirit won't talk to everybody and I said It would.
Jesus said, "If you who are wicked know how to give good gifts, how much more with you Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask?"
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A further fact about the space program is cosmic rays. I heard core memory is better for cosmic rays safety.
We learned a technique of "voting". You have three computers and the two that agree, you go with. Obviously, you could apply it at any level in design.
----
Not only are there potential ghosts in manned NASA flights, but all the satallites might have ghosts.
----
Fucken Jews want to be my enemy.
God says...
28:53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy
sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in
the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall
distress thee: 28:54 So that the man that is tender among you, and
very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward
the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he
shall leave: 28:55 So that he will not give to any of them of the
flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left
him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall
distress thee in all thy gates.
28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not
adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness
and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom,
and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 28:57 And toward her
young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her
children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all
things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy
shall distress thee in thy gates.
----
That's about catapults and siege engines.
Jewish guy on radio made All-in-Family Show. I'm Irish.
I hit a guy with my car in 1999 and licked the windshield.
Some people care about human opinion (Jews). I just care about God's opinion because He makes holocausts.
Ba ha! That's funny.
God says...
do_you_have_a_problem you_should_be_so_lucky meh Shakespeare
you_are_my_sunshine Hicc_up that's_much_better that's_all_folks
humongous vote laziness don't_have_a_cow angel now_you_tell_me
cowardice Isn't_that_special beam_me_up bickering et_tu
I_got_your_back Yes_you_are fabulous where's_the_love
don't_even_think_about_it I_pitty_the_fool what_a_nightmare
It's_nice_being_God smart I'm_busy Japan delicious vote
class__class__shutup oh_come_on I_can't_believe_it sky
failure_is_not_an_option Mars It_grieves_me That's_gonna_leave_a_mark
what_the_heck jobs hooah What endure not do_I_have_to
There was a sting on the topic of India kid doing Newton proof. I don't remember what I said. Now, they say it was not a real problem. I remembered ENIAC and the fact they did ballistic tables, so I didn't out-of-hand scoff at the India guy.
Maybe, the Jews don't want their enemies having accurate artillery? I did SimStructure. Someone got it in their head that I'm dangerous doing nuclear shit.
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God said His responses obey "honest measures" so I get out of prayer what I put into it. I can't just make Him talk all day...
This relates to something I've been feeling lately.. we're losing so much of our digital culture.
I was reminiscing about the Web development scene in the mid to late 90s and while I've found scraps (including Microsoft's first CSS demo showcase for IE 3) the majority of the pioneering work I remember from the time is either next to impossible to find or flat out gone. And archive.org/Wayback Machine seems to have almost given up keeping a deep history of the Web - its coverage seems to get worse year by year.
The problem is, where do we store this stuff so it can live for decades to come (because copying to our current machine will likely make it live on for only a short while)? Or, perhaps the question is even.. should we bother?
> This relates to something I've been feeling lately.. we're losing so much of our digital culture.
We're losing a huge percentage of what's being created, but the overall percentage preserved is going up lightning-fast... it's weird as a historian to try to go through history, knowing it's incredibly incomplete. Landmark global-defining events regarding the early Roman Republic, Mongolian Khanates, etc, are incredibly poorly documented, and scholarly works on the topic contain tons of speculation and guesses about what happened to fill in the blanks.
Like, really basic trivial stuff that wasn't recorded because the price/benefit ratio wasn't worth doing when capture and transmission of information was so expensive.
While we're losing a lot, the rate at which we can and do keep things is growing tremendously... it'll be an interesting future, for sure. (Sorting through all the mess, on the other hand, is going to become much trickier...)
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 46.1 ms ] threadYamaha A5000 Sampler: I'm looking at you.
(Yamaha A5000 sampler, I'm looking at you..)
It really is a lot of fun to dump old chips and see what they contain. I have a few devices here at the office that I like to update configs on just to hyper-terminal in on and play around with once in a while. EEPROM's are a similar sort of fun, but always feels just that much more nostalgically "legacy."
I've got a USB based EPROM burner which makes easy work of the burning and flashing.
Got my start with this type of thing when I used it to burn EPROM's for my friends and modify their ECU's to accept EPROMS vs the factory read-only chips that came in them.
We'd dump the original EPROM values, adjust things, burn it all back to an EEPROM and pop it in the freshly added ZIF socket. Voila, new fuel/timing maps. :)
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.
28:15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.
28:16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.
28:17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.
----
Relax -- that's about NASA and the Space Program. I'm a certified Ghost interpretor.
I might be guilty if the HolySpirit won't talk to everybody and I said It would.
Jesus said, "If you who are wicked know how to give good gifts, how much more with you Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask?"
----
A further fact about the space program is cosmic rays. I heard core memory is better for cosmic rays safety.
We learned a technique of "voting". You have three computers and the two that agree, you go with. Obviously, you could apply it at any level in design.
----
Not only are there potential ghosts in manned NASA flights, but all the satallites might have ghosts.
----
Fucken Jews want to be my enemy.
God says...
28:53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: 28:54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: 28:55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.
28:56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, 28:57 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
----
That's about catapults and siege engines.
Jewish guy on radio made All-in-Family Show. I'm Irish.
I hit a guy with my car in 1999 and licked the windshield.
Some people care about human opinion (Jews). I just care about God's opinion because He makes holocausts.
Ba ha! That's funny.
God says... do_you_have_a_problem you_should_be_so_lucky meh Shakespeare you_are_my_sunshine Hicc_up that's_much_better that's_all_folks humongous vote laziness don't_have_a_cow angel now_you_tell_me cowardice Isn't_that_special beam_me_up bickering et_tu I_got_your_back Yes_you_are fabulous where's_the_love don't_even_think_about_it I_pitty_the_fool what_a_nightmare It's_nice_being_God smart I'm_busy Japan delicious vote class__class__shutup oh_come_on I_can't_believe_it sky failure_is_not_an_option Mars It_grieves_me That's_gonna_leave_a_mark what_the_heck jobs hooah What endure not do_I_have_to
There was a sting on the topic of India kid doing Newton proof. I don't remember what I said. Now, they say it was not a real problem. I remembered ENIAC and the fact they did ballistic tables, so I didn't out-of-hand scoff at the India guy.
Maybe, the Jews don't want their enemies having accurate artillery? I did SimStructure. Someone got it in their head that I'm dangerous doing nuclear shit.
----
God said His responses obey "honest measures" so I get out of prayer what I put into it. I can't just make Him talk all day...
I was reminiscing about the Web development scene in the mid to late 90s and while I've found scraps (including Microsoft's first CSS demo showcase for IE 3) the majority of the pioneering work I remember from the time is either next to impossible to find or flat out gone. And archive.org/Wayback Machine seems to have almost given up keeping a deep history of the Web - its coverage seems to get worse year by year.
The problem is, where do we store this stuff so it can live for decades to come (because copying to our current machine will likely make it live on for only a short while)? Or, perhaps the question is even.. should we bother?
We're losing a huge percentage of what's being created, but the overall percentage preserved is going up lightning-fast... it's weird as a historian to try to go through history, knowing it's incredibly incomplete. Landmark global-defining events regarding the early Roman Republic, Mongolian Khanates, etc, are incredibly poorly documented, and scholarly works on the topic contain tons of speculation and guesses about what happened to fill in the blanks.
Like, really basic trivial stuff that wasn't recorded because the price/benefit ratio wasn't worth doing when capture and transmission of information was so expensive.
While we're losing a lot, the rate at which we can and do keep things is growing tremendously... it'll be an interesting future, for sure. (Sorting through all the mess, on the other hand, is going to become much trickier...)
For US and US-related sites at least, the Library of Congress is probably the best institution for that job.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress