Post Aiy8LHkaeaOBNcDddQ by foone@digipres.club
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(DIR) Post #Aiy1ALp2TWpT8y8ffk by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-15T23:29:05Z
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Time to look inside a thing!I got this at the ewaste place a few weeks ago.
(DIR) Post #Aiy1SZv8nR8W57gV4C by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-15T23:29:48Z
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It's a Dedicated Micros Eco4, apparently. As you can see from the buttons, this is some kind of security system device.
(DIR) Post #Aiy1SdCyZaBYHJ3Hma by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-15T23:30:44Z
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big warning on top. Don't wiggle, pour coffee, plug into power strip, drop off thing, or allow the miasma to gather.
(DIR) Post #Aiy227VptWTOOsnPcG by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-15T23:31:44Z
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The bottom says it's specifically an Eco4 CD - 80GB, or a DM/ECO4C/80I don't have the power supply, but apparently it needs 5v, 12v, and -12v.
(DIR) Post #Aiy228aTtjmbjZydUm by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-15T23:32:43Z
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The back. We've got a din-8 power supply, ethernet port, serial port, a db-15 alarm/relay port, then two sets (A/B) of BNC connectors. Mon, Vid1-4. Interesting.
(DIR) Post #Aiy229as9lgqr5ASkC by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-15T23:33:56Z
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YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE
(DIR) Post #Aiy2X07FRdfGRB1Jey by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-15T23:36:54Z
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I'm in.The PCB is surprisingly dirty for an internal one!
(DIR) Post #Aiy2X131ynsxKO3Sj2 by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-15T23:40:43Z
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I unplugged the cables. We've got HD, FAN1, and an unpopulated FAN2. Then the 40-pin IDE connector, and then KEYBOARD (which is the front panel), TTL DEBUG, JTAG, and TRST.
(DIR) Post #Aiy2nwzSJquvfMSQvg by gearlicious@rubber.social
2024-06-15T23:43:30Z
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@foone đź‘€ that unpopulated manypin D connector footprint
(DIR) Post #Aiy2wvsdobQSpWYM8e by SteveSyfuhs@hachyderm.io
2024-06-15T23:46:10Z
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@foone only five FPGAs. Disappointing. đź‘€
(DIR) Post #Aiy3GLSivU5dfngetk by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-15T23:43:57Z
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I pulled it out. There's mainly caps and resistors on the bottom, and EACH ONE IS INDIVIDUALLY NUMBERED.plus a few chips. I'll get back to those
(DIR) Post #Aiy3GODwet3EEpnOmO by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-15T23:45:56Z
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Under the PCB we've got a slimline CD-ROM, a hard drive, and a fan
(DIR) Post #Aiy3GPfHIkVchtak1Q by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-15T23:46:25Z
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It's a Hitachi Deskstar! 82gb, from November 2006.
(DIR) Post #Aiy3GRQ6m7Yy9QVeee by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-15T23:49:11Z
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why would you put this inside? I already had to break through two of these to get inside in the first place!
(DIR) Post #Aiy3eB4jCF66PNpMh6 by Dexruus@chaos.social
2024-06-15T23:49:24Z
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@foone I have seen enough camera "servers" in my life to tell you, thats is an analog video recorder for security cams. A piece of plastic with an embedded FPGA and some utility ports for shenannigans.
(DIR) Post #Aiy3eCskTkhg0oEpIe by Dexruus@chaos.social
2024-06-15T23:52:23Z
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@foone Oh btw, if you need to reset it (password wise) do it over telnet :) https://superuser.com/questions/739794/how-do-i-reset-the-password-on-a-dedicated-micros-dvr
(DIR) Post #Aiy45D2tyhUEL3rZXE by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-15T23:53:24Z
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The CD-ROM is a CD-R/RW/DVD-ROM. A Sony CRX850E
(DIR) Post #Aiy4IokJ7a6R1nedjE by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:02:33Z
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IC10 is a Hitachi SuperH SH-3 CPU.That's a 32bit RISC cpu.
(DIR) Post #Aiy4Is5KhrhhNsVyPw by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:03:43Z
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Over at IC4 we've got the first of about 500 Xilinx chips.This one is an XC9572XL. That's a CPLD, 1600 gates.
(DIR) Post #Aiy4jVXQdwAnH7MDvU by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:04:48Z
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At IC9 it's a Xilinx SPARTAN®, XCS20XL: An FPGA with 950 logic elements.
(DIR) Post #Aiy4jYfgzfZ8zcFMiu by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:05:35Z
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And at IC21... it's the same thing! Another Xilinx XCS20XL
(DIR) Post #Aiy53grYFSakBnOSTQ by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:07:40Z
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IC32: A Xilinx Spartan® XCS30XL: It's an FPGA with 1368 logic elements.
(DIR) Post #Aiy5R5AU31IgEPP3IG by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:08:46Z
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IC33 and IC34 are Xilinx XC95144XLs: 144 macrocell CPLDs.
(DIR) Post #Aiy5R8D4jq9jfJdfFY by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:09:16Z
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And hey look IC35 is yet another XCS20XL!
(DIR) Post #Aiy5R9kmzyiaSAQ6RE by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:09:57Z
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and IC8 is another XC95144XL.
(DIR) Post #Aiy5RBEFVvsT1pD8zo by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:11:51Z
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ICs 39-42 are Philips SAA7113Hs:That's a 9-bit video input processor. Each one can capture up to 4 analog NTSC/PAL inputs
(DIR) Post #Aiy5RChM3CklaNpu08 by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:15:03Z
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IC48 is a Sanyo LC74781: It's a chip for generating OSDs for NTSC/PAL analog video.Annoyingly there's no font in the datasheet.
(DIR) Post #Aiy5REBsVClODL7nDU by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:17:23Z
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IC47! A CLT82030. No idea.
(DIR) Post #Aiy6XwpBZDQIKsHKvA by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:18:46Z
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IC56 is an Analog Devices ADV7177KS. That's a video encoder, specifically for digital CCIR-601 to PAL/NTSC analog video.
(DIR) Post #Aiy6XzzvliniB4KSaO by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:19:44Z
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IC43 is a Sipex SP3243EHCTL an RS232 interface.
(DIR) Post #Aiy6Y1IOwXAaCdyj0y by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:21:23Z
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IC46 is a Crystal CS8900A. That's a single chip ethernet controller, designed for use on PC ISA systems. Which this isn't, but whatever. Seems it's only 10mbit.
(DIR) Post #Aiy6Y2YkFFpy7cdI80 by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:22:38Z
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IC24 Spansion S29AL016D90TF102: a 2 megabyte flash chip.
(DIR) Post #Aiy6Y4B4EG5N8lZPV2 by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:24:31Z
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IC13 and IC6 are ISSI IS42S16400B-7TL: eight megabyte SDRAM chips, so 16 megabytes in total.
(DIR) Post #Aiy8LHkaeaOBNcDddQ by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:27:14Z
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IC28 is an ST M4T28-BR12SH1 Timekeeper: This is a 2.8v non-rechargable lithium battery, 48 mAh.
(DIR) Post #Aiy8LKDNUWbZ1Theme by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:30:26Z
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Correction: It's also got a 32.768 kHz crystal in there. That's why it's got 4 pins. It's reading about 1v now.
(DIR) Post #Aiy8LLWCe1G149WClU by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:34:33Z
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And it plugs into this weird thing: The ST M48T35Y-70MH1That's a 32 kilobyte SRAM & realtime clock. They call this a SOIC28 but it has 32 pins, it's just that 4 are on top.
(DIR) Post #Aiy8LMZmiBiULYCZzE by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:37:41Z
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IC14-15, IC18-19 are Averlogic AL422B-PBFs: These are "field memories", which are a type of DRAM chip designed for storing single fields for TV video. It's got 384 kilobytes of DRAM in a FIFO.I'm not sure what the max resolution is, but it seems like it's at least 720x480?
(DIR) Post #Aiy8LNsFt05MN7qqPo by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:38:47Z
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IC20 is another Xilinx: A XC9536XL. That's a 3.3v CPLD, with 36 microcells.
(DIR) Post #Aiy8LPGOiizWgI9dgW by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:40:23Z
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IC23 is a Texas Instruments LVCH16245A: A 16bit bus transceiver. This is probably used to connect the ethernet chip to the SH3 CPU
(DIR) Post #Aiy8LQeBZlc6yMI9Oy by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:42:22Z
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Onto the bottom! IC69 is a BSI BS62LV256SCP70: That's a nice low power CMOS SRAM. 32 of God's Own Kilobytes. IC68 is one too.
(DIR) Post #Aiy8LRbO1ey7vxzQg4 by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:43:49Z
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IC66 and 67 are AMIC A42L8316V-35Fs. Those are DRAM chips: half a megabyte each.
(DIR) Post #Aiy8LSpxQyDblRoa1o by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:47:22Z
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IC12 and IC22 are both Sanyo LC82210LKs. These are JPEG/MJPEG encoder/decoders. They use external DRAM, and they're on the opposite side as IC66/67 half-megabyte chips, so those must be the ram chips for these.
(DIR) Post #Aiy9hltDNTcFBCXUIK by w8emv@hachyderm.io
2024-06-16T00:38:18Z
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@foone here is a press release about the Dedicated Micros Eco4 product, or something very close to ithttps://www.ifsecglobal.com/uncategorized/keeping-it-simple-the-eco4-dvr-from-dedicated-micros/
(DIR) Post #AiyAsFGd6h0X8v384m by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:50:13Z
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okay those are all the big chips. everything else is a linear voltage regulator, mosfet, or 74-series logic
(DIR) Post #AiyAsHdOJ2P2U5iKpc by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:53:46Z
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Lets check the "keyboard" aka the front panel.Two chips and some passives. It's definitely a rubber dome over membrane
(DIR) Post #AiyAsIjoCf89uHiyTQ by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:54:31Z
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IC1 is a Philips 74HCT165D: That's an 8-bit parallel shift register.
(DIR) Post #AiyAsJlcNQAj6BZvvs by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:56:18Z
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IC2 is a Philips 74HCT595D: An 8-bit serial shift register. Ahh, shift registers, the classic for controllers/gamepads/keyboards!
(DIR) Post #AiyAsLJKdYjZt2MN7Y by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:58:01Z
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The other side of the keyboard. Little plastic buttons on a membrane. So it's slightly better than a remote control style keypad, but only by a tiny bit.
(DIR) Post #AiyAsMyqQhXD44n2Su by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T00:58:32Z
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Final step:Let's plug the keyboard into my archival box and see if it spins and if we can pull anything off it!
(DIR) Post #AiyAsOAa0YW2klHvOa by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T01:06:14Z
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It spins up. I see one FAT partition, and I'm ddrescuing it now.
(DIR) Post #AiyAsPRdGdkahwH3c8 by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T01:12:27Z
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VGA is better than HDMI and such, because when HDMI breaks it just says "no signal", but when VGA breaks your whole screen just goes pee-colored
(DIR) Post #AiyB2FPxP0rUVOBKgy by __michaelg@chaos.social
2024-06-16T00:52:12Z
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@foone no! all I (and you) can see is that this is a keyboard
(DIR) Post #AiyCUqphzDz2bqQiAK by plaidtron3000@jorts.horse
2024-06-16T00:47:08Z
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@gearlicious @foone I wonder if that’s SCSI. That could fit an HD50.
(DIR) Post #AiyCUrTPbbk6az0Q3E by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T01:08:42Z
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@plaidtron3000 @gearlicious And there's a big empty IC pad next to it: that could easily be a SCSI controller.
(DIR) Post #AiyD2PcBgmf62X6nVQ by brokenix@emacs.ch
2024-06-16T01:26:55Z
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@foone ```(defun game-repl() (loop (print (eval (read))))) ``````(game-repl()) look()```??You always have a choice```(require 'cl) (loop (setq x (read)) (if (eq x 'exit) (return) (print (eval x))))```To put work in breaking out of loops , which re infinite if you don't change the way you do things
(DIR) Post #AiyDBWh0k9EWb6i7xw by plaidtron3000@jorts.horse
2024-06-16T01:40:50Z
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@foone @gearlicious that TSSOP-24 could be an active termination IC too.
(DIR) Post #AiyDJtumHvcsw68wym by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T01:39:14Z
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looking through files. It's got a webserver!
(DIR) Post #AiyDWuxViYJjwGd1mK by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T01:42:58Z
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judging from all the folders in ERRORLOG it was in use from 2006-12-07 to 2019-07-11
(DIR) Post #AiyEaUMucazKaCmDEe by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T01:59:47Z
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the videos seem to be in big DAT files, which contain a bunch of JPEG components, but I've not been able to decode 'em. I might need to power the thing on and talk to it over the network to do that.
(DIR) Post #AiyFJ51vfy7P1pDzuK by vxo@digipres.club
2024-06-16T02:04:41Z
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@foone okay bonus Silly Points if when you do that you find that it delivers exported videos as a windows executable!
(DIR) Post #AiyFcnUCc6pEPNqpdI by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T02:11:21Z
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I'M IN. KINDA.See, there's a CD_IMAGE folder which shows the last burnt image of videos, and it comes with a player program. Which works on windows 10, so I can now watch EXCITING PARKING LOT FOOTAGE
(DIR) Post #AiyFmK7cdyvQEUpdzM by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T02:13:01Z
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yeah it seems they had this pointed at a parking lot and set to record if there was any motion after hours. so there's mainly video of people driving in at like 10pm
(DIR) Post #AiyGbELvqxbz6nndSK by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T02:20:43Z
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oh nice there was an Eco16. It's the same thing just WIDER because it has 4 times as many inputs
(DIR) Post #AiyGlEmd6hMPL93i9A by lucasmz@hachyderm.io
2024-06-16T02:21:55Z
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@foone DisplayPort wins on both /shrug
(DIR) Post #AiyGtPamns8ZBEPuZk by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T02:23:33Z
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found the datasheet/brochure: https://web.archive.org/web/20070205060806/http://www.dedicatedmicrosus.com/05.06_datasheets_pdf/MKT-ECO4-D-001Enew.pdf
(DIR) Post #AiyH0u2pyqHBeb6ria by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T02:24:07Z
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"All recordings have tamper proof mechanisms approved for evidence"ahh, I wondered why there was an MD5 in the JPEG header!
(DIR) Post #AiyH8gUqEj4Zx1v2Ho by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T02:22:28Z
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@plaidtron3000 @gearlicious confirmed it in the datasheet: models without a CD-R/CD-RW drive come with a SCSI port so you can connect an external one
(DIR) Post #AiyHHNcFnqGa06X4Ai by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T02:25:45Z
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main page for the security thing is here:https://web.archive.org/web/20060901070655/http://www.dedicatedmicrosus.com/products/p_eco4.asp
(DIR) Post #AiyINP1DbIu42he33A by Elwell@mast.hpc.social
2024-06-16T02:35:52Z
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@foone ISTR two of those at a job many years ago, and yes it was for the CCTV system. The dvd was to burn a copy for off-site
(DIR) Post #AiyIpApjvyu69lWCES by plaidtron3000@jorts.horse
2024-06-16T02:47:54Z
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@foone @gearlicious hell yeah! Nerdery represent!
(DIR) Post #AiyMIsdmRHvyHYmUMq by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T03:26:21Z
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@itgrrl no of course not
(DIR) Post #AiyNO2zjTDfZnT4ogy by chriscoreline@todon.nl
2024-06-16T03:28:24Z
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@foone awww yes its foone time
(DIR) Post #AiyNXi8drtiC0YqtF2 by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T03:28:16Z
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@vxo yikes!
(DIR) Post #AiyObR01dH73xtA33w by rye@ioc.exchange
2024-06-16T03:52:39Z
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@foone Thanks this was an interesting! very cool
(DIR) Post #AiyTKXsxHEXIAYcVaS by jpm@aus.social
2024-06-16T04:45:17Z
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@foone attention @CursedFootprint
(DIR) Post #AiyYuu6admuxHM9cB6 by jef@mastodon.social
2024-06-16T05:47:41Z
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@foone It degrades gracefully. Into pee.
(DIR) Post #AiyZ49U8pPDtaKa0wK by jef@mastodon.social
2024-06-16T05:49:20Z
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@foone Is it one of mine? What does the Server: header say?
(DIR) Post #AiyZBNnnzn9813E2mu by ChartreuseK@social.restless.systems
2024-06-16T05:50:19Z
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@foone Clearly this is the ultimate "blue-light filter" for tired eyes.
(DIR) Post #Aiya5qZgCz51T4XhKa by ppxl@social.tchncs.de
2024-06-16T06:01:14Z
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@foone good thread! A++++ would read again
(DIR) Post #AiygTvKWmJIctNJqa0 by Unixbigot@aus.social
2024-06-16T07:12:36Z
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@foone extremely @NanoRaptor chip there
(DIR) Post #AiykLhFvcajmk3V5KS by fernsehmuell@chaos.social
2024-06-16T07:55:37Z
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@foone looks like a four channel surveillance video recorder. We used a similar device in my old company. It can detect motion and only records then.
(DIR) Post #AizEwSGlIjfjbLKlxg by vxo@digipres.club
2024-06-16T13:38:40Z
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@foone the hilarious thing is, if it IS one of those boxes... well, few things will dig the video out of the container, but miraculously, uploading it to Youtube works!Very, very, very strange.
(DIR) Post #Aizifd3CxbDwk0t3xY by vxo@digipres.club
2024-06-16T19:11:36Z
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@foone oh nice, you just hang a SCSI CD-R drive off the backI think the ones I messed with were a little later and used USB media for export (?)what's funny is I swear I've seen that same front panel design, we have one gathering dust at work *somewhere*
(DIR) Post #AizmXQlralCCan7xyq by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-16T19:54:49Z
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@vxo oh yeah, the front panel is modular, so they could totally upgrade all the internals but still use the same front panel
(DIR) Post #Aj1qNSrCRuu6BXkwoy by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-17T19:46:10Z
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@bea I don't, my monitor does!
(DIR) Post #Aj22afyCCqaO4J5w6S by foone@digipres.club
2024-06-17T22:02:49Z
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@bea I have ADHD! those are two of the four primary food groups!