the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@starkatt @lorxus @Kyresti @chr if anyone wants to see the photos i took today, look downthread from here! they will be coming as soon as we can get them off our phone
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speaking of people who'd find it fascinating, ping @starkatt, @lorxus, and @Kyresti

and maybe @chr too
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I should open that thing up again and get some pictures, I can think of some people here who'd probably find it fascinating

this was back when HP made stuff to last, and last it has--everything in there seems to be original, and all we needed to do was screw down a panel nut to fix a loose output connector and it works perfectly, still in calibration even as far as we can tell with the equipment we have
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and characteristic of that era, there were only maybe three transistors in the thing, along with a bunch of diodes

front panel was two galvanometers for showing the voltage and current, a single-turn potentiometer for setting the current limit, and most interestingly of all, four potentiometers driven by *gears* to rotary displays on the front, with a window to show through the number they're set to

the ones digit could spin freely, while the other three had rollers for ten detents in each
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opened up an antique (60s-era) high-voltage power supply at work to fix a loose connector, and that thing had the biggest flyback transformer we've ever seen in it--like the size of a box of tissues

which explains the periodic clicking it makes when in use--it must be operating that thing at extremely low frequency, for it to need such a large transformer. Probably around 2-5 Hz judging by the clicking.

It's from that era when "fully transistorized" was a selling point
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fun fact: this isn't even an edited thing

we have a program on our computer that's called Everything, which is just a really fast search engine for your computer because the default windows one is abysmal
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so we finally got the original hyrule warriors and it seems like the story here confirms that volvagia is either trans, bigender, or genderfluid because he's a guy in this game and yet a girl in all the main series ones

I support him
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you ever just want to snuggle friends
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you ever just look at the AD549L and think, what the *fuck*
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electrophoresis is a neat word.
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you know what?

fuck scalpers
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apparently TNT was invented as a synthetic yellow dye and it took decades for anyone to figure out how explosive it is
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medieval pictures are really weird sometimes like what on earth is going on with this person's fingers are they okay
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also apparently the word lady comes from hlafdige, "bread-maker" so y'know, kinda sexist old germanic society
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learning a lot of weird etymology stuff today, like apparently the word lord came from old english hlaford, literally "guardian of the bread" from hlaf "bread" + ward "guardian"
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apparently, the ancient greek word for an ostrich literally translates to "big sparrow"

which, okay, but
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that's basically how we got nobuo uematsu i guess

he's self-taught, was in a prog rock band at at least one point, and when making music for NES games had to basically toss out any hope of using guitars or drums in favor of simple square waves and noise
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i want to see a rock band do a piece where they don't use anything like their usual instruments. no guitar, violin instead. no snare drums, just taiko. no keyboard, but harpsichord. no vocals, just, uh, woodwinds i guess?

what kind of music would you get out of that, i wonder?
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