NRoach44

he/him
Unix Systems admin, Likes funny old computers, electronics, gaming etc.

Blog: https://blog.nroach44.id.au
GitLab: https://gitlab.com/NRoach44
Keybase: https://keybase.io/nroach44

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2025-12-09 02:23:10 UTC

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you just slap a diode bridge, a 555, a MOSFET and an inductor together, what could go wrong???

2025-05-16 13:31:09 UTC

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"line trimmer"

2025-05-16 12:46:22 UTC

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I can't think of a workshop tool with an alternative name but I wonder if you've heard of a "whipper snipper" before?

2024-11-30 18:06:39 UTC

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up until the last few years it had a very different meaning in AUS:
"third-deadliest bushfire event in Australian history"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_bushfires

2024-11-13 03:36:54 UTC

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their is a defconfig for each pi model in the buildroot tree, buuut
https://github.com/rsta2/circle
Might be what you are looking for. It's used by mt32-pi.

2024-09-20 04:40:04 UTC

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Is there a reason you wouldn't use CP/M itself? It's been clarified as "basically free":
https://github.com/davidgiven/cpmish/blob/master/third_party/dr/BryanSparksCPMReleaseUpdate.pdf

2024-09-01 05:22:39 UTC

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Neo store doesn't show it for me, and also supports the android 12(?) Package manager extensions (background updates of apps installed by thus app before)

2024-08-21 16:49:29 UTC

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how much more difficult would it be to have the pads / socket for a flash chip, so it was there if someone wanted it?

2024-08-11 18:26:20 UTC

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ohh, that RJ45 lookalike is actually for the keyboard and mouse, weird.
My 1662C just has two PS/2 ports for that

2024-08-11 06:45:15 UTC

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very nice! It should do X11, NFS, FTP and telnet:
https://blog.nroach44.id.au/hp-1660-network-reference.html