Music…

RetroComputingCollector said:
View: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=BDaYBB9DkBg&si=ehuU74jWa6PkT_Oe


View: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=c65yR7FWJsM&si=GnA79zhgQoenVw7m


View: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=8zSODUOoE8w&si=l6f-dyRHYqv5yqQ_
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They used to sing about my life and my troubles while I was just a teen, and they did it again when I was much, much older...
Set it free...
eF it all and no regrets
I hit the lights on these dark sets
I need a voice to let myself
To let myself go free
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As my best friend from the High School (mid '80s) said, and she has PhD in that Materials Science and Applied Physics for a few decades now (while I'm still just an OS tinkerer):
One day we'll be old and in the nursing home and noodge and whinge:
'Those kids nowadays listen to just awful music – Sepultura, that is a Music for forever!'
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I found this little gem the other day...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSxk4YLRd-c

It's jade rabbit time. I guess that calls for ...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lYSDWHTsTA



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Chernobyl stalker Vicky found an electronics magazine in an abandoned apartment in Pripyat; one article appears to be discussing the design of a 24-bit graphics card or perhaps an external framestore for what looks like a PC, I can follow some of the block diagram but can't read cyrillic, I spotted a couple of references to silicon graphics so perhaps it's about SGI machines; kind of strange to find it there! She says no-one has lived there for 40 years, since the disaster... I'm not sure I'd want to go poking around in Pripyat! Spooky background music...

View: https://youtu.be/CGwNf15MaSE?t=584

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blackbird9 said:
Chernobyl stalker Vicky found an electronics magazine in an abandoned apartment in Pripyat; one article appears to be discussing the design of a 24-bit graphics card or perhaps an external framestore for what looks like a PC, I can follow some of the block diagram but can't read cyrillic, I spotted a couple of references to silicon graphics so perhaps it's about SGI machines; kind of strange to find it there! She says no-one has lived there for 40 years, since the disaster... I'm not sure I'd want to go poking around in Pripyat! Spooky background music...

View: https://youtu.be/CGwNf15MaSE?t=584

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As I can see, article talks about Data Translation DT2871 HSI Color Frame Grabber card and Mercury Computer Systems MC3200 (Weitek XL-8032 chipset) add-in card/processor for balanced MIPS/MFLOPS vector and scalar operations.
 
vmisev said:
As I can see, article talks about Data Translation DT2871 HSI Color Frame Grabber card and Mercury Computer Systems MC3200 (Weitek XL-8032 chipset) add-in card/processor for balanced MIPS/MFLOPS vector and scalar operations.
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Ah, great. I remember Weitek! It looks like a very good technical magazine, interesting articles, I can see timing diagrams, state machine diagram (I think?), oscilloscope waveforms... of course out of date now but still a lot of good information, and all the same design principles still apply today. I wonder what is the radiation level there now... but even if the rad is low, I think I don't want to go there, if you stir up some dust containing radionucleides in the old buildings, maybe its not good to breathe it in... the stalkers are brave to go there, and she doesn't wear a filter mask :oops: . While I'm watching it, I'm thinking "please be careful, don't breathe in the dust!", I can see dust is everywhere! I guess she can make some small amount of money from the youtube videos... but is it worth the risk of developing cancer later? So I hope she will be safe...

It seems whoever lived in that flat 40 years ago was an electronics enthusiast :). The shops here used to carry lots of electronics mags back in the 80s... In England we had titles like elektor, wireless world, practical electronics, practical wireless, everyday electronics, maplin magazine, ETI (electronics today international), and others. Sadly there are almost none now, I think wireless world might still be in print, although I'm not certain. I still have some of my old copies of elektor, in fact I think elektor is still in business, but they are on the internet, not on paper. I don't know why the magazines went out of print, but I guess as electronics production was offshored to China, the market for those magazines died away. Or perhaps it's just the internet that killed them, there are lots of electronics sites on the web. It's a real shame, I miss reading ETI and Elektor each month in particular, those were my two favourites! Do you still get electronics mags in Bulgaria? It used to be a great way for young kids to learn about circuits, in fact I started off reading practical wireless when I was still young at school... 😂

Anyway, watching that video with the magazine brought back some memories! Of course, I feel so sorry for the poor people of Pripyat... :'‑(
 
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