Pre-release for the Retro Giants video!
Added 2023-04-21 03:27:36 +0000 UTCThis was a tough one to get done due to this being my on-call week at work, but I'm very pleased to be able to release this video in time for the weekend! This is the second batch of systems from the massive Franlkin eWaste haul. Let me know what you think! Thanks!!
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It is still to this day a fantastically capable card! I still have to put it through its paces. Yeah it was a rough week, but fortunately it's almost over! Then I'll have to do it all again in 6 weeks...
MikeTech
2023-04-21 19:57:49 +0000 UTCNice! Thanks for the info, I haven't had much time this week to research it. I might need to get the old band back together LOL.
MikeTech
2023-04-21 13:40:09 +0000 UTCIn the little bit of digging I did to satisfy my own curiosity, that board and front panel act as a 4x4 hardware audio mixer and given that the noise floor is so low, you could (in theory) lay down some simultaneous multi-track recordings mixing the levels individually resulting in a clean recording for each channel. It's pretty fascinating, especially given the period it was released in!
Michael A Berry
2023-04-21 13:37:04 +0000 UTCThat Yamaha audio board is a great find. Does it have any other capabilities than amazingly clean audio input? Don't push yourself too hard. One job with on call is enough! Hopefully not too many wake up calls.
Stephen Fralich
2023-04-21 13:04:08 +0000 UTCThe fun started on Tuesday when our PROD k8s cluster decided to start dying... Then apparently there was a change in the upstream bitnami/nginx image which almost killed our ingress controller... I had to switch everything to the Debian-based container which fortunately was not affected by the bug. Bitnami has since fixed the issue, but "hooray" for automated image builds... It's been a fun one! That's a very clever method for multi-PSU management! I can't believe this giant tower has space for 13 drives! I am really impressed with this Yamaha card. Just had to go ahead and embarrass myself with it LOL.
MikeTech
2023-04-21 12:41:30 +0000 UTCOn-call weeks. These can be some of the roughest ones, especially if the kids are sick too. Time goes poof. Great video! Those full-tower chassis are always compelling, especially the unit with 3.5" bays above the power supply. I remember modifying a full tower case in college to add a second power supply so that I could power up the roughly 10 SCSI drives each between 10K and 15K rpm. A single 300W supply wasn't enough for all the drives and the Pentium III/Socket 370 board I had in there. To get it to work smoothly, I built a cascading switch using a relay, capacitor and some perf board that took 5V power from the main supply and shunted the "turn on" wires for the second supply making it so that everything started up and shut down with the main supply, even though there were two supplies in the machine. That Yamaha audio mixer board is fascinating!
Michael A Berry
2023-04-21 12:16:22 +0000 UTC
