#garfield Logs

Jan 19 2019

12:02 AM zhanx: rue_mohr, Beijing is reportedly promising the moon to reach a China trade deal with President Trump. A new Bloomberg News report says China has offered to buy more than $1 trillion in additional imports over six years, shrinking its $323 billion trade surplus with the U.S. to zero by 2024. While investors are increasingly confident that a China trade deal will happen, the news of a Chinese buying spree added a little hot sauce
12:07 AM zhanx: to the Dow Jones and broader stock market rally on Friday.
12:07 AM rue_mohr: so the file server had two bad caps
12:07 AM rue_mohr: I added in an unpopulated cap while I was changing them
10:57 AM Jymmm: rue_mohr: if you have bubble caps, sound like it's time to make a new server, hardware is cheap these days
11:01 AM rue_bed: fixed it
11:04 AM Jymmm: I realize, just sayng it's sounding liek it's showing it's age and a repplacement before it crashes wouldnt be a a bad thing
11:11 AM rue_bed: its had been crashing, thats why I changed the caps
11:11 AM rue_bed: thought it was the power supply, but that turned out to be ok
11:12 AM Jymmm: I just know you have a LOT of data, and that's far more valuable than hardware
11:12 AM rue_bed: on a mirrored raid array
11:13 AM rue_bed: backed up, when I can, to another mirrored raid array
11:13 AM Jymmm: ah ok =)
11:13 AM rue_bed: I just resent not having added more ram while I was in there
11:13 AM rue_bed: oh well
11:17 AM rue_bed: mmm
11:17 AM rue_bed: I could make a fake floppy disk for my apple IIe and capture all the disk data by copying all the existing disks to it
11:18 AM rue_bed: heh, iirc I'd have to reverse state machine the track motor
11:19 AM rue_bed: dont think its 1step/track
11:19 AM Jymmm: 64GB microSD card floppy drive =)
11:19 AM rue_bed: no, their $300
11:19 AM rue_bed: even from china
11:19 AM Jymmm: $12 amazon
11:19 AM Jymmm: or do you mean the whole drive?
11:19 AM rue_bed: available on amazon.ca?
11:20 AM rue_bed: well, the other thing is that the apple II drive is different than the ibm dirve
11:20 AM rue_bed: it would not be hard for an avr to serve out a floppy stream
11:20 AM Jymmm: Hmmm, $25 CDN https://www.amazon.ca/SanDisk-microSDXC-Standard-Packaging-SDSQUNC-064G-GN6MA/dp/B010Q588D4
11:21 AM Jymmm: Ha, I was joking about the uSD card, until I googled .... https://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/
11:24 AM Tom_L: pepsi had floppy code for an avr
11:45 AM rue_mohr: Price: CDN$ 25.53 & FREE Shipping on orders over CDN$ 35. Details
11:46 AM rue_mohr: so, plus $8 shipping
11:46 AM Jymmm: buy two and mirror them?
11:46 AM rue_mohr: I'd still have to make lots of hardware
11:46 AM rue_mohr: the disks hold about 700k iiirc
11:46 AM rue_mohr: bytes
11:46 AM Jymmm: I was only suggesting that to save shipping
11:47 AM rue_mohr: so ~8Mbit memory chip
11:47 AM Jymmm: dd image emulation?
11:47 AM rue_mohr: apple uses a different bit encoding, you can just stick a apple floppy in a pc and read it
11:48 AM rue_mohr: they made their own drives
11:48 AM Jymmm: its' been a LONG time, so I really don't recall
04:37 PM rue_shop3: ok, I found the todo list
09:37 PM zhanx: rue_shop3, take mine too
10:56 PM Jymmm: rue_mohr: Got Oranges? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD_3_gsgsnk
10:58 PM Jymmm: https://greenhouseinthesnow.com/