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maybe it's just leftover urges from being a toddler putting round pegs in square holes but every time I see a video card like this on ebay I want to buy it and also some RAM chips to fill it with

 when I win the lottery I'm gonna buy all of these and a bunch of RAM chips, put them together, and then relist them right back onto ebay
I have a dream that one day all the super VGA cards on ebay will have full ram expansion sockets
that's a nice VLB video card you have there
be a real shame if someone were to UPGRADE ITS RAM
huh, I don't think I've ever seen RAM in that package
QFP DRAMs?
this one doesn't even have sockets.
you have to solder more RAM onto it
A CHALLENGE!
this one has ram slots on a daughtercard!
I think because it's a dual-output card... I think they made it dual-output by basically putting two cards on one card
remember when matrox made those AGP cards which had a laptop RAM slot on them so you could just use standard RAM in them?
beautiful
all slots filled
my skin is clear
the future is bright
all rams socketed
all rams filled
warm up the soldering iron, we got another one missing sockets
if you fill the ram sockets on your VGA cards, you may not be thanked much in this life, but you will be rewarded when you go to meet your maker.
as jesus said, in the red text, blessed are those who add more RAM to their supervga cards
apparently ATI also did that laptop-ram thing, according to this picture from an ebay seller who doesn't understand white balance
this EISA card has no obvious RAM sockets, but there are some suspicious pin headers near the ram chips.
so I bet you can upgrade this, you just need some stupid proprietary daughterboard
this guy managed to take 3 pictures of the same card, none of which are remotely in focus
matrox did that same daughterboard RAM thing, as you can see here, in some kinda blurry photos:
maybe I should take this into account when I build my MDA clone
design it for upgrading to more RAM
yeah, the MDA only has 4K of ram and can only use 4K of ram, but what if... it had more?
sure it only has a 80x25 character text screen, but if you had more RAM you could have more pages!
it reserves 32k of address space anyway, so you could have 8 pages of text screens
why not add a DDR3 slot?
"yeah, this is my upgraded Foonetronics Monochrome Display Adapter. I put in that 16gb DDR3 stick, and now I've got FOUR MILLION PAGES of text available!"
small brain: single buffering
big brain: double buffering
cosmic brain: triple buffering
multiversal infinite brain: four milluple buffering
I have no idea if that's remotely close to the english tuple name for a million and I don't really care. I don't think anyone has seriously tried to figure it out

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It's a timer outlet, but you program it from your phone... but it's not wireless.


Yeah instead it plugs into your phone's HEADPHONE PORT


I got it on sale.
probably because iphone dropped the headphone port and they had to get with the 21st century and make it bluetooth


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on top is the only controls: on/off/timer.
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Lockpicking Floppies!

I don't know why twitter is refusing to insert a card for this one. In any case, It's the @LockPickingLwyr, and it's a floppy-drive-lock.


so I've been meaning to do a video or thread on these sorts of locks myself. I have several, of different designs.

generally they're all designed vaguely like this one: it's a plastic insert that goes into the floppy drive, then it has some bit that rotates with the key to hold itself inside.

and they pretty much universally use super-cheap low-security tubular locks like this. You can probably pick most of them with a ballpoint pen
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So there's a class of puzzles called "river crossing puzzles" which involve having to cross a river on a boat/bridge containing some set of individuals/items with restrictions on which ones can be on the boat/left on each shore, right?

and the most common subclass of these problems is the one where you have 3 items/animals to cross with.
This is alternatively called the "fox, goose, and bag of beans" or "wolf, goat, and cabbage" puzzle.

the idea is that your boat can only carry one item at a time, but if you leave the wolf/fox unattended with the goat/goose, the wolf/fox will eat the goat/goose.
and similarly, the goose/goat will eat the beans/cabbage if left alone

so you have to set up a set of actions that never leaves either side of the river in one of the lose-states.

the solution to this variant being:
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3. take the wolf/fox over
4. return with the goat/goose
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I dreamed a fleet of alien ships had shown up to destroy the human race, and the ships were all invisible but were easily detected because they were using some kind of chameleon camouflage which didn't work if the thing they were chameleonizing as was another invisible ship

after it was known that they were here to destroy the human race, system of a down set up a fundraiser for the invasion.

not to stop it, but to support it?
the pope called in a message of support.

so my dad and I were at a mall to get some food while waiting for news, but we couldn't get any because there wasn't room to have socially-distanced lines for the restaurants

after an acapella band crashed the foodcourt and bombed, some folk singer lady showed up to try to cheer up the crowd, and my dad was so obviously enthusiastic about her performance that she told him to get a guitar and join in.
which is when I left

I thought about going into a toy store or a game store to see if there was anything interesting I could buy, but I realized I forgot my mask
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Everyone likes to forget this episode just because it's terrible, but we were really sleeping on inherent comedy in a unfreezing an investor 300 years in the future and having them discover we've transitioned to a moneyless post-scarcity utopia.


it's like a classic twilight zone episode.

in fact, it IS a twilight zone episode.
The Rip Van Winkle Caper, Season 2, episode 24.
Four criminals steal a million dollars of gold bars, then put themselves in suspended animation for a hundred years to hide from the law.

they wake up, then start killing each other from mistrust, then the last one dies in the desert, as he offers a gold bar to the driver of a passing car, asking for water and a ride into town

the confused driver walks back to his car with the bar, and his wife asks what the gold bar is.
he says something like "It's gold... they used to use this for money, before we figured out a way to manufacture it."
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