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various HP tape drive manuals and training material

#magnetic tape #psp7 #hp #hewlett packard #retrocomputing #collage #mood board #monochrome

a crude, all-purpose temple with cheap clay statues, manager and bookkeeper's offices nearby. sometimes its nice to integrate unusual materials, like lignite. i kind of like how it looks as-is, as if everything is emerging from the raw rock. might even switch out those clay statues for ones made of lignite and/or claystone to heighten that.

a slightly more elaborate temple for a death and blight focused god, using blocks of graphite, hornblende, and tower cap.

#dwarf fortress

eggboob

#happy thursday the 20th monday

nfolog

magnetictapedatastorage

Burroughs 9495 5E tape path, drawn in microsoft word 1997.

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fuck it. nortronics catalog fancam

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various HP tape drive manuals and training material

oldguydoesstuff

Fun fact about magnetic memory: we're still using it. Have to, in fact. Flash memory is much too susceptible to degradation from energetic particles if your system is meant to operate for 15 years in a high radiation environment such as the outer Van Allen belt. Ask me how I know. So, all our critical data is stored in two magnetic memory banks. Redundantly (though the banks themselves aren't redundant). And with ECC correction for SEEs.

And long-term large volume backup still goes onto magnetic tape. :)

Thanks for sharing! It makes a lot of sense to use magnetic storage in place of electronic storage in an intense radiation setting like that.

I love domain-specific exceptions from obsolescence like this. It reminds me of how vacuum tubes are still in use in high power and audio applications, how COBOL has survived and is still used on mainframes in financial institutions, or how you hear about PDP-11s still chugging away in some industrial control setting.

#magnetic tape

existentialterror

Sometimes I’m looking for something online - often “how to” articles - and I want to filter for - like - a website that was clearly built in 2010 at the latest, which may or may not have been updated since then, but contains a vast wealth of information on one topic, painstakingly organized by an unknown legend in the field with decades’ worth of experience. I don’t want a listicle with a nice stolen picture in a slideshow format written by a content aggregator that God forgot. I want hand-drawn diagrams by some genius professor who doesn’t understand SEO at all, but understands making stir-fries or raising stick insects better than anyone else on this earth. I don’t know what search settings to put into Google to get this.

greenjudy

thank you for articulating this cri de coeur for me

jumpingjacktrash

ngl these days i’m just happy when it’s not a video

averixus

search.marginalia.nu is the search engine you want!

The search engine calculates a score that aggressively favors text-heavy websites, and punishes those that have too many modern web design features.

This is in a sense the opposite of what most major search engines do, they favor modern websites over old-looking ones. Most links you find here will be nearly impossible to find on a regular search engine, as they aren’t sufficiently search engine optimized.

ashby-santoso

“It is a search engine, designed to help you find what you didn’t even know you were looking for. If you search for “Plato”, you might for example end up at the Canterbury Tales. Go looking for the Canterbury Tales, and you may stumble upon Neil Gaiman’s blog.

If you are looking for fact, this is almost certainly the wrong tool. If you are looking for serendipity, you’re on the right track. When was the last time you just stumbled onto something interesting, by the way?

I don’t expect this will be the next “big” search engine. This is and will remain a niche tool for a niche audience.“

ms-demeanor

i clicked around for a few minutes searching various things and I now have two fourteenth century pie crust recipes and an apple filling recipe i want to try, so thanks!

ms-demeanor

it has been twenty minutes and I am deeply in love with this search engine.

INCREDIBLE. I *do* want to know how to test Windows 95 for Y2K Compliance and I am glad that someone is still hosting step by step instructions for that.

workfornow

tl;dr: search.marginalia.nu for the old or old looking and just plain serendipitous stuff that google or Duck duck go are gonna not find/bury on the 20th page. For perfectly good reasons, but …

existentialterror

My absolute favorite part of having made this post - other than causing people to be introduced to this site - are the people in the tags/comments talking about their interests and stuff they found about their hobbies.

Good luck out there surfing the cyberweb, you crazy cats. I love the shoelace website too - Ian’s Shoelace Site [link], unless there’s another. My personal favorite old-school site is Alysion’s string figure collection [link].

#i searched for 40k and found androidarts.com #with sketches of female space marines <3

spacefinch

OP turned off reblogs, but this post deserves a spot on my blog.

Anyway, for those of you who observe it, have a meaningful Good Friday tomorrow. If you don’t observe it, just have a nice weekend.

deadandwalking

hey kitten. daddy needs to talk to you. your kink blog is great, but you are not highlighting the words correctly. kitten. stop highlighting. this is shit. did you seriously highlight that period. kitten.