mystery meridian box. I've always hated 5-pin DIN being used for power. it's an accident waiting to happen
60 pin D-sub
wow tester?
hmmm these look familiar
not what I expected to find
looks like a cellphone base station
can't find any info on the interwebs
that's a big wire stripper
a cape for Arduino??? c'mon, capes are a BeagleBone thing. Arduinos use shields.
just plug this into your PC power supply
a lot of people want to know what store this is. excesssolutions.com
they're located in San Jose, and they're basically the last surplus store left in Silicon Valley.
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i printed a new panel insert that has two BNC sockets on it (the original probes would have had captive cables)
the tricky part is that this oscilloscope has a 333K ohm input impedance instead of 1M like umm every other scope on the planet. fortunately someone designed a little conversion circuit...
in honor of Sim Wong Hoo, here's a quick historical review of the Sound Blaster! š§µ
but first we have to go back to their first sound card, the Creative Music System from 1987. (image credit: Bratgoul on Wikipedia)
this card has some special "CMS-301" chips. if you peel back the sticker, they have had their top marks removed. they're actually SAA1099 synthesizer chips made by Philips. Creative wrote music composition software for musicians on the PC.