another day, another trip to Excess Solutions in San Jose!
oooh a VESA bus multi IO card!
this multi IO card comes with "DATA SECURITY & VIRUS PROTECT" ๐
neat! a VESA bus graphics card!
there are a bunch of other neat cards in here. clearly @Foone hasn't been here yet๐
I'm not buying all of them, don't worry lol
ooh look software
a pink floppy disk. where the heck are you Foone
MS-DOS 3.2 ๐ค
windows/386.
trans x95 clones? ๐ค
windows 95 on floppy disk!
while chatting with the employee at the register, he told me that he designed a component of the Pivot display while he was at Radius. then I remembered the LGR video. small valley!
what I needed to buy there today / what I came home with ๐
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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! ๐งต
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.