J. B. Crawford
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Primex SNS Clocks: They're Neat, But Don't Buy One
Sorry about the audio in this video, at least two different parts of my setup worked poorly, so it's got two different kinds of irritating distortion going on. That's what I get for being lazy and using my phone instead of the Proper Camera That Has Level Meters.
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A cheap PBX and alternative to line simulators: Excelltel MS208
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Support me on ko-fi and receive EYES ONLY: ko-fi.com/jbcrawford would you believe that amazon reviewers complained about the default hold music?
The Tiger 911 Autodialer
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"speeker" lol Consider supporting me on Ko-Fi, ko-fi.com/jbcrawford. Your support helps me spend time on unprofitable pursuits like this.
Research Notes: Green River
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I've been planning for a while to make a video about the Green River Launch Complex, a contractor/military installation with a history of use for several different missile programs. It's an interesting part of the Utah landscape, and actually has a very close nexus to my beloved New Mexico. This is not that video; I need to spend probably 2-3 days at Green River to make it. I'm hoping to fit th...
Total Electric Living: dual-source irrigation
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Sorry my phone is hunting for focus half the time, it's just a phone. This is a quick video about my current irrigation setup, something I have made a number of attempts at and am never quite happy with. OH, right, support me on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/jbcrawford These aren't referral links because I'm not that business savvy, but if you're wondering, the zigbee power strip is this: www.amazon.com/dp/...
how about that weather?
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we had some severe weather. I took a few bad videos and rambled a little about pumps. maybe one day I'll make a better video about our flood infrastructure, but you know, you notice it most when it's (almost) failing you.
appliance time 005: a hotel telephone (etc)
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Look, some hotel rooms kind of disappoint. I found the panel where the Inncomm controller lives but it was locked. Locked! No one trusts anyone any more.
A Scenic Tour of the BarcoReality 909
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I can't show anything on it yet because I'm waiting for the right cable. But in the mean time, here's a video about the projector where I mostly name all the parts correctly.
Reviving the BarcoReality 909 CRT Projector
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In basically every video I've recorded on the bench, you've been able to see the back of this thing. Now it finally turns on.
The Tacnet Tracker
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This is mainly something I wrote about: computer.rip/2024-01-16-the-tacnet-tracker.html But I bought one, so let's take it apart!
Automation Addiction: The Aeotec Doorbell 6
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A sort-of review of the Aeotec Doorbell 6, which I give a rating of "do not buy" out of "10". Survive to the end for an addendum about Ilco Marlok, an erstwhile electronic lock.
Project Gasbuggy: Atomic Bombs for Natural Gas Production
มุมมอง 519ปีที่แล้ว
I'm doing my best Tom Scott impression at the site of the Gasbuggy nuclear test in northern New Mexico. See also an original news film about Gasbuggy, unfortunately locked up in Periscope Films: th-cam.com/video/F3MHOkHApRc/w-d-xo.html
Total Electric Living: Home Automation Wireless Protocols
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This was going to be like a five-minute aside at the beginning of a video about something else, but then it turned into over an hour. Don't worry, I edited it to slightly under an hour.
Automated People Moving: the Mandalay Bay Tramway
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Automated People Moving: the Mandalay Bay Tramway
appliance time 004: hotel networking junk (and a tv)
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somewhere in a Las Vegas hotel, an abandoned cable modem hides behind a furniture panel.
appliance time with jb episode 003: just a swamp cooler
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appliance time with jb episode 003: just a swamp cooler
A partially demolished L-3I repeater
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A partially demolished L-3I repeater
In The Desert, A Metal Hut: L-3I Repeater L 3E
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In The Desert, A Metal Hut: L-3I Repeater L 3E
The remains of open wire
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The remains of open wire
appliance time with jb, episode 002
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appliance time with jb, episode 002
The Toughbook CF-U1: A Wonderful Little Windows XP Guy
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The Toughbook CF-U1: A Wonderful Little Windows XP Guy
A rather interruptible power supply
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A rather interruptible power supply
The Monticello AT&T Microwave Site
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The Monticello AT&T Microwave Site
What's Happened to Burglar Alarms?
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What's Happened to Burglar Alarms?
Several Views of the Cumbres and Toltec
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Several Views of the Cumbres and Toltec
The Socorro L-3I station
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The Socorro L-3I station
L-3I at the Rio Grande: is there any interesting evidence of the river crossing?
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L-3I at the Rio Grande: is there any interesting evidence of the river crossing?
Mexico City Metro
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Mexico City Metro
Let's talk telephones episode 0002: more buttons with the GXP2200EXT
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Let's talk telephones episode 0002: more buttons with the GXP2200EXT
let's talk telephones ep. 0001: grandstream gxv3240 video phone
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let's talk telephones ep. 0001: grandstream gxv3240 video phone

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  • @UnityPhreak
    @UnityPhreak 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    If you have the PABX set to hotline, and jumper the operator to the co line 1, and have the PABX set to ring CO 1 to all lines, does the hotline ring all phones when any phone is picked up, or does it just go to fast busy when any phone is picked up?

  • @sarbantz
    @sarbantz 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This is CIA and we would like to talk to you. Don't be nervous, it's just a little mostly peaceful interrogation.

  • @billyswatzell1735
    @billyswatzell1735 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    i noticed your longlines site got taken down, did AT&T Corp Security come for you?

  • @1111Paiste
    @1111Paiste 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thanks for making this, I learned a lot! I was stationed at Kirtland AFB from 1987 to 89 as a Security Specialist (Law Enforcement) and sat/guarded the entry to the Trestle a dozen times or so. I was there while they were testing the B-1 Bomber.

  • @DaSmartestRobloxHooman
    @DaSmartestRobloxHooman หลายเดือนก่อน

    Do u know where the website to configure the primex click because I have 3 SNS primex clocks and I had them for a year and I don't know how to set them.

  • @DieselRamcharger
    @DieselRamcharger หลายเดือนก่อน

    gay

  • @michaell2120
    @michaell2120 หลายเดือนก่อน

    IMO, what killed the last of the CRT projectors off was cost. They were expensive to buy and install. Early LCD and DLP projectors had an inferior image in every way but they were relatively speaking, cheaper and simpler to install, not to mention lighter. CRT was king for colour and contrast. DLP took years to get accurate colour reproduction and the colour wheel caused rainbow effects. LCD had better colour but lousy contrast. Like all these things, they improved pretty quickly but I kept using a CRT for home theatre. The high end CRT projectors will do 1080i or 1080p. Interlaced on a CRT looks pretty good in reality even though people rubbish it. Thanks for doing a video on a CRT projector. They are becoming very rare now but they are an engineering wonder.

  • @oasntet
    @oasntet 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Heh. Ivar shelves, only outdoors. I sealed mine even though they're indoors, just to make them last longer because IKEA isn't making them anymore. I solved a big part of my irrigation issues here in Portland, where it does not rain for four months straight every summer, by using wicking beds made from plastic half-barrels and half IBC containers. Water goes in, but it doesn't leave until the plants use it, rather than just dumping water back into the ground.

  • @manoeljeneci607
    @manoeljeneci607 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Melhor projetor barco 909 faz 4k resolução 3200x2560 x RGB =8.190.000 milhões de pixel ❤❤❤❤

  • @Ancient123
    @Ancient123 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wonder what friend wanted you to look into this! They must be cool.

  • @benjaminjinkins4958
    @benjaminjinkins4958 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Im looking at getting one of these, and i'm wondering if it recognizes pulse dialling. Obviously programming and such would have to be done with a DTMF phobe to have * and #, but id like to use my rotary sets for calling.

    • @Ancient123
      @Ancient123 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It does not handle pulse dialing it seems.

  • @rebeltaz123
    @rebeltaz123 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Do you know where I can find the XP drivers for this? There are a few devices in Device Manager that are not found and one of those is the network card. Thanks.

  • @rcxb1
    @rcxb1 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    But you didn't actually test it with a pair of dial-up modems to confirm that it's got a clean audio signal and will provide decent speeds. I expect many (most?) folks buying line simulators are getting it for retro dial-up networking equipment...

  • @JoeyRH
    @JoeyRH 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don't know about phones and haven't really cared about phones before your videos, but I enjoy all your uploads! Thank you for posting (and writing)!

  • @DeAwoken
    @DeAwoken 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome video, very informative, entertaining and you took the time to warn about a potential safety issue for viewers who might be considering using the Mini PABX in a real world scenario. Keep it up, this was great!

  • @lookitsahorner
    @lookitsahorner 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Woo, someone finally did a video on these! I quite liked the pricing on AliExpress to the UK (about £50) and they seem pretty decent based on the video. Do you happen to know what processor lives inside? Maybe a teardown at some point or internal pics?

    • @computersarebad
      @computersarebad 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'll open it up soon and take a look at the inside. I do think the only serious problem with it, that I've found so far at least, is the tone it uses for everything. It's pretty grating compared to a proper dial tone. There were a lot of key systems out there that did similar on their intercom lines, though, so I don't object to it too much.

    • @lookitsahorner
      @lookitsahorner 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@computersarebad If it is generic enough inside it might be possible to fiddle with it and make it sound different

  • @mctavishmcardle6906
    @mctavishmcardle6906 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    kitty with dtmf support ...

  • @marliedpahltr6574
    @marliedpahltr6574 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A man and his green nails !

  • @kieranross8590
    @kieranross8590 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    did you get this working?

  • @wildswan221
    @wildswan221 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cool trip. Love your newsletters, btw.

  • @CaseTheCorvetteMan
    @CaseTheCorvetteMan 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You need the LIMO PRO internal scaler to use the s-video or composite video on these sets, they don't connect to anything without that board. I have one for my Cine 9 since they usually came with it installed, but i don't use it any more and removed it years ago. You may see a slot on the far left of the rear that is not populated, and that is where the LIMO PRO scaler goes. You are also missing the IRIS3 auto convergence camera, no real loss there, although without your limited knowledge it may indeed be significantly quicker and more accurate to set up using IRIS3 if you did have it. The thing you thought was a speaker is where the little camera goes. There are no internal speakers, there is no audio input anywhere on the set. The remote was near identical to the built in version and it is NOT wired, you can use it wired, but it is infra-red. The RS-232 ports are also used to update software and save or load setup data. In the bottom tray you have four boards, convergence, astigmatism, focus, and main controller. The first three do nothing else apart from their dedicated roles. The main controller board is the digital brain, with a Motorola 68000 CPU managing it all. This board feeds digital positional info into the other three boards for alignment and geometry settings. In the rear of the set there are analog positional adjustments on a couple boards, v-size and v-position can be adjusted using analog pots. Be sure you are adjusting the correct pots. The SMPS has an adjusment procedure for the 17v output rail, which is critical for best stability of the set. I adjust this with a full white screen and aim for 17.3v at the test point, i then watch the voltage as i turn from white screen to full black or very close to full black, if it fluctuates too much you need to replace a heap of capacitors in the SMPS, not just the two 560uF caps on the standby section. The modification you see on that SMPS is done by Barco, not a big deal. Leave it alone. You will notice the fan speeds change when you go from a full dark screen to a full white screen, and this is due to voltage sag, hence you want to have that SMPS in very good health so it will hold as close to 17.3v on that 17v rail as possible if you want the set to be reliable and alignment/geometry to be stable. That 17v rail affects everything in the set one way or another, including dynamic beam focus and convergence, astig, etc. Everything starts there. In the middle of the set are the 3 neckboards, all three are identical, no adjustments there. You will see 3 width coils on the main backplane board, those will give a small range of adjustment for the width of each image so you can get all three the same width on screen, using less digital correction makes for a more stable set. DO NOT USE A METAL SCREWDRIVER TO ADJUST THESE, EVER. You MUST use a plastic adjuster, or you'll either get a major boot or your burn yourself as the metal screwdriver starts to get incredibly hot. Adjustment of the yokes is also somewhat important for minimal digital correction, again use care and do not touch the windings. Move the focus yoke back and foward to achieve best midpoint focus at or about 57. Setting one of these up correctly is no simple task, it takes many hours of checks and adjuments and tweaks to get all the mechanical aspects of the set correct before you begin going too far into digital adjustments. If you skip anything and find you can't get something perfect, you're starting again from whatever you skipped or didn't set correctly. These sets can easily display clear razor sharp 1920x1080p that will rival all but the best 1080p digitals, but need to be accurately set up to achieve that. You can indeed display 2560x1440 and 2560x1600 and also achieve a very sharp clear image, but this will require some skill to have it looking better than 1920x1080p. You may have paid $15 for it, but that was a $50,000+ set when it was new, and it is well worth maintaining it as such!!

  • @CaseTheCorvetteMan
    @CaseTheCorvetteMan 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I still have a Cine 9 in my cinema room, it still sees regular use too!! It has a bit over 24,000 hours on it now, about 3,000 hours on the current tubes and i have two new sets left. There is a Sony 4K sitting beside it for the UHD discs, but for DVD or VHS the Barco smokes the Sony and the blacks are still far better than even that decent SXRD Sony 4K. I have a Reality 909 for a full set of spares and a test machine, but both sets have been working perfectly since i rebuilt every board about 9-10 years ago, haven't had one single issue ever since. Works great for light gun games!! th-cam.com/video/4y1ab9f84jE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=UV6fFJsINejqeB6s

  • @Mpg-gh5fq
    @Mpg-gh5fq 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wish more companies would still offer the simple wired systems. My parents had a fully-wired 2007-vintage Brinks system that worked well for a while, but then ADT took over their area. Bad news! When the system started having problems, ADT told them that they had to spend almost $900 on new equipment to make it work again, including a wired-to-wireless converter because the new panels don't work with wired systems and a new siren because the old wired siren doesn't work with new systems. Their technicians failed to show up twice when we made appointments for technical support, and their phone employees were worthless. After that experience, I'll never sign an alarm system contract.

  • @oasntet
    @oasntet 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Weird how many of these are on aliexpress and even have made their way onto newegg. Who is making these all of a sudden, and for so cheap? There must be a market somewhere, or maybe these sat in a warehouse for a decade? I wonder if the NC mode expects the voltage to go to 0 when it is disconnected? That'd require a pulldown resistor in the sensor so that when +V is disconnected, it would drop to GND. Without that, there's a good chance a filter cap on that input is holding it at +V for at least as long as you ran that test. I also wonder if for each phone pair, one is a common ground that could be teased out with a meter. I mean, they should be running into an optoisolator because who knows what is connected to each line, but if they were really cheap, maybe not? The unpopulated header seems likely i2c, but that R? Reset? I mean, C is clock and D is data... I guess if you put +12v into the R pin and it reset, that'd deduce that, though maybe with a resistor just in case...

  • @JessieMHadaller
    @JessieMHadaller 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Most alarm panels that are installed residentially are not traditional hardwired panels, as companies try to squeeze as many installations in one day as possible to try to get the most money. They install all in one systems, with the keypad, panel, and wireless transceiver are all built into one touchscreen unit. It is very uncommon to see new installations that are traditional, companies are even replacing traditional hardwired systems, with the all in one wireless. Also, most modern communication is not done over a telephone line, but over cell and the customer’s internet connection. This form is faster, and more detailed. ADT has also proven themselves to be a scam and blatant fraud. DC-09, is its own format, and is used in Europe. Not in North America. Vivint, used to be APX Alarm, but changed their name due to some very shady business practices. They have been around for quite some time, and are by no means new. Vivint now also found a manufacturer to product their own panel, and no longer use 2GIG. They have done this more than 5 years ago. In terms of central station software, Patriot is in no way the most common. The offerings like Mastermind, and the software from Bold Group (Manitou, Stages, and SIMS III), are the most popular.

  • @therealchriscunningham
    @therealchriscunningham 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have 20 years of industry experience and I still routinely flip duplex prints on the wrong edge. Computers are, as a wise man once said, bad. [edit] "positive and degative are same" is dying for a meme.

  • @jeffmoss26
    @jeffmoss26 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Napco should be on your list along with DMP

  • @thafff
    @thafff 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The following remarks may have evolved since, but IIRC: 24:23 the European standard (EN 50131) mandates 12h of operation on backup power supply for grades 1&2, 60h above. Doubled runtime is required if the alternate source is not rechargeable. Full charge shall happen in 72h for grades 1&2, 24h for higher ones. 45:39 Supervision interval limits are the following here: 4h for grade 1, 2h for the 2nd, 100s for the 3rd, and 10s for the last. Your system should refuse to arm itself if it was unable to get a status report in the last hour for grade 1, 20 min for grade 2, 60s for grade 3, and 10s for grade 4. 50:31 I'm sharing your view on wireless intrusion alarms. According to various sources, most burglaries happen in less than 10 minutes. A system that's unable to detect and report an intrusion event within the first minute is basically useless. Beyond burglary deterence, an intrusion alarm system's is useful to detect and report home squatting on secondary/vacant places (eg in France, there is an accelerated procedure to evict squatters that settled recently, but you need to prove the act of home invasion. Being able to react quickly is clearly in your favor). On a sidenote: the blue collar you're wearing in the second part is from aislinnscollared on Etsy, amirite? I like her job (^-^)

  • @sealstech8087
    @sealstech8087 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Im a Honeywell and Tyco tech, Tyco takes my favor for programming simplicity. Tyco>dsc> power g smoke detectors had a year and a half long run on defective devices. They were not unsafe, they were instead too sensitive. We would have never used them if system sensor didnt have supply chain issues. I love the power G lineup otherwise, the wired to wireless takeover lets you use all wired sensor on and 8/16/24/32 zone setup by using their zone expanders. This lets you use a attractive qolsys keypad with all your wired zones including hardwired smokes and smoke/carbon units by using a cosmod on pgm + 2 zones for smoke/co. Having a wireless transceiver and a communicator in and the controller all in one keypad really streamlines it all. Unlike with power series, I can just add UL wireless devices without adding any other equipment. Dual path is a smidge laughable since if any one tel cell or ip paths are interrupted, an alert is sent that the system went dark. If the customer doesnt answer the courtesy call with their proper normal code, a squad car is sent. The 2g problem has been solved, we were forced to upgrade all existing contracts to 4G standard in early 2023. The ring system is still not listed in atleast Oklahoma as an acceptable smoke or carbon monoxide system up to this date 2024. A burg only system wont get you a price break on insurance nor will it pass city inspection. The electricians or alarm guys must install a ul listed smoke or smoke/co system within city limits again atleast in Oklahoma city and all its surrounding cities, little towns have their own discretion. The big 3 you mentioned own 20 competing companies selling all rebranded products. Monitoring is still done by 2 or 3 major companies due to logistical issues. The cell and landline network is so robust that one call center can cover many states and companies. Ill check for and look for questions/responses and may add more points/edits since I ran out of time half through and will follow through later on the second half. Thanks for being a safety nerd, I knew I wasnt the only one 🍻

    • @sealstech8087
      @sealstech8087 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Edit 1 Takeover controller batteries last 4/8 years, they can be 4 or 7 amp hour batteries and beyond and you can stack them as deep as you want beyond the standard based on usage needs. A backlog of system events is kept for atleast 90 days. I know I can get 90 day history reports from my center atleast but its all digital. Delays for entry exit zones are 30 seconds unless changed from :01 to 02:00 based on needs. There are also instant zones that dial immediately if tripped. Cities around me often issue an alarm permit which usually covers false alarms. Fire,fall/ems and duress calls do get expedited to a higher priority and yield many units responding instead of just one car. Depending on the industrial application, an alarm can call everyone including the government if your address is known to have certain chemicals or hazards. The alarm monitoring contract is intensely in depth if the manager you deal with is good.

  • @watching-teevee
    @watching-teevee 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I, too, would probably use HA like you have, but I'd be very interested to see your PLC setup.

  • @nick9323
    @nick9323 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Electric stuff on the moisture ground with plastic cover near woodchips, fearless of fire you are. ZigBee is nice if u need to work on batteries, otherwise huge pain to make an "opensource" ZigBee gate. I've choose tuya wifi relays which easy reflashable to openbeken.

  • @templekeller
    @templekeller 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Even simpler idea: plumb the city water into the rain barrel via a float valve. You could set it up so that if the water level in the barrel ever drops below a foot or so, the valve opens and some city water gets added to the barrel. Then you just always use the barrel water to feed the irrigation.

    • @computersarebad
      @computersarebad 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, that's probably the "correct" solution to this problem, and I don't have any good reason that I haven't done it that way.

  • @loganlentz3069
    @loganlentz3069 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have one of these and it came without the ssd and a bios issue. I fixed the bios problem but can't track down the model of ssd. What model is it?

    • @computersarebad
      @computersarebad 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That is a difficult question. I have really struggled to find any source of the SSD. It was made by Samsung but doesn't seem to be a part that they sold on the open market. I vaguely think it was made to be an SSD replacement for Microdrives, but can't confirm that.

    • @loganlentz3069
      @loganlentz3069 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@computersarebad, I was able to track it down to Japan, however, because I can't see what the serial number is, I have no clue if it's the right part.

    • @computersarebad
      @computersarebad 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@loganlentz3069 okay, I pulled one out and here's the markings: Samsung 16GB 3.3v ATA5 UDMA66 think this is the part number: MCBQE16GZMPP-M1A And I think this is the serial, but in case it's useful: DFV2D00845-SE845B1741

    • @loganlentz3069
      @loganlentz3069 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Certified life saver, now I can get mine working again, thanks!

  • @goethe3290
    @goethe3290 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    15 Dollars??? Wow! That beast was and is my Dream…! Had Sony G70! Stunning image, filmlike!

  • @suzannejamison5366
    @suzannejamison5366 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My dad was a wire line operator who worked on the rig that drilled this project. Project Gasbuggy would be hysterical if it weren’t such a terrible environmental and financial failure. I remember my dad coming home just laughing because he thought these people were nuts - of course if you explode an atom bomb to produce gas and oil, the gas and oil are going to be radioactive! How brilliant does one have to be to figure this out? Ultimately, they flared off all the radioactive produced gas into the environment.

  • @blauwvingers
    @blauwvingers 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sweet memories! I had one too back in 2008. Bought a chassis from Sweden without tubes, went to a planetarium in Luzern (Switzerland) where they had a stash of P19LUG tubes without burns for sale. Built it all together and the image quality was nothing short of fabulous. Very film-like! The 909 is renowned for its digital convergence. All earlier Barco projectors had some drifting convergence because of the analog circuits. Not this 909 which was all digital.

    • @SkilledApe
      @SkilledApe 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hello, do you still have some P19LUGs left? :)

    • @CaseTheCorvetteMan
      @CaseTheCorvetteMan 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      NECs had far better convergence than the Cine 9 and Reality 909, significantly better and much finer adjustment, even on the 9PG with a point convergence board they were better. The XG series simply slapped the Barco convergence into the middle of next week, and it was rock solid reliable too. The Barco Cine 9 and Reality 909 were "mostly digital", not all digital. There are still a few analog adjustments on a couple boards that do tend to drift. I have a Cine 9 in my cinema room that has been with me a very long time. The Barco has about 81 points of convergence, tops, where the 9PG had more than 100 per colour, and the XG has more than 300 points per colour with much smaller adjustment steps. The step sizes on some of the Barco geometry settings are too large. The fine convergence steps are WAY too coarse. This makes it far quicker to get it all very close if you're happy with 99%, but it is quite time consuming to get it 100% perfect corner to corner of a 130" 16:9 screen. One area the Barco Cine 9 and Reality 909 certainly do beat all others is the dynamic astig and focus, that is significantly better especially the multi pole zone astig. The Barco still has the primary spot in my cinema room, but if NEC made a 9" XG i'd never have bought a Barco!!

    • @SkilledApe
      @SkilledApe 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@CaseTheCorvetteMan Hello, I will be putting my Cine 9 into service and calibrating for the first time. Could you share some tips or resources, how to understand it, do it proper way and not get lost myself? Thank you

  • @ScottMiller-rm8uo
    @ScottMiller-rm8uo 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was stationed at Manzano from 1960-64. Best assignment in my 20 year career. I originally worked in plant 1 and when that closed I transferred to plant 4. Awesome experience learned a lot. Many great comrades that I will never forget. My two oldest daughters were born at the Sandia Base hospital. Many wonderful memories.

  • @ScottMiller-rm8uo
    @ScottMiller-rm8uo 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2:57 😊2300

  • @metalwolf112002
    @metalwolf112002 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would suggest trying to run a lite linux version on this. You might be surprised with what it can do. Maybe start with booting puppy linux off a usb drive.

  • @radimkolar2270
    @radimkolar2270 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That is quite interesting, I did not expect Bosch to be one of the companies that produces alarms, they are certainly not common here, in Europe. Where i live, government buildings almost exclusively use Honeywell, but in home most people have a brand called Jablotron. I actually worked there for a while, their alarms are developed and manufactured in the Czech Republic. Have you ever heard about this system? If you cared, I could tell you some more things.

    • @computersarebad
      @computersarebad 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's interesting. I've never heard of Jablotron here, but their products look similar to some of the newer US vendors. I believe Bosch got into the alarm business by acquiring a company called Radionics that I think was American, so Bosch may not have done alarms in Europe. I'm a little shaky on that history though, I don't know much about Radionics. I do know that Radionics had a reputation as being one of the more expensive options in the US, which is maybe why Bosch seems to focus on the higher end large corporation market today.

    • @radimkolar2270
      @radimkolar2270 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@computersarebad Jablotron is an OEM for some other alarms so it is possible that they were made by them as well.

  • @altebander2767
    @altebander2767 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I guess there are 2 reasons why those rear-projection consumer TVs weren't particularly good. One is that they were essentially based on standard TVs, but with higher beam currents and slightly modified deflection circuits to have some way to control convergence. The other problem was that living rooms typically are much brighter than a typical room you would use CRT projectors, combine that with cheaper, less bright, projection tubes, and you simply get a rather faded out picture.

  • @altebander2767
    @altebander2767 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Actually there's no need to destroy an Eidophor as they will self-destruct when left without power for more than a day or so. The maintenance of those was insane, you had to swap the filament of the electron gun every 100 hours... while it's on a vacuum... via some sort of air lock.

  • @floorpunch18
    @floorpunch18 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “A destination within a destination” is pure sales jargon for the Casino and has nothing to do with the customer. Such a gem of a find lol

  • @WhatALoadOfTosca
    @WhatALoadOfTosca 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Electric "drapes" aren't common in Europe. We call them curtains btw.

  • @dysfunctionalwombat
    @dysfunctionalwombat 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm going to make the guess that the PBX in question might be a Nortel CS1000 (I don't own one personally), but maybe not. It's definitely the same person who voiced the CallPilot at the bare minimum. I do have a Nortel BCM so I recognized that voice immediately, but the wording is different than on the BCM

  • @noisemisato
    @noisemisato 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    god i love appliance time

  • @mike3543
    @mike3543 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    💯 "promosm"

  • @damanyocum149
    @damanyocum149 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember there was a B29 crash involving nuclear weapons and nuclear detonators and it took off normally and without warning, banked and crashed into the mountain killing all on board, but the weapons and detonators were successfully recovered No explanation of why the crash happened...I believe it happened on the mountain at Monzano Base and it happened in the early 50s and it was very classified and hush hush until recently

  • @cuttinchops
    @cuttinchops 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Moist

  • @scratchback2001
    @scratchback2001 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Gay Crime?? Please explain darling?