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Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up
May 7, 2024 at 9:55 PM Post #150,871 of 152,423
STAX® had problems sourcing transformers for their products. Same, I estimate, for SCHIIT® AUDIO™ — electrostatic end grids have on or about 1kVDC for the diaphragm(s) to attract and/or repel. Not to mention a specialty connector for the end grids plus the left and right earpiece diaphragms.
 
May 7, 2024 at 10:07 PM Post #150,873 of 152,423
May 7, 2024 at 10:17 PM Post #150,874 of 152,423
Now we're talking....
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May 7, 2024 at 11:10 PM Post #150,875 of 152,423
Computers I've programmed (that I can remember on the spot, there's likely more):

https://www.ithistory.org/db/hardware/elliott-brothers-london-ltd/elliott-4130 (Algol 60, Fortran, assembler)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_44 (PL/I)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-10 (Algol 60, Fortran, MACRO-10, Bliss-10, Simula 67, Prolog, Lisp -- several variants, ...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11 (C, assembler, Prolog)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX-11 (C, assembler, Prolog)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics Lisp Machines (Lisp, of course)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUN_workstation (C, Prolog, assembler)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K (Pascal)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indigo and other SGI machines (C, Python)
Various Intel boxes running Windows NT (C++)
Various Intel boxes running Linux (C, Python, Java)
Modern macOS machines (Python + C/C++ libraries)
 
May 7, 2024 at 11:22 PM Post #150,876 of 152,423
earnmyturns said:
Computers I've programmed (that I can remember on the spot, there's likely more):

https://www.ithistory.org/db/hardware/elliott-brothers-london-ltd/elliott-4130 (Algol 60, Fortran, assembler)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_44 (PL/I)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-10 (Algol 60, Fortran, MACRO-10, Bliss-10, Simula 67, Prolog, Lisp -- several variants, ...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11 (C, assembler, Prolog)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX-11 (C, assembler, Prolog)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics Lisp Machines (Lisp, of course)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUN_workstation (C, Prolog, assembler)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K (Pascal)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indigo and other SGI machines (C, Python)
Various Intel boxes running Windows NT (C++)
Various Intel boxes running Linux (C, Python, Java)
Modern macOS machines (Python + C/C++ libraries)
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Gah. You're bringing back horrid memories of WATFIV and WATFOR compilers of my youth. [Shudder]
 
May 7, 2024 at 11:49 PM Post #150,880 of 152,423
Minoguez said:
Lol! Us outsiders or newbies! I love the evolution of topics! Now old computers and strange fruit. Lol!!! Can I have a puppy or kitty please?
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May 8, 2024 at 12:10 AM Post #150,885 of 152,423
bcowen said:
And how much money I gave those guys playing Megawars 3 at 300 baud.... 🤣
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I never missed the money- it was the time. I remember being pretty proud of myself for maxing out an avatar in a once popular MMPORG until I realized I had spent close to 2000 hours doing it.
 
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