Robert Watson

university academic and all-round engineering nerd.

[Robert Watson @robert_watson]

@MehdiHacks I wish I did keep one.

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@9600 @usgraphics Wanted one for ages just for nostalgia. I remember the keyboard was really chunky with a feeling of indestructibility. Don’t recall ours having a number pad.

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@9600 @usgraphics Bottom right is ICL terminal? We had a load of those connected to Sun workstations at Uni the late 80s

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@MakeAugusta Oh wow, didn’t realise it was that old. Seems Wiley/McGraw/Pearson own just about every EE titled textbook now. Prices are insane. I’ve given up recommending students buy printed books these days - which is a real shame.

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@tektronix @NASA Looks like a 24xx? Keep U800 cool and it’ll probably outlive us all.

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@ATaylorFPGA @TomcatJunkie That EOIR gimbal is pretty sweet though!

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@ATaylorFPGA @TomcatJunkie Hydraulic actuator but synchros for positional feedback?

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@ElectronicsbyJH Just wait for the AI features…

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@DJSnM In the words of Norman Stanley Fletcher: “what, from here?”

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@kotosan_dayo 6502 in Vic-20 and then 8088 in PC clone

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@ATaylorFPGA Cool. We have a bunch on campus, they are the most plug and play ones I’ve used (aka I-don’t-need-another-hobby). Heavily used for functional parts rather than arts and crafts type stuff.

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@ATaylorFPGA If you want to print functional parts such as boxes, brackets etc., and you don’t need another hobby, the various Prusa CORE ones are decent it-just-works options.

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@meaning_matters @cqcqcqdx That’s an SLC I think - you could pull the board out at the back on an ELC? Wrote my thesis on an SLC.

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@ElectronicsbyJH @tinytapeout What’s your view of the RFSoC board, seems like a relative bargain?

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@ElectronicsbyJH Close the browser tab, and step away from the keyboard!

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@ElectronicsbyJH Eeeek! Yeah, well the CC output impedance is low, like really low.

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@ATaylorFPGA Nice! A bit of a reverso too - test gear being a couple of orders of magnitude cheaper than the device under test :)

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@GigglyPigeon Agreed. Nephew was close to stepping out in the previous bout. Yoko show down on day 5? Who drew short straw I wonder…