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HPR4153: Steading as she goes!
Introduction
Hosts:
Morriss
We recorded this on Sunday May 26th 2024. We were pleased
to discover that our favourite pub where we've had lunch in the past,
The Steading, had not closed permanently following the sale of
the premises. That's where we met for lunch.
Thus the show title: The Steading is now back on course1.
After lunch we as usual adjourned to Dave's Citroen car (Studio
C) in the car park, and recorded a chat.
Topics discussed
YouTube channel recommendations (Dave)
Ahti is a furniture restorer from Estonia. The episodes contain no
speech, just ambient sounds, but there is English text on-screen at
times. Music is included for the final part where the item is shown in
its before and after states. Shows some amazing skill in repairing all
kinds of old furniture as well as some new builds.
surprise inside the 150 year old chair/armchair restoration: In this
episode Ahti restores an armchair and shows the woodwork and upholstery
required.
The channel is about designing and building cargo bikes, machines,
furniture and more. The earlier shows contain no speech, just on-screen
explanations. In later episodes there is more description and
explanation. The level of engineering is high, and the host develops his
metalworking workshop and skills as episodes progress.
your own Cargo Bike (Short Version!): recent re-edit and re-release
of the original. This seems to be the second cargo bike he has built,
and later he builds yet another, this time electric.
DIY Cargo Bike (Plans available!): full version of the build.
Conservation Namibia: A Namibia-based team rescuing Cape fur seals
from entanglements in marine garbage. The seals are mainly on the beach
and the team runs to intercept the ones they spot with garbage around
them. They net them and remove whatever they have picked up and release
the seals. In many cases the fishing line, net, or other junk has cut
deeply into the seal's skin and muscle, and would kill them if not
removed. Episodes are usually daily and mostly short.
Rescued In One Day!: a recent episode, one of the longest.
varnish-like finish shellac, which
is used in the technique of French
Polishing.
colour to the outer chairs in the image)
Image copyright © https://www.design-market.co
(aka string trimmer)
one of the earliest plastics
Computers owned over time (MrX)
Spectrum:
decoding
Scan Television (SSTV)
(RTTY)
plotters at work
X.25)
packet radio modem (manual)
to radio.
could do all the same things that the basic PK232 could do (see details
from manual linked above) plus it could also do WeFax
(WeatherFAX) and had a basic Packet-Radio mailbox facility.
and ASCII RadioTeletype
(RTTY), AMTOR (Amateur
Teleprinting Over Radio) and Packet-Radio, using in-built
software.
send and acknowledge packets of information.
commands were used to control the modem. Any computer capable of talking
over RS232 could be used.
Optiplex ex business machine:
radios
University around 1978/79. This was a single board computer kit using
the Z80 CPU.
single CPU systems with a 32-bit word length and up to 512MB of
memory.
operating system, though Dave has no direct experience.
to an actual VAX might be similar if not better. This is just guesswork
however!
Guidance Computer:
be small and very reliable.
quality.
wasted.
forth from that era. Information that existed on paper, in newspapers
and magazines from that time has apparently never been recorded and made
searchable.
Corporation:
B6930 mainframe in the early 1980s at Heriot-Watt
University.
ran on two coaxial cables to connect to the mainframe and to each other
in a sort of "bus" configuration.
Germany.
running Pi-Hole. He has further plans for both, but hasn't done much
yet.
NVME M.2 card. The plan is to boot it off this disk, but it needs a case
and a means of mounting to a DIN rail.
desktop, since the previous of these shows. The upgrade left the PC in
an unusable state with no desktop manager, and it took some time to
repair it (installing and configuring from the console).
upgrade which failed. He was able to revert to the previous state
luckily, but still has an out of date OS.
frequently enough, so in this case, since it had nothing of importance
on it, he just installed Linux Mint over the top of it!
battery has failed. This is the model 700.
while.
Steady as
she goes - a Nautical expression. A cry to a helmsman to keep
on the current course.↩︎
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Introduction
Hosts:
Morriss
We recorded this on Sunday May 26th 2024. We were pleased
to discover that our favourite pub where we've had lunch in the past,
The Steading, had not closed permanently following the sale of
the premises. That's where we met for lunch.
Thus the show title: The Steading is now back on course1.
After lunch we as usual adjourned to Dave's Citroen car (Studio
C) in the car park, and recorded a chat.
Topics discussed
YouTube channel recommendations (Dave)
Ahti is a furniture restorer from Estonia. The episodes contain no
speech, just ambient sounds, but there is English text on-screen at
times. Music is included for the final part where the item is shown in
its before and after states. Shows some amazing skill in repairing all
kinds of old furniture as well as some new builds.
surprise inside the 150 year old chair/armchair restoration: In this
episode Ahti restores an armchair and shows the woodwork and upholstery
required.
The channel is about designing and building cargo bikes, machines,
furniture and more. The earlier shows contain no speech, just on-screen
explanations. In later episodes there is more description and
explanation. The level of engineering is high, and the host develops his
metalworking workshop and skills as episodes progress.
your own Cargo Bike (Short Version!): recent re-edit and re-release
of the original. This seems to be the second cargo bike he has built,
and later he builds yet another, this time electric.
DIY Cargo Bike (Plans available!): full version of the build.
Conservation Namibia: A Namibia-based team rescuing Cape fur seals
from entanglements in marine garbage. The seals are mainly on the beach
and the team runs to intercept the ones they spot with garbage around
them. They net them and remove whatever they have picked up and release
the seals. In many cases the fishing line, net, or other junk has cut
deeply into the seal's skin and muscle, and would kill them if not
removed. Episodes are usually daily and mostly short.
Rescued In One Day!: a recent episode, one of the longest.
varnish-like finish shellac, which
is used in the technique of French
Polishing.
colour to the outer chairs in the image)
Image copyright © https://www.design-market.co
(aka string trimmer)
one of the earliest plastics
Computers owned over time (MrX)
Spectrum:
decoding
Scan Television (SSTV)
(RTTY)
plotters at work
X.25)
packet radio modem (manual)
to radio.
could do all the same things that the basic PK232 could do (see details
from manual linked above) plus it could also do WeFax
(WeatherFAX) and had a basic Packet-Radio mailbox facility.
and ASCII RadioTeletype
(RTTY), AMTOR (Amateur
Teleprinting Over Radio) and Packet-Radio, using in-built
software.
send and acknowledge packets of information.
commands were used to control the modem. Any computer capable of talking
over RS232 could be used.
Optiplex ex business machine:
radios
University around 1978/79. This was a single board computer kit using
the Z80 CPU.
single CPU systems with a 32-bit word length and up to 512MB of
memory.
operating system, though Dave has no direct experience.
to an actual VAX might be similar if not better. This is just guesswork
however!
Guidance Computer:
be small and very reliable.
quality.
wasted.
forth from that era. Information that existed on paper, in newspapers
and magazines from that time has apparently never been recorded and made
searchable.
Corporation:
B6930 mainframe in the early 1980s at Heriot-Watt
University.
ran on two coaxial cables to connect to the mainframe and to each other
in a sort of "bus" configuration.
Germany.
running Pi-Hole. He has further plans for both, but hasn't done much
yet.
NVME M.2 card. The plan is to boot it off this disk, but it needs a case
and a means of mounting to a DIN rail.
desktop, since the previous of these shows. The upgrade left the PC in
an unusable state with no desktop manager, and it took some time to
repair it (installing and configuring from the console).
upgrade which failed. He was able to revert to the previous state
luckily, but still has an out of date OS.
frequently enough, so in this case, since it had nothing of importance
on it, he just installed Linux Mint over the top of it!
battery has failed. This is the model 700.
while.
Steady as
she goes - a Nautical expression. A cry to a helmsman to keep
on the current course.↩︎
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