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Second shipment - rusty, scored, greasy rotors, not described. The closer pair were cleaned up using spray brake parts cleaner and a rag. The left one of the upper pair, first shipment, show evidence of a half-hour's work with brake parts cleaning fluid and a Scotch scrubber pad.
They strung me along with empty promises until the dispute period expired, then ignored my pleas. More fool me, but that makes them thieves, doesn't it?
(Someone asked for an update: It's been two years or more. The point was: Even such high-volume and highly-regarded sellers can be rats from time to time. If they have something you want, at a price you like, it will probably be a problem-free transaction, but don't be surprised if there is something wrong, and do your objection and claims routines early. Don't let them run out the dispute period, as I did.
Matter of fact, I have something coming from them tomorrow (03 June 2009). We'll see how it develops ...)
(A week later: This one was perfect: excellent price, careful packing, timely delivery of an item that is exactly as advertised. I guess every one is a gamble; win a couple, lose a couple.)
Here is the inner workings of the famicom disk system. The diskdrive with the rubberbelt that likes to snap, the game data extractor ( who looks sucpiciously like mario ), the processing unit ( center right in the picture ), and an RGB port under the battery compartment ( top centre ). We also find a recycling system that turns broken workers into fuel, a charging station, the "Angry gamer's gravity generator" ( good to have when the console suddenly gets airbourne ), and backup workers. And a nuclear backup powerplant with a cooling system that involves a jumping Luigi, a barrel throwing Donkey Kong, an ice spitting Freeon Leeon, and a submerged Gil who's in charge of the circulation of the coolant. The powerplant also supplies the workers with a healthy cloud of radiation. The radiation also make the workers react with the games' contents. So familiar mutations will occour. In a such a situation you will also get new characters. And a few well known Nintendo characters ( like Funky Kong ) was inspired by mutations like this.
If anybody wants to know, the dimensions are: 120x180cm.
If you are interested in drawings without squids, feel free to visit my other page.
Verse
"Remember your Creator in the days of your youth."
(Ecclesiastes 12:1)
Explanation
The disk only has energy to spin for a small amount of time.
Remember to follow God and use your time wisely while you have energy.
Shown in Video
Euler's Disk by Toysmith (Damert in Auburn, Washington) with magnetic holographic triangles.
Heard in Video
Horn Concerto (Rondo in E-Flat, K. 371) composed by Mozart, performed by the English Chamber Orchestra, Jia Lu & Xiao-Mind Han
I lived in Kushiro, Japan for a year. It was there that I first discovered decorated manhole covers.
This is where I found all the photos from 10 years ago. A couple of these disks actually have my older website designs and content from christiangrantham.com
Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer
Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED
Lacerta Herschel Wedge (replaced ND3 with ND1.8)
ZWO EFW
ZWO IR850 filter (>850nm)
Baader Solar Continuum filter (540nm, 10nm)
Altair Astro NUV filter (395nm, 7nm)
ZWO ASI174MM
FireCapture v2.7beta
Ubuntu 18.04 (kernel 5.0)
PIPP for cropping out
AS!3 for stacking (2x resample)
ImPPG for sharpening
RawTherapee for colorization and final tweaks
Gimp to annotate images
ffmpeg to create the video
Preparing for a move I took time to discard a lot of old things we don't use anymore. 3.5 inch floppy disks were part of the lot. I just saved these. Maybe to be able to tell my grand-children that I was there! ;-)
"What's that?!" Was a question posed to me a few years ago when my Son saw an Vinyl LP for the first time.
I explained that there was a small concentric groove on the surface of the disk, the needle of the record player responds to the vibrations caused by the bumps in the groove to produce sound.
He understood. There is a whole generation who haven't a clue what these items are.
Here discarded and unwanted LP records are being used for creative purposes. The record is spun in a human powered device which started life as an exercise bike, then paint is introduced.
The nearest record to the camera is labelled: Eurythmics - Greatest Hits, Side 1.
The first production model, only approx. 50 have been sold, but the quality was very low and most of the cars have been buyed back by the factory. The construction was very progressive, but the production too hasty and mayn flaws have emerged soon. The workers had a popular saying: "DISK nám sežral zisk" (DISK ate away our profit).
foto por: Priscila Lima
priscilalimafotos.blogspot.com
Lomo Fisheye
Fujifilm Superia ISO 400
Rio de Janeiro - novembro de 2011
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The first production model, only approx. 50 have been sold, but the quality was very low and most of the cars have been buyed back by the factory. The construction was very progressive, but the production too hasty and mayn flaws have emerged soon. The workers had a popular saying: "DISK nám sežral zisk" (DISK ate away our profit).
500 MB IDE drive platters from an old Compaq server.
Whilst recycling an old Compaq server, I thought some of the parts needed to be recorded in history. This is one of the pictures.
If anyone knows any background about the item, please send me a comment.
Photo taken with a Canon 30D in Auto mode. The lens was a 18-55 mm and and the item was placed into a light tent.
2009
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Phaistos Disk, made no later than 1700 BC, is the world's first type-written document. The signs are read rim-to-center, right-to-left, but have not yet been deciphered.
Iraklion, Crete, Greece.
I snapped these two gigantic hard-disks on display in the department store. This one was about the size of a shoe-box.
COCHITI LAKE, N.M. — This is a Secchi disk submerged into Cochiti Lake about 1 inch. It is completely obscured by the oily-looking, ash-laden water washing down into the lake from areas burned by the Las Conchas fire upstream. Secchi disks are used to measure the clarity of water. U.S. Army Photo by Tim Beauchene, July 29, 2011.
This hard disk held a whopping 7.25 megabytes of storage, (the equivalent of about 5 of the now-obsolete 3-1/2" floppy disks).
How to set up RAID 10 array for high performance and fault tolerant disk I/O on Linux
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