Every morning I'm here at this hour there seems to be a headline of "Oil prices jump/rise/spike" or "Oil prices fall/slump/drop".
Can we just go with "Oil prices volatile" and save on the endless loop...
I think there's still one in Pres B... @marksimpson.bsky.social?
does it not appear for you?
Misinformation! Ceefax is still unaffected, I'll have you know! 😆
nmsceefax.co.uk
Yes yes I know, "bbc"... But even then it is doing "unreasonably" well... Or as my mum put it, 'there must be more weirdos like you in the world than I thought"...
it seems this is another one of the "completely unexpectedly doing well for no apparent reason" videos
Look up Matt Millman's delve into the mk2 NICAM system. There were a set of combiners in BH which added RDS data into the bitstream. It essentially acted as a massive unidirectional rs232 cable.
youtu.be/rfM6kEGlIJo
(it seems from what I can tell they could be driven from an external demuxer via that ribbon cable & rear D-type in large installations - however for single tributaries one decoder would be fitted with a HDB3 receiver card and the data looped through from it to two slaves via an extra long ribbon.)
The rear panel also opens up.
Not sure. The power supply(ers) contain such obscurities as Proper Transformers and a 10 ohm high power resistor that seems only to serve as a heater to keep the system nice & comfy in those cold drafty transmitter halls.
It even still powers up.
I too am thinking of making my own coder/decoder in an FPGA. Could pretty much copy the Phillips circuits. This is the 676k version for BBC Radio, TV used a 728k version which is pretty much the same only a bit more robust for RF
From this. Terrible shame I don't have a coder to match.
Today's activities
I dunno. Putting out an unaware studio for over 2 minutes during your primetime bulletin is, at best, a very poor look. Thank goodness nobody there said anything remotely contraversial.
The system that runs all my Things - including all versions of NMS Ceefax - is getting a bit of a clear up.
Generally speaking I think it's already pretty reliable (considering) but hopefully after this it will be even better.
If you remember the final version of Ceefax, which ran from around 1996 until DSO - from 1998 it was produced by boxes like these.
You can tell they're the real deal because they're beige.
They are essentially PCs running MS-DOS with a fancy teletext inserter ISA card.
More to follow.
Sure his 'mate' isn't chatgpt? 😆
Live from NMS Central Communications... 😆
In a world of websites steadily becoming worse & more horrid, glad to see that RS have bucked the trend and finally added the ability to filter out items that aren't actually in stock. Although why they didn't do this years ago like everyone else, I have no idea.
Shall we play a game?
Morning
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
nmsceefax.co.uk#id=WyJubXMtY...
then on the other hand you have me, at the ripe old age of whatever-i-am-now, not remembering folk's names until I've been around them for a few weeks...