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foone

@foone@digipres.club

Hardware / software necromancer, collector of Weird Stuff, maker of Death Generators. (she/they🏳️‍⚧️)

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Here's a weird question: so Dynix made a text-based library catalog system that used Wyse terminals, and they shipped them with custom keyboards. They had four keys above the numpad: one of these keys was Start Over/New Search.

Does anyone remember having used these terminals, and recall what those other keys were?

foone,
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Dynix is this system:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynix_(software)

The menu system looked like this:

foone,
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And I've looked through all the pictures I can find of it and they're all like this: showing the keyboard, but cropped before you can see the buttons on the right.

foone,
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Here's a picture of the keyboard from a non-Dynix Wyse WY-30 terminal: you can see there's 4 function keys on top of the numpad. Those were customized for the Dynix version.

foone,
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@pearl yeah, sadly none of the manuals I can find list the keyboards. They were optional, so they probably came with some documentation, but I don't have it

foone, to random
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Having one of those fun days at work where I have to ask "hey, is the edison cylinder phonograph supposed to be on?"

foone,
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The wind up Victrola was on too! What is the world coming to?

foone,
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We need to keep this antiques in functioning order. What if the CME fries the power grid? How will we play music then?!

foone,
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Note to self: figure out how to get Never Gonna Give You Up recorded onto a wax cylinder

foone,
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You'd think I could just play my vinyl copy of the album on the Victrola, but the album is a 45, this player is for 78s

foone,
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I wonder if someone showed the Edison phonograph to Musk when he visited. You know, because he runs Tesla.

foone,
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It turns out in 2023 I could have bought a Neil Cicierega phonographix cylinder, but they're now all sold out.

It's okay, I already have that album on 8-track anyway

foone,
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@HighlandLawyer oh I do, just not here at work.

mcc, to random
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Just discovered a new YouTube cheat code: Search for the seemingly nonsensical phrase "biodata sonification" and you will be rewarded with a wealth of incredibly weird shit

foone,
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@joeyh @mcc

foone, to random
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"2 factor authentication" is an english word meaning "we'll text you a 6 digit number"

foone,
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why is it called 2 factor? well, there's two factors:

  1. your username/password
  2. a 6-digit number you get texted
foone,
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there are rumors about 2fa possibly involving other things, like authentication apps or biometrics or "you bee keys", whatever those are, but there's no evidence of that ever being real.

it's just a password and a 6 digit number you get texted

foone, to random
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my telco just gave me the option to login to my account with fingerprint or face-id.

totally normal except I'm just using firefox on a laptop. I'm picking that option just to see how it works!

foone,
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ahh, it just routed a notification to my android phone to make me sign in there, with a fingerprint.

then it failed to work on the website. well done, guys

gewt, to random
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do denim keyboards exist

foone,
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@gewt they will soon

dosnostalgic, to random
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Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith Remastered 3.0
https://www.moddb.com/news/star-wars-jedi-knight-mysteries-of-the-sith-remastered-30

foone,
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@dosnostalgic ooh, nifty

mcc, to random
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Well. I guess that's it then. https://antabaka.me/@mochi/112412569121873646

foone,
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@mcc that's where the gender fluid comes from

foone,
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@chrisamaphone @mcc oh I missed that whoops

gewt, to random
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i wonder what my manager will say when i show up to meetings taking notes on hardware from 2003

foone,
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You should go older. Get a Psion Organizer II from 1984

gewt, to random
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i bought a palm tungstem t5 and it came fully charged? powered on? and held its charged?

foone,
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@gewt it probably has a ghost in it

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