I only have one box like that. ...it's a pretty big box.

Great moments in Science History: The Michelson-Morely experiment. 1. Let's measure the ether! 2. That's funny..... 5. Let's make a bigger instrument. 2. That's funny.... And you forgot one of the most important steps: 7. Indignant peers try to disprove results, get identical results. 8. The...

Anyone who wonders what it's like to work on an American government contract really needs to watch that, which gives a real flavor for it. From what I have read elsewhere, Tom Kelley was a pretty good guy to work for.

@Jason Stoddard I wanted to throw in my $0.02 on the shipping stuff. First, a set up. I live in the last mile. Really the last mile. USPS, FedEx, and UPS seem to do well. Amazon has problems, and trying to get a message to the right person at Amazon is absolutely impossible -- everything...

Not-so-obscure movie reference.

Nope, not class D.

I'm not. But it is a format that is damaged by physical wear each time it is used, so you should use it as rarely as you can.

The purpose of vinyl is to transfer to magnetic tape or digital storage, unless you have a laser-based player. The purpose of 8 track is to prop up the corners of your amplifier to ensure good airflow. Quad 8, well, if you have to... It does have 4 discrete channels.

You misspelled Xerox. HTH.

The problem with Baldr is that I'm balder, and it's not an attractive look. Just sayin'.

Oh, fergawdssake, there is no limit to audio nervosa, is there?

I recap all my power supplies exclusively with precision film capacitors. :-)

To try and treat the question seriously, the LP was the peak of electro-mechanical (or mechanical) recording. We don't listen to wax cylinders the same reason we don't listen to 78s (except for historical recordings). They have inferior sound quality.

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I hope that you, er, pot those pots so that they don't move in shipping or other things that could vibrate them!

Our development is done entirely in Linux. IT thinks we do documents and spreadsheets and treats us as such. We make embedded systems.

True, but sometimes persistent people (or people without control of their environment) have to be dealt with. I use a Win 7 machine at work along with my main dev machine which runs Xubuntu. That Win 7 machine is required to run a single Silverlight application. My work Schiit stays on the...

With Ubuntu distros, you have to tweak the hotplug daemon settings to undo the default, which is to ignore USB audio devices. THAT was a pain to find.

Nothing is supported in that universe, but it doesn't mean you can't horse it into working with enough software piled on.

Sir! I have ethics! I have working versions of Netscape and Mosaic (although "working" is a stretch, when no one speaks HTTP 1.0...). I never use exploder unless forced to!

You don't want it for your personal museum?

Rats. Beaten to it.

I am your nightmare. I have a working, booting Windows 95 system. Likewise Win98 and Windows 2000. Okay, they're not my daily drivers, but I use them to support, er, legacy hardware and software.

February... 2021. We know how this goes!

PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!! :-)