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Yeah, we’re not supposed to move anything when we switch offices or cubicles. We have another internal organization that does that and it’s a union thing also.
 
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When I worked for the school department, the maintenance staff would not clean or move any desk or table that had a computer on it. So any time the floors had to be waxed in an office or a computer lab, I had to go unhook everything and wheel it all into the hall. Many CRTs were windexed, much dust was busted.

Any furniture that was purchased to hold a computer had to be built by the IT department as well. I had a collection of about 1000 hex keys.
 
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mkopec said:
I also have my SUN 22" CRT

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Tried to sell it in a garage sale a few years back and people were asking me WTF this thing was, lol.
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Does that work as a SUN terminal display? We need those sometimes and those stupid SUN keyboards too.
 
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mkopec said:
I still have my old 40" mitsubishi CRT down in the basement. One of, if not the largest CRT TV ever made. Took 4 of us to move the fucker downstairs and probably going to stay with the house if we ever move. Thinking back we should of just pitched the motherfucker because once down there it never got used. We were thinking that the kids would use if for console games. But the LCD TVs took off so fast and got so cheap so quickly it never made sense lol. It was passed own to me form my pops which bough it new for like $3K-$4K back in the day.
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Might be worth some money to the CRT enthusiasts depending on how good it is for gaming
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Depending on what inputs it has those CRTs are frequently used for custom arcade cabinets.
 
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mkopec said:
I also have my SUN 22" CRT

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Tried to sell it in a garage sale a few years back and people were asking me WTF this thing was, lol.
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Hah i had that exact same monitor on my old t-bird 1.4. Was one impressive monitor.
 
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Was thinking of saving my fun money for a new English Bulldog pup but guess old Rufus can wait, as those screens looking so damn good.
 
mkopec

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Mist said:
Does that work as a SUN terminal display? We need those sometimes and those stupid SUN keyboards too.
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Not sure, mine has 2 of those wires dangling from it, one of them worked on a PC the other who the fuck knows what its for.
 
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The [Samsung] AI processor is also used to adjust the image based on the lighting conditions in the room, a common motif in high-end TVs for 2020. In a similar feature for audio, it can automatically change the volume for dialogue if a common loud sound like a blender is heard in the real-world space.
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So in other words they want to have a camera and a microphone recording your room in a device they expect you will connect to the internet (and their servers).
 
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Malakriss said:
So in other words they want to have a camera and a microphone recording your room in a device they expect you will connect to the internet (and their servers).
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Microphones are already common with them in the remote, and some sets are full alexa/google home devices.
 
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Where is the chair cushion rec?

I checked in a few threads but couldnt find it.

There were a few posts about some chair cushion that ppl were praising. Trying to extend my chairs life a little before junking it for a new one.
 
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CMS?
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Yeah a lot of Avaya CMSes on various old Solaris boxes are still out there.

A few months ago I junked what was once a quarter million dollar Sunfire 890 used as a CMS for a very large company. The amount of copper used to cool those processors would boggle even modern PC enthusiasts. 15-20 pounds of copper for the two CPUs.

SUN SPARC processors are also cool as shit and make awesome paperweights because they're so dense. I've been trying to figure out what the IHS plate is made out of, they're 4-5x heavier than any other processor of that era. Nickel was the best I could come up with.
 
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displaysolutions.samsung.com

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These things are curvy, not sure if in a good way. Specs are impressive.

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Sun sparcs is what we used to work CAD on in the late 90s-early 2Ks, which were unix based, until the PCs started to come in with windows that could run our CAD software in 2001-2005?. Before the Sparcs we used to use LUNDY systems for CAD... When I got into the business in 92' the Lundys were already being phased out but I did work on one for a few years.

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^^ No thats not me, lol.

Which were more of a surface based CAD rather than what we have now which is solid based CAD modeling.

Lundys were a pain in the ass though because you could only see a portion of your CAD model at a time, depending on the size. Take for example a door panel, you could only see a portion of the model at a time because the processing power mad the system crawl when you zoomed out. The only way to see the model in its entirety was to plot the bitch out on a plotter. Also we had an entire room dedicated to the storage of the data it was so archaic. Like a mainframe that held like a gig or so of data , lol. And tape reels for backup.

So when the sun sparcs arrived it was like night and day, you could zoom out and see your entire model for the first time ever. You could actually rotate the full model on your screen real time!

Also CAD was definitely not the master in those days. Like it is now. Back then they had to make a wood model of your part and this was the master. Special kind of wood which was dimensional stable.

Niow we send our solid models direct to tool shop which uses our models directly to run cutter paths in tooling steel. Back in them days its a wonder how they ever got parts to fit together, since the drawings (cad) was so far apart from the finished product.

Anyway, some CAD history, at least on the Ford side of things, GM at the time had its own shit going which was similar. Not sure about the Japs and what they used.
 
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displaysolutions.samsung.com

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These things are curvy, not sure if in a good way. Specs are impressive.

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I doubt they're going to be able to push VA panels to 240hz without having severe problems with response time (that 1ms is probably with ridiculous overdrive)
 
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