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Weekly Ramblecast 196: Sbarro Breakfast
🕑 Added 2025-03-11 18:01:01 +0000 UTCBrad's trip to the South Bay electronics flea market yielded treasures of all categories and eras, and we ramble about that, Vinny's triumph over his underground fiber optic run, the tyranny of daylight savings time, some early Watchcast selections for documentary month, and more.
CHAPTERS
(00:00:00) Start of show
(00:00:34) Abolish daylight savings time please
(00:09:13) Let's all switch to Coordinated Universal Time
(00:10:31) Great Sunday at the electronics flea market
(00:13:19) Brad's mystery score from the flea market
(00:18:30) Attack of the Clones mousepads
(00:19:47) The biggest Gateway 2000 PC ever made
(00:23:22) Cylindrical industrial metals for sale
(00:26:25) The Anal-o-scope!
(00:32:38) Some serious Unix greybeards at the flea market
(00:34:14) Whole lot of classic computers
(00:35:47) PVM CRTs are getting pricey out there
(00:37:26) Anyone want a homemade 240V power converter in a hollowed-out Mac Pro case?
(00:44:32) Vinny triumps over the fiber
(00:57:36) Hey companies, pay for RMA shipping
(01:02:54) Some Watchcast documentary housekeeping
(01:07:16) Content and bye!
Comments
Michael
Bit late but my favourite documentaries, hope you hit one of these: - Land of Silence and Darkness (honestly peak of the genre, nothing has come close to this imo) - Under the Sun (works on multiple levels, as much a story of it’s own construction as it is a tragicomedy) - The Endurance (2000, the one narrated by Liam Neeson) Kind of documentary / deconstruction but not really: - My Winnipeg Also yeah FUCK daylight savings.
CJ
fuck daylight savings and long live the greybeards
Rejean Almerol
Wow maybe DST is making you cranky.
Brett Cocker
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Alex I just about fell off my bike when you mentioned Harlan County, USA as a potential Watchcast pick. Do it!
Violet Moon
It's a tape drive https://www.ebay.com/itm/352629425993
nic ludwick
What is wrong with you people? Waking up at 4:00 in the morning and getting on the treadmill while it's still dark out is the best thing ever! It's the only way I like to start my day. Feels like I've tackled the world before anyone else has even started.
xenolon
The beige Apple device isn't a computer, it's an Apple Hard Disk 20SC, the SCSI hard drive for the Apple II and Macintosh.
GoodTimeTim
Man, I still have to work on DEC alpha stations. Also, that rotary generator appears to be missing the rotary part, which is just a phase generator. So you have your two phases from the wall and an additional from the rotary generator as far as I know.
chicken nugget
Holy cow, I popped for that Return to Zork reveal. Love it
