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Just a thought but if you have access to an inverter or isolation transformer, you could test the machine without your house wiring being a complicating factor.

The keycaps thing is a huge problem now because of the widespread use of Chromebooks with butterfly switches. 9 times out of 10 if one of those caps is torn off, the switch is permanently damaged and the whole keyboard needs to be replaced.

You will absolutely need gnd to be hooked up to get anything out of it. If the baud rate was incorrect, you would probably receive garbage characters rather than nothing at all.

PDFs are perfect for the one thing they were designed for, which is publishing high quality proofs for printing. They aren't supposed to be editable. People just use them where they shouldn't.

Started this last night. The animation is gorgeous and the voice acting is mostly great aside from a few inaccurate accents. Very light on puzzles so far; the focus is very much on storytelling.

Ragebutt's advice is good RE: maintenance. I would take the back off, make sure it's discharged then clean around the anode cap and in general make sure there is not excessive dust/soot that could form a path for electrical discharge. Clean the anode with alcohol, apply a little dialectric grease to the cup and put everything back together. There is a decent chance that will help, just make sure not to wipe off the black paint on the tube - this is called "aquadag" and it is important to the operation of the monitor.

This monitor has no OSD or button to trigger a degauss. The coil will be wired directly to AC via a posistor, so it's entirely passive and will only trigger again when the monitor cools down.

The distortion is caused by the high voltage arcing over, which droops and interrupts beam deflection for a moment. I wouldn't want to run it this way for very long, because it can damage the flyback transformer over time (although the flyback could itself be arcing anyway).

If you are looking for a retrocomputing meetup near you, check out retro.directory (created by our very own Rob Smith)

I had multiple fan failures which brought down my system, so instead I picked up one of these heatsink cases and it's been running mostly uninterrupted for years.

I disagree with this. New old stock floppies that have been stored properly are becoming increasingly difficult to find, especially 5.25" media. There are a lot of hobbyists out there that would love to get a hold of them for use with their retro systems. You should sell them on, not throw them away.

Network effects mean you can't switch without losing all those communities.

When I left Reddit, I left behind the only active mental health community on the internet supporting those with my specific condition. I had the choice to leave, sure, but what did it cost me?

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