asciilifeform: but eventually learned 1) toner comes in various granularities 2) is a real bitch to clean up, on account of 3) goes straight through a vacuum cleaner
asciilifeform used to do something quite like this with laser printer. it being, drill hole in cartridge, funnel, toner tanks from old xerox in office park dumpsters
asciilifeform: nubbins`: was this that same printer where you ran a hose into the ink tank instead of swapping out cartridges ?
asciilifeform: ^ a little different from what i remembered
asciilifeform: 'instead of printer, package contained bobcat. a++, would buy again' (tm)
asciilifeform: (what, not everyone prints one time pads on thermal paper ?)
asciilifeform: nubbins`: aha. very annoying when burning otp
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: un minimo respeto por el trabajador! (TM) (R)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i like to pipe logs to thermal printer. (think 'cash register'). astonishingly fire-resistant, but does fade with time
asciilifeform: 'Good luck with that buckeroo. Looking forward to your complete rewrite of the Broadcom NetXtreme II 10/100/Gigabit firmware, by the way. There are about 25 versions of this product, and they have 4-6 MIPS 64-bit cpus running different firmwares on them. Total size, around 260K. It's like a bunch of independent operating systems running on propriety hardware!' << this is endemic and getting worse by the minute
asciilifeform: me, i just want something that'd sign a tx, while using no iron made after i was born
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you'd have to bake something which can address >64k though
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: fast enough to keep up with blocks? possibly
asciilifeform: thing lasts virtually forever. on account of the chemistry of the process, it laughed at power supply noise that would nuke any other cpu
asciilifeform: in that if you were to wish for a crate of 10,000 in one pop, there would be supply problems.
asciilifeform: decimation: only in the loose sense where 'commodore amiga' is like pdp
asciilifeform: my elder brother, like millions of kids, learned on it
asciilifeform: iirc the sov. single-chip pdp11 (famous in 'bk-0010' microcomputer) appeared before there was such a thing in the west
asciilifeform: some were not even clones in the traditional sense, but legit reimplementations
asciilifeform: designed by different people, produced in entirely different places, with different processes
asciilifeform: e.g., i have found at least five entirely separate sov. clones of z80
asciilifeform: whereas there is not, nor can there be, an independent maker of, e.g., cpu, in the nato blok
asciilifeform: nominally under the boot of 'gosplan' but factually own animals
asciilifeform: e.g., ussr had, in fact, a great many independent (in the administrative -and- engineering sense) manufacturers of various things
asciilifeform: it is interesting to contemplate how many of the traditional nato stereotypes of soviet industry were not only false, but apply to nato wholly and not at all to sov☟︎
asciilifeform: (arm is de-facto microshit to intel as present-day ibm)
asciilifeform: the grand finale will be the intel-arm merger
asciilifeform: you can even get pin-compatible with the classical dip-40 package.
asciilifeform: (one of the best, z80, is -also- still with us. in current production, by the millions.)
asciilifeform: decimation: gotta love how the -single worst- cpu of the '80s is still with us.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu would you happen to know the name (part #?) of the yugoslavian clone of the cdp1802 ? or (if existed) ro version ?
