asciilifeform: FG will work with, e.g., pdp8, sov. bk0010, romanian z80 clone mircea_popescu played strip poker on, but apparently not with recent pc on recent centos...
asciilifeform: diana_coman: naive orc asciilifeform picked rs232, 1960s-era protocol, because he actually thought 'no one! will have to patch kernel', can you believe.
asciilifeform: trinque ^ et al ( and other pcenginesists )
asciilifeform: i.e. suitable for direct connection of FG.
asciilifeform: btw : truly, genuinely spiffy pc mobos ( e.g. pcengines 'APU' series ) have ~on-board ttl serial port pins~☟︎
asciilifeform: this is addressed to all fg users, not diana_coman specifically.
asciilifeform: the other solutions, in ascending order of sanity, is to find a usb ttl dongle that works with yer kernel, a kernel that worx with mine (or other) ttl dongle, and a pc with actual serialport.
asciilifeform: ( and you will radiate yer seekritrngbitz for however many kilometre )
asciilifeform: i prolly should note ftr, for the truly lazy, there exist serial-to-ethernet boxes. they cost roughly what FG itself costs.
asciilifeform: ^ pete_dushenski ( and other bbet nostalgiators )
asciilifeform: e.g. pete_dushenski and his crapple usb
asciilifeform: just as it is conceivable that , e.g., despite FG comes with schematics and agonizingly pedantic description of what it is, more than enough for martians to replicate it to last resistor, there are prolly still folx who were unpleasantly surprised
asciilifeform: contract doesn't come with a magical spell of +9000 literacy, unfortunately
asciilifeform: how else buyer and seller could possibly have exactly same notion of what is being bought and sold..
asciilifeform: then you couldn't find the signal about noise floor, lol
asciilifeform: asciilifeform confessed to a cabbie that he wants to move, and cabbie looked as if asciilifeform grew a cock on his forehead☟︎
asciilifeform: the vhsamerica lure still works, i have nfi why, but it worx
asciilifeform: but for some reason even for orc deal it is always 'house in miami' and never 'burn miami'
asciilifeform: sorta why they put the resources into bonsaikittenization
asciilifeform: what, exactly, they'll do ? 'he'll email you his fist...'
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's pet many times remarked 'they knew, they watched own neighbourhoods turn into darkest africa. but never said anything to me and siblings growing up'
asciilifeform: i still dun fully grasp the middle kingdom's 'feed the enemy until he dies of old age' philosophy, so cannot comment☟︎
asciilifeform: if usg 'borrows' something from me, i dun expect to see it again 'like own ears without mirror', because mother did not drop me as a child
asciilifeform: this only worx because they've dressed ordinary tribute collection as 'borrowing', and ordinary mongol rape as 'lending'
asciilifeform: ( approx 'the beautiful thing about debt, is that it WILL be paid' )
asciilifeform: how do you say 'долг платежом красен' proverb in eng.
asciilifeform: seems to me that it is exactly same item.
asciilifeform: fwiw su illegals in 1950s all had burst encoders ( punched tape ) , song starts and finishes in few sec. but otoh they did not need to shout across ocean, but only to nearest sovembassy.
asciilifeform: ( how much suffices, is open to question )
asciilifeform: ain't no miracles, nothing is crossing ocean without some palpable wattage
asciilifeform: logs in , at any rate, from chernogolovka, the su mega-mecca
