#old_hardware

Hey there. So, recently i've obtained these, the ASUS VR-100 LCD 3D glasses from 1999

Here's how they look from behind and how they are connected to PC

This is continuation of this post from cl0ckworkpuppet

There were some of HDD100/00 and HDD120/00 out on eBay in UK and EU in great condition for around 20USD+

There's even that small version of these players, non-working, somewhere in states (suspect just discharged or dead battery / dead drive - can be repaired)

That's all i can say or show about these. Gonna use mine for longplays, as a portable background music thingy, maybe. (after i change the battery cell for a new one - stock one is too degraded and discharges in like 10 mins) If anyone got questions about these jukeboxes - hmu anywhere. P.S. Please don't ask me if i'm going to port Rockbox on it. I'm not a programmer, unfortunately. Plus, one person is not enough for this kind of thing. So, maybe someday. Unearthed some "new" info about Philips HDD070. They DIDN'T USE MICRODRIVE! THEY USED F%%%ING CORNICE DRIVES! (they are terrible, die fast, and are not compatible with IDE or CF) Here are some pics of the insides of these players on some Blogspot page: http://commonemitter.blogspot.com/2012/06/teardown-philips-hdd070.html

A brief overview of it (1-4 out of 8)

A brief overview of it (5-8 out of 8) + initial error on startup (more on that later)

A semi-detailed view of it's insides (1-4 out of 20) Hard drive is standart 50pin Toshiba 1.8" IDE / CF-compatible, similar to Samsung YH series and some other devices. (also used in some small laptops) I suspect it might accept drives of bigger capacity, will test it out later

A semi-detailed view of it's insides (5-8 out of 20) It was clearly tinkered with already, as seen by one screw that is clearly isn't from this device. Case is all magnesium alloy, only screen glass / side panels are plastic!

A semi-detailed view of it's insides (9-12 out of 20) Main board

A semi-detailed view of it's insides (13-16 out of 20) Other side of main board + front case panel on inside

A semi-detailed view of it's insides (17-20 out of 20) Main board in more details.

1) draw or design each letter for both registers + numbers

2) import one symbol at a time as raster images and play around with letter spacing and such!

3) make your own TTF or web font by exporting\saving and voila!

Beyerdynamic DTX40. A pair of weird earbuds. Package, as well as the case and cables, turned to dust as soon at i tried to plug them in, so had to mod them with another cable.

1) KompoZer sucks. As well as WYSIWYG Web Editor. First one spams commands in finished code when you try to look at the finished thing inside of the program, and second one is needlessly coumbersome to use to the point that i didn't know what's where and how to navigate and switch between panes (code & visual) (personally abusing the hell out of old BBEdit & CODA now and loving it cuz it's the most two intuitive pieces of 'ware for mac for smol website editing imo)

2) you do NOT need any CSS if your website is absolutely tiny place with several links and maybe some GIFs for the visuals. Just be sure to not make the page pitch black.

3) CSS is good but do not abuse it. Heavy animations and hi-res graphics abd backgrounds are cool and whatnot, but a website that weights under 5mb with all it's graphics is going to load in seconds.

4) Your own domain is cool, but is optional. It's perfectly fine to use neocities or whatnot.

5) If you decide to go all retro and abuse GIF to the fullest, learn to make your own in PS or whatever other software you use. Also, scour the archive-dot-org for clipart CDs, there's ton of useful stuff in those.

6) If you're lazy just use the MyArtGallery builder.