maybe recap the analog section of the drive
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no evidence pointing whether it's the disks or it's the computer... the disks look a little funky...Comment
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quite possible. Don't know. Weird that it would damage the mag layer enough to make it unable to be recordable again...Comment
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Also wtf. People say you can clean mold off floppy disks? And be readable once more? Seems a bit unbelievable IMHO.Comment
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Currently, have only one desktop running Windows 10 Pro. Of all the 64-bit Windows flavors, 10 is hands down my favorite but among the 32-bit ones, Windows XP was my fav.
I am and have always been a Windows user, mainly due to being a gamer.
I have been goofing around with GNU-Linux almost as long as I have with Windows but for the better part of the last 25 years of using Linux, I used different versions on VMs.
I think I only installed on an actual computer, and for a very brief time, 5 different versions; eLinux, Suse, LinuxMint, Kali and Zorin during those 25 years and spent probably less than 10 hours total playing around with them all.
For work, I had to learn just enough to support Mac OS users over the years but I really dislike anything Apple! 😬
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"Tantalum for the brave, Solid Aluminium for the wise, Wet Electrolytic for the adventurous"
-David VanHornComment
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The number of floppy disks in the world is going down. I wonder if they'll ever become rare enough to have to make them like they do vacuum tubes... then again floppy emulators are a thing, though vacuum tube emulators are not hot....in more ways than one.Comment
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some vac tubes have been replaced with good results.
shango did some video's showing them - but they arent cheap
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well real vacuum tubes are real vacuum tubes, vacuum tube emulators (i.e. using transistors to fake a vacuum tube so you lose vacuum tube properties) "aren't hot"...Comment
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you would be surprised about how well they blend in with the other real valves and work
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TBH I don't even care about the so-called "tube sound" ... IMHO since semiconductors are more linear, they have less THD and thus better...
But making a floppy drive emulator really isn't the same thing, might well just emulate the whole machine...Comment
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about "tube sound"
i suspect it's mostly down to the other parts like shit caps and drifting resistors.
maybe some A'file could build a tube pre-amp using metal film resistors and polypropylene caps to compare to a mosfet design.
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No there really is something to tube sound, mainly because of how tubes handles saturation. Yes mosfets *should* sound similar when running in active forward mode but it's not linear (though you can add circuitry to linearize it).
TBH I think mosfets should be run only in class C/D...
But we digress...Comment
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on my 13 systems i use arch except on my x250 (arch but manjaro) on my 2 dell from 2007 and 2009 i use win 10 since there is no gpu support for the fx 2800m and fx2700m basically tesla architecture in general :p (main machine is a w520) i have arch with cinnamon on it 23gb ram :pComment
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I am contemplating upgrading an old HP Pavilion HP-A550Y from Windows XP to WIndows 10. This machine has a 3 GHz Pentium 4 "Prescott" processor. I have some additional RAM to add. Have plenty of HDD space. I have several questions on how to best proceed at this late (for Windows 10, anyway) date.
Where is a good place to get a copy of Windows 10 and the activation key? Would I use 32 bit or would I use 64 bit version? Is it possible to do a fresh installation of Windows 10 these days and not an upgrade? If upgrading, is it possible to go from XP to 10 directly and without... -
In a Beelink GTR mini PC, mine has an Intel AX200NGW WLAN module.
Tried (only with keyboard/mouse connected):- BIOS + database update
- Using latest Windows 11 image built with official image creation tool
- Previous setup version for Windows 11 installer
- Replacing SSD without a slow block (the previous SSD had a slow block with access time > 500 mS)
- TPM reset (worked to the point where DRIVER_PNP_WATCHDOG error message is displayed briefly after the point of stalling)
- Disabling power to WLAN and LAN modules in BIOS (Advanced > AMD PBS > PCI Express Configuration)
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