I rescued an HP-200A audio oscillator from the basement of a relative who’d passed away, thinking it looked interesting. Anyone know if it has any value? I’m guessing it’s nothing too special with a serial number of 30211.
Disney was Hewlett and Packard's first customer in 1939, or was at least among the very first. The 200A oscillators were used to calibrate theater sound hardware for presentations of 'Fantasia' (although https://www.hewlettpackardhistory.com/item/a-deal-with-disne... says the Disney versions were designated 200B.)
Does it look like the one in the photo on that site? Sounds like a very cool artifact. You can't always tell much from the serial number -- for example, notice that they started their model numbers with '200,' just to make the company look bigger and more reputable.
It does look a little newer than the oldest examples I've seen photos of, but it's hard to say what the range of possible production dates would have been. You might be able to find a date code on an electrolytic capacitor or some other internal component.
There are a few HP 200As listed on eBay in the $100-$300 range. Not sure if they're actually selling for that, though.
You may be interested to hear that community developers [1] have updated Myth II to be run on modern systems (even native Apple Silicon!) with a variety of enhancements to the game client itself and other goodies like hi-res map textures.
There's also a community metaserver to replace bungie.net. [2]
Join us on Myth Discord and register for Myth World Cup 2023! [3]
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Cool stuff! I did some experiments with pre-rendering Milkdrop visuals for high-res uploading to YouTube which might be of interest to you. Not practical for realtime (I guess this is where OBS comes in), but pre-rendering is great for quality. Example video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyhisYKU2Dg
When using NestDrop you can easily record the Spout video stream by using the Lightjams Spout Recorder. Depending on your GPU there is a delicate balance between resolution and fps.
https://www.lightjams.com/spout-recorder.html
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We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19799485 and marked it off-topic. You're welcome to post it to the "Who Wants to Be Hired" thread, though, which appears at the same time as "Who Is Hiring" every month.
Some people were using replies to the job ads as opportunities to attack the hiring organization and make it look bad. Since we have no way to know which of those are factual and justified vs. not, and since the who-is-hiring threads don't have space for a community process in which all the details get explored and readers get enough information, we decided the only fair thing to do was disallow this. It's too open to abuse.
For one thing, the job poster is in an impossible position, since they look bad if they don't answer the attack and bad if they do. For another, some people abuse voting in these threads to try to disadvantage their competitors [1], so it's probable that some were using comments too. And finally, even if the attacking comment is sincere (which I'm sure most were), a sincere "company treated me badly" story is still one-sided—and sometimes these things are highly misleading [2]. There are two sides to each story and to be fair one would need to hear both of them.
I completely get why and how you would find such comments useful, but unfortunately that's also exactly why they're open to abuse, and we don't want HN to be a place for that. It's better, albeit more boring, to stay on the safe side. I'd rather let some of the guilty go free than punish anyone innocent.
An alternative place for such comments is any other HN thread where they're on topic.
[1] We have ways of dealing with that, and take downvoting rights away from accounts that do it. But if anyone notices an unfairly downvoted job post, please email us at hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it.
[2] I know this from moderating HN: people post the most godawful-sounding stories of how horribly we treated them, leaving out all the information that would explain why we really banned them, how many warnings we'd given them previously, and so on. The internet martyr narrative is an artistic genre.
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