His and hers. There was a paper bag of waiting-to-be-properly-boxed #teeth as well. That was properly filed into the right box by the relative's other half. Obviously. One has to be tidy about these things.
And they're only 3 litre boxes, too. Not the 50 litre ones that I had to use for the #valves, #resistors, and extension cables.
The productiveness of fixing an almost three decades old segmentation fault bug in daemontools is going to be offset by yet another visit to the relative later to do yet more #ShedClearance.
Two questions for the amateur electronicists:
What could 1 person reasonably do with 50 litres of hoarded #valves, some of which are in slightly manky cardboard boxes with U.S.A. military datestamps from the 1940s?
Or 60 litres of hoarded #resistors, thousands of which are on their original paper ribbons?
Yes, I'm measuring in litres.
For those following along: The relative's other half has complained that xe cannot find the 2nd box of teeth. I had put them next to each other, in the same building for the first time in years.
Maybe one has eaten the other.
[Перевод] RESISTORS: как подростки из 1960-х работали с компьютерами до эпохи ПК
В конце апреля 1968 года компьютерная конференция в Атлантик-Сити едва не сорвалась из-за забастовки телефонисток: терминалы крупных компаний стояли мёртвые. И вот посреди этой неразберихи в центре внимания оказалась небольшая группа подростков из окрестностей Принстона. Они раздобыли акустический модем, подсоединили его к ближайшему таксофону — и вышли на связь с удалённой мини-ЭВМ. Отраслевая газета Computerworld вывела их на первую полосу с заголовком в духе «Школьники украли шоу у профессионалов». Эти ребята называли себя RESISTORS — придуманная задним числом расшифровка аббревиатуры: «Radically Emphatic Students Interested in Science, Technology, Or Research Studies» — то есть «Радикально увлечённые ученики, интересующиеся наукой, техникой и исследованиями».
https://habr.com/ru/companies/cloud4y/articles/1029094/
#RESISTORS #история_компьютеров #Тед_Нельсон #гипертекст #PDP8 #Burroughs_Datatron_205 #Клод_Каган #Project_Xanadu #Computer_Lib #история_программирования
I don't know how many #resistors the relative has hoarded over the years, in a huge collection of jars, tins, matchboxes, plastic yoghurt containers, and even in one case an old ammunition box going mouldy inside.
I'm not counting them.
But I can measure the collection by volume in tens of litres.
A rough calculation leads me to believe that if the relative soldered 1 resistor per day into something, the relative and the relative's children would be long dead before the resistors ran out.
The relative hasn't done any soldering in years. I know because I just found the relative's soldering irons.
They weren't in the plastic bin that was marked 'soldering irons'. That would have made things far too easy for me.
One of them almost falling on my head was a clue.
For those following along: the his and hers boxes of teeth are still there, grinning at me as I re-folded strips of resistors.
Quieting Noisy Resistors
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/02/21/quieting-noisy-resistors/
...these are the people that give me hope.
Wonderful story.
https://www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-distribution-delegation
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