Old Computer Challenge
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@MiffTheFox said in Old Computer Challenge:
Don't ask me why I have an industrial machine controller lying around...
The forums don't even look that bad under Lynx- *is shot*
what synth/keyboard is that?
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@HardwareGeek said in Old Computer Challenge:
@El_Heffe said in Old Computer Challenge:
The cable is pressing down a C. Possibly recording music for dogs.
The typical range of a piano goes up to C8. C8 has a frequency of 4186.0 Hz, which is well within the normal range of human hearing, even for old farts with some high-frequency hearing loss, like me. The range could be extended as much as another two octaves and still produce sounds audible to humans with normal hearing (although they wouldn't sound very interesting, as none of the overtones that make a piano sound different from, say, a flute would be audible).
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Also, as I have repeatedly mentioned here, my family has have several pieces of equipment still in active use that are worthy of this thread. Unfortunately my Nokia 2600c didn't load WTDWTF saying 'Secure connection not available'.
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@El_Heffe said in Old Computer Challenge:
, yes, of course. But why ? It was obviously a joke about the high pitch of the note; I was ically spoiling the joke with facts. Facts 
to joke, but that doesn't mean I don't get the joke.
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@marczellm said in Old Computer Challenge:
'Secure connection not available'
Probably need to update your root certificates.
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@El_Heffe said in Old Computer Challenge:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Old Computer Challenge:
Fussy: That key is immediately to the right of a group of three black keys, so it's B. (F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B then no black key then C, C#, D, D#, E then no black key then F...)
There is no black key between E and F, and between B and C. The cable is pressing down a C.
Yes, you're quite right. Fifty years of looking at things must be taking their cumulative toll on my eyes. Sigh.
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@Yamikuronue said in Old Computer Challenge:
ISTR when the iPhone first came out, lack of javascript was a huge problem.
No, that was flash. One of Apple's big claims was that it was the first smartphone with a full browser. The lack of flash meant that a lot of people questioned that, but no Javascript would have been too much even for Apple's reality distortion field
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@Gurth said in Old Computer Challenge:
Though it takes a long time to fully load this thread — or actually, it crashed Safari just as I was typing that, maybe 7 or 8 minutes into trying to load it, and by that time it looked like it was stuck on maybe 90% or so.
That's okay; that happens on current versions of iOS too. :P
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Old Computer Challenge:
Status: Wondering if this challenge is even valid, now that we're not on Community Server...
Is the challenge still valid, now that we're not on Discourse?
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@blakeyrat said in Old Computer Challenge:
Guyz I think I got it figured out on my Atari 2600 but since it only has 128 bytes of RAM it has to swap like 47 times just to load the header of a single TCP/IP packet, so I won't be able to take a screenshot for a few months.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Old Computer Challenge:
@marczellm said in Old Computer Challenge:
'Secure connection not available'
Probably need to update your root certificates.
Okay it might actually be possible to update root certs on this Nokia phone. But I cannot figure out how. I can only view the list of "authority certs" and "user certs", the latter list is empty. The manual says "you might need to install certificates, ask your service provider".
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@marczellm said in Old Computer Challenge:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Old Computer Challenge:
@marczellm said in Old Computer Challenge:
'Secure connection not available'
Probably need to update your root certificates.
Okay it might actually be possible to update root certs on this Nokia phone. But I cannot figure out how. I can only view the list of "authority certs" and "user certs", the latter list is empty. The manual says "you might need to install certificates, ask your service provider".
Authority certs would be the thing to look at. Whether it will have crypto sufficiently advanced to use modern root certs is another question.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Old Computer Challenge:
sufficiently advanced
You'll have to use more magic!
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@Steve_The_Cynic yeah but I can only view them
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@marczellm said in Old Computer Challenge:
@Steve_The_Cynic yeah but I can only view them
Sounds to me like it's supposed to get root-cert upgrades from your phone-service provider, probably by one of those automatic downloads.
Of course at the moment, my ability to participate in the challenge is a bit limited. The oldest working machine I have with a browser is probably an iPhone 4, and if not, then it would be a phone from 2008 or so that's unlikely to work well without a SIM card. (An old Samsung i900 running Windows Mobile 6.1, but I think that got thrown out years ago.)
