27 Nov
2007
27 Nov
'07
9:37 a.m.
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 07:55, Richard A. Cini wrote:
I also want to check the drive RPM. I found a program
for the Model 100 and
bar code reader which turns it into a stroboscope, but I wanted to validate
it on a working drive, so I have to pull out a TM100 drive. But, alas, I
haven't had time for that in the last few days, either. I'm going to try to
do that today.
Now _that_ is a nifty idea! I have a couple of those "cue cat" scanners that
Radio Shack was giving away some time back, and also recently aquired a
similar device, and since I'm not in the habit of going around putting
barcodes on stuff here I hadn't thought that I had a particular use for them.
But printing a strobe disc or even a wraparound barcode for rim or shaft
speed measurement sounds like it might definitely be useful...
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
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