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Toaster modding
Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 21:29
by LLRnR
Sorry if it's too off-topic even for the Off-topic section, but this all-so-serious
toaster modding tutorial really made me laugh out loud. Plus, the guy is actually using an IBM Model M.
Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 21:53
by scottc
Nothing is ever too off-topic!
Real toaster pros mod their toasting devices to run NetBSD... and a HHKB (lite)!
http://www.embeddedarm.com/software/arm ... oaster.php
Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 21:57
by chzel
Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 22:09
by LLRnR
Haha, cool! I'd heard of the NetBSD-operated toaster, but I didn't know it had all been done with a HHKB
Well, NetBSD was designed with portability in mind, after all.
Now that's really... wow! (I love this forum!)
Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 22:16
by seebart
ahh yes the toaster modding. Once you take that step there's no turning back...
Using an HHKB makes the project more "up-scale".
Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 22:23
by 7bit
Soon available:
HyperToast - the toaster with self-awareness!
Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 22:27
by chzel
"Soon"???
Your jokes are getting more and more twisted...
Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 22:30
by Halvar
Even sooner available:
ToastBot - the toaster without UI!
(you make it toast your bread by sending
SLICES/LIGHTBROWN 2
to user ToastBot)
Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 22:39
by LLRnR
7bit wrote: Soon available:
HyperToast - the toaster with self-awareness!
You mean like this?
- hyper-toast9000.jpg (148.67 KiB) Viewed 11170 times
Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 22:42
by seebart
Soon available:
HyperToast - the toaster with self-awareness!
ToastBot - the toaster without UI!
(you make it toast your bread by sending
SLICES/LIGHTBROWN 2
to user ToastBot)
the 4G 4k Toast APP with oculus rift option will make all that obsolete...
hyper toast 9000...
...at least they are using an Amiga 2000 which is probably THE best piece of hardware in that room!
Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 23:03
by snoopy
Posted: 13 Jan 2015, 23:24
by seebart
haha that's great snoopy, I love it!
Posted: 14 Jan 2015, 19:51
by facetsesame
In 2008 I found the same model toaster as featured in
Look Around You, IIRC a Salton made in Italy with an ambiguous date stamp inside possibly of 1978. I even bought a McGraw-Hill book on the GPIB capabilities of the PET. Another project to restart someday - if only I had space for a PET...
Posted: 14 Jan 2015, 22:43
by elecplus
Boy am I a dunce! Unisys made small boxes commonly called "toasters", and I thought that's what this topic was about
They were made in the 1980s, and IIRC, they were a storage attachment of some sort that could be attached to a terminal, instead of relying on the mainframe storage. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong
Posted: 14 Jan 2015, 22:52
by chzel
Posted: 14 Jan 2015, 22:55
by seebart
elecplus wrote: Boy am I a dunce! Unisys made small boxes commonly called "toasters", and I thought that's what this topic was about
very gernerous of you to give me (us) a laugh!
elecplus wrote: They were made in the 1980s, and IIRC, they were a storage attachment of some sort that could be attached to a terminal, instead of relying on the mainframe storage. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong
sorry I don't have that knowledge. But chzel does, good!
Posted: 15 Jan 2015, 15:45
by klikkyklik
LLRnR wrote: Sorry if it's too off-topic even for the Off-topic section, but this all-so-serious
toaster modding tutorial really made me laugh out loud. Plus, the guy is actually using an IBM Model M.
AHAHAHAHA!!! That's the funniest thing I've seen in a long time! How on earth did you stumble across that?
Re: Toaster modding
Posted: 15 Jan 2015, 16:10
by seebart
There's a lot of "crazy" stuff like that on the internet!
Posted: 15 Jan 2015, 21:11
by andrewjoy
LLRnR wrote: 7bit wrote: Soon available:
HyperToast - the toaster with self-awareness!
You mean like this?
hyper-toast9000.jpg
HA
that would have been better if it had a video toaster installed as well
Posted: 15 Jan 2015, 21:16
by Muirium
What were they thinking? The whole point of TOASTER is Amiga!
1990s TV would have been impossible without an army of these in every video production house.
Posted: 15 Jan 2015, 21:18
by andrewjoy
Posted: 15 Jan 2015, 22:07
by Muirium
I had that video in mind when I searched. But the one I found was more cheesy, so that won! The Chronicles segment is definitely worth a watch.
I had an Amiga using friend back then who would go on about this awesome (and unobtainium) thing called the Video Toaster that pros used for video effects on their Amigas, and pointed out the kind of stuff it could do whenever he spotted transitions that looked its style on TV. I thought he was full of shit. Where were the sprites? Amigas, please! Yet it was true.
Posted: 15 Jan 2015, 23:21
by andrewjoy
i was always a Acorn man, with the amazing RISC OS, none of this dos/windows peasant OS.
Posted: 16 Jan 2015, 01:24
by Halvar
"You know, video is everywhere, kind of the new literacy". What a prophetic statement in 1990.
Posted: 16 Jan 2015, 01:34
by Muirium
That was the awesome thing about those days. They could see where we were headed in many ways, but the internet (and especially the popularity of user generated content) blindsided them. We were all thinking about how we'd share documents, photos, whatever between people we already knew. Or how connectivity would open up push media like TV to vague new "interactive" (not really interactive) horizons. I don't think anyone ever predicted selfies, viral videos, and the anonymously created memes so rife today. Just like we can't see what the next thing will be.
Another classic from that era is
The Machine That Changed the World. The episode of that series about the internet is just mind boggling. To really access "cyberspace", you gotta have a treadmill! I like the one on AI, too. Wonder whatever happened to the projects they featured.
Posted: 16 Jan 2015, 13:56
by snoopy
Posted: 16 Jan 2015, 15:15
by Halvar
Muirium wrote: Another classic from that era is
The Machine That Changed the World. The episode of that series about the internet is just mind boggling. To really access "cyberspace", you gotta have a treadmill! I like the one on AI, too. Wonder whatever happened to the projects they featured.
Thanks! Watched the first part, really interesting, I will definitely watch the other ones. OK, giving the English voice of Konrad Zuse a thick German accent was really cheesy, but well, those were different times... Otherwise, great storytelling and some details I had never heard of before.
Posted: 16 Jan 2015, 20:47
by seebart
that´s an awesome Nintoaster snoopy!
Posted: 18 Jan 2015, 16:33
by sth
7bit wrote: Soon available:
HyperToast - the toaster with self-awareness!
yes but it takes 2 years to make the toast
Posted: 18 Jan 2015, 17:05
by snoopy
sth wrote: 7bit wrote: Soon available:
HyperToast - the toaster with self-awareness!
yes but it takes 2 years to make the toast
and another 2 to get it out of the toaster
