**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Tue Dec 19 03:00:01 2017 Dec 19 04:48:12 “ CatButts: amiga computers from the 80s & 90s used infamous varta barrel batteries that'd leak and eat right through the PCB” Dec 19 04:48:13 All Amiga computers from Commodore are from the 1980s and 1990s because the Amiga was produced only from 1985 until the bankruptcy of Commodore in 1994/1995. Some old IBM PC compatibles had a similar problem with a large battery leaking but I do not know if it is the same type of battery. Dec 19 04:51:49 varu: What happened with radio in Norway? Has analog terrestrial radio for commercial broadcasters been replaced by digital radio? Dec 19 04:58:31 By “old” I mean 1990s and earlier, I think mid 1990s and earlier because motherboards seemed to usually use a coin cell (single-cell lithium) battery in the late 1990s. Dec 19 05:17:06 * brolin_empey redd https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Radio_in_Norway&oldid=815374426 . Dec 19 06:03:01 brolin escom made a few after commodore went bust in 94 Dec 19 06:03:25 anything that used those barrel nicads leaked. macs had the same issue Dec 19 06:04:02 (though a bit less common, different size & maybe batt chem, i can't remember) Dec 19 06:04:25 and yeah analog's gone digital in norway Dec 19 06:05:26 coincells also leak, unfortunately.. though it's (thus far) not as common Dec 19 06:05:53 after the nicads, it's the SMD caps. 90s tech is up for replacement on those Dec 19 06:06:31 the 90s amigas (1200, 4000) get taken out by those, their board placement makes their repair a big hassle Dec 19 09:47:23 http://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet-string.html lol Dec 19 09:55:10 \o/ Dec 19 09:55:48 "wet".adsl() Dec 19 11:26:31 I wrote a piece of code to interact with N900's dbus and send/receive SMS in terminal Dec 19 11:26:41 as means to run on desktop PC but able to interact with phone Dec 19 11:26:53 it's probably nothing new since I used some python code as reference for that **** ENDING LOGGING AT Wed Dec 20 03:00:02 2017