Sunday, November 29, 2009

Power for Audio Amplifier




D3 design for new power supply for high power audio amplifier built into small Sun box. With two additional transformers, 22 pounds on the scale....

Friday, November 13, 2009

27 Years and Now Our First Dell


Our Cloud Wizard has built our first private cloud: Arrived today-Dell T100 server based on dual-core 3Ghz Xeon processor with VT technology to support node role in Eucalyptus cloud architecture running on Ubuntu. D3 has an instance of Ubuntu server running on top now and I've applied for an account-hopefully the administrator will approve it.....

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Latest D3 Invention

A new circuit design with a micro-controller dimmer for an array of overhead lights; first installation planned in our basement ceiling.





Saturday, November 7, 2009

IBM 3274 Controller


Very heavy gauge steel for cabinet, card cage rack, and other components. The maintenance manual has detailed schematics, waveforms, and assembly diagrams for every subsystem and component. Discontinued in 1990; now in our back yard under the deck!

8 Inch Floppy Drive out of an IBM 3274 Controller

How often do you find an IBM 3274 controller? 1.2Mb formatted capacity?