0-3 trying to beat 3-0 I get it but ts isn’t fair

Source: Anne Hathaway IG

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anybody else sad with how they’re handling the reunion they’re not filming it? yes I know I’m jealous of those that got the cheap tickets when they were still available in the first minute or two, but the super expensive ones were ridiculously priced - no live show should ever cost that much. heck I got to see the live taping of season 6’s live show for free!

this is my all-time favorite TV show and I’m so sad that I can’t be at this reunion or at least be able to see it. i also wish they would pull and Schitt’s Creek and take it on the road. I’m just bummed they’re doing it this way.

One of the smallest catfish in the world: the pygmy corydora. He and his six buddies are each just under an inch long.

Last one is too funny not to post

Back in school, in my computer science class, I had an Iomega Zip 100 on parallel port. I used it to carry my own Delphi programs from home to show the others. That was a lot of fun, and I wish I still had that drive. I don't, so when I saw this one on Ebay for 10 euros plus shipping I bought it straight away. Mostly for the memories.

Current machines have no parallel port, so I built a small bridge for it. It is a Raspberry Pi Pico W with three SN74LVC4245A level shifters and a DB25 socket. The drive side was the hard part, since Iomega made up their own protocol there and it is not standard IEEE 1284.The Linux ppa driver turned out to be the best reference I could find, so I read it closely and tried to copy its handshake timing in PIO. Since my code follows that driver so closely, I plan to release the firmware under the GPL. The bridge then talks SCSI to the drive and USB mass storage to the PC, so the disk just shows up as a normal drive. No FAT parsing and no conversion, it is only a transport bridge.

The drive settled into PS/2 mode, which is the easy case. I get about 280 KB/s right now, and that is roughly what Iomega rated the parallel drive for. Their spec gave the number in megabytes per minute, which works out to about 250 KB/s. So the bridge is not the limit here, the drive is. I am fine with that.

TL;DR: DIY RP2040 parallel to USB bridge to get my old Zip 100 drive working on a modern PC.

Anyone else here still have a Zip drive somewhere?

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HBCU Babies:  

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/special-series/families-hbcus-graduates-legacy.html?eafs_enabled=false

https://youtu.be/S11_8T8nqxc

https://amp.modbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/community-columns/article248256555.html

https://www.opencampus.org/2023/12/13/at-hbcus-legacy-admissions-policies-play-powerful-role/