| ▲ | ggambetta 11 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I learned to solder as a pre-teen so I could make a nullmodem :) Then I learned that resistors were a thing when I made a parallel port sound card (this thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing). Fun times! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | d3Xt3r 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I wasn't allowed a soldering iron as a kid, so I ended up just chopping and splicing a regular serial cable and turned it into a null modem, all so that I could play OMF2097 with my friends without having to share the same keyboard (we would always fight over right side, which defaulted to using the arrow keys for movement - and so the person who got the right side generally had the advantage, as back then arrow keys were the default movement keys, unlike these days where WASD is default.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | lll-o-lll 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Really fun times. I “learned” to solder around that time and age also. Playing Mod files through a DIY version of that “thing” piped into a portable stereo speaker was awesome. Years later I learned what flux was, and soldering became quite a bit better and easier. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||