Chatlog 1 | Prairie Telephone

[23:17] <blueboxkid> anyway thats why you never use radio shack caps

[23:17] <void_stack> didn't they literally explode

[23:17] <@operator> they were fine in the 80s

[23:18] <copperveins> lmao my first build used those

[23:18] <blueboxkid> rip your circuits

[23:18] <t0neline> anyone got pdf of old bell system practices? need to check something

[23:19] <deadswitch> hey everyone

[23:19] <void_stack> yo sarah

[23:19] <deadswitch> holy shit you won't believe what my uncle just dropped off

[23:19] <blueboxkid> ?

[23:20] <copperveins> sup sarah

[23:20] <deadswitch> boxes of my grandma's old work stuff from prairie tel

[23:20] <deadswitch> like... a lot of boxes

[23:20] <t0neline> prairie telephone?

[23:20] <void_stack> oh shit

[23:21] <blueboxkid> your grandma worked for prairie?

[23:21] <deadswitch> yeah! dr connie chen. she was there from 73 to the telus merger

[23:21] <copperveins> wait

[23:21] <copperveins> WAIT

[23:21] <void_stack> drumheller exchange?

[23:22] <xphile> anyone got notes on 2600hz detection circuits

[23:22] <deadswitch> yeah she worked on the drumheller expansion

[23:22] <copperveins> ...project echo?

[23:22] <blueboxkid> holy shit

[23:22] <void_stack> don't

[23:22] <t0neline> lol that money pit

[23:23] <deadswitch> what's project echo?

[23:23] <xphile> wasn't that the routing thing that killed prairie?

[23:23] <copperveins> "routing system"

[23:23] <void_stack> corporate bs about automated routing

[23:23] <void_stack> cost like 40 mil before they killed it

[23:24] <blueboxkid> heard they had weird problems w/ cross connections

[23:24] <deadswitch> wait i found something about that

[23:24] <deadswitch> bunch of papers marked ECHO-1

[23:24] <copperveins> sarah

[23:24] <copperveins> dm me

[23:24] <void_stack> same

[23:25] <xphile> anyway about that 2600 circuit

[23:25] <blueboxkid> use a 741 not a 358

[23:25] <t0neline> just buy a kit from mouser ffs

[23:26] <deadswitch> holy shit these maintenance logs are weird

[23:26] <void_stack> sarah check your dm

[23:27] <xphile> 741s are garbage

[23:27] <blueboxkid> ur garbage

[23:27] <@operator> keep it civil

[23:28] <deadswitch> brb gonna scan some of this

[23:28] <t0neline> share folder?

[23:29] <void_stack> don't

[23:29] <copperveins> not here

[23:29] <blueboxkid> anyway i got this sick radio shack catalog from 82

[23:29] <xphile> pics

[23:30] <blueboxkid> uploading to imgur

[23:30] <void_stack> oh man the trs-80 ads

[23:30] <t0neline> trash-80

[23:31] <copperveins> fuck

[23:31] <void_stack> she'll be back

[23:31] <blueboxkid> catalog pics: http://imgur.../f7k9d

[23:32] <xphile> omg those prices