chit chat thread
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Hey, I came back with a 318ti. Is that okay to do? Also I saw that I was "spotted" not long ago. Man I look fat from behind on a tiny motorcycle.
E91 328xi - F15 X5 40e - Hopes and dreams of eventually having a cool car
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Hey, I came back with a 318ti. Is that okay to do? Also I saw that I was "spotted" not long ago. Man I look fat from behind on a tiny motorcycle.
As long as you don't try to surpass Earl as our local TI guru I think it's acceptable...
#WelcomeBackBitch
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Hey, I came back with a 318ti. Is that okay to do? Also I saw that I was "spotted" not long ago. Man I look fat from behind on a tiny motorcycle.
What year?
- 2011 335xi Coupe Black Sapphire Metallic (e92/N55/ZPP/ZCW)
- 2011 335xi Coupe Deep Sea Blue Metallic(e92/N55/ZPP/ZCW)
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What year?
1997, aka the best year of ti, connoisseurs only.
E91 328xi - F15 X5 40e - Hopes and dreams of eventually having a cool car
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So like this one...
But how reliable after 172,490 miles is the engine? $3,295 seems like a bargain, but it's in NJ
- 2011 335xi Coupe Black Sapphire Metallic (e92/N55/ZPP/ZCW)
- 2011 335xi Coupe Deep Sea Blue Metallic(e92/N55/ZPP/ZCW)
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So like this one...
But how reliable after 172,490 miles is the engine? $3,295 seems like a bargain, but it's in NJ
Mine has 210K, and I paid 1100 with a blown radiator, delivered to my door. Even after that, engine is quiet. Buy one cheap. You can get a pretty nice 318ti for not much. They aren't worth anything.
EDIT: Didn't notice your auto-tragic troll post. Oh you.
E91 328xi - F15 X5 40e - Hopes and dreams of eventually having a cool car
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So could that one in NJ be worth $3,295? Seems to be super clean, I'd be concerned about the reliability though.
How much does the stock 4-cyl crank out?
- 2011 335xi Coupe Black Sapphire Metallic (e92/N55/ZPP/ZCW)
- 2011 335xi Coupe Deep Sea Blue Metallic(e92/N55/ZPP/ZCW)
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That white one looks like a nice clean car. I'd say it's a fair price if you can tolerate an auto and beigey-beige interior.
They're as reliable as any other high-mileage 20-year-old car. All depends on maintenance and luck. M42 and M44 are both rated at 138hp. M44 has more low-end torque, which presumable makes it nicer to daily, but it's a real bore when you go to wind it out because nothing much happens. They also added rocker arms and a torture-chamber intake to the M44 which kind of kills the buzzy, raspy, grap-it-by-the-scruff-of-the-neck nature of the older 4-bangers.
Anyways, speaking of beigey-beige, here's what I came here to post:
Tonight we're gonna party like it's nineteen eighty nine!
Dug the Atari 1040ST out of storage. Mine was manufactured sometime in late 1987. 1 meg of ram, no hard drive, but one of the first PCs to come with a GUI and has MIDI ports built-in standard. Had a project in mind for it, but it doesn't really look like it's going to work. Figured I clean it up and kick it over to see if it still runs. It does. Most amusing part was trying to find "shutdown" in the menu, and then realizing there is no "shutdown", you just turn the power switch off.
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A true classic that the Smithsonian would probably snap up in a moment.
- 2011 335xi Coupe Black Sapphire Metallic (e92/N55/ZPP/ZCW)
- 2011 335xi Coupe Deep Sea Blue Metallic(e92/N55/ZPP/ZCW)
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A true classic that the Smithsonian would probably snap up in a moment.
Maybe. I picked it up back in the early 2000's because I figured vintage computing was going to be a big thing at some point. The Ataris survived a long time in the world of electronic music production because of the built-in MIDI ports, which was something I was interested in at the time. Outside of that niche though, they were never that popular. I'd be lucky to get $100 for this one if I tried to sell it.
The project I've had in mind is wavetable synthesizer similar to the PPG Wave, but based on slightly more modern hardware. I built a software-base wavetable synth for my final project back when I was in school for electronics, so it's really more of a desire to "finish" what I started there than anything "artistic" (ie move highly repetitive, real-time processing off the CPU and on to dedicated hardware, understand and implement fast fourier transform for analyzing sampled sounds and generating wavetables from them, blah, blah, jargon, blah).
Still, they can make some neat sounds (by 1982 standards)...
Wavetable was quickly replaced by newer technologies such as FM, which could make more interesting sounds, required less hardware, and were able to hit the market at a lower price-point. However, I feel like wavetable is a technique that fell by the wayside before it had a chance to be fully developed, and I'm curious to see if there's more that could be done with it.
Unfortunately, the Atari lacks any kind of of expansion slot, which is what I really needed. Still, I might be able to figure something out... I'd like to play with it more, but I need to figure out how to transfer software to it. Hard to find a PC with a floppy drive in 2018...
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Gotta love the old 8" floppies. 80 Kilobytes!
I was never much into the Ataris. My dad wrote a DOS for the TRS-80s back in the day. TRS-DOS - bought by Tandy Corporation (aka Radio Shack). And of course we know the giants that emerged from the primitive ashes.
- 2011 335xi Coupe Black Sapphire Metallic (e92/N55/ZPP/ZCW)
- 2011 335xi Coupe Deep Sea Blue Metallic(e92/N55/ZPP/ZCW)
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And Trash-DOS is exactly what we called it. I don't think they thought it through when they named it...
But then again, maybe they did mmmm?
- 2011 335xi Coupe Black Sapphire Metallic (e92/N55/ZPP/ZCW)
- 2011 335xi Coupe Deep Sea Blue Metallic(e92/N55/ZPP/ZCW)
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Anyone on here need a good plow truck for their driveway?
How much? Text me pics and a price and I'll forward it to a friend
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Need a pair of safety glasses? I've got about 10 pairs floating around. I learned that lesson the hard way as well. Did they do the drill thing on your eyeball?
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Need a pair of safety glasses? I've got about 10 pairs floating around. I learned that lesson the hard way as well. Did they do the drill thing on your eyeball?
Have a ton of safety glasses, just slid under the car to look where the carrier bushing mounts and boom. Just a cornea abrasion
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