RE: Eduventure: The AR Edition - School Chat
03-16-2012, 03:37 PM
Guys the modern physics lab at my university might possibly be the best lab ever! (the name is because all the equipment comes from the modern era)
Apparently buying new measuring devices is extremely expensive and my university is poor, so we're stuck with this super old ones. Which can't be interpreted by non-old computers, so we also have this relics with little screens that show how they are running at the impressive clock rate of 33 MHz (but they have a TURBO button so it's okay). Also floppy disks.
Anyway one of those computers decided to go rebellious on me yesterday (i think they know we can't replace them) so, after half an hour resets, recalibrations and various failed attempts at negotiation, I ended up setting up some an improvised paper grid in front of the screen and using a ruler to determine where the peaks were in the graph I managed to get.
A couple minutes later it was working properly again.
Apparently buying new measuring devices is extremely expensive and my university is poor, so we're stuck with this super old ones. Which can't be interpreted by non-old computers, so we also have this relics with little screens that show how they are running at the impressive clock rate of 33 MHz (but they have a TURBO button so it's okay). Also floppy disks.
Anyway one of those computers decided to go rebellious on me yesterday (i think they know we can't replace them) so, after half an hour resets, recalibrations and various failed attempts at negotiation, I ended up setting up some an improvised paper grid in front of the screen and using a ruler to determine where the peaks were in the graph I managed to get.
A couple minutes later it was working properly again.