When the dinosaurs ruled the planet - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: MrPlacid
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2011, 05:45:21 am
content: Years ago when the dinosaurs ruled the planet, they were doodling in forums and message boards with art like this:_ __S------| \+--| >o----+-----Q| |__/ |+----------| || |+----------|-+| __ ||--| \ | __ | >o--+-------QR------|__/or this:_____ _____| | | || /| |\ || / | | \ || o | | o |--(+) (-)-- --(+) (-)--| |_____| | | |_____| || | | || | | |V V V V--------->|--------- ---------|<---------Ohh... I miss those days. Just a reminder to everyone, don't forget you can doodle instead of creating a wall of text to *spice* up your questions or replies.

author: saturation
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2011, 11:48:04 am
content: You still need to draw that way on the newsgroups, its not extinct!

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2011, 01:02:11 pm
content: Although it's interesting that after all these years, nobody seems to have come up with a nice, simple and quick way to quickly do sketches in online forums... how hard can it be?

author: ivan747
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2011, 01:48:57 pm
content: I wish CAD packages had that so badly.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 01, 2011, 02:19:29 pm
content: Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on July 01, 2011, 01:02:11 pmI wonder if there is an SMF add-in? That would be extremely useful.

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2011, 02:29:25 pm
content: You can still do it the old fashioned way, note the figure caption:Code:____| |+-+-----o----|7805|--o---o-. ,------ A A |+ |____| |)|( '------ | === | ---)|( -----(-+ /-\ | ----' '------' A A | | |+-+-----o------o-----o---o(created by AACircuit v1.28.6 beta 04/19/05 www.tech-chat.de)

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2011, 04:07:28 pm
content: I don't like ASCII schematics because I find them hard to read and only reproduce well with a fixed width font.

author: Rufus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2011, 05:43:00 pm
content: All diagrams for dinosaur IBM mainframe computer logic circuits were in ASCII (or actually, being IBM EBCDIC) and were printed on listing paper by chain printers.If I remember right they were called ALDs (Automated Logic Diagrams).

author: Vertigo
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2011, 05:48:19 pm
content: for those of you still doing this, this will make your life a bit easyer:http://www.tucows.com/preview/195829http://www.zdnet.co.uk/downloads/view/internet-software/nfo-creator-39053442/

author: MrPlacid
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 02, 2011, 03:25:17 am
content: Quote from: Hero999 on July 01, 2011, 04:07:28 pmI agree. The complex arts are painful to look at. But the simple one are useful at times.___1---\ \ \| | \| | >-----?| | /O---/ /___/--------+--------|R+--------o Vout=?o/o/|--------+----------------+--------|R+--------o Vout=?o||o||--------+--------Quote from: BoredAtWork on July 01, 2011, 02:29:25 pmI like the transformer. Gonna copy that for future use.

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 02, 2011, 08:08:46 am
content: Quote from: MrPlacid on July 02, 2011, 03:25:17 amAACircuit comes bit a bunch of that stuff. See the right side of the attached image.

author: RayJones
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2011, 07:47:30 am
content: That AACircuit looks great for quickly sketching an idea for email etc without needing to fire up a proper CAD package, generate a PDF attachment etc.As for fixed sized fonts, being mostly code centric these days, I find it a pain when things are proportional and not fixed.On the forum fixed size is easy to dial up with the [ code ] [ /code ] block. (extra spaces to avoid invoking the fixed sized block)

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2011, 08:04:05 am
content: dinasours died face it. i like dinasours, but now i have scanner (and png format!), so i can put my "older style" of sketch online, ie carbon (pencil) on paper. pls, dont argue carbon causes cancer, i know that!

author: ivan747
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2011, 08:28:41 pm
content: Quote from: Mechatrommer on July 03, 2011, 08:04:05 amI think pencils use graphite, although I am not completely sure since we call them "carbon pencils" in spanish. Weird, I know.QuoteAlso, something very alarming, since pencils are used by young kids:Quote

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2011, 08:37:31 pm
content: Graphite used to make pencils is just an allotrope of carbon and is not carcinogenic. Pencils used to be made of lead which is carcinogenic.

author: RayJones
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2011, 09:56:58 pm
content: The beauty of plain text schematics is that ASCII text is always recognisable - once you get past the fixed font criteria.All the modern graphic variants require some form of GUI display to render them, and as history has shown time and time again these formats come and go and someone always tries to push another one onto the market, or as Microsoft is keen to to add features that make the file unusable on earlier versions..PDF is probably the most reliable in ensure the page is presented as intended, but even then the earliest readers would not be able to open a new PDF filePlain ASCII - well you could probably squirt that to an ASR33 teleprinter and still be able to read it fine!Dinosaur bones last quite some time in the ground!

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 03, 2011, 10:04:40 pm
content: A plain PNG file can be read by most browsers and if it's monochrome 1-bit per pixel, it will load quickly, even on a dialup connection.

author: MrPlacid
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 04, 2011, 08:23:40 am
content: I am not into complex ascii schematics, but simple ascii doodles are rather useful.Images have there place. Anyway, I uploaded a video on youtube to show how ascii art could be useful at times. This came from my defunct flashcard website which I took offline and still develop for my personal use. If I went and draw the individual gates, I would have 24 images to maintain. But using ascii art, I stored the whole thing in one text file except for the background images.This is the reason why I got interested in ascii art. Anyways, I hope nonbody flag this as being indecent. It's art!--edit--In this way, a 24 png files would be considered larger than one text file.

author: Lawsen
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 04, 2011, 06:49:43 pm
content: Dinosaurs are not extinct, that many of their genes lived on in birds, avians. The dinosaurs are still among us in birds. The large dinosaurs lived during the Mesozoic in the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous onto the Cenozoic at the Paleocene, before all died. Different dinosaurs appeared and disappeared at different times from the Mesozoic 250 million years to the Paleocene at Cenozoic 65 million years. If you ate a chicken or turkey, then you ate a dinosaur related animal by features and genes. Archaeopteryx is a bird like dinosaur that fossil remains were found in limestone quarries in Germany.http://www.dinosauria.com/jdp/archie/archie.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryxhttp://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinosaur.htmlhttp://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mesozoic/mesozoic.htmlI enjoy viewing your Ascii sketches, keep posting interesting ones.Lawsen

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 04, 2011, 06:58:16 pm
content: yea right. you may as well call yourself platypus. dinasours are big. birds are not dinasours! except if you want to say every living thing with carbon binding in it is dinasour.

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 04, 2011, 08:48:42 pm
content: Quote from: Mechatrommer on July 04, 2011, 06:58:16 pmYou're showing your ignorance again.Not all dinosaurs were large animals, some were smaller than mice, the range in sizes wast as great as in modern mammals.There is very strong evidence that birds are the direct descendants of dinosaurs. Fossils have been found which share many skeletal traits of dinosaurs but with imprints feathers feathers in the clay.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 04, 2011, 08:57:00 pm
content: Quote from: Lawsen on July 04, 2011, 06:49:43 pmSeasoned dino-fillets never tasted so good! Hooray for evolution!

author: Mechatrommer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 04, 2011, 09:34:52 pm
content: Quote from: Hero999 on July 04, 2011, 08:48:42 pmmaybe you are right. we still live side by side with dinasours. and we are maybe alot more ahead descendant of them... after ape.

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 04, 2011, 09:58:41 pm
content: Quote from: Mechatrommer on July 04, 2011, 09:34:52 pmThe ape, mammels and us humans are not descended from dinosaurs. We share a common ancestor with birds about 260 million years ago (if I remember rightly), long before the age of the dinosaurs.