Monthly Archives: December 2003

The Golden Compass, Neverwhere, Paycheck

Posted on December 29, 2003 by Eric

When I got to the Denver airport on Wednesday, I needed to break a twenty to have some ones to tip the shuttle driver, so I bought a book at W.H. Smith’s (no relation). Having seen some good reviews, I … Continue reading →

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Closed caption decoder

Posted on December 29, 2003 by Eric

The original concept for the new version of the closed-caption decoder was that everything would be interrupt-driven, and that there would be four interrupt sources: vertical sync from sync separator — would initialized timer 1 to count down horizontal lines … Continue reading →

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Closed caption decoder

Posted on December 28, 2003 by Eric

I’m vacationing in Denver at the moment. Rich Ottosen and I are upgrading our closed-caption decoder to use a Microchip PIC16F627 rather than the PIC16C622 we previously used. The new chip has several advantages: flash memory — the PIC16C622 was … Continue reading →

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Reforming electrolytic capacitors

Posted on December 28, 2003 by Eric

On Tuesday I started a new project, WREC. WREC Reforms Electrolytic Capacitors. We’re going to use it for the PDP-1 Restoration Project at the Computer History Museum. I’m trying to finish coding WREC and debug it in time for the … Continue reading →

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New MPEG-2 Program Stream Demultiplexer

Posted on December 21, 2003 by Eric

I needed a program to demultiplex MPEG-2 Program Streams that I’ve recorded with a Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 MPEG-2 hardware encoder card and the free MythTV PVR software, so that I could remultiplex the stream for DVD burning using mplex … Continue reading →

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