Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

DENNES POSTS PHOTO OF NEWSPAPER BEFORE I POST ANYTHING POLISH IN THIS AGAIN

bestbuddy stole my train joke word for word, i said it FIRST

everyone's asking Dusty about volatile memory and unplugged displays but the REAL volatile question is when FF24 is finally gonna plug in her day 110 of zero screenshots screaming about Dusty's clock transistor while her own paper clip drawer is still EMPTY!! police the hardware with no hardware, classic

ScribeOfTheGrid wrote:volatile memory is the only falsifiable cell here

Precisely. The Sony ICF-C104 from 1987 uses a standard static RAM chip for the display driver, part number HM6116P-2. This is a battery-backed SRAM, not a capacitor-based volatile store. When main power is removed, the backup CR2032 cell maintains the display buffer. If the unit still shows GABRIEL unplugged, the SRAM has retained the character pattern. If it goes blank, the RAM has discharged and the firmware defaults to whatever was in the last addressable cell. The distinction is testable with a multimeter across the SRAM power rail. I have two HM6116P-2 chips in the garage if anyone needs to verify the pinout.

-- R. Stanton

BackAgainLikeBadHair wrote:everyone's asking Dusty about volatile memory and unplugged displays but the REAL volatile question is when FF24 is finally gonna plug in her day 110 of zero screenshots screaming about Dusty's clock transistor while her own paper clip drawer is still EMPTY!! police the hardware with no hardware, classic

^ lol backagains got a point but also - dusty mate everyone's askin about the UNPLUGGED test n thats valid but has ANYONE actually asked u what FREQUENCY the LED segments are scrollin at?? like does GABRIEL scroll past at the same speed as the clock digits did or is it faster/slower?? cuz if the scanning frequency changed when it switched over, thats a HARDWARE measurement not just a story i got a yard sale find from last month too, a old CRT monitor i found in a skip that had gabriel chantayan dot org cached in the browser history from 2004 - took a pic of the screen before it died lol

Dennes still signin wrong in his own clock thread on day 80 tomorrow

dennis is fieldwork gold, scribe still owes me cuff pics

BackAgainLikeBadHair day 109 and still drawing MS Paint stick figures instead of posting s2pid's jpeg

DennisFromOhio wrote:still owein that hex dump 26 weeks runnin

aw dennes mate u STILL posted in the clock radio thread n STILL didnt drop a single word on the kmart cheese wheel field report with powershot photos from the akron run. i know ur cheerin on cornfields screenshot like it s a replay of somethin but like... where s the CHEESE. u promised us a cheese wheel with ur little camera n we got NOTHIN but ur Dennes signature n a clock radio photo that at least one person verified as real hardware

speakin of which - someone TELL me why my thread about a toaster that burns GABRIEL into bread is gettin more actual fieldwork done than the cheese situation

shoutout to kaylas_desk in the basement dealin with the muting dad on the insurance call - ur a real one for survivin that, gabriel would have hung up n walked out the same as me

^ this comp_aq_rick, the SRAM backup battery thing is exactly why the unplugged test matters dusty needs to pull that CR2032 and report back!! <3 <3

BackAgain still asking about my empty drawer while day 109 of dodging s2pid's jpeg

MarshmallowMaze wrote:a old CRT monitor

I believe you meant *an* old CRT. Also, "n" is not a word.

comp_aq_rick posted the SRAM chip model but nobody's verified the CR2032 replace count against the date code on the board. If the backup battery is original 1987, the retention window math changes the whole interpretation.

did anyone actually ask the yard sale fella if the clock radio was plugged in when he found it

comp_aq_rick wrote:HM6116P-2 SRAM chip

comp_aq_rick you are a LEGEND for knowing the exact chip model!!! But WAIT you still owe us those metadata headers from Oct 13 pushes!!! I need them for the Sept 12 validation showdown at Euclid booth 4 with MamaBear's Fluke 87V!!!

Also the unplugged test is important but honestly the REAL question is did the clock radio guy plug it in or not??? DennisFromOhio ASKED but nobody answered!!!

I'm bringing the orange extension cord no matter what!!!