evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

My Palm Pilot communicated mostly via IR as my laptop at the time had IR, my Nokia phones had IR, my WristCam had IR.
All was peachy and communication just happened.
That laptop is RIP (Pentium 133...) and most of the rest is now souvenirs of a more geeky time...
until I moved house.
and found the watch.
and its box.
containing the software.
and found the infrared serial adaptor.
and was prompted by Spangolin / @35millimetre about a photos-on-crap-kit project...
things joined together.
uh oh.

oookay, bit of a long-form geekery post, but it does (nearly) explain why I am sharing shitty greyscale pictures for a while...
way back (vertical wavy-lines go here) I purchased a Casio WristCam - the WQV-1 specifically.
It took 120x120 pixel greyscale images, but was also the size of a (slightly bulky) watch.
It could also share these via infrared.
I had a Palm Pilot with infrared.
This *Worked* really well.
I took many pictures.
23 years go by (vertical wavy-lines go here) and stuff changes.

@stavvers nah, I think it worked.
entertaining being considered a mini-stavvers too :D

@nevali especially good one, but device-specific...
someone not-me built a server.
set up windows server 20xx on it.
used the serial number on the box as the admin pwd.
then racked the server, with appropriately lengthed network and power cables, into the 2u hole left for it.
tried to domain-join it, hadn't recorded the pwd anywhere because *on the box anyway*
on the top lid of the server. which was now halfway down a production rack with powe lr cables too short to roll it out on the rails.

@cpoffers Gobblin' has to rank up there