Mix of Pentium 2, 3, 4 and Panasonic deck - (DIY)

Mix of Pentium 2, 3, 4 and Panasonic deck

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This blog entry is actually text of an old email of mine, I sent on 2015 Oct 08 Thu to my contacts.

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2015 October 06 Tuesday

Today I mixed Pentium 2, Pentium 3, Pentium 4 and Panasonic deck together and got excellent results. Pentium 2 belonged to Faraz, Pentium 3 belonged to Mani and Pentium 4 belonged to Omer. Panasonic deck also belonged to Omer.

As all these were not working properly and were very old so we were about to get rid of them. Therefor I decided/planed to experiment with them. :D. In Pentium 2 monitor was not working. In Pentium 4 motherboard was not working. In Panasonic deck CD drive and Tape drive were not working. Only Pentium 3 was in some what working condition. So I made it base for my experiment.

Actually I took HHD (20GB) from Pentium 2 and data cable from Pentium 4 and installed it in Pentium 3. At first HDD was not installing. After many attempts I reverced data cable and it worked. :D. I also took data cable for Floppy disk from Pentium 4 as that was missing from Pentium 3.

So far somehow OS selection menu (Multi/Dual boot menu)is not showing. :(. Onlly xp from original HDD (40GB) of Pentium 3 is booting and Windows XP and Windows 78 from HDD of Pentium 2 is not booting. :(. May be some time else it will also work.

After this success I got confident enough to attempt some thing more. Some thing that was in my mind for long time, may be around 10 years, but I was not attempting. So I went to markit and bought cable for connecting Pentium 3 and Panasonic deck for using deck's amplifier. :D. First attempt was a failure (normal ;D ). There was no sound. I removed cable and used it in reverce. One of two pins, red one, in PC’s audio out and single pin (black one) in deck’s mic port. Immediately there was sound, although not good, but some thig was there to encourage me. After some time I removed connecting cabloe and inserted it again in corret ports again. This time there was sound and the sound was very good. :D. So I enjoyed a lot of audios and videos very much. :D.

I enjoyed todays work. As I was alone at home so I enjoyed it more.

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2015 October 07 Wednesday

And today I installed HDD (40GB) of Pentium 4 into Pentium 3 also. But as there were 4 devices 3 HDD and 1 CD/Writer and only 3 power plugs available for them in Pentium 3, 4th plug was smaller for floppy, I sacrificed CD/Writer for the time being. Some time else I will search for two way plug and that will solve the problem. :D.

Physically arranging 3 HDD's in PC was tricky and there was very tight space. But after a few attempts and re-attempts I was able to install them all.

XP from HDD of Pentium 4 is also booting but as all it's softwar's were installed for Pentium 4 they ran a little slowly.

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Panasonic Deck's amplifier is working fine. :D.

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To know which drive (partition) belong to which physical HDD I labeled them accordingly. For example D1P1 for HDD 1 and partition 1 etc.

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Bottom line: I harvested some great benefits from this recycle.

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[Update: 2016Nov06Sun]

During last night's electricity fluctuation my Old Pentium 3 stopped and is still not starting. I will try to make it work again.

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[Update: 2016Nov29Tue]

I do not think I will try to make Pentium 3 work again. It is a sad end of a great companionship. I learned a lot on these Pentiums and enjoyed surfing net, listening/watching songs and watching movies. I do not play games on PC. Plus html, vbscript, jscript, asp, php, java, visual studio 'c#', my sql, microsoft sql, microsoft ofice with frontpage (I really like frontpage), adobe 'photoshop 7' (I got this on recommendation of local photography shop owner), flash 5 & 8, microsoft movie maker, autocad etc all I learned on these Computers. I also enjoyed listening songs on Panasonic deck, it's sound quality was, and still is, very good.

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-*- Departing words -*-

So

Good bye to all of you companions.

Hopefully

Memory of good times we spent together

will remain with me for ever.

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Big city Traffic easing method - 2016

Big city Traffic easing method

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A few years ago a lot of over pases, under pases and signal free corridors were made on mass scale in Karachi/Sindh/Pakistan (mostly during Gen. Musharef rule) to make traffic flow smooth and free of a lot of brakes. While thinking about these roads and re-searching on net about solutions for the same problem I got a new idea

Idea was to make main roads of Karachi/Sindh/Pakistan multistory from start to end with both level of roads getting connected together on each/every Intersection. Intersection on each level was to be made mostly of 'cloverleaf intersection' or some variation of 'whirlpool intersection'. Because they are only 2 story high and provide Strait, Left and Right turns. 'Cloverleaf intersection' also provide U turn and with small effort 'whirlpool intersection' can also provide U turn easily. Both levels were to be connected together by connecting intersections on both levels.

But that is not all. I went ahead with my thinking and planning and made another new idea. And this time idea was to design roads of big cities like Karachi/Sindh/Pakistan on pattern of graph paper. Where dark lines represent main roads. This method provides main roads to each part of city evenly. And any one can move from one part of city to another part of city using any of so many possibilities present. Thus reducing chance of choking any part of road-system. Another benefit of this design of road-system is that bus routs can be made in a lot of ways to provide even opportunities to every part of city.

To further ease traffic on this road-system a rule can be made according to which buses will always move on 1st level of road-system. Taxis and rickshaws will move on 1st level of road-system only for searching-for, picking and delivering of passengers, otherwise they will move on 2nd level of road-system. Personal vehicles like cars, motorcycles will move on 2nd level except on start and stop points. People on shopping/window-shopping mission will use 1st level at start and end point and 2nd level in between of their journey. People on tourism mission will use any level. Plus any other vehicle doing short distance travel will use 1st level and long distance travel will use 2nd level. This is only beginning version of 'traffic easing rule'. Final version will be made after analyzing actual traffic for some years and using Computer for generating possible solutions, based on collected information, for further easing traffic on road-system.

I will add diagram of what I said/wrote above some time else here.

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Lane Changer at International borders

Lane Changer at International borders

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Over some years in past in some traveling videos I saw a situation in which traffic was moving towards each other on same lane of same road while entering or leaving Pakistan. May be the reason behind this situation is that out of 4 neighboring countries of Pakistan, in 3 countries traffic moves on right hand side of road while in Pakistan traffic moves on left hand side of the road. In remaining 1 neighboring country traffic also moves on left hand side of the road.

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So after searching and re-searching on above described problem/topic I found/reached-on, a solution which is simple, affordable and easy to implement and maintain.

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So I started making road drawings based on solutions I short listed. I made many versions one after another but kept rejecting them because of their complexity. After many tries I reached on solution as shown in the following drawings. I think it is simple not only to make and maintain but also for using. This solution does not need any bridges therefore it is also economical and affordable for countries like ours.

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Drawings are self descriptive so I am not describing it any further here in text. But maybe in future I come back here and add explanations here.

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I think this solution to above described problem can be used anywhere in the world where it's requirement occurs.

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And if someone is thinking what about remaining 1 country then following type of arrangement can be made for that country. This way all international border-crossings get same type of 'look and feel'.

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Not only these arrangements are useful for keeping traffic at international border it's own lane but they also provide very good security at international border crossings.

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[Update: 2019May06Mon] Today I removed both old images and added improved images in their place.

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If there are any mistakes then I will surely remove them whenever found.

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