Neither did I...it was a top40AM and LP tracks just wasn't going to happen...but a 2 liter of Dr Pepper or Coke and a pack of cigarettes got me thru..plus the teenage girls on the phone didn't hurt lol
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Does David Eduardo ever sleep???
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Lots of coffee and I found eating lunch at 3am helped.
THAT'S where the cigarette stains in the Formica countertops came from! 🚬 ...from another thread... https://www.radiodiscussions.com/threads/ho-ho-ho-a-month-to-go.741010/page-3#post-6438572
Play Misty for me?
Nothing like that from her. Now some others were a different story.
That sort of reminds me of my sign-on to sign-off 16 hour shift at WCUY (FM) in Cleveland back around 1961 or '62. The FCC had mandated that stations operate minimum hours Monday to Sunday. We had previously only operated from 4 PM to 11 PM, Monday to Saturday with a jazz format.
I'd buy a dozen White Castle burgers and 6 or so big cups of coffee. I'd put them in a plastic box on top of the transmitter to stay warm, and have a burger or two every couple of hours and a cup of coffee next to me at all times. I never fell asleep. Nobody else there for 16 hours.
At least overnights were just 6 hours.
I told people who trained with me during the overnight shifts to BRING FOOD WITH THEM, because even though we had a lot of long-form programming (half-hour to an hour at a time), the local restaurants were mostly closed.
I met one who was a frequent caller to my station at the time. Nothing ever came of it, but I knew that she wasn't my type, anyway. But she was very nice (most of the time).
Mine was in 1993 at a top 40 country station, but it was an AM station only about an hour from Nashville. (It was AM stereo, but listeners could already get the same country hits in FM stereo from those Nashville stations WITHOUT buying AM stereo equipment.) We had an FM station simulcasting with us at the time, but it was nearly an hour away in the opposite direction in a very rural area, so it didn't really help us with coverage during overnight hours, especially with so few listeners.
If Eduardo is indeed an insomniac then thank him for this condition! Keep it up Eduardo!
And before that I was on Compuserve which had a broadcast group and had service in Puerto Rico. I had my first "home" computer in 1975...
and do you remember how much it cost and how big the hard drive was?
It was an IBM system 33 that they abandoned to me when we upgraded at WQII / WSRA. It had a 24” Winchester drive! I don’t remember the capacity.
it was the size of an executive style desk and I built an extra room at home for it. Learned RPG II
Wow technology has come a long way! I'm assuming that hard drive was a mechanical drive. The laptop I just got cost about 600 bucks with a 256 GB solid state drive. Actually I'm wondering if consumer grade computers even come with mechanical drives anymore? That would be crazy, as it was just in 2014 that I thought replacing the hard drive in my then new laptop with a solid state would be an interesting idea but probably something I wouldn't ever get around to doing. I figured when I got my next laptop, I'd want but have to look for one with a solid state drive. That time came in 2017 and I went with a conventional drive, but now if I wanted one with a conventional drive I'm not sure I'd be able to find one.
Of course, in 1975 the drive was a huge Winchester mechanical that was the size of the door of a washing machine! Here is an article with a picture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/32
Today, my main computer has 7 x 16gb mechanicals (for incremental daily backups), an 8tb RAID array of 4x2tb PCIe 4.0 SSDs, a 1tb SSD as a boot drive, a 1tb mirror of the boot drive, and one 4tb and 1 8tb SSDs as "work drives"... over 70tb just on that one system.
Most personal laptops are going to solid state laptops, although some still have mechanical hard drives, especially in the larger sizes.
David, Is this the server you're running your website from?
No, the website runs off one of the dedicated servers at HiVelocity in Dallas.
The one described is the one I create the PDFs on from raw scans done on other systems (3 computers for 3 scanning systems). It uses a Ryzen Threadripper 3950, 256 megs of DDR 3600 memory, and all those drives. Also connected are 4 different Synology NAS backups. Between the internal drives and the NAS and an off-site backup, everything I do is replicated in the course of a week about 12 times over. I also do weekly backups on removable 8tb drives that are not permanently connected to the system; those are kept in a fireproof safe.
The three scanning computers use Ryzen 9-5900 chips on Asus boards with 128 mb of RAM.
David mentions buying a sack of White Castles. Which reminded me of my college radio days, a low-power FM run mostly by the students. It broadcast about 15-20 miles around the transmitter, so it had decent coverage.
Whoever did the last shift on a Friday or Saturday at my college station would see a bunch of us come in just before sign-off at 1 a.m. Then we'd all load in a couple of cars to drive over to the White Castle (open 24/7) for sliders and fries. Great memories of the new adventure of being on the radio and being friends with everyone at the college station. With no automation, someone had to cover every shift, so someone was always there!
Whoever did the last shift on a Friday or Saturday at my college station would see a bunch of us come in just before sign-off at 1 a.m. Then we'd all load in a couple of cars to drive over to the White Castle (open 24/7) for sliders and fries. Great memories of the new adventure of being on the radio and being friends with everyone at the college station. With no automation, someone had to cover every shift, so someone was always there!
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