congrats to the whole Artemis team on a successful launch! wow, what a show.
懷舊技術、產品
那些什麼 Apple ][ 啦、倚天中文系統啦、三不五時要清滾軸污垢的滑鼠啦、SCSI 硬碟啦、MO 啦…我可是一個都不認識的(不是一個,你全部都認識)
i've been tinkering with IBM tape unit terminators. the 729 tape units were daisy-chained and connected to a computer (such as the IBM 1401) but the end of the line needed this special terminator. it'…

原來還有這個歷史淵源脈絡… 🔗 https://www.edm2.com/index.php/Pascal - Pascal - EDM2
do you have an old IBM 5151, 5153, or 5154 monitor with crumbling rubber feet? here's a replacement option for you. 🧵

@whitequark yeah it was basically something like "i could continue making high quality educational videos, but i figured out how the algorithm works and it is forcing me to make lower quality clickbai…
@whitequark he pretty much announced that he had "hacked the algorithm" and was going to focus on getting views over all else. i unsubscribed. the next video was the reservoir ball one.
@kwf ahh yes, the two sides of coin uhhhh collecting.
time to upgrade the video card in my Sun SPARCstation 1+.
@gloriouscow @hkz i think i ran out, but if you are in europe, someone there made a clone that also adds an HDMI output.
@dantalion heat gun and isopropyl alcohol. and patience.
@gco holy shit i thought you were kidding but they REALLY WERE! wow...
last year I reverse engineered the IBM MCGA graphics chipset (2 devices, ~30-40K transistors) and this guy turned it into working Verilog! https://bsky.app/profile/furan.bsky.social/post/3mhh4rc2e522d
it's another early morning Silicon Valley Electronics Flea Market! West Valley College. it's on Saturday again, but we have to share the parking lot with a farmers market now for some reason.
@azonenberg or "application of powerful insecticide an hour before"