Ed S @EdS@mastodon.sdf.org

My college's MakerLab found a #Sinclair ZX80 in the basement... #RetroComputing

@EdS @sohkamyung

Most folks who talk about Wells, will talk about Verne in the same breath, so that's a great place to start.

I had a book when I was small called The Rivals of HG Wells, which contained the following:
The purple death / W.L. Alden --

The Thames Valley catastrophe / Grant Allen --

A star fell / L.J. Beeston --

The last stand of the decapods
/ Frank T. Bullen --

The monster of Lake Lametrie / Wardon Allan Curtis --

#omelas https://uncannymagazine.com/article/a-house-by-the-sea/

It needs a new battery and the WiFi is dubious, but I really like the Sony Clié PEG-UX50/E. Especially when it cost me ten bucks on a local flea market.

It's already part of my everyday carry and phlogflow.

You: Intel architecture
Me: Actually, Intel is the manufacturer. You're thinking of Intel's monster.

FLATLINE: How The Amiga Languished - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB_UZsJUbwQ

Here's a website I highly recommend: https://www.filfre.net. It has a ton of articles on the history and design of adventure games. The recommended reading order is by order of publication, since it goes chronologically, and the articles are also available in ebook format in volumes for a more concentrated reading.
#retrogaming

Want to go super retro and run Unixes back to the original UNICS in your browser? Check this out! #retrocomputing #unix #history https://unix50.org/

Hey new people on Mastodon!

For privacy reasons there's no automated "people to follow" suggestions on here.

However, there is an unofficial community site called #Trunk which is an opt-in list of people who are looking for followers, organised by topic:

https://communitywiki.org/trunk/

Scroll down to find people to follow, or read the instructions at the top if you want to be added to a list.

For example, here's the list for "Science Fiction":

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#Introductions #NewHere

Interesting post by the Computer History Museum on the Whirlwind Computer: it's design and history and what parts of it can be seen at the CHM.

#Computers #ComputerHistory #ComputerHistoryMuseum #History #Engineering #Technology

http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-whirlwind-computer-at-chm/

Slack destroys company cultures by encouraging constantly interrupting one another for things that could wait, using an ephemeral communication mechanism for sending out important announcements everyone should read, and wasting time digging through notifications to make sure one doesn't miss any of the aforementioned important announcements.

If you wouldn't walk across the office to tell someone something face-to-face, don't say it in Slack.

I'm stitching these two together because, wowie wow does this fit well:

"""According to this logic, all responsibility is in the hands of individuals, so when things go wrong it’s not systems or institutions that are at fault but our decision-making."""

https://medium.com/mammon-machine-zeal/choice-guilt-and-life-is-strange-506f2bd2019b

A Do-It-Yourself Paper Digital Computer, 1959.
Web page by Ptak, John F.
In collections: Easily explained, Things to make and do
This wonderful cut-away and paste-up template for a digital computer comes to us from the Communications of the Association for...
URL: http://longstreet.typepad.com/books/2010/11/item-mayer-rollin-p-papac-00-a-do-it-yourself-paper-computer-in-communications-of-the-association-for-computing-machin.html
Entry: http://read.somethingorotherwhatever.com/entry/Ptak

A Visual Defragmenter for the Commodore 64 https://www.pagetable.com/?p=978

Working on my own 8-bit CPU on my FPGA. So far I can load and store to A, X, and Y registers and a memory address!

That's it so far.

Fascinating interactive visual on the UN Environment’s 2018 Emissions Gap Report.

#UnitedNations #ClimateChange #GlobalEmissions #Interactives

https://www.unenvironment.org/interactive/emissions-gap-report/

heres a computer i made when i was a kid