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I wouldn't fancy wiring this connector up😱! Inside the Hirose connector of the 100 way #Quantel Dylan cable that connects your Quantel Editbox, Henry or Hal to it's Dylan disk array.
April 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I wouldn't fancy wiring this connector up😱! Inside the Hirose connector of the 100 way #Quantel Dylan cable that connects your Quantel Editbox, Henry or Hal to it's Dylan disk array.
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"We want to preserve public health data that are crucial for people's well-being," - social epidemiologist Nancy Krieger, on the value of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine
www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...
Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever
The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.
www.npr.org
March 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
"We want to preserve public health data that are crucial for people's well-being," - social epidemiologist Nancy Krieger, on the value of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine
www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...
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In 1968, Douglas Engelbart revolutionized computing by showing the mouse, hypertext, and collaborative computing in "The Mother of All Demos". Most of his ideas are now part of everyday computing, but one device—the keyset—failed to catch on. Let's look at Engelbart's demo and the keyset. 1/N
March 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
In 1968, Douglas Engelbart revolutionized computing by showing the mouse, hypertext, and collaborative computing in "The Mother of All Demos". Most of his ideas are now part of everyday computing, but one device—the keyset—failed to catch on. Let's look at Engelbart's demo and the keyset. 1/N
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I just parked my "prehistory of a technomad" on YouTube, a little under 7 minutes. Plan is to do additional videos spanning the whole adventure epoch (including Deep Geekery), with the main body of the story continuing in text.
youtu.be/-RzBPcDYCF0
(And I'm back to work on Substack!)
youtu.be/-RzBPcDYCF0
(And I'm back to work on Substack!)
Prehistory of a Technomad - 1963-1983
YouTube video by Nomadic Research Labs
youtu.be
March 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I just parked my "prehistory of a technomad" on YouTube, a little under 7 minutes. Plan is to do additional videos spanning the whole adventure epoch (including Deep Geekery), with the main body of the story continuing in text.
youtu.be/-RzBPcDYCF0
(And I'm back to work on Substack!)
youtu.be/-RzBPcDYCF0
(And I'm back to work on Substack!)
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Working on something today. I've been doing a lot of recapping recently and was getting tired of Googling pdfs. mightyohm.com/wiki/referen...
reference:electronics:capacitors:electrolytic [MightyOhm Wiki]
mightyohm.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Working on something today. I've been doing a lot of recapping recently and was getting tired of Googling pdfs. mightyohm.com/wiki/referen...
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Cleaning under the hood of our PET 2001
March 9, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Cleaning under the hood of our PET 2001
For once I actually knew the computer @tayloramyshow.bsky.social are checking out in the latest episode, but that doesn't make it any less exciting to see them in my feed! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VX2...
Commodore VIC 20
YouTube video by The Taylor and Amy Show
www.youtube.com
March 8, 2025 at 2:42 PM
For once I actually knew the computer @tayloramyshow.bsky.social are checking out in the latest episode, but that doesn't make it any less exciting to see them in my feed! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VX2...
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it took a month, but i've reverse engineered this IBM MCGA gate array chip. 17,000 transistors. 768 gates. over 1200 nets.
March 7, 2025 at 4:57 AM
it took a month, but i've reverse engineered this IBM MCGA gate array chip. 17,000 transistors. 768 gates. over 1200 nets.
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New video! Dramatically improve microscope resolution with an LED array and Fourier Ptychography youtu.be/9KJLWwbs_cQ
Dramatically improve microscope resolution with an LED array and Fourier Ptychography
YouTube video by Applied Science
youtu.be
March 3, 2025 at 12:26 AM
New video! Dramatically improve microscope resolution with an LED array and Fourier Ptychography youtu.be/9KJLWwbs_cQ
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Ah, now that's the good stuff.
March 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Ah, now that's the good stuff.
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I'm a simple woman who enjoys drag soldering
February 24, 2025 at 9:22 AM
I'm a simple woman who enjoys drag soldering
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This is a rare beast, it's my Arraid EID-1C SMD Disk Emulator. It's configured to emulate a Fujitsu 14" M2294 330Mb SMD 'Winchester' disk used on my #Quantel DPB-7001. Originally it would have a 3.5" SCSI disk, but this one uses a SCSI CompactFlash drive instead 🤘
February 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
This is a rare beast, it's my Arraid EID-1C SMD Disk Emulator. It's configured to emulate a Fujitsu 14" M2294 330Mb SMD 'Winchester' disk used on my #Quantel DPB-7001. Originally it would have a 3.5" SCSI disk, but this one uses a SCSI CompactFlash drive instead 🤘
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Retrofest 2024 summed up, saving our computing history before it's forgotten!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=koSX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=koSX...
"I got involved in restoring and preserving these machines" - Retro Computer Festival 2024 (Part 2)
YouTube video by The Centre for Computing History
www.youtube.com
February 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Retrofest 2024 summed up, saving our computing history before it's forgotten!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=koSX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=koSX...
Tradera skulle verkligen må bra av några konkurrenter nu när både säljare och köpare betalar avgifter på auktionerna.
February 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Tradera skulle verkligen må bra av några konkurrenter nu när både säljare och köpare betalar avgifter på auktionerna.
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connected to my home server with my trs-80 over a payphone :D
February 12, 2025 at 5:11 AM
connected to my home server with my trs-80 over a payphone :D
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Some screenshots taken with FUJI RDP3 film🥹
November 9, 2024 at 8:25 AM
Some screenshots taken with FUJI RDP3 film🥹
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The F-4 fighter plane used a three-axis attitude indicator to show the plane's orientation. (Like an artificial horizon with a third axis.) @curiousmarc.bsky.social, @tubetime.bsky.social, and I restored a damaged indicator. The video includes burning slip rings: www.youtube.com/watch?v=snP_...
ARU-11/A Attitude Indicator - Part 1: Tear Down and Release of Magic Smoke
YouTube video by CuriousMarc
www.youtube.com
February 2, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The F-4 fighter plane used a three-axis attitude indicator to show the plane's orientation. (Like an artificial horizon with a third axis.) @curiousmarc.bsky.social, @tubetime.bsky.social, and I restored a damaged indicator. The video includes burning slip rings: www.youtube.com/watch?v=snP_...
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What is the origin of the word "mainframe"? Digging through archives, I traced it back to 1953. The IBM 701 computer was built from "frames": power frames, a storage frame, a drum frame, and the main frame. This 1953 drawing from the Installation Manual shows the dimensions of the "main frame". 1/n
February 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
What is the origin of the word "mainframe"? Digging through archives, I traced it back to 1953. The IBM 701 computer was built from "frames": power frames, a storage frame, a drum frame, and the main frame. This 1953 drawing from the Installation Manual shows the dimensions of the "main frame". 1/n
#TIL That this site is actually what became of Jack Dorsey's 2019 tweet about Twitter working on an "open and decentralized standard for social media." I'm shook!
February 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
#TIL That this site is actually what became of Jack Dorsey's 2019 tweet about Twitter working on an "open and decentralized standard for social media." I'm shook!
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New Video: f/0.38 camera lens made with oil immersion microscope objective www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQv0...
f/0.38 camera lens made with oil immersion microscope objective
YouTube video by Applied Science
www.youtube.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
New Video: f/0.38 camera lens made with oil immersion microscope objective www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQv0...
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new toy: an Olympus microscope! this'll be good for looking at chips. but it's used and will need some work to clean it up. I'll update this thread as I go through it.
January 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
new toy: an Olympus microscope! this'll be good for looking at chips. but it's used and will need some work to clean it up. I'll update this thread as I go through it.
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Following yesterdays post here is a #Quantel 2077-76 Backstore 2 card. Containing 768Mb they are used as image storage on the Graphic Paintbox 2 (1995) which i could operate with 3 of these cards.
January 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Following yesterdays post here is a #Quantel 2077-76 Backstore 2 card. Containing 768Mb they are used as image storage on the Graphic Paintbox 2 (1995) which i could operate with 3 of these cards.
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Tuned up my ActionStation XT300 today. This was the dream machine for every 80's hedge fund manager.
Sell sell sell! Buy buy buy!
Dual phone line, speaker phone and 1200 baud modem.
Can you tell from the pictures what was wrong with it?
Sell sell sell! Buy buy buy!
Dual phone line, speaker phone and 1200 baud modem.
Can you tell from the pictures what was wrong with it?
January 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Tuned up my ActionStation XT300 today. This was the dream machine for every 80's hedge fund manager.
Sell sell sell! Buy buy buy!
Dual phone line, speaker phone and 1200 baud modem.
Can you tell from the pictures what was wrong with it?
Sell sell sell! Buy buy buy!
Dual phone line, speaker phone and 1200 baud modem.
Can you tell from the pictures what was wrong with it?
