Drew Derbyshire
kew.com
Drew Derbyshire
@kew.com
Software Hobbit (SRE Emeritus)
Kendra Electronic Wonderworks


My summary is here: https://github.com/swhobbit
Not archaeology, reality.

I opened this on my Mac to check something, and I decided to share it. In addition to this on the Mac, I have a similar emulator on my iPhone, and my 40 year-old HP 11C on my shelf.

(Grabs physical HP 11C, hits ON. Yup, current batteries are still good. They last years.)
November 17, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I'm OLD. I see "is that a 65?", I immediately think IBM System/360 model 65.

(S/360 was 14 years old when I entered Clarkson in 1978, but they still had one. They jumped ~4 processor generations when they upgraded to a new IBM 4341 two years later.)
October 25, 2025 at 6:11 AM
I've got an HP 11C, was only a couple of years later. My unit was 1985, my graduation present to me when I got an AAS before returning to Clarkson to get my BS.

It startling to see the new function they added in just two years (and the 11C wasn't even the top of line, the 15C was.)
October 25, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Yoshida Kenko ignores human nature. So does Marxism.

"You better get it straight, darling
Poor man wanna be rich,
Rich man wanna be king
And a king ain't satisfied 'til he rules everything …" — Bruce Springsteen
September 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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August 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
“Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.”
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
August 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The more accurate term is the "GOP Pre-kindergartners running the House"
July 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
@jch.honig.net (Actually, would I would first use My iPhone as a HotSpot. That's what I did a few years ago when my neighbor across the street decided to sink fence posts in his yard without calling DigSafe first)
June 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I'd loan you my 56 KB USB modem, but you would need a working POTS landline for that. (Our only landline is these days actually a over FiOS.)
June 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"… I'm just a mean green mother from outer space and I'm bad …:
March 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Using cowpox to vaccinate against smallpox goes back to 1800.

Are you thinking polio vaccines? They were introduced in the 1950's.
February 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I pride myself on having avoided most Star Wars spinoffs. I think the only one (TV or film) I caught was early (Rogue One).

Some things are better as vague myth, like "The Spaghetti Incident" in Calvin & Hobbes.

p.s. #bluesky needs an EDIT BUTTON.
February 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Knives Out!
February 5, 2025 at 7:13 AM
My advice to you
February 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Oddly enough, it is 2025.
January 31, 2025 at 4:24 AM
They just want you to feel at home.
January 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM