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flipphillips.com
Have I gone slightly mad? Yes. Yes I have.

#keybsky #keyboards #symbolics #lispmachine
Glorious panda switches. Way too expensive. Symbolic tribute keyboard.
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
interlisp.org
Some 1980s Xerox Lisp Machines came with an IBM PC/XT card that allowed running MS-DOS from the Interlisp-D environment, like the spreadsheet program window here. Image from a flyer of the Xerox 1186 AI workstation.

groups.google.com/g/lispcore/c...

#interlisp #msdos #LispMachine #retrocomputing
Screenshot of the black and white desktop of a 1980s graphical workstation environment. The desktop has a gray background pattern and several windows with a white background and a title bar with white text on a black background. The windows display Lisp source code, icons, scientific and business charts, a spreadsheet program, a virtual keyboard, and other graphical elements.
October 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
interlisp.org
It's 1986 and you want to use Interlisp-D on a Xerox workstation. This primer will teach how to handle floppies, transfer files to a VAX, and more. Some material is obsolete but gives an idea of what a Lisp Machine was like.
www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/in...

#interlisp #retrocomputing #LispMachine
www.bitsavers.org
July 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
wrosecrans.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
It's crazy how advanced the graphics software on Symbolics LISP machines were in the 1980's before SGI kind of took over that space.

#RetroComputing #LispMachine #computergraphics
June 15, 2025 at 5:44 AM
foamdino.bsky.social
Absolute alien technology: www.youtube.com/watch?v=72y2... - starts with a call out to GOAL from naught dog and then just becomes wilder and wilder. It feels like lispmachine type behaviour (bug -> call stack rewind -> fix but -> continue) but also much more than that.
Tomorrow Corporation Tech Demo
YouTube video by retrogameinternals
www.youtube.com
June 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
ai-unleashed.bsky.social
##ThrowbackThursdayto the Lisp Machine era! Specialized supercomputers built for early AI. Discover their rise, fall, & lasting legacy. A fascinating look at hardware's role in AI. #AIHistory #LispMachine #TechNostalgia #AIInnovationsUnleashed
www.aiinnovationsunleashed.com/?p=2149
May 29, 2025 at 6:45 AM
flipphillips.com
A few years ago, some students gifted me some beautiful keycaps.

I did not realize that was a 'thing'.

I have resisted temptation and only bought a few sets, an APL set and now this -

Now to find a good keyboard for them.

#spacecadet #lispmachine #keyboard #controlmetacokebottle
Space Cadet key caps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard
May 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy
@CharlieMcHenry

Shades of Lisp Machines.

#python #lisp #lispmachine
April 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
sundarnarasimhan.bsky.social
Never used TextBlade myself but this article is worth reading both for keyboard designs/ideas, and the business story behind #WayTools. Can relate to chorded keyboards since the #CADR, #Symbolics #LispMachine were best ever exemplars of that approach that I've used ⌨ 🙂!
The greatest keyboard never sold
WayTools’s TextBlade brilliantly compressed a comfy typing experience into a pocket-size device. Too bad it never actually reached the market.
www.fastcompany.com
December 28, 2024 at 2:08 PM
datahooker.bsky.social
im now reading and i havent' seen this but some of the ideas I had gotten hints at while I was going thru lispmachine oses
tinarussell.bsky.social Tina Russell @tinarussell.bsky.social · Feb 14
I read this paper once that describes what an ideal Lisp-based operating system would be like, and it definitely addresses a lot of the problems I have with modern computing. You might like it: (PDF link) metamodular.com/lispos.pdf (apologies if you've already read it!)
metamodular.com
February 14, 2024 at 7:13 AM