Show threadJdeBPNov 13

@cstross

The same thought crossed my mind. (-:

Although the disclosure statement on the original article at https://doi.org/10.64628/AB.rkrnyke4r says otherwise.

It's such a cyberpunk name, though. A quick search turned up that there was indeed a Japan-industrial #QuasarGroup from at least 1974 to 1983. Originally part of #Motorola it was sold to #Matsushita and in 1982 was selling a #MOS6502 hand-held computer that ran MS BASIC and a variant of #FORTH called snapFORTH.

#retrocomputing #HHC #QuasarHHC

Tabletop particle accelerator could transform medicine and materials science

The device could yield intense X-rays which are usually produced in huge facilities.

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Show threadJdeBPNov 13

@cstross

There's a lot of subjunctive, "concept stage", and "in simulations" there.

Doesn't "QUASAR Group" make for a good, innocuous sounding, military-industrial complex corporation name, though? (-:

#QUASARGroup #physics #XRays #synchrotrons