Did you write code for #Psion machines in the #80s and #90s?
We're calling for you to open source your code!
I'm working with a group of enthusiasts, building a library of information about the SIBO/EPOC16 platform. Your old code could give valuable insight, as well as encourage people to write new code.
We're especially interested in old C and #x86 #assembly.
Upload it to your public repository of choice, and set it free!
#retrocomputing #retrodev #16bit #pda #laptop #epoc16 #sibo #oldcode
Have you seen this @dw2 ?
@thelastpsion @dw2 So here's an anecdote ;) The job at Ericsson was my first out of university, and my colleagues were mostly others hired from my class. It still "felt" like we were still in school.
Developing the Postcard application for the MC218, we had a requirement to include three sample photos in the app. And of course, since it was all going to be programmed into PROM there was a strict size budget.
A week or so before final delivery I found a tool that could optimize JPEGs on individual 8x8 squares instead of using the same settings for the whole image - and this cut the size of the sample photos drastically. So much, that we were now well below budget.
"Students" as we were, we immediately thought it would be fun to use that for an easter egg - and took a photo of the team doing the Postcard app (myself and two others) which can be triggered to appear.
Fast forward a few months, and our Ericsson department had now been put up as "funding" on Ericsson's part -->
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@thelastpsion @dw2 --> at the creation of Symbian. To kick this off, the whole department was brought over to London to meet, greet and party with our new ("Psion") colleagues.
At the pub, in the middle of a group of people, I took out my MC218 and proudly showed off the easter egg. Suddenly I heard a voice behind me saying; "If you do something like that when working for me you won't have a job anymore".
That was @dw2 - head of sw (iirc?) at the time.
I'd like to think I matured anyway, but I have never created another easter egg in my professional capacity since ;)
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@dw2 I'm quite certain it was worded with a healthy dose of jest ;) But to that young Swedish developer trying to brag in the pub it was "the boss" making an astute observation that the young Swede hadn't really thought through before :D
If I ever end up in a situation where "memoirs" will be written, this story will be included.
The Last Psion | Alex
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