psfJul 14, 2024
Haven't seen this on the Fediverse yet: a blog post (not by me!) about spelunking through the Canon Cat's #forth operating system and persuading it to run arbitrary code from floppy disk.
https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2024/07/pretty-pictures-bootable-floppy-disks.html
#CanonCat #retrocomputing
Pretty pictures, bootable floppy disks, and the first Canon Cat demo?

Now that our 1987 Canon Cat is refurbished and ready to go another nine innings or so, it's time to get into the operating system and pull ...

Show threadSteven Sandoval
@psf This is the kind of thing that Terminators use when traveling back in time to quickly gather intelligence from ancient data brokers.
Jul 15, 2024 at 11:28amWeb