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A teaser of what might come in @kicad v10, which is the release after the upcoming v9. #KiCon
The second release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out

We’ve just released FreeCAD 1.0rc2, builds are already available for downloading on GitHub. The update is coming with just bugfixes. The number of issues blocking the final release has been circlin…

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@bitsavers "This isn’t any ordinary salt as it’s not going to make your cheese sauce salty." Sigh. What part of "sodium" in "sodium citrate" don't they understand? This is trisodium citrate so the sodium is something like 26.7% by weight. Not as much as table salt, but still...
I just have released my port of @Artemio 's 240p Test Suite for Colecovision, MSX1, and SG1000 under GPLv2. It includes all the tests that can be performed by the TMS9928. Tune your TV with your Colecovision 😉 #retro #retrogaming #colecovision #msx https://github.com/nanochess/240pTestSuite_colecovision
GitHub - nanochess/240pTestSuite_colecovision: 240p Test Suite for Colecovision/MSX/SG1000

240p Test Suite for Colecovision/MSX/SG1000. Contribute to nanochess/240pTestSuite_colecovision development by creating an account on GitHub.

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so i have picked up an INS8900D, also known as the National Semiconductor PACE. it is the first commercial 16-bit microprocessor. let's take it for a spin!
i was looking at the Wikipedia list of 7400 chips (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_7400-series_integrated_circuits) and noticed some really unusual devices.🧵
List of 7400-series integrated circuits - Wikipedia

one of the pins fell off so I carved away part of the encapsulation and soldered it back on
@yrabbit I really like my UNI-T UT61E. And it takes a 9V.

@nicole Atari arcade football was a blast! You'd have two players on opposite sides of the cab just *beating* on those trackballs to run as fast as possible. Mere screenshots don't do justice to how fun it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_ZOtqMWHoU&t=100s

And looks like you were playing Space Invaders on a higher difficulty level given that the ship is double-wide vs. standard difficulty.

#239 Atari FOOTBALL "X's and O's" Arcade Video Game cocktail table - TNT Amusements

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I have seen some tomfuckery in my time, but this one is absolutely baffling.

#Excel