Bits&Terminal Jeff

@jf_718@oldbytes.space
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#Queens Early Gen-X nerd ❤️ 🇹🇼☕🐱. Online since 1992. He/him. Bi/ace🏳️‍🌈:bisexual: :asexual:. White lapsed Catholic/Immigrant/ESL/Citizen. Not nice but tries to be kind.

Notes: kindness not extended to bigots. Someone from a marginalized group can be a bigot too. Reverse racism isn't a thing, so fellow white people please don't ever whine about it.

General account is @jf_718 but here for #retroComputing stuff.

AKA@jf_718
Apple //e example. I was misremembering this being Futura, but it was used consistently across the brand for that pre-Mac period.

That one font article bugs me a tiny bit because it ignores the fact that the early Apple II manuals all used ITC Avant Garde Gothic Paneuropean for their titles.

I also believe (but would not swear) that there was a period in 1983 when all the Apple //e material leaned heavily on Futura.

so after being bedridden for 16months due to a hernia, I've finally got my surgery!
now I'm bedridden for recovery, which is at least a great improvement.
I'm still about 1300$ away from paying all my storage bills, so if you've got a couple dollars, it'd help me get through this last stretch. Thanks so much!

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Here is one more screenshot: Solitaire is running on Windows 2 on Apricot PC Xi. A miracle! (Ha-ha, no, just hard work).

The video is garbled, but this is expected. The serial port displayed on the second monitor shows the codes for the graphic operations. If the VideoRAM is converted to the linear mode (simple rampdump + open as binary), then we can see the Solitaire in its glory.

I think Word and Excel will work just fine, but they won't fit on my test floppy. I'll check them out when the driver is working, of course.

Charles Engels Marx 🐱 de Chaton-Croquette

#sabagato #Caturday
It’s clear that trans people face unique, advanced, and persistent threats—online and off. Here are some strategies for resisting the tech-enabled violence that trans people face. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/strategies-resisting-tech-enabled-violence-facing-transgender-people
Strategies for Resisting Tech-Enabled Violence Facing Transgender People

Today's Supreme Court’s ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti upholding bans on gender-affirming care for youth makes it clear: trans people are under attack. Threats to trans rights and healthcare are coming from legislatures, anti-trans bigots (both organized and not), apathetic bystanders, and more. Living...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

The New York Times effect on man is to lead us to fascism.

The Bee Gees did warn us.

#BeeGees #StayinAlive #NYT #fascism

LibreWolf @librewolf

#LibreWolf v146.0.1-1 is now available!

https://codeberg.org/librewolf/bsys6/releases/tag/146.0.1-1

https://librewolf.net/installation/

Notable Changes:

AI Link Preview functionality (which was already non-functional) is now more thoroughly disabled and hidden.

LibreWolf is now built with `--enable-replace-malloc`, so manually replacing memalloc (with, for example, `hardened_malloc`, via `) is now possible.

See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/146.0.1/releasenotes/ for upstream changes.

Cookie monster!

I have successfully fixed my #AppleIIc 's IWM - a few weeks ago, I toasted it, probably by hot-(un)plugging something by mistake. It then considered every floppy in both drives to be read-only, which was Not Good. Today I received a for-parts donor Mac SE, which has the same chip, and proceeded with the surgery. But wait, there's more.
🧵 #RetroComputing