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Just in case you didn't know (and you probably didn't): There once was a Dell UNIX out there. It only “survived” four short years: https://notes.technologists.com/notes/2008/01/10/a-brief-history-of-dell-unix/ #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #unix
A brief history of Dell UNIX

[update December 2021: files for 86Box install at update December 2020: Dell Unix on 86Box “Today let me present Dell Unix more properly, with 1024×768, 256 colors video and proper networking…

Technologists Notes

Get your tickets now! I will be there exhibiting 'Toggles to Keyboards', together with some awesome fellow retro collectors! come and have a look!

tinyurl.com/RFest24

Chance of FP1 being impacted by IT outages? #Crowdstrike #f1 #HungariangGP

I mean, look. Rescued master tapes of interviews with the likes of Douglas Adams, Bill Gates, Atari’s Jack Tramiel, MacPaint’s Bill Atkinson, Infocom’s Joel Berez, Star Trek’s Gene Roddenberry, musician Herbie Hancock, EA’s Trip Hawkins....

They want to do it RIGHT right, so they're paying a professional to do it. The gofundme is here:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/digitizing-the-famous-computer-cafe

Let's put this one to bed quickly. Two episodes are already digitized, there's 54 in total.

Donate to Digitizing "The Famous Computer Cafe" radio show, organized by Kay Savetz

TLDR: Help digitize 54 episodes of The Famous Computer Cafe, a 1980s radio… Kay Savetz needs your support for Digitizing "The Famous Computer Cafe" radio show

gofundme.com

I'm well chuffed. I have created a very simple yet completely automatically-populating disk image menu for the #BBCMicro. It doesn't require ANY user configuration, as long as the disk image is named. It will allow up to 180 disks to be chosen from.

The program actually reboots the Beeb before loading+running the disk image's primary file.

I will probably release this on my itchio page once more testing is done.

If you're at a loose end this evening then feel free to pop along to the Twitch Bar for some live music at 8pm https://www.twitch.tv/thebritishibm 🙂
theBritishIBM - Twitch

Saturday Night at the Twitch Bar — live acoustic originals & covers 🎸

Twitch
First grass cutting of the year completed

Dear Microsoft. Here is a list of things I want the Start Menu to do:

* Show my installed programs
* Search my local files
* Provide access to system settings

Here is a list of things I do *not* want the Start Menu to do:

* Show the weather for a randomly-selected town near my network's public IP infrastructure
* Show tabloid headlines
* Show programs I *don't* have installed
* Search the web via Bing
* Show adverts(!)
* Attempt to engage me in conversation with a hallucinating LLM

Thanks.

Been looking for Spectrum Next Mastodon content & not having much luck with the #ZXSpectrumNext & #SpectrumNext hashtags. If anyone can point me in the direction of accounts or hashtags, give me a shout .. cheers. 🙂👍
We're doing a little acoustic gig and retro night on Friday 31st March. Tickets are now available here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-british-ibm-acoustic-performance-retro-gaming-tickets-557723825977 #retrogaming #indierock #acousticguitar
The British IBM (Acoustic Performance & Retro Gaming)

An evening of acoustic music performed by The British IBM followed by some retro gaming.

Eventbrite