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karttu

@karttu@oldbytes.space

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karttu May 4

Sarjassa "tämän konsertin haluaisin kuulla", Katri Helena esittää jäähyväiset Tuska-festivaaleille: https://yle.fi/aihe/a/20-10008464

Ylen kesä 2025 on lastattu musiikilla, henkilökuvilla ja rakkaudella

Ylen kesä 2025 tarjoaa elämyksiä Katri Helenan jäähyväiskonsertista Tuska-festivaaleille. Lempeä lomaan tarjoilevat Kun saa rakastaa -sarja ja Tuija Pehkosen rakkaustarinat.

karttu Mar 22

Spicy pillow. Just out of warranty [sad beep]. #spicypillow

karttu Nov 27, 2024

So did anyone buy a #ZXSpectrum and receive a #Renault 9 for free?
#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

(Personal Computer World 1984-05, p 177)

karttu Aug 12, 2024

Finally! VR, robotics, and AI will free us from the toils of ... toasting a bread.

karttu Aug 9, 2024

She found free treats from the garden!

#Corgi #DogsOfMastodon

karttu Aug 4, 2024

I was looking for something completely unrelated and found a printout of #EPOC White Paper dated Jan 1999. It's just 30 pages long so no ark-of-the-covenant-level revelations there.

Didn't immediately find it archived anywhere, so it might be worth uploading to the #Psion Documentation Project?
@thelastpsion

karttu Jul 11, 2024

I have fancy leds on my #Asus motherboard and this is the price I have to pay:

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karttu Mar 19, 2024

And there it is! #PiDP8i

karttu Mar 17, 2024

PiDP-8 assembly progressing nicely

karttu Dec 10, 2023

@amoroso I know this was over a year ago but I bought myself an early xmas present.

https://fosstodon.org/@amoroso/109404334271390508

Paolo Amoroso (@amoroso@fosstodon.org)

I've started reading "Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans Who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution" by Lamont Wood. The book tells an ovelooked story that pushes earlier in time by half a decade the beginning of the personal computer revolution, prior to the more widely known events of the 1970s in the Silicon Valley. https://hugohousebookstore.com/product/datapoint-ebook/ #retrocomputing #books

Fosstodon

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karttu Mar 19, 2024

And there it is! #PiDP8i

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[object Object]Mar 19, 2024

@karttu @mos_8502 that looks awesome! I’ve been so tempted to sell off some of my retro gaming stuff to buy a PiDP-10. how are you liking the 8 so far?

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karttu Mar 19, 2024

@zzt @mos_8502
I mean it's literally less than an hour old (as a finished build), but I went through some of the "howtos" and it was sweet.

Kit quality is super, and the final build quality is up to one's skills. I'm happy with with my result though (I'm a seasoned tinkerer and I've recently acquired the TS100 solder iron, which I love to use).

Of course, the PiDPs are just vintage computing version of adult LEGO building¹⁾. There's little practical use for this thing, but it looks beautiful and every second spent with it are enjoyable! I'm not old enough to ever used front panels so in that way this is also "educational". I'm also planning to pester my kids during their roblox sessions to check out their father toggling code in, _word at a time_...

¹⁾ Yes, I'm an AFoL too.

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karttu Mar 19, 2024

@zzt @mos_8502
PiDP-8 cost me 240€ plus 56€ VAT and for me that is over an impulse buy limit. Then I saw the PiDP-10 price and gasped. Granted, it has an injection molded case and it looks stunning, but with shipping, VAT, and at least RPi4, it's going to be an expensive build. Not in the LEGO UCS range yet, but close

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[object Object]Mar 19, 2024

@karttu @mos_8502 true! it’s definitely on the high end, but the PDP-10 is the mainframe I desire the most… mentally I’m in between “there’s no practical use for this thing” and “it’s actually a great deal compared with the real thing”

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karttu Mar 19, 2024

@zzt @mos_8502
Both are great reasons to buy! :D

There is value in impractical things if they bring joy.

Like, I'm not an IMSAI person, but will you look at this: (https://www.gijyutu-shounen.co.jp/h-001.html)