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The Swedish computer club #PD68 built Motorola 6809 and 68k-based systems in the 80s. One of these systems, based on a 68k-based CPU board designed in Norway, runs the Idris OS, the first Unix clone.
I’ll give a talk on Idris and the PD68 machine next SATURDAY (April 11) – not! Friday as I wrote – at 19:00 at Update dataföreningen in Uppsala. I‘ll show the (non functional) PD68 machine and an Atari ST emulator running Idris!
[Edit: I'm okay on this for now, thanks!]
I have a handful of images in this style, but I only scans of physical media; the original files are lost or inaccessible. I’d like to have SVGs of these, but all the converters I’ve tried produce very poor results. Given the geometric style, it seems like it should be easy-ish to trace in Inkscape or whatnot.
Are there people I can pay to do this conversion? How do I find them, and what should I expect it to cost? Better yet: are *you* this person?
some nice progress. i've made it into the instruction tables. they are full of quirky stuff, just look at those little devils...
took a bit to set up the macros for things, but after that it got pretty nice to work with. now of course i have about 12 pages more of this to type, and they have some new weirdness in them... *sigh*
Do you developer the softwares? Do you avoid "fashionable" glamour sites like github and PyPI? Do you avoid using other peoples code because "in the long term it will be better to learn how to do it myself"? Do you create packages on your kitchen table using saved giftwrap and found sealing wax? Do all your fave people hang out in an obscure corner of itch.io?
You are not alone and i have a new term for this: Goblin Mode Software Development
Graphically visualizing the erasure of a 16kbit #EPROM with a UV source in 16 seconds!
This time lapse shows all of the bits being flipped from 0 to 1 over about a 24 minute period. The first bit flips at 8 minutes.
What's fascinating to me is the bits "twinkle" as they flip back and forth before settling.
yup. i guess we're (i am) doing this. at least until i run out of steam.
my aim for the moment is this chapter, which has ~120 pages and a bunch of uniform tables/data. i guess i've made it 10% of the way already. :v
right now i'm working in a tic-toc fashion: rough out some pages in an ad-hoc way to find out what i need, then clean things up introducing macros etc., then repeat.
#troff #typesetting #commodore #c64 #assembly #neoretrocomputing
Excellent takedown of the AI data center hype.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-industry-is-lying-to-you/
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