Mastodawn

@bigzaphod Definitely understandable! It makes a lot less sense if you end up needing to pay for parking somewhere anyway.

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Sam Johnson Jun 19

@bigzaphod Driving here is nuts! I watch the chaos from the CTA instead :)

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Sam Johnson May 29

@foone one profile instance auto updates and breaks the other running instances. Brilliant!

Sam Johnson May 28

Karl Baron May 28

I am proud to present GlobalTalk Chat 1.2, taking it from a rushed #MARCHintosh hack-job to something I'd be proud to release as shareware 30 years ago!

The headline update is it now allows anyone to host their own room! And it works on any AppleTalk network, not just #GlobalTalk

Get it on BaroNet, or Macintosh Garden https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/globaltalk-chat

And for anyone who has been curious how it all works, documented source code is available! https://github.com/kalleboo/GlobalTalk-Chat

#VintageApple #RetroComputing #mb

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Sam Johnson May 22

@cabel Once I realize I am considered a regular, I consider it my duty to keep it that way!

One time we went out to a place with friends, the server asked our friends if it was their first time, before they could respond the server saw us, said "oh hi!", and left 😭

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Sam Johnson May 16

@billgoats YES. This happens to me all the time. What the heck is going on?!

Sam Johnson May 11

Danielle Foré May 10

I started elementary (the open source project) as a high school student. When we were building the first versions of our desktop environment, one of our core developers was in high school and his parents accompanied him to the Ubuntu Developer Summit. How many things we have today wouldn’t exist if young people weren’t allowed to participate? The cost of not creating spaces that we can safely share with young people is too high

Sam Johnson May 5

vga256 May 5

really happy to have discovered something hiding in plain sight for several years: robyn & rand miller's original Myst pitch document from 1991.

it's a succinct work of art in itself. i'm surprised at how much of the world design was already on paper.

as all of the copies found elsewhere online are heavily compressed webp/jpeg, i've uploaded the robyn's original PNGs to IA here:

https://archive.org/details/myst_proposal

originally from robyn's site:

http://www.robynmiller.net/video-games-films

#digiPres #softwarePreservation #archival #gamedev #myst #cyan

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Sam Johnson Apr 18

@foone no this is why I am perpetually sleep deprived

Sam Johnson Apr 2

A "Gateway LC 2" popped up on eBay this morning, and I was quite surprised to see what appears to be a Gateway model from around 2000-2001 which I have never heard of! Indeed, the only other evidence I can find online is one YouTube video from 2015.

Looking at the photos, it appears to be a _severely_ cost-reduced model. In addition, the box appears to have an "As Seen On TV" label?! Other interesting bits include a Samsung copyright on POST.

Has anyone heard of this?

https://ebay.us/m/n3ik3q

Gateway LC-2 Workstation NEW IN OPENED BOX from the year 2000, COMPLETE SETUP | eBay

Total Weight Of Both Boxes is roughly 65 lbs. Used a human scale to weigh them.

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