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There will be a book on the #Atari #8bit computers from Pawel Grabarczyk in the #PlatformStudies series this autumn:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/830569/at-the-end-of-the-rainbow-by-pawel-grabarczyk/

At the End of the Rainbow by Pawel Grabarczyk: 9780262054690 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Buy At the End of the Rainbow by Pawel Grabarczyk from Penguin Random House

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Just published: "Glaswelten", edited by Margarete Vöhringer and Christof Windgätter - a book on the materiality of glass in culture, history, art, and science:

https://www.kulturverlag-kadmos.de/programm/details/glaswelten

I contributed a chapter about glass as a medium within media used in elektronics - from silicon to silicon dioxide to quartz glass.

#MediaArchaeology #MediaGeology #MicroElectronics #semiconductors #chemistry #physics

Living Human Brain Cells Play DOOM on a CL1

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While repairing my #Atari #BreakOut #Arcade PCB Wolfgang Nake (who sadly died last year) analyzed the structure of the PCB and assigned its parts to the games' functions:

#RetroGaming #HardwarePreservation #TTL

@toroe and others are talking about #MusicalInstruments and their cultural techniques. Programmable Sound Generators (#SoundChips) are a topic to ... in this (German) podcast:

https://www.melusinapress.lu/projects/1981-5722/resource/1981-5722-tsoc-a

#SoundStudies #ChipTunes #RetroComputing

Richard Russel posted a #BBCBASIC program for a #NeuralNetwork application (for #PatternRecognition) with a training dataset in the language's forum:

https://www.bbcbasic.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1825

#BASIC #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

An #AppleII limmerick:

New item in my collection #Olivetti M10 portable computer from 1983, equipped with leather case, German and English manual (with an introduction to the #MicrosoftBASIC interpreter).

#RetroComputing

Beautiful book cover design (from the days before AI generated graphics):

#Atari #RetroComputing #PaperWare