LEGO Space Computer Made Full Size, 47 Years On

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/lego-space-computer-made-full-size-47-years-on/

Retro computing fans, there are Mastodon apps for many classic systems:

 Apple II
https://www.colino.net/wordpress/mastodon-for-apple-ii

 Apple Macintosh (pre-OS X)
https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon

 Commodore 64
https://github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon

 Commodore Amiga
https://github.com/BlitterStudio/amidon

 MS-DOS
https://github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

 MVS
https://github.com/mainframed/BREXXTODON

 Palm OS
https://github.com/knickish/heffalump

 Windows 95
https://github.com/meyskens/mastodon-for-workgroups
https://github.com/sdomi/awsom

#RetroComputing

This #DIDay - Sunday March 1st - we'll be online and hosting an onboarding workshop, to help folks get the most out of Mastodon. Tell your friends!

https://termine.di.day/events/0416dee7-cc7f-4e2a-aa94-ff11322daaaa

Hurtig servicemeddelelse, hvis du er ny på mastodon. Følgende simple råd:

Her ser øde ud, lige når du ankommer, fordi der ikke er en algoritme til at foreslå dig alt muligt - og fordi mange af dine venner ikke er kommet endnu.

Men her er faktisk ret livligt.

Så snart, du engagerer dig, engagerer andre brugere sig også med, hvad du siger.

Kommenter og re-post, så kommer det.

#NyPåMastodon #DkMastodon #DanmarkSkifter

If you missed it before, you really should check out the newly revised version of @jackusine’s Jules Vernacular website, with over 1,700 examples of mind-bendingly cool / weird / fun / unique French lettering.

I’ve scrolled through all the entries multiple times and it’s now one of my favorite websites:
https://vernacular.fr

(You can subscribe to new entries via RSS too.)

Do you have 5.25" and 8" floppy disks that are spare, low-quality, degrading, or just generally in bad shape?

I'd like to take my floppy disk data recovery game to the next level. I have equipment, but there's no substitute for experience. Therefore I'm looking for loose collections of old floppy disks to practice on. I'm especially interested in working with disks where the binder affixing the media to the donut is starting to fail.

I'm in London; will pay shipping; can pick up disks around here as well. Boosts are appreciated!

This is a thread of beautiful or interesting computer-y things I scanned at the Museum of Printing this weekend.

(Eventually all of this will be processed and deposited at Internet Archive!)

1. You don’t see a lot of yellow in computing.

Born this Day:
Iain Menzies Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author celebrated for his "Culture" series, a benchmark in modern space opera. His novels, including Consider Phlebas blend high-concept technology with dark humor and moral complexity. He received multiple Hugo and Locus nominations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Banks

#Literature
#SciFi
#ScienceFiction
#books
#bookstodon
#coverart
#IainBanks

Groups:
@books
@scifi
@Scifiart
@sciencefiction

https://astralcomputing.com