@mrcool We had touch tone very early on, and it was widespread, but the local phone companies charged to use it. Even after touch tone was pretty much ubiquitous in the 1980s, you would often find the fee on our bill (very small) and if you were pinching pennies, you could tell the to take it off and use pulse. Eventually, they dropped the fee, probably in the early 90s.
84-24 is a beautiful -- both technically and visually --account of restoring an original #Macintosh. A good cozy engineering read for first morning coffee.
It’s not every day I get to play with a Xerox Alto thanks to the people at The Computer Museum in Maryland! I suck at Missile Command BTW. Great exhibit space and worth a visit! #RetroComputing#XeroxAlto
I don’t really understand what your job is about …
Oh it’s a bit of everything. I code in the blue window, then take notes in the white one, watch the presentation on the small screen, then open the terminal to very serious server admin.
@hankg Interestingly (maybe) I bought it, and a number of others because we really liked Mathematica - which came with the machine. They paid for themselves just for that and its utility.
@hankg NeXT was some cool shit. I also remember when we made fun of a Microsoft demo at our university when they showed off gasp OLE gasp in like 1993. NeXT and Amiga (via datatypes) had this shit way before. Heck, Oberon had embedding of stuff. It was in the air and lots of people grabbed it.
This short history of web development is a useful overview for me as I haven't kept close tabs on the field. The post seems to cover all the main frameworks but a notable omission is Tailwind CSS.
@amoroso also useful in the context of nascent LLM orchestration frameworks which started putting flow control in the wrong hands - as with Web frameworks, I feel there'll be a need to let functional teams control prompts and flow as with HTML/CSS and control patterns
Wer braucht noch fabrikneue #Z80-CPUs? Bis zum 14. Juni 2024 könnt ihr die letzten ihrer Art bei #Zilog bestellen.
Ich bin berührt davon, dass der #Mikroprozessor, auf dem ich 1986 in der DDR zu programmieren anfing, immer noch hergestellt wird.
Der Vater eines Schulfreunds arbeitete im VEB Mikroelektronik »Wilhelm Pieck« Mühlhausen, wo der KC 85/2 hergestellt wurde. In dem steckten der Z80-Klon #U880 aus dem Funkwerk Erfurt und ein BASIC-Modul.
Also me: Come on a 12” sony vaio from 2004 for the equivalent of 44$ ? This thing could run 32 bit #HaikuOS . 1.5GHz and 1GB RAM should be enough for everybody.
Seems AliExpress sells SSD than run IDE connectors ? At 33$ it’s nearly as expensive as the computer was. Wonder how this performs. I don’t even remember the limitations of PATA IDE but it was probably not very high throughput. Access times should be a world of difference though. https://a.aliexpress.com/_mKdFxhM #retrocomputing
@santiago actually almost exactly the same experience. It failed multiple times and had to keep going in for repair - which involved shipping it from the UK to Switzerland. It took months each time until eventually ran out of warranty whilst they had it and then they refused to do anything with it unless I paid them to do so. I said I'd rather bin it, but could they send it back and then they sent me a bill for sending it back.
Atari 1040STF upgrade to 4MB - works! It's quite smooth, and easy if you got the mobo with 8 chips for 1MB (or 4 for 520STF).
I've seen that Mega ST1 to ST4 has similarities to this particular motherboard, and decided to try.
Get a PS/2 FPM 70ns RAM module with 8 chips, SOJ26 to DIP adaptera (8 pcs), 33ohm resistor
Desolder the chips from PS/2 module and desolder old RAM from ST, then solder new RAM in adapters (add sockets)
Connect all the legs - number 5 from the left, top (signal A9) with each other then connect them to MMU pin 64 (its not connected to anythin) via 33 Ohm resistor. The A9 singls on RAM are also not connected.
The upgrade is reversible just by swapping memory chips.
That is it. I'll prepare a blog entry with details.
Hmm… when I open an Apple II disk image in Disk Jockey, it shows the folders and system files, but not any of the HyperCard stacks or the HyperCard IIGS application.
There goes my attempt at examining a IIGS stack using Hex Fiend to see if it's the same as a Mac stack.
Looking for Toshiba L50utils.exe - laptop pcmcia drivers for Windows 95. It is long gone from the Toshiba website. Anybody with a floppy with this on or know where to find a copy?
If you ever saw a pixel-perfect screenshot from a virtual machine running MS-DOS in the default VGA text mode, you probably noticed that it looks slightly off.
The characters are too wide, and the whole image seems stretched.
But did you know that what you’re seeing is a perfect representation of the actual image, while your monitor from 1995 was deceiving you? Let’s have a closer look.
@peter yup, mine does the battery thing sometimes. Nice little machine. Better keyboard than the Z88.
The Atari spares guy in California may still have some of the very last PCMCIA SRAM cards that work with them. They were meant for the Apple Newton, too.
One could imagine even a fork of NetSurf with this only intent. Just rename it as SmolWeb browser + add an option to show just all the crap that was ignored. With a percentage of data used for actual content. “Site is 76% crap”.
Then you can imagine an opt-in search engine where owner enables indexation by having some smallweb tag in the code and submitting link to a form so the crawler can get a look and eventually refuse / abort at the first JavaScript tag.
