GrantMeStrength

GrantMeStrength, 1 day ago to random

Strong Mario vibes.

GrantMeStrength, 1 day ago to random

I laser cut and painted some acrylic for the front panel of this IMSAI 8080 recreation and it makes all the difference. Still some issues with the electronics but also added a fan mostly to stop me reaching my fingers in while turning it on and electrocuting myself.

GrantMeStrength, 4 days ago to random

I worked at Microsoft Dublin for a while ten years ago, and while there suggested we create a video portal linking MS campuses across the world.

The news that the public art installation video portal linking Dublin with New York has had to be closed -again- due to lewd behaviour from the Irish side proves I was definitely onto something.

GrantMeStrength, 4 days ago to random

Happy “Kill the Bit” day to those who celebrate! Back in 1975 this was one of the first “type ins” for home computers, specifically the Altair 8800. Toggle in the code and you can play a little reaction timer game on the LEDs.

Altair 8800 computer

GrantMeStrength, 4 days ago to random

When it’s the people who say “customer journey flywheels” who get promoted, you know you’re in the wrong org.

GrantMeStrength, 5 days ago to random

Looking fancy. Now need an acrylic front panel to finish it. That’ll happen.

GrantMeStrength, 5 days ago to random

All before machine learning and in a tiny amount of memory.

Palm Pilot handwriting recognition

GrantMeStrength, 5 days ago to random

Billionaire philanthropists or
tax the rich?

GrantMeStrength, 6 days ago to random

I always remember the nice thing said by the barista in local coffee shop:

“Oh we call you ‘the customer called John that isn’t an asshole’ “

GrantMeStrength, 8 days ago to random

Enough progress that I earned an ice cream. It’s clocking through memory, stopping and starting.

GrantMeStrength, 11 days ago to random

Sure “almost mine”. Almost. I think my bid topped out at $300.

GrantMeStrength, 11 days ago to random

In 2024 I would like the ability to paste a piece of text that happens to be bold or in another type size into my doc AND NOT HAVE EVERYTHING I TYPE AFTER IT ALSO BOLD OR IN A DIFFERENT SIZE. Thank you.

GrantMeStrength, 11 days ago to random

Do you still know this?

GrantMeStrength, 15 days ago to random

Every wondered how nerds played computer games before computers? We used pocket calculators.

GrantMeStrength, 15 days ago to random

As I was cleaning this keyboard (top marks if you can guess which 80’s British system it was from) I found the perfect ChatGPT key.

GrantMeStrength, 18 days ago to random

BASIC (60 years old today!) was the first programming language I ever used - on a ZX80.

It made perfect sense (well, some of the string handling was tricky).

Learning assembler and Forth, and then Pascal, Occam, Modula2, COBOL, and on and on (C, C++, Objective-C, Swift, Rust) and more recently - and chronologically backwards - Lisp, has been a wonderful adventure.

GrantMeStrength, 18 days ago to random

BASIC is 60 years old today!
Happy Birthday to a programming language that introduced millions to software development. 🎉

GrantMeStrength, 19 days ago to random

Long term S100 project taking shape. The LEDs are blinking encouragingly.

GrantMeStrength, 20 days ago to random

It’s not the fastest..

Calculating Pi using a Microsoft BASIC program running under CP/M on an Arduino based Altair 8800.

Yes I type that it does seem a bit crazy.

But it’s fun!

GrantMeStrength, 22 days ago to random

This new sound card for the #RC2014 features a socket to house the fake AY chips that proliferate on Amazon and eBay.

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GrantMeStrength, 23 days ago to random

What a colossal ignorant jerk.

GrantMeStrength, 24 days ago to random

My office now has a #PDP-10 (because we’re a modern, forward-looking office) and under WSL I can log into it using a graphical (Knight TV) terminal emulator from Windows. We should then be able to use messaging apps and improve our productivity as we write LISP software and explore AI.

The KnightTV terminal emulator running on Windows using WSL.

GrantMeStrength, 26 days ago to zxspectrum

Back in 1982, I was pouring over these adverts..

#HappyBirthday #ZXSpectrum