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paulrickards

@paulrickards@mastodon.social

Artist exploring vintage plotters with modern code. Retrocomputing repair and collecting. Mixes the best of new and old. He/him #plottertwitter refugee #penplotter #c64 🏳️‍🌈

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billgoats, to random
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Did we manage get the IIgs to boot over the network? What the what! How far will it actually go?

billgoats,
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Ohmyglobness! It full-on works! IIgs without any sort of floppy or hard drive attached, running over the network :D

This is using a2server from https://appleii.ivanx.com
It wouldn't install properly from the site's ancient instructions, but grabbing the disk image here did the trick: https://archive.org/details/a-2-server-rtg-152-raspi-2-3-gp

bigjsl, to random
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Spotted this on the book of faces. Wish I had thought of this. Oxygen free copper of course.

ekuber, to photography
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A bit blurry due to using a 2x converter on a very soft 500mm on a cheap tripod with very bad skill, but still very happy with how it came out.

ernie, to random
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A few years ago, a Reddit user asked for help in finding a “BOTTOM trackball,” which is an anecdote perfect for explaining how completely the optical mouse defeated the mechanical one.

Here’s how it happened: https://tedium.co/2024/05/19/optical-mouse-history-evolution/

new @tedium

ironicsans,
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@ernie Nice piece. I just pulled from my archive a raw clip of Doug Engelbart explaining how the wheels worked on the first mouse, from when I interviewed him in 2009.

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historyofpunkrock, to random
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44 years ago today
In memory of Ian Curtis, who suffered from both epilepsy and depression, took his life on May 18, 1980, on the eve of Joy Division's first North American tour, and just before the release of their second album

#postpunk #postpunklegends #joydivision #iancurtis

RobertM,
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@historyofpunkrock

Peter Saville album cover for Joy Division at Moorfield St in Manchester

polpo, to demoscene
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For the latest issue of Make Magazine, I wrote a feature article about ! The online version of the article is now up. Come read about my beginnings as a teenage fan, how I was introduced to the GUS and how I decided to make an emulator for it so many years later. https://makezine.com/article/technology/computers-mobile/democratizing-the-demoscene-picogus-brings-the-90s-tracker-sound-to-the-masses/

ef1j, to random
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A @paulrickards plotter original finally on display, along with three tools that my great-grandfather (and his father) made.

These make me think about the intersection of coding, computational art, and home-built tools.

ef1j,
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More Paul Rickards plots in frames. The interaction with the glass reflection is quite nice, too.

mac84tv, to random
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Do you have a Panasonic NeoFile business card reader & PDA??

Do you also have the optional serial cable and NeoLink software? 💾

I’d love to play around with mine but the software isn’t archived and the serial port seems unique. 😫

Please share to help me find it! 🤞

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dillera, to random

printing is alive and well. Just got a nice print from biosrhythm @paulrickards

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me_, to retrocomputing German
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Finally found some time to work on my – the clone CPU board seems to work in my original 2/10. However, the Lisa complains about I/O error 51 (parallel ports VIA) or I/O error 1 (undef'd) or hangs with the hourglass cursor. With the clone CPU, I cannot power down using the power button, this works with the original CPU. The floppy needs fixing and my clone parport board seems to have a problem (static on screen when it's inserted, see video) – lots of work ahead!

Unhappy Lisa showing I/O error 51
This time, the Lisa hangs at startup displaying the hourglass cursor

decryption, to random
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    mntmn, to random
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    MNT Pocket Reforms are being assembled

    andypiper, to random
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    So, a shorter version of my history of computer art #penplotter and being and accidental maker talk is on the slate for #emfcamp! https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/302-where-is-the-art-a-history-in-technology

    billgoats, to random
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    Anybody want a shiny sticker or five? I might have gone overboard with an order 😜

    Round shiny stickers that say Live Laugh LocalTalk

    beardicus, to retrocomputing
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    any folks near Pittsburgh, PA, USA... just stumbled upon a new in box Apple Color Plotter for $50: https://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/sys/d/avella-vintage-apple-color-plotter/7734811823.html

    ef1j, to random
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    Game graphics as encoded in the Atari Adventure ROM

    mac84tv, to random
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    My PC is crashing the party! 🤣

    billgoats, to random
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    My voip phone has been properly misbehaving the past couple of days. Gave it a factory reset. Got it working again, and remembered that you can customise almost every pixel that it displays :D ☎️

    billgoats,
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    Hey there, we’ve got the cool crab on the line. 🦀

    tpolecat, to random
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    Ok well @ef1j and @paulrickards inadvertently nerdsniped me into getting my old and very dented pen plotter working, and a few coffee breaks later it's showing signs of life! To be continued :-)

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    mwichary, to random
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    What would you consider as the most recognizable bitmap fonts in tech history?

    I’m imagining stuff like:

    • the arcade/Atari font
    • Chicago (Mac, then iPod)
    • VCR/video equipment fonts
    • Minecraft font
    • IBM PC fonts (MDA, VGA, stuff like that)
    • perhaps System font from Windows 3.x
    • Commodore 64, just because of the sheer popularity of the machine

    What am I missing?

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    Cdespinosa,
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    @mwichary

    A long overdue confession:

    The upper/lowercase font in the Hi-Res Character Generator routine for the Apple II (Contributed Software No. 3) came from the character generator chip of a Commodore PET, which was just a 2716-format ROM. The Apple II had an empty $D000-$D7FF socket that was pin-compatible. I pulled the chip from the PET, plugged it into the Apple II, wrote it to a disk file, and voila.

    ef1j, to random
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    Exploring text mode scale up.

    ef1j,
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    Making some progress…

    ef1j,
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    Printronix P300 ASCII Mandelbrots, 8 lpi x 132 columns

    https://youtu.be/XTc_fYSrB58

    mejs, to random
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    I can't wait to start this new project.

    Inspired by @DosFox.

    Boards courtesy of @paulrickards.

    The beginning of an Apple Lisa.

    mejs,
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    Woot we have a first boot!!

    mejs,
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    And after about 2 months of building a Lisa from scratch, I am booted into Lisa Office System 3.1!

    A desk window showing files on the apple Lisa drive

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