It was sometimes hard, often slow, but always enlightening, instructive and fun. It got me motivated to go further. And I made a couple of friends in the process!
The Telesincro VTX80, an Ibertex/Videotex terminal made in 1993 by Bull for the Spanish market.
This was essentially an adaptation of the French Minitel system but with a slightly different standard. What a beauty 🖤 #retrocomputing#aesthetics#minitel
@mos_8502 but you got all those cool terminals that were so hard to get over in Europe! Lear Siegler, Honeywell, DEC, etc Let us have this little device :blobfoxbongo:
We need to stop calling it "the modern web" or "web 3.0", as it implies that what we have now is actually an improvement over the collaborative web we had.
This is what I want and I can't have it because I'm in the stupid country that it doesn't exist in and doesn't drive on the right side of the road to import it.
@screwtape thanks! I eventually went with AV-98 as a gemini client + lynx for gopher. Elpher looks interesting but I'm not really an emacs guy :)
And yeah it comes down to those websites being abusive and insulting to the end user, but then again, are we the end user? As far as I'm concerned, if websites don't load under these conditions, that website is broken.
Slowly getting everything set up for the #oldcomputerchallenge on my iBook G3 with OpenBSD. Using toot tui now as a mastodon client. So much is still possible on a meager 160mb of RAM - it calls for a sort of slow computing that is more intentional and focused. Not a bad thing imho.
If you’re a computer enjoyer you need to go to the Bloop Museum / System Source in Maryland.
We got to play Missile Command on a Xerox Alto, use an Apple Lisa, do a little computer touching on a PDP-8, replica Altair 8800, and replica Apple I.
There are Curta Calculators and a million other things. I could spend days and days there.
Saying “those are the highlights” does an injustice to all of the other things we saw. It is concentrated ADHD joy.
@inversephase was an incredibly gracious and welcoming tour guide. It’s a museum experience that is so neurodivergence friendly. Flip the toggle switches if you want. :blob3c:
@maddiefuzz@inversephase@bloopmuseum omg so many goodies! I see that Canon Cat sitting there, would love to have a play with that :ablobfoxbongo: Places like these need to be treasured.
Next month I might be in Stockholm for a week - what should I go see, do and eat?
I'm especially looking for things I can't find in a typical tourist guide. Cool hackerspaces, punk streetart, retro tech shops, unique bars, experiences, etc. I'm open to anything!
@wakame To me, complexity in itself isn't bad. However, I do think it's useful to separate inherent (= required) vs incidental (= non-essential) complexity.
In that regard, the nuts and bolts of what makes a washing machine work is inherent, vs things like extensive displays or WiFi adding incidental complexity to the system.
Interestingly, Jeff Raskin was thinking along the same lines as you when he created the Swyft Card, a hardware extension board for the Apple IIe that would give it an integrated word-like processor, similar to what the Canon Cat had built-in 🙂