Disassembled my good old #ThinkPad T60 whose display isn't stable anymore. The right hinge is physically broken. I have no idea to which replacement part this belongs.

From https://support.lenovo.com/in/en/solutions/migr-62784 I guess it's part of the "Clear plate kit", but who knows...

I always panic when I get an error in line 404.

@LittleAlex@chaos.social Just soldering. Everything else is done via the simh simulator running on the Raspberry Pi.

Search for "PiDP-8" and see

https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-8

and YouTube instructions.

It's a very nice present someone gave you. Respect.

Downgraded the #raspberrypi 3B+ back to a 3B in my #6502portable because the 3B+ needs too much power and struggles at boot. The 3B I used during prototyping had broken wifi and when I replaced it last minute I thought more is better. Silly me.

Put my new #FujiNet dongle into my #Atari800XL / #6502portable.

I had no idea how easy it is to go online and download and run programs. All with the authentic Atari feeling. Thumbs up!

@luketuts@mastodon.online I'm open to the details of how and where exactly to do that. Just imagine I had no idea about electronics. :-)

@cypnk Procrastination as performance art... would probably lead to some useful result everyone waited for.

@luketuts@mastodon.online SCNR

Your (or is it my?) today's dose of eastern europe #retrocomputing: #Bulgarian #retrohardware.

Primary company: #Pravetz Microprocessor Systems.

I found early #80s homecomputers called "Pravetz-8A/8C/8D/8M/82", later 80s IBM compatible "Pravetz-16" (like CM-5508, SPS-AT-256), and professional business computers (ISOT-1036C, EC-1035, ISOT-CM-1604).

"Pravetz 8D" was an #Oric Atmos clone with a #6502processor variant called CM630.

"Pravetz 8C" was an #AppleII clone.

Let's collect pictures...

#Bulgarian #retrohardware pictures - #Pravetz 8D

#Bulgarian #retrohardware pictures - #Pravetz 8M

#Bulgarian #retrohardware pictures - #Pravetz 82

#Bulgarian #retrohardware pictures - #Pravetz 16

#Bulgarian #retrohardware pictures - the business computers

#Bulgarian #retrohardware pictures - CM 1604 as found on ebay.

EOF. 🙂

#Bulgarian #retrohardware

Ok, no EOF yet. :-)

Sources where I found information:

http://bulgariancomputers.freeservers.com/mycomputers/index.htma

http://bulgariancomputers.freeservers.com/isot1036c/isot1036c_eng.html

http://enravota.com/old%20bulgarian%20computers/

#Bulgarian #retrohardware pictures - IZOT - Bulgarian Military Keyboard

A whole page just about the IZOT keyboards.

Who needs the "ANY" key. They have a "HERE IS" key.

https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=11781

@warriorstar And for reference:

It took me 2 hours juggling search terms to re-find this gem that pops up in my head randomly for about 15 years:

Small #animatedgifs mini movies of #90s #pinball games that never made it into the final game.

Some were censored.
Some were just silly.
All are fun.

http://www.robertwinter.com/pinball/dotcom/archives/doho/index.html

http://www.robertwinter.com/pinball/dotcom/archives/doho/doho2.html

For correct timing download and view them locally with an image viewer.

Wow, nowadays I get the most interesting news via package updates: from tzdata changelog I learned South Sudan changes from +03 to +02 on 2021-02-01 at 00:00, to join Central Africa Time.

https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-sudan-time-zone-2021.html

@oppen I would love to have an option in Ariane to always show inline images, without even the need to longpress. Would that be possible?

I love the overall feeling of #Gemini with #Ariane but I have to admit, I'm missing the world full of imagery.

Thanks, also if the answer is No.

@tobykurien @oppen I had the same thought. A same-origin policy, like cookies before browsers started cheating.

@thomasfuchs I miss you in my timeline. I hope you are ok.

Greetings over the ocean.

@fikran

Atari Basic,
Turbo Pascal 3..5,
dBase III,
C,
C++ on Unix,
Visual C++/MFC,
awk,
Postscript,
Perl (4),
Java,
Prolog,
Perl (5, OO, Web),
m4,
HTML,
XML/XSLT/XPath,
Ruby,
Regular Expressions,
(Higher Order) Perl,
Makefile,
SQL,
Bash,
Tcl,
Perl.

Yes, in this order. I'm coming home.

Honorable mentions (small | fun projects):

Modula-2,
Haskell,
Scheme,
Emacs Lisp,
Perl/XS,
Perl 6,
Javascript.

Learning:

riscv asm,
6502 asm.

INTERCAL - no, just kidding.

#birdpunk for those flappy dinosaurs out there. Join me.

Presents to myself should always look like this.

#Atari #atariportfolio #DOS

@yrabbit Wait until you see the 5 different cuts telling even more stories.

#bladerunner

@yrabbit ...and since you seem to have skipped #Bladerunner for nearly four decades maybe it's time for me to finally watch that #StarWars thing everybody is talking about. :-)

A collection of 20th century computer viruses.

Keep it away from your 3 year old AI's training set.

#retrocomputing
#computervirus

https://github.com/rdebath/viruses

Hex mad rooms.

When I watched #MaxHeadroom I thought I would become like one of the protagonists - one of the good or the evil.

It slowly dawns me that I'm actually this guy.

Once I realized the time travel mechanics in the #Tenet #movie are the same as those in #Primer everything was easy.

I was about to write about it when I found this article that already completely summarised my opinion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tenet/comments/k7hx42/primer_is_better_i_just_didnt_like_tenet_very/

"By selecting the KIM-1 module, you have eliminated all of the problems of constructing and debugging a microcomputer system. Your time is now available for learning the operation of the system and beginning immediately to apply it to your specific areas of interest."

#kim1
#6502processor
#retrocomputing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1

Again and again, while digging through manuals about PIA and #6502asm programming I fall in love with those b/w logos everywhere.

#retrocomputing

- Atari Innovative leisure -

I guess sending a Telex is the next logical step.

#retrohardware

@vertigo LinkedIn news are just like "March of Time", "Pathé News", or "German Wochenschau" newsreels, reporting progress that was driven by pressure and deadlines, prettified to the max. And like their 1940s pendants they would even report success in retreat.

Unsubscribe.

#retrohardware #ad

Atari Super Breakout - Operation, Maintenance and Service Manual.

That whole manual is an æsthetic masterpiece, not just this gorgeous front page.

The document mixes electronics diagrams, mechanics exploded-view drawings, gameplay screenshots, and bell-bottoms.

They don't do these kinds of manuals anymore.

https://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Arcade/Manual/formated/Super_Breakout_-_1978_-_Atari.pdf

#retrohardware
#retrogaming

Even its warranty statement sounds like The Antithesis per se.

#retrogaming
#retrohardware

@mdhughes https://www.manualslib.com/download/1646814/Atari-Super-Breakout.html

... with just a handful of reCAPTCHA stunts, I know everything about traffic lights now.

@SDF Hi! I would like to get a toobnix login for my superfresh eizen@sdf.org account.

Does this message here count as "email"? :-) If not, where else to ask?

Wikipedia says:

The [Atari] XEGS release was backed by new games [...] plus cartridge ports of older games, such as [...] Lode Runner (Brøderbund, 1983).

That would probably make Lode Runner a very different experience when I can shoot around with that XG-1 light gun.

And given that searching for Atari Lode Runner brings up a lot of Blade Runner pictures that would only be fair.

But I guess they didn't took that chance.

#Atari
#retrogaming

@mdhughes I'm still not friend with the XE style.

So much that it even keeps me from buying an ST from where they borrowed the look although I remember the ST *feeling* more high-grade (not sure if that's actually a true memory).

On the other side I'm still stopping on every 800 when I see one on ebay and think about it.

@mdhughes So I will put an Falcon/MegaST near the 800 on my "consider-shopping" list.