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i was looking for the video where storm troopers were spaced by HR if they complained, but found this
"hey, why is everything in this room bolted down???"
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Has something to do with http://bitsavers.org
Had something to do with http://kfjc.org
and spies.com
"Nibbled to death by ducks"
-- Steve Williams
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@arclight@oldbytes.space @norootcause@hachyderm.io
"Who comes up with this garbage terminology?"
The same people who want an army instead of a ninja
The Unix V4 tape read was successful
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No Starch Press should get someone to write an electronics book called
"Don't Do This"
and then explain why for each thing
posted on the VCF site from someone in Russia
"Unfortunately, Russia is heading into very dark times.
We used to have good Internet here: fast, cheap, and mostly open. That is no longer the case. Real censorship has arrived in full force. YouTube, Discord, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and many other platforms have already been blocked.
And now it is getting worse. Full mobile Internet blackouts have started across the European part of the country. When this happens, the network is effectively switched into a whitelist mode: only pro-government sites and a couple of banks are accessible, while everything else simply disappears.
I have every reason to believe this is only the beginning, and that the same model will eventually be pushed onto wired home Internet as well.
I am in Siberia right now, where things are still somewhat better, and the whitelist system has not fully reached us yet. But that may not last."
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@TerryHancock@realsocial.life @ricci@discuss.systems
I have the equipment. It is a 3M tape so it will probably be fine.
It will be digitized on my analog recovery set up and I'll use Len Shustek's readtape program to recover the data.
The only issue right now is my workflow isn't a "while you wait" thing, so I need to pull all the pieces into one physical location and test everything before I tell Penny it's OK to come out.
The whole process is test the condition on a tape retensioner. I'm hoping I don't have to bake it, since that takes a day, then digititze it, shuttle the 10s of gigabytes of samples to another machine to decode it. I want to skip the shuttle step and get the analyzer running on the digitizer.
Hey G...
how 'bout I give you NOTHING ??
fuck ads
fuck Surveillance Capitalism
fuck you
The law of unintended consequences bites you in the ass...
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@Savagejen@mastodon.social
At Apple in the "Before Times" there were Staff Engineers who had that definition in their job description and were put there if they demonstrated they were capable of multi-tasking across projects. If you were a God-Level SE, like Ron Hochsprung, they made you a DEST.
I don't know if they really survived His return, since that required the company not being siloed to the point where you knew who to ask and could go over and visit them without making them sign an "internal NDA" (don't ask...)
#AppleLore
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@tubetime@mastodon.social
thanks 😦
now I'm having flashbacks when I had a job in a TV repair shop in the 70s
A walking tour of original Apple Buildings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbCVETsmtoM
It was the "Good Earth" building because the Good Earth resturant (aka The Bad Dirt) was next door.
Catapult, started by ex Apple people, was in that building in the 90s and were somewhat infamous for making "cryo-bombs" with dry ice and liter soda bottles.
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@lorry @davebarnes @jguillaumes @cstross
There are very few people left in the world who can successfully recover 7-track 1/2" media. The UK needs an institution capable of duplicating what I have working at the Computer History Museum in California.
Boosted by @joe@f.duriansoftware.com
Did anyone out there work with the Steve Williams who worked on operating systems at Apple when he was at Sony or Palm?
He passed in 2013 from complications from muscular distrophy, and I was going to write something about the projects I knew from him at Apple, then realized I don't know much about him after that.
In the 00s, I recovered all his old magtapes for him, so I have I bunch of the papers he wrote about his Apple and Digitial Research work.
There are lies
damn lies
then there is Repugnantcant BS propaganda
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the use of a stylus for tracking must have been a nightmare. another doc I found said they were unreliable. you can see pictures of the media in cardboard boxes in the console desk drawer photo of the gamma-30 console from the bull musuem. it would be nice to get a photo of what one of the disks looked like. i wonder what the base material that the stylus moved across was
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@tubetime
Check hamfests if people want to find some. They were used in early 60's Motorola PT-100 Handie-Talkies
https://www.ebay.com/itm/389641463449
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Truth spoken here
https://wangcong.org/2026-06-30-why-i-stopped-arguing-with-people.html
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@ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org @maxleibman@beige.party
Jeff Bezos gives not one fuck about you or anything beyond killing off the little guy, and the Big Guys like what he has done to authors and publishers when he made Amazon the choke point for book distribution
.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180419073806/https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzVeRq
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@ploopy@mastodon.social
now, if the world would ban the use of thin, disappearing scroll bars that make anything other than a scroll wheel hell
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@Aleums
In 2032 "abandoned" data centers will be ICE concentration camps / crematoriums.
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@lorry @davebarnes @jguillaumes @cstrosshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xlq_MPWNKk
I have an identical drive with a 7-track head mounted.
Computer History Museum Recovers Rare UNIX History
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@tubetime
Weren't you just commenting recently that ultrasonic cleaning of old PCBs with crystal oscillator cans was a bad idea?
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@tlariv@hachyderm.io @loriemerson@post.lurk.org
Why stop there? Go after the entire Executive Branch
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@loriemerson@post.lurk.org
Getting the popcorn ready for when the bros bribe the powers that be to fast-track this through the supreme court back door.
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@kenshirriff
Before the Alto, members of the SRI team (English, Duval, et al) built a system called Palos that was a reimplementation of NLS on DG Novas that has mostly been forgotten.
The industrial design for those workstations
including the keyboard/mouse/keyset were
taken from that project and used for the Alto.
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@root42@chaos.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social
Tessaract was the codename for the Apple 88110 Macintosh
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@DosFox
Bonus points for people who know why the Cray was purple (along with all of the Herman Miller cubes in VG3)
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@swetland
I was told after leaving Apple that Linkedin was the place you used to find your next gig and stay in touch with work friends.
A few decades and a member of the Axis of Slopware Evil buying it and now it is a waste of
time. I haven't been able to log in for a long time
now since I refuse to verify my identity.
All my interesting friends dropped off a long time ago.
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@davidaugust@mastodon.online
If you ever have to deal with a federal agency that requires login.gov, you already have to provide them with a real ID or passport and a separate photograph.
@MartyFouts
After all, those IEEE quality assurance certificates don't come for free you know.
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@xyla@shitpost.trade
expecting the rug pull on all the component suppliers as soon as the grifters finish their IPOs
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@Gammitin@mastodon.social
you are just an intermediate step for its inevitable arrival in a landfill
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@CryogenicIce9 @loriemerson
"whoosh", Captain Obvious
Or do you think 70 year old typewriters have selectable fonts too?