mastodon 4.7.2+glitch#Queens Early Gen-X nerd ❤️ 🇹🇼☕🐱. Online since 1992. He/him. Bi/ace🏳️🌈:bisexual: :asexual:. White lapsed Catholic/Immigrant/ESL/Citizen. Not nice but tries to be kind.
Notes: kindness not extended to bigots. Someone from a marginalized group can be a bigot too. Reverse racism isn't a thing, so fellow white people please don't ever whine about it.
General account is @jf_718@mas.to but here for #retroComputing stuff.
About a week ago, I began writing a few lines of Applesoft BASIC at night when I can't fall asleep. Nothing impressive, just rediscovering the feeling of doing a few fun things on my old machine, just like I did as a teen; the main bonus is it helps me relax and fall asleep faster.
Modern computers make me more stressed out, so I like that my oldest computer has the opposite effect.
This could have been called "Oil, gears and hammers - the mechanical side of early digital computers".
Usagi electric fixes up a 1963 LGP-21 computer and peripherals, with most of the work not being electronic in nature.