@asj I probably shouldn't ask why this came to be 🤔

@CyReVolt isn't Linux, ehm, Azure one of Microsoft biggest revenue streams?

Elsinør had a sleep on an HP 8903B recently. She loves to flop her head down from resting places. #Catsofmastodon

Some pictures of KICKI a DEC PDP-10 model KI10 sn 522 currently in preservation.

Would you like to support us? Visit: https://icm.museum

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

IRC started in 1988 when Jarkko Oikarinen created a real-time chat protocol 🌐 It soon grew into major networks like EFnet (1990) and Undernet (1992), shaping online communities long before social media.

Here's a May 1993 memo by J. Oikarinen and D. Reed about IRC protocol that defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community: https://archive.org/details/rfc1459

Learn about Nottinghack's many LED matrix displays (probably too many?)

https://nottinghack.org.uk/the-hackspaces-many-moons/

"You can do anything here, son. But if you do not respect her majesty radiation, one day your personal cesium will find you." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c325Zc2ckC8

I refreshed my blog! Planning some Wasm posts soon

https://tartanllama.xyz/

My student, Zach, got the famous Whetstone floating-point benchmark running in FORTRAN IV on our PDP-12 (results had never been recorded for a '12 without an FPP). He also implemented the Dhrystone integer benchmark in PDP-8 assembly, which (as far as we know) has never been done before. You can read more about it here, and if you have a PDP-8 compatible machine (with or without EAE), you should be able to run his code to benchmark your system! Way to go, Zach! https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/pdp-8-and-pdp-12-and-dhrystone-and-whetstone.1253367/ #pdp12 #pdp #retrocomputing #umdpdp12 #pdp8

I hadn't really expected seeing a punch card reader and an older Pentium based PC from DEC, but here we are, at the #embroidery museum in Lustenau.

Vorarlberg had been famous for its textile industry.
Now it only has a few machines left running.

I'm excited to learn about another #free to read online #book: "Simply #Scheme: Introducing Computer Science" https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html

This KL10 might just run again

https://icm.museum/blog/?p=38

This is MIT-MC.ARPA, currently in preservation. While it may not be necessary to run all of its subsystems, we might be able to bring up the 3 bay KL10 CPU and Front End processor and emulate the rest.

We are evaluating it this summer. Would you like to help? Check out the blog and follow our activity.

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

#TIL that Unix once had a `lookall` utility that searched through the first 50 words in every text-file on a system. https://www.unix.com/man_page/v7/1/lookall/

Okay, but I'm incredibly proud of this wire form Matt and I built.

Non-orientable surface. With claws.

#Caturday

Behold the billionth repository created on GitHub. It’s absolutely perfect.

@evan What do they do?

This chronological timeline is nice and all, but only until your entire front page is two dudes arguing.

NEW VIDEO! I went inside a Chinese factory that manufactures brushless motors used in everything from robots to giant drones! We saw how they're made from start to finish, including a visit to the magnet factory to see how neodymium magnets are made. Super cool! Go watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TQ9eZPoWJkI

Building a Debugger is now officially released!

It guides you through writing a whole native x64 debugger from scratch, dispelling all the magic and teaching you a ton about operating systems as it goes.

Even if you don't care about writing a debugger, you can read it to your cat.