Weirdest #mainframe thought I've had in ages:
has anyone made a USB punched card reader? It should work with Hercules easily enough, and them I could use my old backups of Assemler XF macro source code again :-)
And does this count as #Nerdware?
#mainframers
"A passionate enthusiast has just built an entire processor—yes, not a development board, not a microcontroller, but a full-on, instruction-capable, memory-addressing CPU using nothing but old memory chips and logic components from the 8-bit era."
#pc #windows #diy #hobbies #electronics #msdos #upcycling #nerds #nerdcore #nerdware #IBM #chips #odd #strange #weird #unusual #omg #genius #invention
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/passionate-enthusiast-builds-a-fully-functional-processor-out-of-old-memory-chips-hand-solders-every-wire-writes-1800-lines-of-assembler-code-and-makes-it-play-the-matrix-on-a-vfd-display
Das Shirt! Ich will das fancy Mastodon-Shirt
#drbauer #bofh #mastoson #nerdware
https://youtube.com/shorts/GUDQO63mT78?si=phwgWH79A_-t15CA
