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@amszmidt@mastodon.social @Ardubal@mastodon.xyz A True Schemer can't even DPB without first writing a "Lambda the Ultimate Bit Inserter" paper about it, and then designing a hardware DPB chip in VLSI.
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Lars Brinkhoff
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mastodon 4.7.3Messages from an alternative universe where the PDP-10 is alive and well.
ITS research and restoration posted here.
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@amszmidt@mastodon.social @Ardubal@mastodon.xyz As for Common Lisp: we forgot where the name came from but we think we inherited some random characters from 60+ years ago.
Somehow, writing Forth in 64x16 screens was one of the most enjoyable jobs I had in my entire career. It might seem like the severe constraints of the language and the 1024 byte block size would be limiting, but it felt the opposite.
May the 𝘍𝘖𝘙𝘛𝘏 be with you! In a totally not megacorporation way.
Hot take? Every editable text field should be an Emacs buffer. I don't want your semi-arsed Emacs keybindings, I want the full thing.
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca I'm old, ok? That means,
- I remember CRTs,
- I survived contact with CRTs.
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@bigiain@aus.social @davefischer@hachyderm.io @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social "The decades of fascism, wars, and environmental destruction would come to be known as the Eternal 2020 due to a post on a somewhat anti-social medium called Usenet."
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@brouhaha@mastodon.social @darkuncle@infosec.exchange .hex is popular with low-level programmers and witches.
Russel Crowe's paradox: R is the movie set of all movie sets that do not contain themselves. Does R contain an Oscar award?
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@revk@toot.me.uk @16af93@wetdry.world Megabyte is 1024000 or 1000024 bytes.
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@bigiain@aus.social @davefischer@hachyderm.io @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social * September 2020 intensifies *
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@enigmatico@mk.absturztau.be Why is there a No button?
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@brouhaha@mastodon.social @jwz@mastodon.social @jef@mastodon.social #4 when this thread comes to an end and we can move on in our lives.
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@tlayoyo We should slash all letters to make them more distinguished.
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@Enalys 30 years ago comes out to around 1980, right?
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@neale@teh.entar.net @spacehobo@teh.entar.net @_elena@mastodon.social alt.sys.pdp10 is still somewhat active, and comp.lang.forth is good for the occasional locals-or-no-locals flamewar.
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@me_@sueden.social Idea: organ manual with control, meta, super, hyper, top, front, and greek pedals.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I always gauge the success of my puns by how enraged my immediate family becomes.
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca Don't even disassemble it if it has a CRT.
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@kentpitman@climatejustice.social @screwlisp@gamerplus.org I think you meant this: @eswenson@mastodon.sdf.org
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@lorry Are you aware that Quentin got Essex BCPL and MUD running under TOPS-10? https://www.quentin.org.uk/tag/pdp10/
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@Halaana @ariaflame Norway has left the chat.
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@mrundkvist@archaeo.social You can make a virtual visit to the museum in just one minute. https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=6JWEXDqwTBt The Wegematic is down the middle aisle. (Just to the left of it is the intriguing micro-LINC.)
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@mrundkvist@archaeo.social There is a Wegematic 1000 in Finland. https://www.suomentietokonemuseo.fi/vanhat/eng/wegematic_eng.htm
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@brouhaha@mastodon.social @NickT6630@mastodon.scot Try the heatwave mode: 230 V to Vcc.
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@kbob@chaos.social How about this: every dot is its own bubble universe.
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@kbob That's an interesting development! I'd call it Jellyfish Universe.
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@kbob I mainly wanted some blurring and fading effects to make it look a little more analog rather than digital crispy. Your contrails look very pretty!
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@jonn_blanchard Tinder and Tindie, just sayin.
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@GrantMeStrength@hachyderm.io I see there's also #PDP10, great!
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@lorry I did. He said he'd get in touch.
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@JauntyArt@crispsandwi.ch I laughed...
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@kbob It's not a standard PDP-10 thing for sure. The display is the "color scope" by DEC. The story goes (not confirmed) that two were made as an experiment, and one was given to MIT's AI lab (apparently a popular dumping ground for DEC hardware). This would have been around 1970, give or take a few years.
You can think of it as a point-plotting device, similar to the Type 30 used with the PDP-1, except lower resolution and four bits each for RGB. The tube was supposedly a regular NTSC.
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@zzt@mas.to I can't believe ITS was brought up, period.
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@icm@mastodon.sdf.org I think Michael Speciner was also involved in LIFE on the PDP-6.
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@wobweger @emilymbender My go-to is usually "don't even begin to talk".
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@me_@sueden.social not sure if space cadet * squints eyes *
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@dramforever It runs on an emulator, and you can even play Space Travel. Why this isn't widely known and celebrated by now, I don't know.
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@philcowans Just curious, why are you interested in CTSS archives? Are they prevalent in use? Many specimens on backup tapes? No one decoded the format yet?
I'm interested because in some ways CTSS was a predecessor to ITS, and ITS has archive files too. I made a tool to extract files them, but some archives on backup tapes defy decoding. Even by ITS itself.
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@Enalys Are you sure? I was born in the 1970's but I couldn't possibly be older than 35.