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In my opinion this person seems like one of those 10x people. Amazing job.

by beamatronic 7y ago

kens 7y ago
10x kind of implies that they are doing something actually useful. :-)
- nobodyshere 7y ago
  From whose point of view? A mythical “10x” working at a Californian small startup making IoT juice machines isn't necessarily doing anything more useful.
  - vvdcect 7y ago
    I think he's the guy from the blog and he's making a joke
- bduerst 7y ago
  Answering the "What if...?" questions may not be productive but is definitely still useful.
- TremendousJudge 7y ago
  "...But when wood first yields to metal, one more thing is made: and that is the sculptor."
cr0sh 7y ago
Gotta agree with you there - IIRC, he's also working on an Alto, plus a Symbolics LISP machine - and I think, IIRC, he helped to get the IBM 1401 transistor mainframe at the Mountain View Computer History Museum working, too. Just looked that last one up - yep. http://www.righto.com/2018/09/the-printer-that-wouldnt-print-fixing.html http://www.righto.com/2018/09/the-printer-that-wouldnt-print... The other two: http://www.righto.com/2018/03/a-1970s-disk-drive-that-wouldnt-seek.html http://www.righto.com/2018/03/a-1970s-disk-drive-that-wouldn... But I seem to be wrong on the Lisp machine? I couldn't find anything on it, but I could have sworn somebody has been working on getting one into operating condition for a while now (it's been a slow process)... Anybody know?
- kens 7y ago
  Just to keep things straight... The Lisp machine isn't me and I don't know anyone working on one. As for the IBM 1401, I can't take credit for getting it working; I joined the team later and help keep it running. Currently I'm working on an IBM 360/50 microcode emulator and reverse-engineering an early FPGA chip.
- rjsw 7y ago
  There is one Lisp Machine renovation project that I know of [1]. Haven't been any updates for a while, the dates against the blog posts are wrong too. [1] https://www.orinrin.land/lispm/ https://www.orinrin.land/lispm/

In my opinion this person seems like one of those 10x people. Amazing job.

kens 7y ago

10x kind of implies that they are doing something actually useful. :-)

nobodyshere 7y ago
From whose point of view? A mythical “10x” working at a Californian small startup making IoT juice machines isn't necessarily doing anything more useful.
- vvdcect 7y ago
  I think he's the guy from the blog and he's making a joke
bduerst 7y ago
Answering the "What if...?" questions may not be productive but is definitely still useful.
TremendousJudge 7y ago
"...But when wood first yields to metal, one more thing is made: and that is the sculptor."

cr0sh 7y ago

Gotta agree with you there - IIRC, he's also working on an Alto, plus a Symbolics LISP machine - and I think, IIRC, he helped to get the IBM 1401 transistor mainframe at the Mountain View Computer History Museum working, too. Just looked that last one up - yep. http://www.righto.com/2018/09/the-printer-that-wouldnt-print-fixing.html http://www.righto.com/2018/09/the-printer-that-wouldnt-print... The other two: http://www.righto.com/2018/03/a-1970s-disk-drive-that-wouldnt-seek.html http://www.righto.com/2018/03/a-1970s-disk-drive-that-wouldn... But I seem to be wrong on the Lisp machine? I couldn't find anything on it, but I could have sworn somebody has been working on getting one into operating condition for a while now (it's been a slow process)... Anybody know?

kens 7y ago
Just to keep things straight... The Lisp machine isn't me and I don't know anyone working on one. As for the IBM 1401, I can't take credit for getting it working; I joined the team later and help keep it running. Currently I'm working on an IBM 360/50 microcode emulator and reverse-engineering an early FPGA chip.
rjsw 7y ago
There is one Lisp Machine renovation project that I know of [1]. Haven't been any updates for a while, the dates against the blog posts are wrong too. [1] https://www.orinrin.land/lispm/ https://www.orinrin.land/lispm/