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by nickt 5y ago
There’s a decent documentary on YouTube about them - Inconspicuous Ingenuity. https://youtu.be/w5TkSE_5GsE
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That whole channel is a goldmine of old school electronics repair. Thanks for sharing. https://youtube.com/user/randyfromm
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Really looking forward to this. Back in the day I played it on my Amiga 500, but last year, after watching Retro Ahoys video [1] I got my old 486 out of the loft and bought a Roland MT-32 just to play it - highly recommended, as is the vide
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The Mini Pet 40/80 Advanced Level Kit(blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk)
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Survival Guide for Apollo Workstations(web-docs.gsi.de)
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The Open Rights Group has statistics and a list of the more well-known prosecutions under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003. https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Communications_Act_200...
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A 1U Amiga 1200 serving up web pages. Can’t be too many of them.
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The Mini PET 40/80D(blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk)
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SEC Statement on Proposed Mandatory Climate Risk Disclosures(sec.gov)
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AX.25 on a Raspberry Pi(k4gbb.us)
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There's a similar facility at Dinorwig in Wales. It's important not only to handle the load of all the kettles being switched on at half-time (what they refer to as "TV pickup", an almost 3GW increase in demand), but it&
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Captain Picards favourite model railway gauge? N-Gauge! I'll show myself out...
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Commodore 64 – Reverse Engineered BusCard(pdbuchan.com)
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The Los Alamos Primer(en.wikipedia.org)
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Very nicely done. In a similar vein, the Apple 1 manuals have been recently reproduced (though it seems you have to buy the printed copies and the PDFs are not freely available) https://www.retroplace.com/en/feature&#x2
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UK spaceport gains planning approval(bbc.com)
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(I live in CO and think this is A Good Thing). Back in 1995, working for an Investment Bank in London, Perot Systems tried to have us sign a non-compete that included the primary industry, adjacent industries and basically a circle drawn ar
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HomeCorrupter – audio fidelity reduction plugin VST(igorski.nl)
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A Concise History of (Television) Test Cards(testcardcircle.org.uk)
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The following website is a good place to read more, based on Nick Bostroms original paper. https://www.simulation-argument.com/ https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
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Build your own funky steampunk display with EMDs(nutsvolts.com)
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https://web.archive.org/web/20220204140224/https://conscious...
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There are a few of these systems, my first exposure (I was based in the UK, so these systems lean to UK geodemographic types) and use of them was back in the early 1990’s with what was called CCN Mosaic at the time. Mosaic is now owned by E
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Mosaic (Geodemography)(en.wikipedia.org)
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I recently bought an old Technics cassette deck, identical to the one I had in the early 90s while on a retro computer hunt. It’s nice but not top of the range, but I’ve been blown away by the quality of the first generation recordings onto
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Computer Data Cassette Formats(retrotechnology.com)
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Build Temple Underground House Water Slide to Tunnel Underground Swimming Pools(youtube.com)
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I was unfamiliar with the KC85, what a great system and a good looking machine too - not what I would have expected to come out of East Germany in the 1980’s. Thanks for sharing - they were the days! English link: http://www.mpm-
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In the beginning was CAOS (1988)(devili.iki.fi)
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The Seeburg 1000 Background Music System(en.wikipedia.org)
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