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by nickt 3y ago
I had to look it up: SSL = sub-surface line
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UK reveals AI agreement as Elon Musk warns of extinction(bbc.com)
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by nickt 3y ago
That’s a great read. > The equivalent of seven 2966 computers were engaged round the clock, seven days a week, for over six months to help us complete the design. The ICL 2966 was a British mainframe introduced in 1984. The last one is a
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Rydberg Field Measurement System(rydbergtechnologies.com)
39 points by nickt 3y ago|12 comments
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by nickt 3y ago
— everyone has a USA taxpayer ID
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The NPL Data Communications Network(en.wikipedia.org)
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WebSDR – Internet-connected Software-Defined Radios(websdr.org)
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Lunar Lander and the Dec GT40 [video](youtube.com)
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by nickt 3y ago
Some good discussion from last year (May 2022] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31455968
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Sigrok – open source signal analysis software suit(sigrok.org)
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Joseph Bazalgette(en.wikipedia.org)
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Arpanet News (1973)(archive.org)
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by nickt 3y ago
Ha, me too - Sunday is Retro day on hackernews.
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by nickt 3y ago
Tamiko Thiel worked with Feynman and Hillis at thinking machines and is responsible, amongst many other things, for how cool the CM-1 and CM-2 looked. Also responsible for the very cool CM t-shirts that are an essential for any geeks wardro
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by nickt 3y ago
The Speccy used 4116s and 4164s (and later 4464s in the Amstrad versions, except the "+2"). The 4116 was used for lower RAM in 48k version, or all the RAM if you had a 16k version. The 4164 was used for upper RAM, and they were th
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Reverse-engineering the classic MK4116 16-kilobit DRAM chip (2020)(righto.com)
96 points by nickt 3y ago|20 comments
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iPager – Help Apple GetTheMessage(youtube.com)
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The Internet Pinball Database(ipdb.org)
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Comp.sys.sinclair crap games competition (2021)(rickdangerous.co.uk)
68 points by nickt 3y ago|9 comments
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Restoration of an IMSAI 8080(retrocmp.de)
61 points by nickt 3y ago|27 comments
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by nickt 3y ago
Thanks Jonathan, that’s a great reference. https://retrocmp.de/ is also a great reference for particular drives. And if you need floppies, email Tom at https://www.floppydisk.com/ - he’s a top bloke and the
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by nickt 3y ago
Land Rover did this years ago against some of their biggest fans and supporters- they received nasty letters from legal just because they used “rover” in their domain names. This is when the company jumped the shark, there used to be a bunc
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A Sequence Obfuscation Method for Protecting Personal Genomic Privacy(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by nickt 3y ago
That link to the book isn’t working for me, any chance you can post the details please?
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by nickt 3y ago
Guy Martin did a good 3 part TV show earlier in the year https://www.channel4.com/programmes/guy-martins-great-britis...
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by nickt 3y ago
It’s called “TV pickup”, and Wikipedia has a good article explaining it, especially the bit about using pumped storage to meet demand in seconds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup
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by nickt 3y ago
That whole subdirectory is full of some old school internet humour. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jasonh/personal/humor/
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Porting the Amiga bouncing ball demo to the NES(mike42.me)
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by nickt 3y ago
The geekiest book I own (according to my wife) is “Registration Plates of the World” by Neil Parker [1] - there’s an older version on the IA [2]. Respect to the collectors club - the Automobile License Plate Collectors Association [3]. Proj
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by nickt 3y ago
If you don’t make it to the end of the article you may not see the massive rabbit hole down there that is the https://www.homebrewcpuring.org/ - some incredible projects there, I had no idea this was so popular!

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