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by nickt 3y ago
Fantastic, thank-you. Every day continues to be a school day!
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by nickt 3y ago
This video and reading the recent article referencing Brimar valves (of the vacuum tube variety) [1] led me down the rabbit hole of, how hard can it be to make a few CRTs. Despite growing up with them, it turns out I had no idea. Lots of ov
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by nickt 3y ago
And credit to the NASA social media person for keeping the conversation on-topic and responding with well considered and engaging answers. They must have the patience of a saint!
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by nickt 3y ago
Great article. Here’s a review of the others in the family, the 65C02 and 65C816 SBCs https://hackaday.com/2015/07/29/review-single-board-65c02-an...
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by nickt 3y ago
The probes aren’t big enough. That’s why it’s often a big screwdriver and jump lead to earth. The better option is the Fluke 80K 40. https://www.fluke.com/en-us/product/accessories/probes/fluke...
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Gauge Block(en.wikipedia.org)
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Tosec: The Old School Emulation Center(tosecdev.org)
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by nickt 3y ago
The article didn’t really explain the significance of this discovery. Wikipedia has a decent article on “Single Layer Materials” [1], quoting, “The major expectation held amongst researchers is that given their exceptional properties, 2D ma
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Microsoft’s New Corporate AI Products Will Come with a Hefty Price Tag(bloomberg.com)
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What Was the Amiga Ranger?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
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The HTML review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web(thehtml.review)
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by nickt 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230129101101/https://www.wired...
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by nickt 3y ago
I’m sure this thread is related to the impressive DOS uptime thread [1], though in 1994 we had slightly better spec machines running Netware 3.11 iirc with almost 3 years of uptime. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3
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Banned (UK) car number plate combinations(autoexpress.co.uk)
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by nickt 3y ago
It’s amazing how vibrant the global Amiga community is. I just attended the inaugural Kickstart event in Nottingham - what a great community of people and active development of both software and hardware. My personal favourites were [1]the
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by nickt 3y ago
Usually. You can check by putting your phone in and closing the door while looking at the signal strength meter. It should go without saying don’t turn the microwave oven on with your expensive electronics inside. If you get decent receptio
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by nickt 3y ago
Oh, and of course, Steven Vickers wrote both these manuals and the ZX81 BASIC manual. Also wrote the (Jupiter and Sinclair implementations of the) languages too!
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by nickt 3y ago
Here’s a bit of my comment from the MyNOR / FORTH thread the other day [0] about the Jupiter Ace manual. The manual was great for its time, a little dated now but still a decent read [2]. It was reprinted in 2018 and still available [3
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by nickt 3y ago
That’s pretty neat, the ULA is just a gate array after all. [Edit] I forgot to mention I have speccy and ZX81 ULAs from Charlie and they are top notch and have been working flawlessly, and especially in the case of the ZX81, better than the
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Deepsea Challenger(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nickt 3y ago
It also reminds me of a similar option, the Jupiter Ace [1] which ran FORTH natively. The co-founders worked on the speccy and certainly borrowed some design aspects from the ZX81 (had a better keyboard though - ha!) The manual was great fo
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by nickt 3y ago
I have one of Davids, it’s a nice keyboard. I also have one of the Memotech keyboards from back in the day - but in 1981 I was “enjoying” the membrane keyboard. David’s whole website is a ZX81 adventure! https://www.zx81keyboarda
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by nickt 3y ago
The quoted Sky News article has a (tiny bit) more info. https://news.sky.com/story/royal-navys-experimental-ship-car...
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by nickt 3y ago
I’d also like to add I’ve lived almost half my adult life in the US, being from the UK originally and encounters with the police in each country has a very different feel. It subjectively feels like the peelers in the UK have more latitude
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by nickt 3y ago
aka “policing by consent” The gov.uk website says it quite well, “It should be noted that it refers to the power of the police coming from the common consent of the public, as opposed to the power of the state.” https://www.gov.u
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by nickt 3y ago
When I was a kid, I thought AAA was a legend.
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by nickt 3y ago
It’s not too hard to find with the following search, “we can recover data from tape formats including onstream”
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$67K ‘Doomsday Trailer’(thedrive.com)
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by nickt 3y ago
Thank you, that one’s local and I had no idea about it.
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by nickt 3y ago
Looks like a decent list of places is developing in this this thread. If you like a bit of retro computing, checkout the http://retro.directory/ lots of places - museums, arcades and events, etc.

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