phooky @phooky@octodon.social

Once upon a time we had a Bernoulli Box.
http://www.obsoletemedia.org/bernoulli-disk/

@rogzilla71 @jmjm @phooky
OMG I FORGOT ABOUT THE BERNOULLI BOX! The 8" floppy drive that sounded like a jet engine!

@rogzilla71 @jmjm @phooky (I already have a half-working Osborne I on my conscience.)

@rogzilla71 @jmjm @phooky It was an 8086 (or 8086 clone), just running at a higher clock speed (internet claims ~7MHz, I remember 10MHz for some reason). Apparently AT&T had very little to do with it other than the sales channel; it was a rebadged Olivetti M24.

They're on ebay, but even at $50 not really worth it:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-AT-T-Personal-Computer-6300-Olivetti-M24-PC1050-Motherboard-8086-CPU/312171727796?hash=item48aee28bb4:g:9ooAAOSwPI1axrrP

@rogzilla71 @jmjm @phooky
Here's a cute editor: http://andyherbert.github.io/ansiedit/public/index.html

@cypnk this is stupid. everyone knows it's "cannoluses"

My printer driver installer has decided I'm on redhat because RPM is installed. And then tries to run DNF, which is not. Get it together, Canon!

@qrs CAN'T SLEEP CLOWNS WILL GET ME

@qrs Have you checked that cube for a tiny Drake

@gRuFtY @Xibanya "you-ler".

(similar to, say, Eucharist pronounced "you-car-ist". unless it's supposed to be "oicarist")

@Xibanya "Oiler" is how you pronounce it if you want to be correct but not understood

"I will arrange the next adventure tour not on horseback and speedy rivers, but I will compile it from such tasks: you will have to take a car radio to repair in St. Petersburg, or buy an external CD drive in Addis Ababa. Labyrinthic shops, unknown machines and spare parts in stalls..."

http://riowang.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-other-city.html?m=1

@gcupc @ieure the VT05 is a beauty, if you have the ludicrous amount of desk space it requires

those things are deeeeeeep

protip: get yourself a verilog beginner support group so you can at least scream into the void in good company

@jmjm @rogzilla71 @phooky There was an aura of finality about the "In the trash."

So. Time to make new ANSI art? There are some pretty badass BBSes around nowadays (for serious).

@jmjm @rogzilla71 @phooky Dad is here right now, and I asked him what happened to the 6300. Quoth the dad: "I threw it out." "What about the hard drive and floppies?" "I threw them out." "But wh--" "In the trash."

waiting for the baby to fall solidly asleep listening to anonradio try to call toorcamp and trying to get an inout port response working in my testbench