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eiZen<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://furries.club/@dinosaurgerms" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dinosaurgerms</span></a></span> <br>Hey, I think Gun Fight is featured in that <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Olsenbande" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Olsenbande</span></a>'n movie #9 where the computer went crazy (due to Egon putting a nail into a hole):</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8_6jNRzO0g" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=F8_6jNRzO0</span><span class="invisible">g</span></a></p><p><a href="https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0076495" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">m.imdb.com/title/tt0076495</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/movies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>movies</span></a></p>
argv minus one<p>I wonder how much of an advantage it was for <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> that the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/m68k" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>m68k</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Macintosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Macintosh</span></a> had a bunch of its operating system in a separate ROM chip.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a> didn't have that. The whole thing had to be loaded from disk into RAM.</p><p>Windows 1.0 required no less than 256kB of RAM—twice as much as the first <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mac</span></a> model had.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Montalvo<p><a href="https://mstdn.mx/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <br>Una nueva <a href="https://mstdn.mx/tags/psion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>psion</span></a> modelo XP para la colección..</p>
eiZen<p>I d'idnt have </p><p>«Reverse éngineering BASIC syntax from exámples in à French Thomson TO7 book» </p><p>on my Bìngó cárd but here we àre.</p><p>- <a href="https://archive.org/details/p.-s.-i.-basic-plus-80-routines-sur-mo-5-et-to-7-70/page/13/mode/1up" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/p.-s.-i.-b</span><span class="invisible">asic-plus-80-routines-sur-mo-5-et-to-7-70/page/13/mode/1up</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ThomsonTO7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThomsonTO7</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a><br>Pardon my <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>French</span></a></p>
StarPeak<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> Meetup <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@cbase" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cbase</span></a></span><br>Freitag, 04.04. ab 19 Uhr<br>in der c-base, Rungestraße 20, 10179 Berlin</p><p>Offener <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a> Stammtisch</p><p>Bei einem Getränk reden wir über Themen von <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Zuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zuse</span></a> bis <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Amiga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amiga</span></a>, egal ob <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Commodore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> oder <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP8</span></a>-<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PDP11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PDP11</span></a> - Hauptsache alte Rechner</p>
Marquis de Geek<p>The First Computer - second draft</p><p><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
Silicon Underground (Dave F)<p>28 years ago today, a teenager launched one of the earliest hardware enthusiast web sites with a review of the AMD K6 CPU. The site was Anandtech, the first major rival to Tom's Hardware Guide. <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TechHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechHistory</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/HardwareEnthusiasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HardwareEnthusiasts</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/WebMilestones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebMilestones</span></a> <a href="https://dfarq.homeip.net/anandtech-made-its-debut-april-3-1997/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dfarq.homeip.net/anandtech-mad</span><span class="invisible">e-its-debut-april-3-1997/</span></a></p>
Paolo Amoroso<p>The Xerox PARC alumni who contribute to the Medley Interlisp project shared the buttons they collected at computing conferences in the 1980s and 1990s such as AAAI, IJCAI, SIGGRAPH.</p><p>The buttons are awesome and span a range of languages and systems such as Interlisp, Lisp Machines, Smalltalk, Unix, Modula-2, Mesa, Pilot, and more. Be sure to go through the whole thread.</p><p><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/lispcore/c/ylsMetI3D0I/m/CtGXmMn3AQAJ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">groups.google.com/g/lispcore/c</span><span class="invisible">/ylsMetI3D0I/m/CtGXmMn3AQAJ</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/interlisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>interlisp</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lisp</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/smalltalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smalltalk</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unix</span></a></p>
Atari Scene News<p>FourZeroZero, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari400" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari400</span></a> computer inspired keyboards <a href="http://www.norths.de/die-fourzerozero-tastatur-serie/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">norths.de/die-fourzerozero-tas</span><span class="invisible">tatur-serie/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atari</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Atari8bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari8bit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
filidControl Data CYBER 180-830 build 1982 and working in our historic datacenter. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vintagecomputing?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagecomputing</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/retrocomputing?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/cyber?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cyber</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/blender?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blender</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/blender3d?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blender3d</a> More at <a class="u-url" href="https://pixelfed.social/@behindtheconsole@podcasts.social" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@behindtheconsole@podcasts.social</a>
SHODAN :nonbinary:<p>Got one of these on the way soon, this is a HD-DVD Blu-ray combi drive. Seem to be relatively uncommon and if my <a href="https://mas.to/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> folks here have any interest in putting one in a build as a future piece of oddware. I would recommend snapping up one if you can. So excited to have it though for a project.</p>
µP<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Z80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Z80</span></a> computer:</p><p><a href="https://z80kits.com/shop/rc2014-mini-ii-picasso/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">z80kits.com/shop/rc2014-mini-i</span><span class="invisible">i-picasso/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a></p>
Thomas Cherryhomes<p>Jeff Piepmeier and Ben Krein will be at VCF East Apr. 4-6 showing off <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/FujiNet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FujiNet</span></a> and its progress, this year. Including the <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/RS232" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RS232</span></a> version, the <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Atari2600" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atari2600</span></a> version (based on PlusCart) and more! <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrogaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrogaming</span></a></p><p><a href="https://vcfed.org/events/vintage-computer-festival-east/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vcfed.org/events/vintage-compu</span><span class="invisible">ter-festival-east/</span></a></p>
AJ Sadauskas<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>JessTheUnstill</span></a></span> One of the big fuckups for BlackBerry was just the delays in getting BlackBerry 10, plus the Z10 and Q10, to market.</p><p>I got to use BB10 for a couple of months, and it was nice. It was built on QNX, with a modern swipe/gesture based UI built with Qt. </p><p>Arguably a better OS than the iOS and Android releases at that same time.</p><p>There was a feature called the Hub, which wax a unified inbox for your email messages, social posts, and text messages. Plus a modern app store, and separate personal/work profiles built into the OS.</p><p>There was a version without a physical keyboard (Z10) and with (Q10).</p><p>The problem is they didn't start working on it until 2010, and BB10 wasn't released until 2013.</p><p>For about two years before BB10 came out, BlackBerry didn't release any new phones.</p><p>Had BB10 come out earlier, it *might* have saved the company.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Blackberry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blackberry</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Crackberry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crackberry</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/phones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phones</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/smartphones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smartphones</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/CellPhones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CellPhones</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Android</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/iOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iOS</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/BB10" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BB10</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/blackberry10" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackberry10</span></a></p>
Silicon Underground (Dave F)<p>On April 2, 1997, AMD released a new CPU. If it succeeded, AMD had a chance at success. If it failed, AMD would probably fail with it. That CPU was the K6, and it revitalized AMD, letting them move to the middle of the market, where margins were high enough to fund its future CPUs. <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TechHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechHistory</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ComputerArchitecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerArchitecture</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Innovation</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TechMilestones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TechMilestones</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/1990sTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1990sTech</span></a> <a href="https://dfarq.homeip.net/amd-k6-released-april-2-1997/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dfarq.homeip.net/amd-k6-releas</span><span class="invisible">ed-april-2-1997/</span></a></p>
Wolfgang Stiefmaier pdp-8/ɣ. Nein, kein verspäteter Aprilscherz. Dahinter verbirgt sich eine emulierte PDP-8, gesehen am 24C3 (2007). <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/onepicaday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onepicaday</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/vintagecomputing?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vintagecomputing</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/retrocomputing?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/dec?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dec</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/pdp8?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pdp8</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/24c3?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#24c3</a>
Metin Seven 🎨<p>𝙼𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚘'𝚜 𝚍𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚖𝚊</p><p>Even the king of platformers has his doubts every now and then.</p><p>Made somewhere in the 2000s.</p><p>More game voxels in the 🧵</p><p><a href="https://graphics.social/tags/VoxelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VoxelArt</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/PixelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PixelArt</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/GameDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GameDev</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gaming</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>games</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/game" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>game</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/gamer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamer</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/RetroGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGames</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retro</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/nintendo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nintendo</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/mario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mario</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/1980s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>1980s</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/vintage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintage</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/old" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>old</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nostalgia</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/graphics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graphics</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/CharacterDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharacterDesign</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/artwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artwork</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digital</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/DigitalArt" 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href="https://graphics.social/tags/FediArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FediArt</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/CreativeToots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeToots</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/ArtistsOnMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArtistsOnMastodon</span></a></p>
Konrad Hinsen<p>Are there good (re-)use cases for an iMac G4? Under MacOS X, it still works but is probably not safe for use on a network. Linux support for PowerPC Macs looks bad.</p><p>One idea is to run VNC on it and use it as a desktop display for a laptop. But how to connect the two without configuring Internet access, given that the laptop has no Ethernet?</p><p><a href="https://scholar.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
argv minus one<p>Today I learned that some parallel ports—the humble 25-pin ports also known as <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/LPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LPT</span></a> ports—had a surprisingly-non-horrible 2.5MB/s (20Mbps) of bandwidth in ECP mode.</p><p>That explains why some external disk drives (Zip, CD, etc) used them. That is indeed enough bandwidth to reasonably read/write those disks.</p><p>They were originally used for printers, though, not for bandwidth but for simplicity: with all 7 bits of an ASCII character arriving together, the printer didn't need a buffer.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
@haitchfive<p>This is for you if you didn't like a bulky Horace. There's an Horace for everyone! 😃 Skiing the hell out of it since 1982!</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/ZXSpectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZXSpectrum</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Speccy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Speccy</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Spectrum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Spectrum</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
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