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It's a gorgeous chip indeed!

Did you figure out which parts cause these to run so very hot compared to the 8086/88?

14.02.2026 18:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I need space in the freezer for an upcoming project, so...

10.02.2026 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

These are Siemens STB-11. Quite nice, along the lines of Cherry MX Browns, but with immediate actuation rather than some way down.

31.01.2026 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

sintran.com/hardware/hw-...

This one is quite the opposite, it has "PRINT HELP STOP" in Norwegian. Not to mention all the arrows you could ever dream of.

31.01.2026 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I finally got hold of the more fancy patterns for my sewing machine!

Each cam-wheel stores both the vertical and horizontal position of a total of 18 stitches, and plugs into a slot in the sewing machine itself. The system was in use for some 30+ years, so quite a few patterns exists for it.

31.01.2026 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Silly simplified drawing of a Canada lynx trotting to the right. Its proportions are only slightly exaggerated to emphasize its massive, fluffy paws.

Silly simplified drawing of a Canada lynx trotting to the right. Its proportions are only slightly exaggerated to emphasize its massive, fluffy paws.

shape of the creature...why are you so paws

17.01.2026 05:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4896    πŸ” 1646    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 13

Not very comfortable in the long run, tho. Can get quite annoying with all sorts of weird things, like randomly twitching muscles and stuff.

13.01.2026 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please keep us up to date on how this is faring!

11.01.2026 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mine has a UVC-absorbing fluorescent indicator, which is very handy for preventing these kinds of mishaps xD

04.01.2026 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Uh-oh.. Hmmmmmmm........

01.01.2026 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The first one I got was unfortunely too far gone, but have got one other working one in my 16700B.

Other modules I got in there are 3x chained 16557D and a 16534A. I do have a 16522A too, but I don't have the hearts to split up the 557s so I will have to swap it in should I ever need it.

24.12.2025 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah, yes! The 16717A?

24.12.2025 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
β€œGiant Brains, or: Machines That Think”, Edmund C. Berkeley, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1949.

β€œGiant Brains, or: Machines That Think”, Edmund C. Berkeley, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1949.

Did you know that there’s machines now that can do 5,000 additions per second??!

Automated language translation is just around the corner!

AI bros overestimating computers and underestimating humans, since 1949.

21.12.2025 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4
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Just had to check what was on that one 9-track tape of mine, but seems like this one is already on bitsavers (allthough decoded from the shorter 1600bpi encoded version of the tape).

20.12.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It is a bit higher complexity than I would expect from an 8-bit operating system released in early 1977, but the disassembly of this will soon come to a github near you.. As soon as I have annotated the 5000-or-so lines of Intel 8080 code.

14.12.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
"I wish all companies insisting on AI a very bankruptcy"

"I wish all companies insisting on AI a very bankruptcy"

10.12.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 13015    πŸ” 5620    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 38

I mean, they're pretty much paying someone to sell their soul to here.. Not even a potential "tax-writeoff" argument justifies this as a good idea in any way shape or form.

11.12.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That feeling when you realize this ancient program that parses source code, specifically also checks for Ctrl+X "Cursor Right" of DEC VT-05 fame, as a valid whitespace.

That being said, the terminal this was written for does support this control code, but who uses arrow-right instead of space?!

09.12.2025 09:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is this also one of the branch that can be directly traced to Dyrvedalen, or does it stem from elsewhere in the Voss region?

02.12.2025 13:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That reminds me, I will have to check if howtobasic has posted something new on youtube again. Somehow the algorithm stopped picking up on his videos a good while back.

26.11.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, mine's from 2017, but Sony (or anyone else for that matter) never made an equally good option for people who like to use the phone one-handed.

26.11.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Somehow I ended up with not one, but two original ones before I even had a chance to complete the replica... Oh well, it's still a golden oppertunity to compare the layout with the original. Especially the one I took most components off, as it looks like it has been through a war or something.

25.11.2025 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This was made for the local hackerspace, which is why it says "Nite" in Norwegian rather than "Ferrule", but...

20.11.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Elna pattern 151, my beloved

(but seriously, this makes it so much easier to quickfix holes and tears)

18.11.2025 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, having seen proper aurora on multiple occasions, it's never that pronouncingly sharp and parallel thin lines in that way. Not even close to it. Also, there is no gass mixture anywhere in the atmosphere that will produce white light on excitation so nothing about this is even plausible.

14.11.2025 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Same here..

12.11.2025 12:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For context, Røvær is a tiny Island 5 nautical miles out in the sea outside mainland Norway. Out of the 100 remaining people on the island after the disaster, 48 were widows and their children.

The people lost at Titran were from several villages, participating in more commercial style fishing.

11.11.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There's a story here in Norway about the unexpected October-hurricane of 1899. This polar low-pressure moved fast with little warning, first sinking a boat with 30 people returning to Røvær from a funeral, and the day after sinking a fleet of 141 local fishermen ouside Titran furter up the coast.

11.11.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

At least it's just merely a 74LS244. If it took damage there's still millions of these available.

10.11.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's just the wrong socket. PCB footprint is still 20-pin

10.11.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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