Tom Stepleton

I think you owe your good, dry luck to the fact that nobody pressed that MOIST button on the tape deck.

Skiatron - Wikipedia

It's like a semi-persistent skiatron! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiatron

A group of people walk a slender aircraft with long wings down a tarmac taxiway, all silhouetted by the rising sun ahead of them. A shallow mist rises off of the airfield's grass surface.

Wheeling Airglow (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airglow... ) out to the runway at the British Human Powered Flying Club's 2025 Icarus Cup event, Lasham Airfield, Hampshire.

Ah well! At least I dodged having to prove that I knew what I was talking about 😌 Feel free to share what you've got, although that "works on a 2/10 but not on a 2/5" one is a real puzzle.

An assembled RC2014 Zed Pro modular Z80 hobby computer, which comprises a backplane about the size of a paperback book with playing-card sized component circuit boards plugged into it vertically. This particular Zed Pro is the limited-edition Pride kit, where the component boards are coloured so that they form a rainbow when arranged in the backplane. The computer rests in the hands that assembled it, which here are sporting some fairly long, blue-varnished fingernails. All of the electronic components, including dozens of resistors, headers, and IC sockets, were placed and soldered with the fingers and fingernails shown.

Happy Pride #rc2014

If you bring the ESProFile and the images, we can have a look on Saturday...

Strange... the Selector is not very discriminating when it comes to listing files: all it does is look for filenames that end in .image . Are your files named that way?

I had need to use BLU with a very keytronixed keyboard once, and I wound up pulling out the keyboard PCB and tapping on the "plates" with a capacitive stylus I made by taping one of the few good pads to the end of a pencil. Typed in the bootstrap that way...

Good luck and sorry this is such a hassle! Are there any disk images that you're looking for? Maybe I've got something pre-made that I can share...

Yes! Use the utilities that come with LisaEm --- in my experience `dc42-to-rraw` is the one to use, but if it doesn't work, try `dc42-to-raw` 🙂

That's it! Just rename it profile.image and put it on the SD card. No need for the big file as it's for the PocketBeagle as you say, but I ought to fix that link.

Hi there, sorry about this! The Selector image is free for anyone to get on GitHub here: github.com/stepleton/ca..., no contact required. GitHub does hide the download button over on the extreme right side of the page though. See you on Saturday!

A monochrome graphical display from an old computer workstation. In a large window at the centre of the display, a Smalltalk-80 session can be seen, with a browser window partially occluded by a System Transcript and a System Workspace window.

#Smalltalk -80 on #PERQ --- Mario Wolczko's implementation (www.wolczko.com/st80/) running with maybe some gremlins still to sort out.

#PERQ PNX 5.03 manual pages at mg-1.uk/pnxman/pnxma... . The most interesting ones don't render very well with my hacked copy of a roff-in-JS "typesetter", but some interesting nuggets are there to reward persistence.

YouTube video by stepleton PNX 5.03 reboot and demonstration on a PERQ 2T2

Grab your ear defenders, it's time to see the exciting features of 1986's PNX 5.03, the Unix for the #PERQ 2 workstation! Skip to 2:10 to bypass booting and go straight to the non-X11 graphics action!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZRo...

I have fresh-install disk images of #PERQ PNX 5.02 and 5.03 for the Gesswein hard drive emulator (emulating a 43 MB Vertex V150 MFM hard drive). Anyone want a copy?

A black and white screen image of a graphical desktop with several windows. One window shows a clock, another a bar graph with the bars bouncing around, another a graphical diagram of a heterogeneous computer network with many PERQs on it, and a final slide describing various attributes of PERQ Networking, viz. PERQ Networking * 10 MBit Local Area Network - ECMA 72 Transport protocol - File Transfer - Remote Printing/Plotting * Wide Area Networks - IBM 2780/3870 emulation - ICL-C03 protocl - Asynchronous Terminal Emulation - uucp

A black and white screen image of a graphical desktop with several windows. One window shows a clock, another a world map, another a pie chart of world population by region, another the word "PERQ" in a stylised ICL font of the time, and finally a "text slide" describing various attributes of PNX, viz. PNX Operating System * Derived from Unix System III * Microcode implementation * 32 Bit virtual address * Paged virtual store * Single (32 Bit) & Double (64 Bit) precision arithmetic * Window Manager * Fortran 77, Pascal and "C"

Here are some images from ICL's looping demo that runs on the #PERQ 2T2 under PNX 5.

Splayed out on a wooden floor: a covers off, partially-disembowled PERQ 2T2 under-desk workstation computer. Wires snaking out of the PERQ attach to a solderless breadboard which is then attached by a sheaf of probe leads to an old Tektronix logic analyser nearby. It looks a mess but atop it all is a 19" monitor showing video coming out of the PERQ. The machine is running and shows the diagnostic code 255 on a 7-segment display.

OK, so the #PERQ 2T2's disk system will work if:
* you let it warm up for a bit
* you have the logic analyser attached to U9 on the EIO board
* ...and running

Say, would anyone like to answer a newbie's gpg question? security.stackexchange.com/questions/28...

YouTube video by Neil Cicierega Cheers Intro (1982)

Even now I often sign off with "Cheers" while thinking about www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiJ2...

The EC2 instance is terminated and the AWS account cancelled. The site no longer links to larger files on Google Drive. Continuing to pull away from larger tech firms...

It's #retrocomputing for me. Nearly all of my old machines were built with science, engineering, or business in mind.

Top, the Inmos logo: the word Inmos to the right of a black circle with a grid of white squares inside. It's meant to recall a silicon wafer full of integrated circuit dies. Inmos was a legendary British semiconductor manufacturer who invented the transputer architecture, an innovative also-ran. Bottom: the logo for Imo's Pizza (an infamous St. Louis chain) next to an image of a circular pizza cut into squares, as Imo's does.

This is pretty funny to, like, maybe three people on Earth.

If you transport something that sorted right, speak of a six one one member contact to see staff or police the sea. We'll sort on it. Doesn't say it, zero six it, look British.

QL and IIGS as 8-bit gets close to calling the 5150 an 8-bit too, and then you're talking about the Model F...

I had to hook up a Gotek in this direction to get it to work with my PERQ. I'd be really curious to know if your wiring is different to mine: forum.vcfed.org/index.php?th...

Question for email self-hosters: what do you do with two email servers? Plenty of self-hosting docs say what to do with one, but what are some common small-site configurations for people who like two MX entries for their domain? It seems like it could make things more dependable, but in what form?

I post what from This is .

Had a Great Clown Pagliacci moment after searching "depraz mouse manual" and turning up www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tu...

A parody clone of the cover of a Ravensburger puzzle box, advertising a "Laserburger Puzzle" with "up to 570" pieces and "Crummy Laserburger Qualtiy [sic]". The puzzle claims to have "Arduousclick Technology", referencing the "Softclick Technology" of actual Ravensburger puzzles. The puzzle itself appears to be a halftone image of a bunch of potatoes, and helpfully the original potato image appears at the bottom of the box art alongside the text "it is potates".

After learning the true meaning of "we're not doing presents this Christmas", it was off to the makerspace to hastily laser-engrave and laser-cut jigsaw puzzles for everyone.