Russell Davis

YouTube video by The Centre for Computing History "There were no assemblers..." - Sophie Wilson and Robert Catherall - ARM at 40 anniversary, Talk 3

You must watch this! The early history of ARM by Sophie Wilson, one of the co-creators of the ARM processor.
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Noone ever sees hardcopies coming.

Buying stationery and using stationery are two completely different hobbies*



*saw somewhere but I forgot where

that's them. my brain had gone on vacation and couldn't even move my hand to pickup my mug just now

There was someone on twitter/x before the downfall who seemed to buy up and fix what seemed to be every dragon 32/64/........... in existence. they'd probably be able to help if i could remember who it was.

It's a web of crazy

16M views · 227K reactions | Solving the Chopstick GRIP Problem #chopsticks #americanchopsticks #chopstickgrip | Allen Pan Solving the Chopstick GRIP Problem #chopsticks #americanchopsticks #chopstickgrip

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Bara Brith I have a particular fondness for Bara Brith, the traditional Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread. My late sister Thomasina lived and worked in Wales, and my first taste of it came courtesy of her next door...

#RecipeOfTheDay is Bara Brith, that wonderful Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread, which I recommend eating so thickly spread with butter you can see your teeth marks in it when you take a bite (what the Danes refer to as tandsmør)! www.nigella.com/recipes/bara...

If Gizmo (1 of our cats) needs an x-ray (he does) is that a CAT scan?

British Train Departures As They Should Be Viewed The first generation of real-time train information screens for British railways came in the form of suspended color CRTs in familiar rounded fiberglass housings. They were a ubiquitous sight acros…

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I'm getting quite good at telling jokes about bedding. Even my wife finds them funny.

It's all in duvet you tell 'em

LEGO Releases Its First Ever $1,000 Set - But Is It Worth The Cost? What's our verdict on LEGO's $1000 UCS Death Star?

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Just curious but what's currently the "best" meshtastic raspberry pi hat (or usb dongle) to turn a raspberry pi into a meshtastic base station?

Also is there a better/more comprehensive map of meshtastic nodes/basestations as meshmap.net seems to show that brooklyn is a bit of a meshtastic desert

No we didn't. They didn't turn up so we have no idea when they'll be here to flip the switches and turn the valves

Will we get the Gas turned back on today? They were supposed to come to turn hook the meters back up after the pipes were all replaced and walls put back up yesterday btw 10am and 6pm but at 5:55pm they rescheduled it to today between noon and 6pm.


#WaitingForGasot

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Classic Corner: Three Days of the Condor Sydney Pollack's Watergate-era spy picture is a series of fascinating contradictions and none-too-subtle historical references.

'Three Days of the Condor' hit theaters on this day in 1975. It was one of the all-time great conspiracy thrillers (and RIP Robert Redford obvi):

Apparently i'm a pillock.

Just took Gizmo to the vets as he's got a very runny nose and lots of sneezing and my suggestion that maybe Gizmo was allergic to mice was met with 2 vets, 3 nurses, 2 receptionists and my son stopped laughing I was told i'm a pillock

:)

Apart from the stranger things bit a standard night at the swinging sporren or black dog in oadby

Interesting fact about Prestel.

The person who shut it down (Clive Fedida) was the son of the person who created it. (Sam Fedida)

There was definitely at least one that AT&T were involved with as that's where I met my now wife 1st and she was in a room in the AT&T Manhattan HQ when we chatted :)

I believe the main company that ran it was based in Montreal but AT&T either owned part of it or supplied a lot of the network hw

I met my now wife on a US based* Minitel system.

*AT&T were involved somehow and some of the employees from the Manhattan HQ were part-time "moderators" on the chat part

2a/2 which also explains why the actual BASIC interpreter part of the roms was very TRS80 Level2 BASICish

i'm sure they were partaking of some interesting substances because of the floating point line numbers :) and the very crippled VDU statement

He then wrote the roms in 6 weeks on a TRS80 model3 before the hardware was anything other than the schematics 2/2

best "writing roms" story i ever heard was Davis Jansons and his then girlfriend Sue sitting on the floor of their (i believe on a narrow boat) living room floor surrounded by piles of manuals from the beeb, speccy, commie64, oric,... deciding what to put into the Camputers Lynx BASIC roms 1/2

depending on what i/we were porting we used trs80 model3's, sanyo mbc3000dd's, olivetti's or at&t 3b1's however what i/we were porting was business and accounting s/w rather than games and writing roms for devices before the hardware was ready.

heh just spent an hour looking for a forum post i read earlier.

couldn't find it as it was an email not a forum post

doh! :)

I just published the first release of my @circuitpython.org Z Machine emulator for the @adafruit.com Fruit Jam. It can run #Zork and other version 3 #zmachine games. Works with Fruit Jam OS too. Download the release here:
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