Trammell Hudson @th@v.st

Waiting for the bridge, again.

CALL ALL THE FUNCTIONS!

DIGITAL-8-16-F DOUBLE PRECISION SINE:

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/   T
/    I
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https://trmm.net/Papertapes #retrocomputing

It's time for Half Life: Alyx!

Emergency exit to where?

Now that we're all video conference, all the time, @yaelwrites's writeup on the privacy concerns of using the commercial chat tools is very timely. https://onezero.medium.com/slack-zoom-google-hangouts-are-your-remote-work-apps-spying-on-you-cf1e33809cf7

1969 Tektronix white paper explains how a mouse works. #retrocomputing https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_tektronixcormationDisplayConceptsJan69_5521470/page/n69/mode/2up

Apollo 11 Øperator console with a slashed Ø instead of 0.

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Day 5: Improvised a coffee maker with a tea strainer and a beaker.

NELIAC might also be the original "braces programming language" since it used them to delimit blocks in 1958, nine years before BCPL.

The 1962 report on the NELIAC programming language seems to be the only place on the Internet that ever called # "Hexi sign".

We almost had "nonaseconds" for kilomegacycles per tick. https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_datamation_16208131/page/n11/mode/2up

5000 word stack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_memory

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Thinking about holding my next conference call on 14.070MHz PSK31 and video chat via SSTV.

Unicode 13 adds Creative Commons symbols! This toot licensed under U+1F16D https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-13.0/U130-1F100.pdf

In the grim cyberpunk future of Spice world, there are only the Spice Girls. https://youtube.com/watch?v=9wfpXI5PKlw

Univac Math-Matic programmers are the original 10x engineers. https://archive.org/details/UNIVACMathMaticBrochure/page/n3/mode/2up

Although the wings did get smaller before they settled on the new logo.

Where we're going, we won't need roads. Rails, yes, but not roads.