Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/14
I need this one day: Audio Tape Recovery – Saving the Tapes
Recording done on an IBM ThinkPad X30 using Gnome Sound Recorder, post processing on an IBM ThinkPad X200 using Audacity.
–jeroen
via Will Hill commenting on Watch how old technology can make a comeback with trends, product quality and nostalgia. This is the last cassette factory in the world and the machines… – Jan Wildeboer – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/31
A few months ago was my first ever presence on IRC wich started like this:
[13:45] bear with me: after BITNET relay chat, I've totally skipped the IRC thing, so [13:46] * jeroenp_ is IRC n00b and wonders if netiquette is roughly the same as in the mid 1990s (: [13:46] jeroenp_: I don't think it changed a lot... [13:46] Cool: /me works on IRC too (: [13:47] Anyone having time to help me with `zypper dup` on Tumbleweed indicating `python3-urllib3-1.16-1.1.noarch requires python(abi) = 3.5` ?
I will post later on my own chat history (including BITNET Relay conference system on BITNET/EARN).
This post is just to mention a few keywords of Let’s have a chat – a taxonomy and some context(This is a text I wrote for work, but it contains nothing work specific and I might as well drop it here.… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
Kristian Köhntopp now basically uses his G+ as a blog (blog.koehntopp.de is now defunct) with a great set of collections.
I’ve kept my blog as I find G+ very hard to search for content and a “bla bla site:wiert.me” for me often is the fastest way to find something back that interests me.
Hence the keywords below on his post Let’s have a chat – a taxonomy and some context.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/28
A few pieces of Delphi compiler history:
Most notably, the Object Pascal/Delphi compiler is written in mostly C with a smattering of C++, the editor kernel (sans display rendering) and debugger engine (process control/symbol table management) were written in C++. All of which I’ve worked on throughout my 24+ years on that team.
The 16bit compiler was written in pure assembler. The current compiler is written in C. It was derived from an Amiga 68000 Turbo Pascal compatible compiler. It’s never been written in Object Pascal.
That being said, there was an effort several years ago to completely rework/re-architect the compiler. That was done in OP. It just barely got to the “hello world” stage before it was set aside.
Source: The Oracle at Delphi: Set in my ways [WayBack]
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/09
Trip down memory lane:
at the time of the videos release (1984/85), this was completely state of the art – I got my C64 in 1983 and an Amiga in 1986, so this is 8 bit level of tech in home computing time.
The video has been the work of Gavin Blair and Ian Pearson, canadian animators which needed the money and a test run for their animation software. What Gavin and Ian actually wanted to make is Reboot, a pretty groundbreaking early full-render animation series.
http://reboot.wikia.com/wiki/Gavin_Blair
http://reboot.wikia.com/wiki/Ian_PearsonFun fact: These people made https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie_in_the_Nutcracker and many other Render-Barbie-Movies.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/08
50 years ago the first of an amazing series got broadcasted.
Space the final frontier.
Original series: Star Trek – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Image source: tumbex – adorkable-mandi.tumblr.com : #Star Trek
via: Source: Space……. :) For those who don’t get it… – “Space.. the final fronti…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/19
I found this stone game on the bank of the Ahr river somewhere behind the Ruland hotel in Altenahr around 50°30’58.8″N, 6°59’27.9″E.
Since I didn’t know what it was, I asked my G+ friends “:Anybody who knows what kind of game this is?” and got quick answers:
The game is thousands of years old and this stone will last for quite a while…
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/16
From a while ago:
David Ratnasabapathy: The VIC-20 programmer’s manual was the best intro to programming I’ve ever read. I’d love to find a copy online, the new generation could use it.
+Isaac Kuo that book is wealth. I loved marginal explanations that expanded on the main text, it’s a tactic I use in my own class notes.
The manual was called Personal Computing on the VIC 20 and it is online! This is amazing! Ah, memories.
http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/VIC-20%20Programmer’s%20Reference%20Guide.pdf
+Tomasz Machalski there’s a motherload here:
http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/
Including VIC-20 User’s Manual.pdf
http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/VIC-20%20User’s%20Manual.pdf
and VIC-20 Programmer’s Reference Guide.pdf
http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/VIC-20%20Programmer’s%20Reference%20Guide.pdf
Jeroen Wiert Pluimers:+David Ratnasabapathy thanks a lot!
Downloaders: that site is slow. Not as slow as the New Horizons uplink, nor as slow as 1980s modems, but be prepared for some serious wait time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem#The_Smartmodem_and_the_rise_of_BBSs
Note that the wayback machine has them cached:
- http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/
- http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/VIC-20%20Programmer’s%20Reference%20Guide.pdf
- http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/VIC-20%20User’s%20Manual.pdf
- http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/VIC-20%20Programmer’s%20Reference%20Guide.pdf
–jeroen
via It’s our third birthday! What better present than the VIC-20 [1] (“A Real… [WayBack]
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/10
something like: 100 PRINT “&F2&B&H3&W2Hello, world!”would select font #2, bold, with triple height and double width, and render “Hello!” on the high-res screen
Source: The Codeless Code: Ancient code – hand coded (on paper) 6502 assembly!
via: 6502 assemblerbeen there, done that – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/05
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/03
Chris Osborn was finally able to open up his 1980s Smith Corona Memory Correct 400 Messenger and replace the fuse, enabling him to do letter quality printing over over the parallel port (and hopefully the serial port soon too).
Cool!
Sources:
–jeroen
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