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40th Lisa anniversary last week: download Apple Lisa OS Software version 3.1 source code files

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/01/30

I missed this because there is no RSS feed for [Wayback/Archive] Art of Code – CHM* (there is an email [Wayback/Archive] Art of Code Subscription, but [Wayback/Archive] Email is so last century • The Register).

Anyway: the Apple Lisa turned 40 last week and to celebrate that, the Lisa OS Software got released to the public through the Computer History Museum. That is: after you accept the [Wayback/Archive] Download Apple Lisa source code files: APPLE ACADEMIC LICENSE AGREEMENT Lisa OS Software version 3.1, or just download [Wayback] d1yx3ys82bpsa0.cloudfront.net/source/lisa-source.zip.

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Some more Compuserve memories

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/01/20

Some years ago, I wrote CompuServe’s forums, which still exist, are finally shutting down on 20171215.

Getting older and various people passing away made me relive some of the CompuServe memories where I used to be [Wayback/Archive] “100013,1443”.

Semi-offline access software like TapCIS and later OzCIS and OzWin helped lessening the bill of mainly getting to the CompuServe forums BPROGA that hosted Turbo Pascal (and later PASCAL for Borland Pascal plus Delphi), BORGMBH (Borland Germany)  and PCVENB (for Turbo Power Software: a back then – large supplier of tools and libraries – later acquired by a casino software company) learned to know a few TeamB members and other (now) oldies like Neil J. Rubenking.

TeamB members coming to mind: Pat Ritchey, Kurt B. Barthelmess, Rudy Velthuis, David Nottage, Steve Fischkoff, Nick Hodges, Steve Schafer, Paul A. LeBlanc and others (I wish someone had a full list of past members).

Some links:

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steven ”italian elon musk” monacelli on Twitter: “Master thread of recent suspensions of left leaning accounts under Elon Musk:” / Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/16

For my link archive:

[Wayback/Archive] steven ”italian elon musk” monacelli on Twitter: “Master thread of recent suspensions of left leaning accounts under Elon Musk:” / Twitter

Oh, and there was this Mastodon fear from uncle Elmo [Wayback/Archive]:

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Thinking about you today PaweÅ‚

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/13

Today it is 5 years ago that PaweÅ‚ passed away. For me it is hard to believe that I’m still around and this post feels like yesterday: R.I.P. PaweÅ‚ GÅ‚owacki – you will be dearly missed, not just in the Delphi community

Thinking about you today Paweł!

–jeroen

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Isotopp’s classic IT book collection

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/09/26

This is too cool!

PSTN, ISDN, data communication, networking, Sendmail, Postfix, Exim, C, C++, Unix, Linux you name ancient but relevant stuff and it is there.

  1. [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Ich hab hier diese …… “
  2. [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Exotische Sprachen sind exotisch. Aus dem Postscript-Buch hab ich immerhin noch eine Signature bekommen. … “

Some pictures below the signature.

The isotopp and PostScript explanation is in my post How isotopp became the online handle of Kristian Köhntopp.

Via: [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Weird Books: … “

–jeroen

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History of ASCII Art

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/09/01

Geocities is long dead, but luckily a lot has been archived: [Wayback] Archive.is: History of ASCII Art with a very comprehensive history ranging from ancient old hand painted art to contemporary computer made illustrations.

Via: [Wayback/Archive.is] ASCII art: The roots of ASCII art

--jeroen

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The end of an era: after more than 25 years, XS4ALL/AS3265 is leaving AMS-IX

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/30

Via [Wayback/Archive] Nick Bouwhuis on Twitter: “😢 “ (with OCR text below) via [Wayback/Archive] Kirsten Verdel on Twitter: “:(“:

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A twitter call to say nice things about technology sparked interesting threads

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/27

A while ago [Archive.is] Adam Jacob on Twitter: “Let’s say nice things about technology today. I’ll start. If it wasn’t for @lkanies and @puppetize, there is no way we would have been able to adapt as an industry to the rise of the cloud. Quote tweet me with your own.” sparked some interesting threads.

First posts are below; click on them to see the full threads.

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GitHub – bbbradsmith/flompy: DOS floppy disk dumper

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/26

Need one day when archiving old floppies: [WayBack] GitHub – bbbradsmith/flompy: DOS floppy disk dumper

Via: [WayBack] Brad Smith on Twitter: “So I wrote a floppy disk dumper program for DOS. I dunno if this is really a very useful thing, but it’s open-source at least! 💾⚡🖥 “

Full thread at [WayBack] Thread by @bbbradsmith: “Hrm… why doesn’t the floppy controller status register have its non-DMA bit set, even though I’ve used a specify command to set it… and […]”:

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Why 42 ?

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/11

Basically: just because.

[Archive.is] Why 42 ? – Google Groups where Douglas Adams gave the answer himself:

The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an
ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations,
base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk,
stared into the garden and thought ’42 will do’ I typed it out. End of story.Best,Douglas Adams

The full thread is a nice read (:

Via many sources, including [WayBack] Why 42? Reported wrong, again and again, but … The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number,… – Jürgen Christoffel – Google+ which has a comment pointing to the below brilliant video.

–jeroen

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