Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/30
Retro computing is wildly popular, and with the rise of low cost single-board computers (SBCs for short), both Apple //e and ][+ emulators plus extension cards have proliferated, based on Raspberry Pi (or even their RP2040 microcontroller based Pico), ESP32 or predecessor ESP8266 microcontrollers and others.
Some links for my archive:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/30
Wow, 60 years after her birth, the original ELIZA Chatbot got resurrected after a re-discovered paper version ¹ of the SLIP and MAD based source code was found in the Joseph Weizenbaum archives: [Wayback/Archive] ELIZAGEN – ELIZA Reanimated
Back in 1965, ELIZA ran on top of CTSS on an IBM 7094. Nowadays, few of that hardware is still running, but luckily there are emulators.
Back in the days, a large percentage people chatting with ELIZA thought she was a real person. With the dwindling language proficiency, the rise in believe in alternative facts, and THE RISE OF USE IN ALL CAPS, likely that percentage has increased.
Steps to get started with ELIZA are at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – rupertl/eliza-ctss: The original ELIZA on an emulated CTSS environment, which carefully got assembled over the course of the last 2 months.
If you want to know about the process, be sure to read the
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/28
[Wayback/Archive] LEGO IDEAS – Turing Machine – Working Lego Computer
Please vote for it, as it will be a great gift not just for computing lovers but also as a learning opportunities.
Links:
Via
All three machines are cool devices, so lets continue with…
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/28
TL;DR: you can force opening a new Window over a new Tab, but not the other way around.
Background information: [Wayback/Archive] javascript – Open a URL in a new tab (and not a new window) – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/27
[Wayback/Archive] Design kledingrek SOOPL FASHION TROLLEY
Design kledingrekgrek van het merk SOOPL rijdt vanwege de grote wielen stabiel op ieder wegdek en over iedere drempel. De SOOPL FASHION TROLLEY is stabiel en kan eenvoudig (volledig) worden in- en uitgeklapt en heeft daarnaast een bijzonder fraai uiterlijk. De stevige kunststof verbindingen en aluminium buizen zorgen voor een relatief laag gewicht. De grote massieve wielen zijn voorzien van wielkasten en spatborden zodat de kleding niet vies wordt wanneer u in de regen rijdt. Daarnaast is het rek voorzien van uitschijfbare stangen aan de bovenzijde zodat de hangcapaciteit kan worden vergroot. De bodem is voorzien van een stoffen mat ter bescherming van kleding. De afmetingen van het SOOPL kledingrek zijn 90cm lang, 60cm diep en 160cm hoog. Het totale gewicht bedraagd 11,5 kg.Levertijd: 1-2 werkdagenArtikelnummer:
ZB1234Speciale prijs € 411,28 € 339,90 € 422,23
Fabrikant:
Tweedehands: [Wayback/Archive] ≥ Soopl reis trolley kledingrek fashion — Kledingrekken — Marktplaats
Query: [Wayback/Archive] Soopl kledingrek – Sök på Google
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/27
Voor mijn link-archief (het concept werkt nog steeds): [Wayback/Archive] Luis ✨ on Twitter: “Mensen zeggen wel eens dat internationaal met de trein reizen alleen is weggelegd voor mensen met veel geld, maar dat klopt niet helemaal. Draadje met goedkope bestemmingen met prijzen en hoe ze te boeken, allemaal voor in augustus 🧵”
Als draad: [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @LuisHeemstra on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/24
YouTube has diversified its content separating out YouTube Shorts and YouTube Music.
The main YouTube viewing experience has a few advantages over the other two experiences:
All below links have the same ID, but the ones with checkmarks can use all the above features whereas the ones with crosses cannot.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/23
Not my first BASIC (which was on calculators: The calculators that got me into programming (via: calculators : Algorithms for the masses – julian m bucknall)), but the first BASIC on a machine with a real keyboard was Applesoft BASIC on an Apple II:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/23
Quoting [Wayback/Archive] Kevin Beaumont: “The US Government has issued a…” – Cyberplace
The US Government has issued an executive order demanding employees snitch on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility initiatives by emailing:
DEIAtruth@opm.govJust in case you wanted an email address for paywalls, mailing lists etc.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/22
Many Markdown documents on GitHub have three dashes (---) at the top (and rendered a horizontal table displays).
I didn’t know this markdown construct, and it appears to be GitHub specific: it is a way to render YAML metadata (for instance used while blogging).
So I searched for [Wayback/Archive] three dashes table markdown – Google Search and found [Wayback/Archive] Viewing YAML Metadata in your Documents | The GitHub Blog.
Well, actually… Read the rest of this entry »
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