Alan @EtchedPixels@linuxrocks.online

The disconnect between generations is sometimes really funny. Kato (big model train maker) and U Tokyo have released a booklet aimed at getting more kids into railway modelling and related skills. It's a paper booklet you order online and send a stamped addressed envelope for. I know its a space mostly occupied by old people but I can't even begin to imagine *how* it got to that state without someone saying 'Umm.... hold on what about a PDF file'
#railroad #railway #ngauge

#retrocomputing #8bit #z80

Frizeflink on retrobrewcomputers "For January 2nd 2020 I will take oldcomputers-ddns.org offline for personal reasons and will not open it again."

So grab anything you need now

I feel old. My stepdaughter just asked what the point of something was because 'all you can do with it is phone people'

How come you can't plan walls on a wall planner ?

We have a group that distributes donated new toys to needy kids for Christmas. Amazon sell kids bagpipes. Oh the temptation #donoevil

#Kubernetes is like #git. It's a neat solution used almost entirely by people who have no idea how it actually works.

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/nov/25/match2019/

Happy thoughts.. because of the way my holidays fall today is my last Friday before I retire and escape #retirement #happythoughts

#apple being decidedly post-truth

"Apple does not take any actions to block consumers from seeking out or using repair shops that offer a broader range of repairs than those offered by Apple's authorised technicians."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50505342

"Despite initially losing the case last year, Apple is continuing its legal pursuit against the owner of a small, independent iPhone repair shop in Norway. "

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9kxzpy/apple-is-still-trying-to-sue-the-owner-of-an-independent-iphone-repair-shop-louis-rossmann-henrik-huseby

So you can seek out repair shops freely, but repair shops are targets

The standard of web design spammers is really falling

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"I'm a web developer and I came across your website and think it's fantastic but there are some elements where you might need some help. I specialize in "insert whatever here". If this is of interest to you just click reply"

Decisions decisions. Is it better to wire a 65C816 up for 24bit addressing or just use 16bits, saving all the mux crap and use a bankable memory card. The latter avoids the problems with the brain dead stack and DP in the low 64K limits. #6502 #65c816 #8bit #8bit

Retro-boards need retro docs. The 6303 RC2014 CPU card now has a manual - in daisywheel font, with bad photocopy effects including misaligned pages and curvature. Fun with #gimp

#retrocomputing #rc2014 #6303 #8bit

Interesting that #cpu newcomer #Nuvia has a logo very carefully shaped to look like NUMA. Not sure it's a good name globally though. In the UK Nuvia is a nuclear company heavily involved in nuclear waste cleanups...
Still if anyone can shake up the CPU world they must be good contenders.

25 years ago - the Connectix Quickcam

#retrocomputing

Today on the project list - the joy of bitbanging a PS/2 keyboard in RC2014. But hey - it works really well. With TMS9918A video, a keyboard, a mouse, sound and joystick it's almost achieved home computer status 8)