daverol
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Comment · 4 months ago
I'm still nostalgic for the times when I had to enter the bootloader using the keys on front panel of the PDP-11 to then loaded the OS from paper tape. (not to mention multi pass compilers using paper tape between the phases...)
Comment · 5 months ago
Who can forget the CEO Francis J. Sellinger and his 'Taste My Schlitz' commercials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NPxny7no4c
Comment · 7 months ago
Where will all those Meta Avatars go? Is there a retirement home in the Metaverse?
Comment · 8 months ago
When I want to motivate myself I look at this https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-scariest-climate-plot-...
Comment · 8 months ago
more context here https://c20society.org.uk/news/if-not-now-when-c20-renews-34...
Comment · 9 months ago
I have fond memories from my Acorn days of staying in the 'typewriter' hotel on visits to Ivrea - it became derelict, but perhaps it has been revived...
https://zoningthegardenstate.wordpress.com/2020/10/04/the-pr...