Post #3323887
2026-06-15 04:08 UTC
Replies (30)
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@jwz@mastodon.social 2026-06-15 06:10
@mwichary@mastodon.online Back in my day we programmed with a paperclip, a nine volt battery, and a steady hand.
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@mostol@social.coop 2026-06-15 04:10
@mwichary@mastodon.online ooh, these are lovely photos, too. The way the yellow bounces off the grey…
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@michaelgemar@cosocial.ca 2026-06-15 04:16
@mwichary@mastodon.online So you use the yellow pegs to create one dot matrix character at a time? I love the “QUICK BROWN FOX” setting. Does “PROG SEQUENCE” produce a King Crimson riff? And I like gear that has a whole panel section for “DISTORTION”
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@lenary@types.pl 2026-06-15 04:20
@mwichary@mastodon.online oooh is this reusing pin matrices that also got used on synths? What are they originally for?
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@kfogel@kfogel.org 2026-06-15 04:21
@mwichary@mastodon.online This is actually how I write all my code. But because I'm manipulating the pins in Emacs, I manage to keep up with people who have real keyboards.
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@rotopenguin@mastodon.social 2026-06-15 04:29
@mwichary@mastodon.online you sunk my battleship
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@ollicle@mastodon.social 2026-06-15 04:34
@mwichary@mastodon.online needs some ships!
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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems 2026-06-15 04:52
@mwichary@mastodon.online, 8-bit telegraph codes? Now that's curious. Though it's a test generator, so perhaps it's just intended to support arbitrary sequences.
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@scottjenson@social.coop 2026-06-15 04:55
@mwichary@mastodon.online HALLT?
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@Peace@mstdn.ca 2026-06-15 05:16
@mwichary@mastodon.online “Hokey Smokes Bullwinkle” ! Did that belong to Rick Wakeman ? 😄
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@dg3hda@aschaffenburg.social 2026-06-15 05:18
@mwichary@mastodon.online who needs this if you have solder and diodes
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@cmdrSprocket@mathstodon.xyz 2026-06-15 05:36
@mwichary@mastodon.online Now that's tactile!
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@visionalfreeman@mastodon.social 2026-06-15 05:41
@mwichary@mastodon.online looks like a synthesizer.
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@calvin@fedi.sphericalcow.space 2026-06-15 05:41
@mwichary@mastodon.online you sunk my battleship!
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@kingmoth@mastodon.social 2026-06-15 06:07
@mwichary@mastodon.online Keyboards was always overrated …. And pretentious too, with all those keys and taking so much space. A desperate scream for intentions 😒
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@pixelambacht@typo.social 2026-06-15 06:42
@mwichary@mastodon.online Those pins *must* have a fascinating name. Or were they called just "pins"?
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@Petermid@mastodon.nl 2026-06-15 07:00
@mwichary@mastodon.online but… aren’t these keys you stick in a board? 🤔
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@vbaeten@mastodon.social 2026-06-15 07:18
@mwichary@mastodon.online I like the font on this. Do you by any chance know which one it is?
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@lonelyautomata@mastodon.social 2026-06-15 07:21
@mwichary@mastodon.online oh. First thing I thought was "I'm going to murder the asshole who shoves cigarette buts in the cooling exhaust holes"
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@praetor@mstdn.social 2026-06-15 07:25
@mwichary@mastodon.online hex encoding?
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@cielak@mastodon.social 2026-06-15 07:27
@mwichary@mastodon.online My faourite part of this are the two rows for spare pins. Such a nice touch for lossless pin storage.
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@ahltorp@mastodon.nu 2026-06-15 07:44
@mwichary@mastodon.online Both telegraph key emulation and V.24! Because I guess that’s what V24 means.
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@kizu@front-end.social 2026-06-15 08:15
@mwichary@mastodon.online *squints* Is this a 2d multi-thumb range input? *summons @utilitybend@front-end.social*
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@juergen@chaos.social 2026-06-15 09:53
@mwichary@mastodon.online HALLO according to ITA2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code#ITA2
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@acb@mastodon.social 2026-06-15 10:40
@mwichary@mastodon.online Didn’t David Bowie play one of those?
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@GreenSkyOverMe@ohai.social 2026-06-15 12:30
@mwichary@mastodon.online #ALT4ME
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@StorHaj@blahaj.social 2026-06-15 13:05
@mwichary@mastodon.online Hm... Do the manuals have a section on "Building character"? :blobhaj_thonk:
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@chrisinoakland@techhub.social 2026-06-15 15:30
@mwichary@mastodon.online is that a BTLSHP keyboard?
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@meercat0@mastodon.social 2026-06-15 21:19
@mwichary@mastodon.online is that really a thing?
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@f4grx@chaos.social 2026-06-16 18:34
@mwichary@mastodon.online you wouldnt download a 9600 8N1