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• Post #3499717

  So hey, I kinda lost the rest of the month, there! I actually got these some time ago and I have all the parts, I just haven’t felt like putting them together. So let’s at least get started on that.

• Post #3305801

  I’m working on an MFM emulator board (or I will be, I swear, once I finish a project I’m doing for someone else…). I designed it to work with the JVC 26-pin interface used by some laptops. But I don’t have anything that uses that. So I uh… bought a laptop.

• Post #2644740

  I have acquired something very cool. A friend was buying some stuff on craigslist and the seller offered a discount on further items and forwarded some computer items to me. I got an ATX power supply and a fan, but I also spied THIS. A Triplett 630-NS Volt-Ohm-Milliammeter with the original manual and box!

• Post #2180424

  @dosnostalgic Looks like you can still get some Panasonic KX-P ribbons and Epson still sells dot matrix printers, so probably any of those are good. Personally I just got a new ribbon for my ImageWriter II that works great, but I wouldn’t recommend it as I just had to replace a power module on mine (apparently they tend to cook themselves).

• Post #1879021

  Well #Aprilcot is over, but we've still got some loose ends to tie up. I've got to actually use the 8089 for sprite blits now that I fixed the MAME bug, and I've got to build one of these MFM emulators and see if it even works. But all that might have to wait. I had wanted to participate again in the Tiny Tapeout demoscene competition, but I realized too late the deadline is very soon. I'd still like to try, though. I'm not gonna make a winner in 10 days,...

• Post #624790

  “It’s demoralizing to spend all day around people—ostensibly peers—and hearing them proclaim that they fundamentally don’t respect the thing you have devoted your professional life to.” This is such a good expression of how I feel about LLM coding agents and “AI” in general. I had started writing almost this exact article, but this is so much better than I would have written it. https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/you-dont-have-to/

• Post #195736

  I got a screwdriver and a good shop to recommend. This is a small local hardware store, one guy there. I ask for a narrow flat blade screwdriver and he shows me what they have on the rack. I find a 3/16” that looks it would work, but it has the usual trapezoidal head. I measure it and it’s almost exactly 1/4”, so I’m not sure it’ll fit. “You could just grind that off,” he offers. “Yeah, but I don’t have a grinder.” “Oh, you can use ours.” “Really!?” “Yeah, sure.” “Then I’ll take it!” He r...