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nickt

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About nickt

Grumpy Ops Bloke. Desert Driver. Many old computers.

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    The should give a one year window and pop round on some random afternoon. Bet they’d look a bit more like a space where work gets done then.

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    At the time, Liverpool and Manchester were proper cities, and while smaller towns, the railway that opened five years before this one that connected Stockton and Darlington clearly…

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    Comment #48189258

    You should probably get a cheap IoT camera to keep an eye on that printer!

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    Comment #48086162

    In the UK (and a few other places) it’s “Mothering Sunday”, the day you honour the church where you were baptised, or your mother church. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothering_Su…

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    I love this one. I thought it was old when I first read it, and today I realised that was 36 years ago!

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    Comment #46851142

    I’m optimistic too, but I can’t help wonder if the post scarcity world, like the future, won’t be evenly distributed.

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    I was around in the 80’s in the UK and this was a real thing: https://newsthump.com/2026/01/28/uk-on-verge-of-return-to-he...

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    The ZX81 had that too, at least the UK ones did. The keyboard itself, er, takes some getting used to. But they are a little cheaper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81#/media/File:…

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    Comment #46441687

    Good job the Brits are asleep as they’d be cracking up at these comments.

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    Comment #46371475

    Not sure if you’re serious but reeks of “you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially”

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    Comment #46201658

    Like DCC (1992)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette

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    It’s amazing to see this. How good are the transports in these modern units? I seem to remember when cassettes died the first time, the whole ecosystem went away, from Chrome Dioxi…

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    Then this one? https://www.generationamiga.com/2020/05/10/scala-series-its-...