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I'd bet on #2 myself. The imagery likely reveals something about sensor systems that is still secret.

I've got BIG plans for my Equifax payout. I'm making a list of all the things you can still buy for $0.27 these days.

Check out QB64: https://www.portal.qb64.org

Yes. XBASIC, QB64, and various BASICs specific to old computers I still use, like MBASIC on my Osborne 1.

I didn't hit a paywall, myself. I don't have any accounts that would give me access, either. Though Medium will usually block after some number of articles in a month.

Closer to $1100 per kg for Falcon Heavy.

Join us at the Vintage Computer Forum. Technical assistance on tap for keeping older computers operational. Troubleshooting assistance, parts supplier recommendations, etc. http://…

So the "pre-CRT Oscilloscope" is an oscillograph. When I came in the door in instrumentation work, they'd moved to self-developing photo paper, so we got to use the former darkroom…

Good question. It's a different operator, +. (plus dot).

Some excellent points made about control and productivity whether you're an emacs user or not.

When I use NewSpeak on Facebook to make a point, they consistently flag it as 'spam'.

This is a multifaceted question--there's a whole toolchain behind any choice of hobby CNC beside the machine itself. I have a Microcarve A4 that I outfitted with some over-specced …

I can't help but wish we'd seen where the rapping Alexander Hamilton's thoughts were going. But of course I'd think that, having been a wobbler on the Firewood Test. ;)

This is a fun period piece from the 70s.

I'll have a buckling spring keyboard for that hologram computer, myself.

Not with present processes and materials. And thermal effects on any materials would mean you're going to need a development program with a very limited user base at the end. Still…

Except for the 'wear' part, or use while wearing, or software and applications. But--small battery-powered computer usable in class with slightly more hacker aplomb than a cellphon…

Good article. Yggdrasil and SLS are worth a spin, too. They represent the first packaged versions of Linux many users got running with. After Yggdrasil went away, it was a while be…

I got the Unicomp with the trackstick mouse for quick mouse actions, then I reach over for the real mouse for longer uses of it, but I'm with you on wishing for a tenkeyless. Toshi…

This article relies on apocryphal data at best, and seems largely to have been formed by the author's vague impressions. It's a waste of time to read, and not worth refuting in det…

"With this release we return to GNU. For just a little while we dreamt we were tigers. But we are back in the herd, back to a healthy diet of fresh green free grass." With free gra…

I started with a chicken-wire corner reflector and a shortwave receiver back in the 70s. Great fun, especially when clouds block photons from my other telescopes.

I can't help but wonder if this data would inform lunar ISRU prospecting. As the Moon itself is short in heavy metals, protoplanetary bodies large enough to differentiate may have …

This is a fun experiment, with well documented steps followed by the author. It'd certainly be a good example for getting started with hacking the ESP8266 even if someone isn't int…

This is nice, but I still want a "Shibboleet" switch where a single action sets lots of settings to what a developer is likely to want. Then I can focus on a few deltas, rather tha…