Instantix

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by Instantix 2mo ago
When you think of it, Apple (and so Jobs) have really missed the mark with the Apple III. The Apple II (1977) was really good with its expandability capacities, its keyboard, its monitor, its floppies drive and its good installed base. It w
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by Instantix 9mo ago
And then Commodore made the A3000 not high enough to take the Video Toaster. How to shoot yourself in the foot...
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by Instantix 10mo ago
Not sure all C64 were made equal. Perhaps emulators are based on C64 which had really lavish colours.
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by Instantix 1y ago
3090 second hand can be found at something like $600.
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by Instantix 1y ago
Yeah, 1972 - "Nord-5 was Norsk Data's first 32-bit machine and was claimed to be the first 32-bit minicomputer". The Wikipedia record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord-5
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by Instantix 2y ago
I was a Casio guy, having the fx-850p. It was a very nice object I enjoyed a lot but HP ones had their own touch for sure. Talking about design, some of the Nintendo Game & Watch series were particularly lovely. It's the first &quo
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by Instantix 2y ago
The advantage of the C64 tape recorder was it reliability and the motor being pilot by the computer. With personal tape recorders there was a lot of problems due to heads miss aligned.
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by Instantix 2y ago
In 2024 doing AI @home is clearly a new exciting thing but it require a good budget to be pleasant to use.
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by Instantix 2y ago
Rick Dickinson, the Sinclair designer guy, was simply a genius. It helped a lot for the success, the ZX81 and the Spectrum being just beautiful objects. On a side note, I think one of the most iconic manual cover for a computer is the ZX81
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by Instantix 2y ago
It's me or they did the first karaoke here? In any case the first @home karaoke for sure.
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by Instantix 2y ago
Projects describing the real world. A car have a motor which have pistons. But can be a mess for inappropriate projects for sure.
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by Instantix 2y ago
It can be very useful at the start of a project to synchronize everyone but the over use of it can clearly be a problem.
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by Instantix 3y ago
On the other hand we have the proof that an Airbus can hit another plane when landing and deliver everyone fine.
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by Instantix 3y ago
I agree for an ideal world but the problem is often the wall of the reality i.e. TIME. Levelling the playing field takes time and it's not doable when you have to deliver now, not in a month. So playing at a level sustainable by everyo
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by Instantix 3y ago
And perhaps the code was bad just by using a functional approach which nobody master. QED
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by Instantix 3y ago
Are you sure those "smartest developers" would be still smart if they have to maintain someone else abstract code? Easy to memorize layers of abstraction when it follow your own logic and you build it step by step.
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by Instantix 4y ago
Thanks for this post, having a VCS at the time, I was aware of the existence of this cartridge but never get a chance to had one. Today I can finally have a taste of it. What was great with all those Atari cartridges, was the illustrations.
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by Instantix 4y ago
Sometime frameworks are a real help, sometime using it is just making thing bloated and it's hard-linking the future to someone who have the knowledge of the framework.
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by Instantix 4y ago
I didn't know that transputer were made for the Amiga. Some years ago I did some research about the Atari one and the conclusion was: inefficacy. The serial link linking each transputer being a bottleneck. And more transputers you add,
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by Instantix 5y ago
The Spectrum was first a very beautiful object thanks to Rick Dickinson. And, as a side note, he proved with the Spectrum Next, he still have all his talent. Frankly, to have this object at home in the 80 was classy! A work of art. And for