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History of the BBC TV Idents(bbc.com)
2 points by nickt 8h ago|0 comments
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by nickt 6d ago
Box. Amateur. Talk to me when you have a filing cabinet full of cables with bags labelled “SCSI”, “IEE-488 (Commodore)” and “DIN”. At least my past self was good enough to bag and label.
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by nickt 20d ago
In screen savers, scroll to the bottom - and click on the easy to miss "Show All" on the right side. You should see Afterglow in the expanded list.
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Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors(arstechnica.com)
7 points by nickt 23d ago|1 comments
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Paula's Floppy Controller, Part I(techtravels.org)
4 points by nickt 28d ago|0 comments
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Amimcp – let Claude work on your Amiga(github.com)
2 points by nickt 1mo ago|0 comments
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by nickt 2mo ago
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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The only cauldron ever found in a river in the British Isles(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by nickt 3mo ago|1 comments
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by nickt 4mo ago
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 operated a similar model of moving goods and passengers. h
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Modos Flow – A paper-like monitor for reading, writing, and focused work(crowdsupply.com)
11 points by nickt 4mo ago|0 comments
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by nickt 4mo ago
You should probably get a cheap IoT camera to keep an eye on that printer!
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by nickt 4mo ago
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_Sunday
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Britain Learned and Unlearned Nuclear(worksinprogress.co)
4 points by nickt 4mo ago|4 comments
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by nickt 5mo ago
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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Why I'll never give up my DVD collection(whathifi.com)
8 points by nickt 7mo ago|4 comments
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Electronicos Fantasticos(electronicosfantasticos.com)
2 points by nickt 8mo ago|0 comments
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by nickt 8mo ago
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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by nickt 8mo ago
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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by nickt 8mo ago
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:Sinclair-ZX81...
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The sub-zero lair of the most powerful computer(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by nickt 8mo ago|1 comments
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Explosively pumped flux compression generator(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by nickt 9mo ago|1 comments
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by nickt 9mo ago
Good job the Brits are asleep as they’d be cracking up at these comments.
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The Golden Age of Personal Computers – 80 Machines Reviewed (2023) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by nickt 9mo ago|0 comments
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WhatIFF?, a modern Amiga Guide magazine for creative Amiga users(whatiff.info)
4 points by nickt 9mo ago|0 comments
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by nickt 9mo ago
Not sure if you’re serious but reeks of “you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially”
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Cyberattack disrupts France's postal service and banking during Christmas rush(apnews.com)
4 points by nickt 9mo ago|0 comments
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by nickt 9mo ago
Like DCC (1992)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette
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by nickt 9mo ago
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 Dioxide cassettes to good quality transports, which took a long t
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by nickt 10mo ago
Then this one? https://www.generationamiga.com/2020/05/10/scala-series-its-...
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by nickt 10mo ago
I grew up in South Hylton where the Cretehawser was basically dumped near Claxheugh Rock (good luck pronouncing that if you’re not a Mackem!) Proper fun 70’s and 80’s adventure to be had getting on board at low tide. Can’t imagine the autho

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