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by scruss 29d ago
You could use alternative shells, though, and they weren't quite as painful. Bill Hawes's 'wsh' was rather nice.
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by scruss 4mo ago
S-100 went as far as 68020 and Unix clones, but you'd be at a dead end there
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by scruss 3y ago
Thing about the C65 is … what do you emulate? Since it only ever got to prototype stages, the original C65s that are out there run a bewildering array of slightly buggy systems. All have quite different capabilities. Was it supposed to have
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by scruss 3y ago
as someone with a visual processing disorder, this is like having a page scream at me. Repeatedly. Never do this
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by scruss 4y ago
You might have luck on the wayback machine. But some of the links are really, really old: [Inscribing a regular pentagon in a circle – and proving it]( https://web.archive.org/web/20001205213400/http://www
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by scruss 4y ago
Horizon was horrific. The spec was so old that the contract was with colonial favourites ICL, before they were fully renamed Fujitsu. Several postmasters committed suicide when the Royal Mail initiated fraud causes against them that were ca
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by scruss 5y ago
It's using CircuitPython, Adafruit's fork of MicroPython. The source is MIT-licensed, but the required credit is missing from the docs and distribution image.
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by scruss 5y ago
if you want to see how it's done in modern plotters/CNC, Bart Dring's [Grbl_ESP32]( https://github.com/bdring/Grbl_Esp32 ) is fairly easy to follow with good docs. I have one of Bart's plotters, as I
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by scruss 5y ago
didn't know about Engauge: thanks! I've always used [WebPlotDigitizer]( https://automeris.io/WebPlotDigitizer/ ), which doesn't require any installation
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by scruss 5y ago
and you guys finally got rid of the US survey foot - the bane of this Canadian's existence when working on big civil jobs in the states. We'll get you guys using proper units afore long
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by scruss 5y ago
HP-GL was always able to plot text labels and make graph data markers: it was meant for scientific graphs, after all. Later plotters added arc sectors and filled (hatched) polygons. All the clever optimization was handled by the host comput
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by scruss 5y ago
You can still make many HP and compatible laser printers speak HP-GL (well, HP-GL/2) through some arcane PJL commands. Fun fact: HP-GL is equally compatible with metric and US customary measure as it uses 1/40 mm as its base unit.
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by scruss 5y ago
the mailing address for Ferranti-Cetec was at Crewe Toll. I have a vague memory of the Ferranti-Cetec office being further west, though, but I could be wrong
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by scruss 5y ago
I'm always amazed when (or how) an article of mine shows up here. I suspect it came about through this twitter exchange regarding a mystery device that came with someone's Calcomp plotter: https://twitter.com/artan
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by scruss 7y ago
Hey - I wrote this article. Kind of surprised how popular it is; think I've had more hits today than I had all of last year. To me, the 4 GB Raspberry Pi 4 is quite an acceptable desktop. Yes, I could have a Pinebook, but they don&#x27
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by scruss 8y ago
You might not, but 90 people using other languages might appreciate it. That's a pretty good purpose. Substituting ᱁𑛂೩᮴୫᱆᥍𑇘᱙꘠ for 1234567890, though: that would definitely be considered malicious. Even if it does work in Perl 6.
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by scruss 13y ago
I wrote the article. I'm guessing not everyone on HN is a huge fan of “Strictly Ballroom”, as the title is a key quote for dance movie otaku. It was also a weak joke about testing for random numbers; I'm imagining a little subrout