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Nachdem wir im Januar '24 ja schon den Sourcecode von #Gemini (dem echten, nicht dem Google-Rotz) veröffentlichen konnten gibt's jetzt auch noch den von Gemini2, den @jreschke von der Platte seines alten TTs retten konnte.
https://github.com/gereons/Gemini2
Enjoy!
#atariST #RetroComputing #VintageComputing #ComputerHistory #Atari
#computerhistory
I love computer history, and I’m about 50 pages into a book I came across about computer shareware.
But OOF! The author writes facts, dates, and events like a school history book rather than telling a compelling story.
It’s like he’s making an Everything bagel.
1/2
VCF East 2025 Recap – Event Highlights, Exhibits, and Video Collection
#VCFEast2025 #VintageComputing #RetroComputing #InfoAgeMuseum #VCFEast #ComputerHistory #BBS #ConsignmentRoom #TechEvent #WallNJ #VCFVideos #c256foenix
https://theoasisbbs.com/vcf-east-2025-recap-event-highlights-exhibits-and-video-collection/?feed_id=2755&_unique_id=67f9159bee67c
Hey there, fellow retro-tech nerds! The @mediaarchaeologylab has posted its open call for practitioners-in-residence in the lab for the next season, which begins in September. Submit your proposal by May 15!
Please boost for reach.
https://mediaarchaeologylab.ghost.io/practitioner-in-residence-open-call/
The theme for the 2025/2026 residency is Counter Computing: Alternative Imaginaries.
Lab director Lori Emerson describes it this way: "We are interested in any form of artistic and/or scholarly practice that engages counter-computational practices, such as glitching, hacking, tinkering, queering, subverting, (un)making and (re)imagining. Through such experimentation, we encourage you to explore how our relation to (and imagination of) technology can be remade to envision alternative pasts, presents and futures."
The lab is asking interested parties to submit a proposal for an up-to-4-week residency that includes full access to the lab and its resources, and logistical support. Residents are expected to produce a public lecture, demo, video, performance, or exhibition as part of the residency. Examples of previous technical reports can be seen at https://mediaarchaeologylab.com/projects
Get to it, my peeps! We'll see you in the lab starting in the fall.
![An advertisement for BASF 3.5" Micro Diskettes that features a dynamic and colorful design. The image includes a hand holding a BASF 3.5" floppy disk, a red box of BASF 3.5\" diskettes, a hammer, a coffee mug, and a crumpled piece of paper, all surrounded by electric blue lightning bolts. The text on the right side of the image reads: 'Create a 3.5" Micro Diskette with unlimited protection against a hostile world. You're covered. BASF molds the rigid plastic jacket of its 3.5" Micro Diskette to its own specifications, providing unsurpassed protection for the flexible disk within. Call 800-343-4660 for the name of your nearest supplier. The Spirit of Innovation.' The BASF logo is displayed at the bottom right corner. The background features a city skyline silhouette](https://assets.oldbytes.space/assets.oldbytes.space/media_attachments/files/114/298/631/889/825/261/original/e9c388319e2bca37.png "An advertisement for BASF 3.5\" Micro Diskettes that features a dynamic and colorful design. The image includes a hand holding a BASF 3.5\" floppy disk, a red box of BASF 3.5\\" diskettes, a hammer, a coffee mug, and a crumpled piece of paper, all surrounded by electric blue lightning bolts. The text on the right side of the image reads: 'Create a 3.5\" Micro Diskette with unlimited protection against a hostile world. You're covered. BASF molds the rigid plastic jacket of its 3.5\" Micro Diskette to its own specifications, providing unsurpassed protection for the flexible disk within. Call 800-343-4660 for the name of your nearest supplier. The Spirit of Innovation.' The BASF logo is displayed at the bottom right corner. The background features a city skyline silhouette")
@Christinecats My first pet alongside one of my first computers. (Static electricity didn't exist in those days.)
Talking with the folks in the local #vintage / #retrocomputing community, they clued me in that the #ThinkPad #RAID is a steaming pile of 
and not worth the trouble.
Oh well. Thanks for cluing me in
So I swapped out the two testing #NVMe drives I was using and reinstalled the original sticks - to have #windoz10 demanding for the #bitlocker recovery key. 
Well, time to wipe & install #windoz11 then.
Install went fine, only 4 rando #drivers to find for all #devices to be recognized and working.
Using my #CTT scripts to install the majority of applications, then to remove the #spyware #bloatware and other garbage #micro$oft added to #windows11
Then migrate my #data from my other ThinkPad. Welcome to my #sunday #funday
#siliconValley #SillyValley #sanfrancisco #sanfran #sanfranciscocomputers #sanfrancomputers #sanfranciscovintagecomputers #sanfranvintagecomputers #sanfranciscovintagehardware #sanfranvin-tagehardware
#vintagecomputing #vintagecomputint #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputalk
#vintagehardware #computerHistory #retro #VCF #vintageComputerFestival
#retrocomputing #retroComputers #WallOfRetro #retroTech #retroTechnology
#nerdsOfVintage #happyNerding
#computer #tech #computerHardware #laptop #laptops
#IBM #thinkpad #thinkpads #VintageThinkPad #X86 #WindowsVista #IBMhardware #lenovoHard-ware #Thinkpadnium
#upcycle #restore #TechnologyRepair #ThinkPadRepair #WasteNotWantNot #Thinkpadnium
#makeShitMonday #showmewhatyougot
Ok, I spent yesterday afternoon trying to get #RAID configured on my #lenovo #ThinkPad #P70 - to no success.
I found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyCC1NGe8a8&t=36s of the similar #p50 and configuring #RAID which shows the #BIOS interface but my P70's only show the "non-raid physical discs" I do not have an option for RAID volumes. Note I have upgraded the BIOS to the most recent version on lenovo's web site. Any thoughts?
I have attached 2 #screenshots of what the BIOS displays - I'm trying to configure the RAID on the two 512GB #NVMe sticks.
#siliconValley #SillyValley #sanfrancisco #sanfran #sanfranciscocomputers #sanfrancomputers #sanfranciscovintagecomputers #sanfranvintagecomputers #sanfranciscovintagehardware #sanfranvin-tagehardware
#vintagecomputing #vintagecomputint #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputalk
#vintagehardware #computerHistory #retro #VCF #vintageComputerFestival
#retrocomputing #retroComputers #WallOfRetro #retroTech #retroTechnology
#nerdsOfVintage #happyNerding
#computer #tech #computerHardware #laptop #laptops
#IBM #thinkpad #thinkpads #VintageThinkPad #X86 #WindowsVista #IBMhardware #lenovoHard-ware #Thinkpadnium
#upcycle #restore #TechnologyRepair #ThinkPadRepair #WasteNotWantNot #Thinkpadnium
#makeShitMonday #showmewhatyougot
A great new article by Jeffrey Starr, Investigating MacPaint's Source Code: https://ztoz.blog/posts/macpaint-source-code/
Playing the Swedish game "Dubbelmoral" on a #Macintosh. #retrogaming #computerhistory
Today I've watched a number of videos from the Retrobytes YouTube channel. It's all nerdy stuff - the history of SPARC, History of ARM, a history of old-school terminals like the VT100 and such.
It's narrated by a British fellow. I enjoy the stories he weaves.
I'm not so keen on the old-timey music he runs behind EVERY SECOND of his videos, but I'll put up with it for a bit of computer history.
https://www.youtube.com/@RetroBytesUK
#computerhistory #retrocomputing
What Is CBM-64 “FIX”? A Curious Commodore 64 Cassette Investigated
#Commodore64 #C64 #RetroComputing #8BitShowAndTell #VintageTech #RetroGaming #CassetteSoftware #CBMFIX #Technicom #ComputerHistory
https://theoasisbbs.com/what-is-cbm-64-fix-a-curious-commodore-64-cassette-investigated/?feed_id=2499&_unique_id=67e6a11971601
![A newspaper clipping with a photo of Russel Noftsker that says:
AI superstar plunges to earth
Knowledge-based expert systems delivered on symbolic processing machines are "a trend that I'd say is unstoppable at this point."
Russel Noftsker
Chairman, Symbolics, Inc.
February 1986
"I don't want to see the company fail. I don't want to see any more employees lose their jobs."
Noftsker
February 1988
BY CLINTON WILDER
and STANLEY GIBSON
CW STAFF
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Like Icarus Symbolics, Inc. thought there was no limit to how high... [the picture cuts off]
Its technology was the envy of that sexy new industry, artificial intelligence, and its rapid climb to the $100 million revenue level in 1986 earned it acclaim as "a stock market superstar."
Now mired in red ink and leaderless -- its founder having been eased out of control -- the firm stands as a classic case of missed opportunities, overreaching ambition and market insensitivity.
"Success can be seductive," said Barbara Isgur, a technology analyst with D. H. Brown Associates in Tarrytown, N.Y.
"It's hard to know when to turn the corner or change direction. I can't think of a company that's been able to do that without a lot of pain," Isgur said.
Symbolics -- which sprang up at the forefron of an indus-[the picture cuts off]](https://cdn.masto.host/mastodonie/media_attachments/files/114/235/950/790/971/333/original/a9a70d42bebacc9a.png "A newspaper clipping with a photo of Russel Noftsker that says:
AI superstar plunges to earth
Knowledge-based expert systems delivered on symbolic processing machines are \"a trend that I'd say is unstoppable at this point.\"
Russel Noftsker
Chairman, Symbolics, Inc.
February 1986
\"I don't want to see the company fail. I don't want to see any more employees lose their jobs.\"
Noftsker
February 1988
BY CLINTON WILDER
and STANLEY GIBSON
CW STAFF
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Like Icarus Symbolics, Inc. thought there was no limit to how high... [the picture cuts off]
Its technology was the envy of that sexy new industry, artificial intelligence, and its rapid climb to the $100 million revenue level in 1986 earned it acclaim as \"a stock market superstar.\"
Now mired in red ink and leaderless -- its founder having been eased out of control -- the firm stands as a classic case of missed opportunities, overreaching ambition and market insensitivity.
\"Success can be seductive,\" said Barbara Isgur, a technology analyst with D. H. Brown Associates in Tarrytown, N.Y.
\"It's hard to know when to turn the corner or change direction. I can't think of a company that's been able to do that without a lot of pain,\" Isgur said.
Symbolics -- which sprang up at the forefron of an indus-[the picture cuts off]")