People always ask me “how do you develop taste?” And I say “go to the niche telephone museum and study the origin of buttons and don’t be a little bitch”
@tnmoc Hey there. I will be over in the UK later this year and was wondering if you'd be interested in my giving a talk on the phone phreaks and what we can learn from the first network hackers? Thx!
@tommithetechie I have fond (?) Memories of using one of these attached to a VAX 11/750 at NASA Ames in 1985. We called it the “GDPOS tape drive.” I’ll let you figure out what that stands for.
This is a Mark-8 minicomputer, a 1974 do-it-yourself microcomputer design built around the Intel 8008. It is often remembered as one of the earliest microprocessor-based computers aimed at hobbyists, published as a build-it-yourself project in Radio-Electronics magazine.
Fun fact: machines like this were wonderfully hands-on, and the front panel used physical switches and indicator lights instead of anything we’d think of as a modern user interface today. Just looking at that row of switches makes me appreciate how much early personal computing expected from its users.
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Rachael Morrison's wonderful Joybubbles documentary will be showing in San Francisco, San Rafael, Boston, Ann Arbor, and having an international premiere in Warsaw, Poland. Details in thread!
Millenium Docs Against Gravity, Warsaw, Poland
May 8-17
Specific dates, times, and ticket sales forthcoming
*filmmaker Rachael J Morrison in person for Q&A’s
MOMI: First Look co-presented with Reelablities, NYC
Saturday May 2 at 2pm
*open audio description and open captions
*filmmaker Rachael J Morrison in person for Q&A
San Francisco International Film Festival
Saturday April 25 at 3:30pm
*open audio description and open captions
*filmmaker Rachael J Morrison, interviewee Phil Lapsley, and producer Will Butler in person for Q&A