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I'm on a mission to rescue an IBM System/38. There are no working examples of this machine remaining, and this one has a good chance of living again. Your support can help preserve this piece of history. Please share & donate if you can! 🙏💖 gofund.me/f7cd3d4c
Going to Tokyo for a bit in October but man after the debate tonight trying to see how I can cancel the flight back… anyone hiring?
SUCCESS!!!!
Almost exactly a year since we started work on this project, and 34 years after being stuffed in a damp warehouse, we have completed restoring Gertie to working order!
Read more:
gofundme.com/manage/ibm-syst…
She's alive!
This past weekend we brought Gertie the Dinosaur System/34 up off her very own hard disk! And even more surprisingly, the disk was still intact!!
gofund.me/39e50d4b
#ibmi #retrocomputing #ibm #midrange
100% of my Twitter feed is now content OTHER than tweets of accounts I follow. What’s the point? Killing off 3rd party API makes Twitter useless to me. Pointless in posting this, nobody will see it.
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Here it is. My magnum opus.
“Smooth” by Santana and Rob Thomas, in the style of the B-52s.
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The @ADSBExchange account has been suspended.
ALT Screenshot of twitter showing that the @ADSBExchange account has been suspended.
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Now that Twitter is actually going to die you legally need to admit your game dev sins
I have hidden abstracted versions of Loss in older projects and you’ll NEVER find them.
I’ll say this once: any web browser in 2022 that has a repeatable failure mode that loses all open tabs and doesn’t update history deserves ALL OF MY IRE. I’m looking at you, iPad. I’m lookin at you, Safari.
Question for the class, who did NOT see this coming from a million miles away? I just see one hand raised…
Spokesperson for pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly says they're in communication with Twitter to address the fake-but-verified Eli Lilly tweet that has been up for three hours and has 1,500 retweets and 10,000 likes wapo.st/3UrrHSs
There’s a vintage IBM system that's a prime candidate for restoring. Costs to get it are more than I have, but I've been tasked to save it. I hate asking, but I hate an historic system going to scrap more. Please check the link below & donate, or RT? TY! gofund.me/b90a4552
@mainframed767 @Foone @TubeTimeUS @eruptionchaser @bitsavers @textfiles Hey fine people! Could I ask you to please consider an RT of the tweet below? Thank you!
#ibmi #midrange #vintagecomputing folks, please RT? Or better still, consider chipping in a few Zorkmid? Thank you!
You need it, and you know it.
