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Computer Lib / Dream Machines at 50

Posted on March 31, 2024 by blogmywiki

From time to time, I’ve posted snippets from Ted Nelson’s 1974 book(s) Computer Lib / Dream Machines on various social networks but, now it’s fifty years old, it seems like a good moment to pull together some of the eye-catching … Continue reading →

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Surias – writing a program can be fun!

Posted on June 29, 2023 by blogmywiki

This is an unpublished article I wrote in around 1981 about a game my brother and I wrote for the Commodore PET. I am yet to find a program listing or cassette for the game, which I would love to … Continue reading →

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Noughts and crosses

Posted on May 7, 2023 by blogmywiki

I just inherited a load of books on programming the 6502 processor in assembly language (and a Kim-1 computer, more on that later!). Among them was an intriguing 1980 book by Rodnay Zaks called 6502 Games. Zaks wrote what, for … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi video art installation

Posted on February 16, 2023 by blogmywiki

My daughter makes video art and needed a simple solution for showing one of her pieces continually in a loop. I used an old Raspberry Pi model B for this. I just realised that the only place I had documented … Continue reading →

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Why did 1973 matter to Classic Mac OS?

Posted on January 17, 2023 by blogmywiki

So I was clearing off an old 350MHz graphite Apple Macintosh G4 Server which had OS 10.4.9 on it, and decided to put Mac OS 9.2 on it for the lolz. This was a mistake, as I had been intending … Continue reading →

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