"Snubble" is aparrently very close to some informal German slang word for "Something cute".

There's a pun in there that only kinda works in German.

The reproduction of the cluster interface is starting to come together. Only the small bits left and then I can add way too many serial ports to the old Tandberg TDV-2114.

Just flashing a few 8051-type computer chips.

Doesn't need to be fancy or anything to work, but this is what I call my "portable rig".

You should come to Norway, we have "Gravenstein" and "Aroma" and "Discovery" as our top three local cultivars.

That being said, horribly out of season right now, though.

It's a gorgeous chip indeed!

Did you figure out which parts cause these to run so very hot compared to the 8086/88?

I need space in the freezer for an upcoming project, so...

These are Siemens STB-11. Quite nice, along the lines of Cherry MX Browns, but with immediate actuation rather than some way down.

sintran.com/hardware/hw-...

This one is quite the opposite, it has "PRINT HELP STOP" in Norwegian. Not to mention all the arrows you could ever dream of.

I finally got hold of the more fancy patterns for my sewing machine!

Each cam-wheel stores both the vertical and horizontal position of a total of 18 stitches, and plugs into a slot in the sewing machine itself. The system was in use for some 30+ years, so quite a few patterns exists for it.

Silly simplified drawing of a Canada lynx trotting to the right. Its proportions are only slightly exaggerated to emphasize its massive, fluffy paws.

shape of the creature...why are you so paws

Not very comfortable in the long run, tho. Can get quite annoying with all sorts of weird things, like randomly twitching muscles and stuff.

Please keep us up to date on how this is faring!

Mine has a UVC-absorbing fluorescent indicator, which is very handy for preventing these kinds of mishaps xD

Uh-oh.. Hmmmmmmm........

The first one I got was unfortunely too far gone, but have got one other working one in my 16700B.

Other modules I got in there are 3x chained 16557D and a 16534A. I do have a 16522A too, but I don't have the hearts to split up the 557s so I will have to swap it in should I ever need it.

Ah, yes! The 16717A?

“Giant Brains, or: Machines That Think”, Edmund C. Berkeley, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1949.

Did you know that there’s machines now that can do 5,000 additions per second??!

Automated language translation is just around the corner!

AI bros overestimating computers and underestimating humans, since 1949.

Just had to check what was on that one 9-track tape of mine, but seems like this one is already on bitsavers (allthough decoded from the shorter 1600bpi encoded version of the tape).

It is a bit higher complexity than I would expect from an 8-bit operating system released in early 1977, but the disassembly of this will soon come to a github near you.. As soon as I have annotated the 5000-or-so lines of Intel 8080 code.

"I wish all companies insisting on AI a very bankruptcy"

I mean, they're pretty much paying someone to sell their soul to here.. Not even a potential "tax-writeoff" argument justifies this as a good idea in any way shape or form.

That feeling when you realize this ancient program that parses source code, specifically also checks for Ctrl+X "Cursor Right" of DEC VT-05 fame, as a valid whitespace.

That being said, the terminal this was written for does support this control code, but who uses arrow-right instead of space?!

Is this also one of the branch that can be directly traced to Dyrvedalen, or does it stem from elsewhere in the Voss region?

That reminds me, I will have to check if howtobasic has posted something new on youtube again. Somehow the algorithm stopped picking up on his videos a good while back.

I mean, mine's from 2017, but Sony (or anyone else for that matter) never made an equally good option for people who like to use the phone one-handed.

Somehow I ended up with not one, but two original ones before I even had a chance to complete the replica... Oh well, it's still a golden oppertunity to compare the layout with the original. Especially the one I took most components off, as it looks like it has been through a war or something.

This was made for the local hackerspace, which is why it says "Nite" in Norwegian rather than "Ferrule", but...

Elna pattern 151, my beloved

(but seriously, this makes it so much easier to quickfix holes and tears)

Yeah, having seen proper aurora on multiple occasions, it's never that pronouncingly sharp and parallel thin lines in that way. Not even close to it. Also, there is no gass mixture anywhere in the atmosphere that will produce white light on excitation so nothing about this is even plausible.