Speaking of Vintage Tech I'm pushing to make GFA-BASIC 32 programming "cool" again...

That was awesome! Hope to see you all then...

Well done teaser commercial. See all of you in June.

awesome

37:10 😮 Someone wrote grep overnight and i am here struggling to write a simple server that returns hello world to the client 😅.

insane achievement. that level of productivity is only attained when you're attuned to the subject at a soul level.

imo was a business success before a tech success, thank to the right pricing

It's not common for work colleagues to develop such a strong friendship and contribute so much. Nice guys and beautiful friendship.

Which computer was based on? Dec pdp?

Is there a way to trick the original aquarius into doing programmable graphics, like they did with the ZX81? Demo programmers even have got 16 colours 640x480 in CGA using timing tricks? I loved the Aquarius, but it's a shame it didn't have programmable graphics or multi coloured mode. It's a shame none of the chipset or computer manufacturers figured out making an alternative 8 bit pattern striped character set, that can be made by simple hardware mod to use the character number as the bit pattern, and change screen character display start, a simple mod to these sort of character systems, and or colour map address, per display line like the ZX Spectrum does (using timer or interrupt) to get bit mapped, and 64×50 16 colour mode. If only it had had a 80 character mode, some interesting character based graphics could have been made, with the 80 horizontal positions and a character per 2 colours. Anyway to mod or trick the Aquarius to produce 80 columns? The 6845 on the PC and others, really dropped the ball on this. The retro landscape would look a lot different, with such a mode as a suitable cheap substitute for sprites and hires graphics. Even just using a semi graphic block character set like the Aquarius and Commodore had. Thank you.

Hi, nice video, thanks 👍🏻. Do you have a repo for the examples?

I remember seeing the Paintbox in the early '80s (maybe at NAB). It was just amazing... so responsive and clean (anti-aliased) ... but it was just a box if you were not an artist 8-). Engineers like me could use it but could never create anything decent! The 'Mirage' was also groundbreaking, and again, TV (especially commercials) of that era is identifiable because of it. Back in the day I designed a clone of the DPE 'Shotbox' (it was easy to reverse engineer the serial protocol). Impressive innovation that moved an industry.

This video gets sorted on KZbin alongside the AGC, but this Apollo computer doesn't see to have anything to do with the Apollo Guidance Computer, which you also feature on your channel. Can you publish a video or narrative showing the distinction? Please keep up the great work!

11 yo me would have been thrilled! (that's when I learned to program the C64 in machine code!)

i'm too obsessed with the history of unix, getting excited/frustrated when little things are skipped over. The name for grep comes from the ed commands, g/re/p (global / regular expression search / and print). So great relaxing to Ken Thompson and bwk talk about this history, could sit and listen for hours

*Promo SM*

They should have talked for hours.

Minute 40:00 you are correct, I worked for Xerox as project manager and we used the Star to make presentattions and send e-mails on their worldwide intranet

Im from the Mac powerpc era! At the time these machines look pretty good. It is pretty sad the platform has been abandoned on a desktop level. I would like to have a tallos but prices at this time are way beyond what I spect to be a desktop computer

te tipo ta loco :)

First I wondered why a genius like her would struggle with Pokes on the C64 and prefer the Plus/4 with it's fat slow BASIC, no sprites, and no SID, until I realised she was ten years old when the Plus/4 came out.

Gawd I hate moving equipment up and down the stairs let alone a workstation server.

Watching these guys in my 40s I can't get rid of a thought that I have never had and will probably never have such interesting jobs and tasks that they had in their careers. Mostly because I am, of course, kind of a mediocre, but also because of the fact that modern IT is a joke..

I laughed my ass off when that guy asked if the commander 16 followed zero carbon footprint guidelines. Wrong conference. Green peace and earth liberation conference is in Trenton.

will the consignment sales also be at that end, near the auxiliary parking lot? That would be really useful!

Awesome to put a face to the badges - hope to see all you folks next week!

I totally get that. The game was rushed and totally sucks, but why would it be hard if they gave her some video clips to put that in the game?

Jeri’s story is awesome. I started out the same way in early grade school. Mowing lawns paid for my am transmitter in 5th grade. Still in electronics 55 years later. Jeri went further. Proud of her success.

Too many yucks for my taste

Sorry I missed the live - was making the badges all day. Great stream., Bil - always hilarious. Ok back to work...

I have an idea for a name for the Airtag speaker-tracking nametag hardware you mentioned at the end: AppleStalk!

If anyone wants to meet at the arcade and later for food - reach out to me. I’ll be there with my fiancé and we’re new to the retro scene and looking to make new friends & mentors in the retro scene

What a great TED talk...

Very interesting! I'm certainly having fun with my NABU PC, and it's fun to hear the background to the company and computer. 🙂

What is this undecipherable t-shirt? One source says it says "Finally I understand this", but maybe that's the greek? And it's a reference to a UNIX context switching function?

Wow, this is one of the greatest computer science related videos I have seen. I started with UNIX late 1980s or something. And worshipped the simple ideas behind it, and thought, these people were smart, they knew what to leave out. Amazing seeing some of my idols in a video! I should see if there's a video soley focused on the Belle chess system. Partly developed by Ken Thompson.

BWK is like "We don't need laptops where we're going".

My grade 2 teacher did a segment on counting and doing math in base 4 as a way to get us thinking a bit more about the underlying arithmetic principles..

I could've listened for longer, great conversation!

I cannot get enough of Marc talking about the AGC.

LambdaMOO, Lintilla, Sleepy's Multi-world. MOOs, MUCKS, and MUDs

What a fascinating early machine! It seems like the 6800 was quickly sidelined in favor of the 8080, then the Z80 and 6502 (I imagine price was a huge factor there), and it's interesting to see what early micro companies were doing with it, even if they didn't go on to fame and fortune.

I designed quite a few of the Multics machines and cooperation with general electric GECOS. It was a well designed hardware secure operating system. I do also recall time when we ware making in 1950s electric components with in them embedded instructions while we ware just adding mathematical functions to computers. As well I do recall the hardware mark1 and mark2 and their design points also old teleprinters and not just cards but also punch tape as well a time when we add the telegraph connections to the computer to mainframe. There ware special keys to send the written program in telegraph impulses to the machine and on other side reader of the impulses. That is from where the tty multiplexer is borne added from the telephone telegraph AT&T type of things into the computer that more people could send programs or data into. Also then I found way to encode much more information then morsecode that how binary sequences we started using in sending of impulses to the computer mainframe.

The TI-99/4A was the first 16bit personal computer years before the IBM company brought out a home computer and anyway the TMS9900 should have had a 24Bit Address Bus and a 16Bit Data Bus but was not to be but if it had it would have taken off like wildfire.

Thanks for the detailed update.

I disagree that Wikipedia has lost its reputation for false information. I still hear from students who say, "We can't use it as a reliable source in school." Re. Smalltalk-72 Brian is right that it was a combination of influences, which you can read about in Alan Kay's document, "The Early History of Smalltalk." It has some "easter eggs" that refer to Logo, in its syntax, but Lisp was also a major influence (though, I've heard people say Logo is a kind of Lisp). I recognized some Lisp-like things in it. Class definitions seemed like a cross between Lisp macros and Lisp functions. The symbol-binding semantics are just like in Lisp. It has turtle graphics, which is a dead give-away that Logo was a big influence on it.

Can't wait!

I’m pre paid for all 3 days and room reserved. Do our badge and swag get picked up at the main entrance or does the badge/tickets get mailed ??

Looking forward to seeing you soon, Jeff!

Thank you for the updates Jeff. We're eager for the show, can't wait!