@NanoRaptor this is trippin me out

@NanoRaptor nothing like a little shuffle to boost your spirits.

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You are from a nearby parallel reality aren't you? 😯

Please keep posting images of what there, it's fascinating 🙂👍

@NanoRaptor @mick (I'm so confused 😵‍💫)

@NanoRaptor Beautifully cursed.

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T9r9s9, for theater surround sound of course.

@NanoRaptor that's legit kinda amazing, you'd have to make a firm clicking locking mechanism, but this seems like it could actually help with making high density mezzanines that are currently extremely fragile

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No-one has said it has to be serial - so we are looking at 9-pin full duplex parallel (tip is ground, middle is RX inside is TX). With one pin handling error detection we can transmit 8 bits (one byte) at a time (both ways). So what is our maximum baud rate? 🤠

@NanoRaptor controlled drug? Wouldn't that impede the flow?

@NanoRaptor Is it ethically sourced?

@NanoRaptor One of your best. Prescribing Dr: 🧑‍🍳💋

P. S. Would love to see Australian PBS full and subsidised cost.

@NanoRaptor by the time you're all grown up, time travel will be so normal that...

@NanoRaptor We have a ways to go before the opposite is true 👴🏻 😊

@NanoRaptor Inside me it’s still 1983. Best year ever.

@NanoRaptor one kilo bits.

@NanoRaptor Wow, that brings back some memories.

@NanoRaptor this is such a beautiful tower

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That's because their relatively tiny arms with two fingers meant Tyrannosaurus rex had evolved better typing skills than Stegosaurus.

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OKAY! I'm old, I get it! Back then we all had Stegosauri on our belt, it was the style at the time.

@NanoRaptor An Australia-only variant? I had no idea!

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I miss my old SX-64 with customized font and ROM. I hacked a lot of shit on that puppy.

@NanoRaptor That NeXT keyboard is beautiful!

@NanoRaptor Jesus. You’re an adict.

@NanoRaptor i'll be honest, this took me a sec

@NanoRaptor They really *are* mirrored.

@NanoRaptor *groan*

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Now y'all gone and done disappointed grandpa Engelbart.

Just look at his face, man.

@NanoRaptor Douglas Engelbart reading that like someone's in his parking spot

@NanoRaptor I can confirm this is the most painful answer

@NanoRaptor Oof.

@NanoRaptor Ouch! (This is the most painful explanation of Occam's Taser I've ever read. And the only one, too.)

@NanoRaptor Taken to an absurd degree with their MO-disc drive which feels like the final form of such a device.

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social it’s an incredible story. They actually bought NeXT for NeXTlevel, to replace Pippin! And then canceled BOTH to focus on OS X!

@NanoRaptor NeXT computers 🤤

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It didn't catch on in most parts of Europe, though.

The most probable explanation is that Apple refused customer demands to support Swatch Internet Time [1], which had become the official European time system in 1998, with the notable exception of Switzerland.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

@NanoRaptor Seeing this was a legit emotional roller coaster.

heartbreaking.

@NanoRaptor great touch with the model number!

@NanoRaptor it's a bit sad for monitor OEMs, really... we really needed monitors whose yaw could be adjusted. Apple gave them the correct motivation here!

(hopefully the crash sound for this one will be one of those "breaking glass" ones ;o)

@NanoRaptor Apple x Fruit Ninja

@NanoRaptor Little known fact: Years later, tired@of their ideas being sidelined, the design team behind it left Apple and became the Surface team at Microsoft.

@NanoRaptor @foone Did you know those existed?

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Clearly created by the same guy that thought it was a great idea to have only 1/8" difference between a class 1 and class 2 hitch ball for towing.

@NanoRaptor some faulty 5½" drives were supplied to Apple and Woz got them working with double the original capacity of the Disk ][, but he couldn’t convince Jobs to tool up new face plates.

A judicious use of a Dremmel on either side of the opening gave savvy Apple ][ users a bonus for their own use, but they tended to be shunned by their friends at disk swap parties because only about 3% of Disk ][s ended up with the 5½" drives.

They were also derided by girls for claiming “Mine is 5½"”.

@NanoRaptor "This is Commander Jameson, en route to Lave Station. There is an unexpected item in the bagging area. Please wait for assistance."

@NanoRaptor thargoids have a new ship...

@NanoRaptor I choose to believe that it's just a massive CRT.

@NanoRaptor This design would at least justify a $1000 stand.

@NanoRaptor maybe if they’d used all that space for something useful like expansion slots but no, they had to go and weld the damned thing shut.