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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 10:34:07 JST Thomas 🔭✨
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 10:36:01 JST Thomas 🔭✨
"[the] computer that provided hundreds of charts for Joan Quigley, the [President Ronald and Nancy] Reagans' astrologer, who determined the timing of important events in the Reagan presidency such as: the take off times for Air Force One for important trips, the timing of all presidential press conferences, the signing of numerous anti-nuclear treaties with the Soviet Union."
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102746921
WHAT THE FUCK
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 10:49:05 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@DrFerrous real
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 10:57:30 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@DrFerrous ikr
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 13:09:20 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@Mela there’s no link in the alt text?
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Mela Eckenfels (mela@zusammenkunft.net)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 13:09:21 JST Mela Eckenfels
@thomasfuchs FYI: Links in ALT-Texts do not work.
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draNgNon (drangnon@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 14:46:18 JST draNgNon
@thomasfuchs I'm pretty sure what MERID is but... what are these others?
amazing find nonetheless.
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Christopher Drum (christopherdrum@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 18:45:24 JST Christopher Drum
@thomasfuchs I would have *killed* to have one of those back in the day (when I was a child and thought astrology was real).
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Harald (oliof@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 20:37:36 JST Harald
@thomasfuchs you can find these for about 500EUR, no warranty, no returns. After all, you should only buy one under auspicious signs.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 23:03:04 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@Mela That's the URL of the image that's attached, not text in the alt.
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Mela Eckenfels (mela@zusammenkunft.net)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Apr-2024 23:03:06 JST Mela Eckenfels
@thomasfuchs on my client it shows one:
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 13:49:47 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@nazokiyoubinbou tf is this lol, looks like an elaborate egg timer
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 13:49:48 JST Nazo
@thomasfuchs Rofl, reminds me of stuff like this:
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 13:50:25 JST Thomas 🔭✨
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J.H.Noyes (noyes@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 13:50:26 JST J.H.Noyes
@thomasfuchs
If that's real it's got to be worth a fortune to a collector somewhere. Might be a fake, tho. Really hard to believe your own eyes these days.
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Tobias Hellgren (thanius@mastodon.chuggybumba.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 15:10:51 JST Tobias Hellgren
@thomasfuchs So IT IS a science!
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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 22:20:25 JST Aral Balkan
@thomasfuchs @landybham It’s a fucking miracle we’re all still alive.
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 01:20:49 JST Thomas 🔭✨
@mediaarchaeologylab @dr_a it’s on eBay fwiw https://www.ebay.com/itm/305486787039
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dr_a (dr_a@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 01:20:51 JST dr_a
@thomasfuchs The @mediaarchaeologylab needs one of these.
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media archaeology lab (mediaarchaeologylab@post.lurk.org)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 01:20:51 JST media archaeology lab
@dr_a @thomasfuchs oh that is beautiful and odd
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