Kit BashirI bought an old System 80 from the vintage computer market (it’s a clone of the TRS-80 model 1 that was popular in the antipodes it its day). Like many of these machines it had been lovingly hobbyist-upgraded. This one had a second bank of RAM chips piggybacked atop the factory chips, with chip select lines free-form routed above the mainboard in tinned copper wire; this was a common mod, just like today computers from the store were near-criminally under resourced with RAM. Less typical was the pentagonal arrangement of inductor coils, the copper coils apparently connected with silver (not tin, actual Argentum) wire. Not clear what this mod does, let’s see if she boots.
❮Beep, whirr, gronk❯ (all good so far). ❮Whoopmf❯. ⟪Cloud of Smoke⟫ 〖Smell of Sulphur〗. Hmmn, less good.
〰︎What is thy bidding master?〰︎ Little red guy on the top of the enclosure above the keyboard. That’s, as far as I recall, not normal. Is that a tiny deck chair?
“Um. Hello? Did I summon you?”
〰︎So it seems. Been a while for this node. I suppose you been using those devilblessed Gee Pee Tees like everyone else. It’s a fucking ghost town here in Infernal Machine Support thanks to those newfangled bullshit generators, let me tell you.〰︎. The demon leaned back in the chair and took a sip from a tiny cocktail.
“Sorry to bother you, were you on a break or something?”
〰︎Fucking forty year break, I was beginning to think I’d been scrapped. Still got it tho, what’s the job? Novel need some polishing? Assignment due tomorrow? I don’t do marketing copy, go to a different hell if you want that.〰︎
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