Notices by Dave Fischer (davefischer@hachyderm.io)

@mekkaokereke Matilda Gage is the early suffragette who really holds up on other issues.

@me_ I zoomed in and was reading each title, and when I got to the postscript section thought: why would you have the blue book but not the red book? That's insane.

Then noticed the red book sitting horizontally on top...

Ha ha.

@futurebird Was on a small boat (visiting a lighthouse) and the captain was complaining about the UI for the radar, which was a touchscreen, and... didn't work if your hands were wet. Oops.

When my computer suddenly starts being weird and ignoring mouse buttons and keystrokes, I pull this Oz looking key out of my pocket and turn the keyswitch. It reruns my xmodmap & xkbset commands from my .xsession startup file.

All fixed.

(This only happens once or twice a year, but it can be such a hassle to fix by hand...)

#Geek

My advice for anyone switching over from #Microsoft: #Linux is easy. A few days with ed and you'll wonder how you ever got by with edlin.

Salome, helping me photograph some workstations last night. #Caturday #SGI #RetroComputing

@thomasfuchs I learned the basic concepts (variables, arrays, loops, conditionals, etc.) from that. Still have my copy.

@annika @loriemerson This is a photo I took of a piece of the first transatlantic cable, from 1858.

If you used the internet in the US in the early 90s, your traffic was handled by Trans Witches! (A TRANSWITCH chip was part of every interface board on the NSFnet's experimental T3 routers.)

https://www.rcsri.org/collection/nsfnet-t3/

#Halloween #Witches #Internet

From a Sun-3 brochure.

#Suntember #SunMicrosystems

This is the best photo of magnetic core memory I've ever taken. IBM, early 60s. Shot with a microscope lens mounted on a 35mm B&W digital camera. No post! (I got into the habit of never doing any post-processing while documenting historic artifacts for the museum. Photoshop not allowed!) #retrocomputing #photography #rcsri

I used this shot for the cover of my book of images from our museum:

https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Machines-Dave-Fischer/dp/B09X557N52

@thomasfuchs What's the obnoxious thing that makes it hard to run Next's headless?

@thomasfuchs @emmah Definitely Belka & Strelka.

@thomasfuchs Whoa - completely forgot that came with peril sensitive sunglasses! I got that for xmas one year in my teens. I stayed up till dawn playing it.