Notices by Ed S (eds@mastodon.sdf.org)

But The Mighty Micro by Christopher Evans is required reading
https://archive.org/details/mightymicro0000evan

Also a profoundly influential television series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiiQrLMqsm8&list=PL13dwmxpaKl5JJyC4L09uf_PFXkn6FlGA&index=1

You should also watch Now The Chips are Down
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p01z4rrj/horizon-19771978-now-the-chips-are-down

Without Evans' book, we wouldn't have had the BBC Micro, so Acorn would have been obscure, and ARM would not have happened.

Also strongly recommend Tilly Blyth's The Legacy of the BBC Micro
https://media.nesta.org.uk/documents/the_legacy_of_bbc_micro.pdf

@dredmorbius @cstanhope

Some of Barrie Sherman's books are on the internet archive

https://archive.org/details/newrevolutionimp00sher

Three more:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Sherman%2C+Barrie%22

And more:
https://archive.org/details/leisureshock0000jenk
https://archive.org/details/collapseofwork0000jenk_m4p8
https://archive.org/details/collectivebargai0000jenk

@dredmorbius @cstanhope

Barrie Sherman wrote and co-wrote several books. He died in 1997 at age 59

Freedom from Work 1983
The New Revolution: The Impact of Computers on Society 1985
Working at Leisure 1986
The State of the Unions 1986

And with Clive Jenkins:
Computers and the Unions 1977
Collective Bargaining: What You Always Wanted to Know 1977
The Collapse of Work 1979
The Leisure Shock 1981
White-collar Unionism: The Rebellious Salariat 1979

with Phillip Judkins
Licensed to Work 1995

@dredmorbius @cstanhope

Did you see the Mighty Micro clip in a nearby reply? That was a profoundly influential series (and book.) And Barrie Sherman's there too.

Here's the YT comment - it's a long way down, and it's a reply, by
youtube.com/user/davidkmatthews

@dredmorbius @cstanhope

"That's Barrie Sherman - he was Research Director of a union called Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs. He was keen to promote the use of automation in order for Britain to stay competitive but also had concerns about how people's jobs would change to their advantage."

(according to YT comment)

@cstanhope @dredmorbius

No recommendation, sorry, but nice to see that Trac is still alive and kicking!

I have a personal projects Trac running on my NAS since about 2010.

@cstanhope @thezerobit

indeed, visual6502 wiki has been broken for ages. won't be fixed. unhappy face.

there's a reasonable subset on the wayback machine
https://web.archive.org/web/20210405071236/http://visual6502.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages

and there's a remake
https://gmofishsauce.github.io/v6502demo/wiki/

@vertigo

There are analyses of the 6502 ALU... I can't presently find the exact one I want. But happy to help answer your questions

for example
http://6502.org/users/dieter/a2/a2_0.htm
particularly
http://6502.org/users/dieter/a2/a2_8.htm
and others nearby
http://6502.org/users/dieter

links in this forum post might be helpful
http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?t=3152

there's another wiki resurrection here
https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/Visual6502wiki

the patent might be handy
https://www.jmargolin.com/patents/3991307.pdf

@vertigo

This will raise your heart rate...

"In 1969, the entire world watched as three men explored the unknown. Watch, listen, and relive the excitement of the Apollo 11 lunar landing as experienced minute-by-minute by the courageous crew of Apollo 11 and Mission Control."

https://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/

@joeo10

Legalistic nonsense, UK version: just saw my first Sovereign Citizen style announcement in the free local paper. I assume someone upstream of this person got paid some money for sharing the magic words which puts a person beyond the reach of the state.

At least, I assume
> Thus severing usufruct subjugation ties
is meant to do something like this.

Nice! "Infallible five-tier system for measuring the maturity of your Continuous Delivery pipeline"

https://qntm.org/cd

@pozorvlak @ColinTheMathmo