Notices by Nanoraptor (nanoraptor@bitbang.social)

An insulated screwdriver is an important piece of safety equipment when working on certain wall plugs.

LCDs at the wrong angle take me to a happy place.

What’s your one story from young childhood you that’s a total foreshadowing of everything that came after - that moment that if it were in a movie of your life reviews would say “well that was a bit heavy handed…”?

@ret They used to be, but nowadays scanned by a laser engraver on a multiple colour laser ply polymer. It's one that doesn't melt but is blasted away by the laser etcher. It's got an adhesive layer on the bottom, a 1.5mm white layer, and then a thin foil layer that's etched through. The thick white layer can be a few colours, the thin foil on top a whole heap of colours. They are the coolest old-school things, really.

Some customers, some jobs, you just don't ask.

#justprintshopthings.

Inspired by previous, to give repair techs and operators pause.

The Mac OS X Public Beta was released closer to the founding of Apple than to today.

Aldi drywall sander, designed by HR Giger (probably).

If I were going to acquire an old retro workstation, which would be the One True Unix workstation from the past?

Because dolphins come from the C.

I think there should be a single moment in time when all americans adopt an australian accent forever.

https://vocaroo.com/1lOQwavxXvdJ

When you see it...

Folks, if one of you connects to Nanoraptor on #globaltalk and then guest-logins to the 540c-167 share and you drop a file there with a name, or make a folder with your name or identify yourself somehow, you will be known as the first person to have ever connected to an appletalk share via internet to localtalk to airtalk to startalk to localtalk

and yes that's obscure but that's the point.

@sendai Well I have the perfect solution, of course!

I swear that's Apple, Samsung AND Lenovo who owe me a Melon Party or Music Dance Experience now.

https://www.theverge.com/news/622380/lenovo-thinkbook-flip-concept-laptop-foldable-mwc

A pair of 25Mhz Motorola 68NC040 processors. While the 68LC040 lacked an inbuilt FPU, and the 68EC040 lacked both FPU and MMU, the 68NC040 lacked FPU, MMU, and CPU to come in as the cheapest 25Mhz processor on the market in 1991.

24-pin TIP 'worse-than-lego' package.

Inspired by a reddit post.

Compaaaaaq.

I've wanted to re-do this poster for years. Here, Power Computing's Seybold 1996 poster as an all-vector delight that'd fit on a floppy.

http://www.danamania.com/print/Power%20Computing%20Seybold%20Publish%20or%20Perish%20Poster/