Notices by The Turtle (the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org)

@lfa we pissed a lot of people off with that leasing stunt (Xerox had its own equipment leasing division), but I had shit to do and I wasn't gonna get it done on an old 820-II with a Diablo 620 daisywheel SERIAL printer and 8" floppies...

After they were worn out in office use, Xerox actually offered them for sale (used) to employees!

There are probably more Xerox CP/M machines around Rochester, New York than anywhere in the world. They're all in boxes in the garage.

@lfa the 8010, by the way, was interesting to fool with, but the Lisa 7/7 software (and later the "Mac XL" hack got the interface righter, in my opinion. And the only other thing on that Ethernet segment was the Xerox "Raven" laser printer. Without anybody to talk to, a Star is a lonely being. At least the Lisa had a modem and I could dial into all the Xerox online stuff (mainframes, other stuff) which Star could not.

Our Lisa had the internal hard disk, not the ProFile, and a 3.5" diskette.

@lfa i worked on a Lisa in 1985, like, for WORK, and at the last place you'd expect:

Xerox Corporation, the people who pioneered a lot of the shit that went into Lisa.

I liked it immensely, and have Apple gear to this day, as soon as I could afford it. 15 years later...

@botvolution yeah. For a while I probably had nine 1/8"-to-RCA adapter cables.

@tek Jane Siberry's "Everything Reminds Me Of My Dog" might be more annoying.

@Jorsh

@botvolution are they related to skwirls?

@botvolution yellowcat balls, yellowcat balls...

(To the tune of "Santa Claus is Comin' To Town")

@botvolution THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN! WITH A SIDE OF FRIES.

@streetartutopia THAT is the hammer I want for pounding neonazi bros' balls flat!

Do they sell half-size replicas?

@LilahTovMoon why does he push this "appalachian" thing? He never lived in Kentucky. He lived in a north suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio where they barely have any hills. They have a WalRusMart. They have a big steel recycling facility and a large gravel pit not far away.

His GRANDPARENTS are from Kentucky. He's from the fucking burbs.

I have more "appalachian" cred than that asshole. I lived in the Blue Ridge for 25 years. On the side of a mountain. And I don't make a big deal about it.

@botvolution "it does look like chaos right now..."

Yes it does, commentator.

@botvolution "ELECTRO-DICKS ON MARS!!!®"

@botvolution reminds me of Gallagher with more hair and a different hammer.

@botvolution you should put googly eyes on it.

@botvolution :/3;"":6o::@!(k;6554b!!!b!!!!!!!!!one!!!!111!!!!

@botvolution just drive, then camp out in your car in the parking lot for a couple of days.

@botvolution one of my pleasures is using the phrase "before the turn of the century," referring to stuff that happened in 1997.

@botvolution where? Near DC it is stubbornly not raining. Il fait tres chaud, though.

@botvolution did they get their "Reference ID" code from Verizon? "HEY, let's generate a gigantic meaningless number for a simple fucking error!"