I write about the past, present, and future of technology across three sites. imapenguin.com explores retro computing and programming fundamentals, milkcrunch.com covers modern software development and engineering culture, and evadot.com examines commercial spaceflight and the new space movement.
Posts
- Rethinking the approach
- More than a like please
- Okay, the Sinclair 1000 / ZX81 is pretty cool
- Sometimes you find gold with thrift stores. A VERY good copy of The First Book of KIM for… $3. Crazy.
- Update on the donated Sinclair 1000 that "doesn't work"
- Updating the firmware on all my test equipment today
- You know you're doing something right when you have your own directory on people's SD2IEC cards.
- Eclipse 2024
- There's always something.
- I might have to hug a VIC-20 after this
- A little Friday fun… continuing my quest to do 10PRINT on all the things. This morning I figured out a reasonable version for the HP-42S.
- My HP-42S has had this crap on it for years, and I don't know what it is. I can't easily scrape it off, and it really bugs me. Old calculator problems...
- After the xz supply chain attack news last week, this is now the newest computer I have any faith in whatsoever.
- Some truths are self-evident.
- Doing another composite mod for someone
- I'm not an April Fools fan at all. I think I'll switch to platforms that can't even access the internet.
- Took a deer hair spinning class today. From left to right my first to the final one I did. The last one turned out great and I feel like I can make these now. An afternoon well spent. Next is to see how they fish.
- xz vulnerability on a Mac with Homebrew
- Any progress is progress.
- This is a fun game but you NEED the manual and accompanying stuff for it to be playable. What other games from pre 1993 do you like that are like this?