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
- Actual footage of the IRS behemoth computer system processing your returns today. Gonna be a while.
- Fancy keyboard
- Recording retro tape output to Audacity
- Pixel perfect?
- 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
- 10 PRINT on the HP-42s · imapenguin
- 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