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.
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RSS- Logo's recursion on the Commodore 64 is fast enough to be pretty useful. Neat. #commodore
- Today’s “learn something every day” is Moore Finite State machine that implements a simple 4 bit counter on an FPGA. Green indicates the done state. Neato! Thanks to DigiKey for the tutorial.
- This label order is SUPER confusing on the HP Prime since it can do both standard and RPN modes. I’ve got 30 years of muscle memory for the stack order and this label messes me up all the time.
- I’m one KIM-1 clone away from having everything I need to make a 1977 style blockchain network ;-) Could always use a VIC-20 as the third… hmm #commodore
- Julie and I are traveling again this weekend. I’m a very early morning person and she is not. Gives me a couple hours to invest my time or spend my time. My choice here is probably not surprising.
- This book is much larger than I expected. #commodore
- Now that I've got some extra ram on the KIM-1, it's time to try Microsoft BASIC on it (controlling from a C64 of course). Here's a breadth first search… not only works well, it's even pretty fast. #commodore
- Putting a kettlebell ON my desk means it’s a constant reminder. Every hour during work it’s 20 push-ups and kettlebell work. Worked great!
- I bought the PAL-1 to see if I'd like noodling with the KIM-1 platform. Turns out I like it enough to have now purchased all of the available expansions … AND the Corsham KIM-1 clone as well (ships later, chip shortage) #itsonlymoneyright #sevensegmentsarethefuture #commodore
- If it’s above freezing my 3.5 mile daily hike is game on.
- FedEx has just left this piece of unobtainium on my porch. Good luck getting one of these in 2022…
- My Monday morning vibe...
- This is hands down the weirdest thing I’ve ever found inside a used book I bought online. #commodore #maybetherearesecretsonit
- The @Basic10L is <em>usually</em> about games. Since those aren't my thing, I started thinking about other interesting 10 liners. I can easily fit RC4 encryption in 10 lines with lots of room to spare. Wonder how I can expand on this… #commodore
- Just home from a really good week on the road to a delivery of this fantastic book.
- How much of a nerd am I? I’m pleased with my hotel room number for more than a couple reasons :)
- How much of a nerd am I? I’m pleased with my hotel room number for more than a couple reasons :)
- We don't need more "new" retro computers. But replicas… We DO need more of these. #commodore
- My resting heart rate has settled right at 50 very consistently. Not too shabby.
- It’s just before sunrise and I remembered that exactly 10 years ago today we jumped off a cliff. We uprooted our family from the DC suburbs and moved to the mountains of North Carolina. The view from our front door never disappoints even if you can’t really see the mountains this morning hardly at all.