looking at some old calculating machines
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You can see why pocket calculators were more popular.
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I dragged my family to the Computer History Museum here in Silicon Valley on my birthday and it’s got various cool stuff like this on display.
P.S. I thought it was awesome, my family wasn’t too excited 
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That’s pretty neat actually.
As for myself a I bought a boat to motivate me to finish work on my truck to get it back on the road (M1009) … gotta pick up the boat by April 1st lol or I get charge for storage fees… motivation!
Working on getting a larger place so I have a dedicated area to setup my computer collection (still in an apartment like the “thats a heck of a lot of comptuers” meme).
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I thought it was “cool” too. Reminds me of that Greek Antikythera mechanism, built around 200 BC.
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Is this like the Zenmai Clock application for Macintosh?
Apart from ‘playing’ with numerous computers… 
I have various musical instruments that I try to play, & I now have the outdoor activity of kickbiking - good fun, & gives a full body workout, without damaging joints. 
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Doing a lot of ham radio stuff, specifically packet radio networking which is basically email and text-messaging using radio links instead of internet. Very useful for emergency comms in the event of no internet, due to hurricanes, etc… Would love to use Haiku for ham radio applications, but unfortunately not possible at this time. Much of it uses USB sound devices which Haiku doesn’t support yet. Tried installing Direwolf in Haiku, but that didn’t work out. Also tried the YAAC APRS java-based program which almost worked but not quite.
Packet network a group of us set up in Puerto Rico. Older map, they’ve added some nodes since then:
3-node packet setup:
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analog computers are really interesting, I like the tide calculators, those things are wild
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This is interesting. I wanted to build my own radio when I was in high school. Tried making a crystal radio,but nothing worked…
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I’m back from vacations it was nice to step back from all things tech, and just relax for some weeks. Now back to the usual schedule.
At least regarding SDR software, I’m on it. Slow process so far but yes, there is some.
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I’m interested in the Gemini space, a network protocol for simple text transfers like the web in the early days. A Gemini website is simple and clean without any blinking banners or popup windows. A webiste is called “capsule” like the Gemini capsule from NASA. I was looking around for some interesting stuff and found: Haiku on Gemini.
Very nice. I publish a little blog in German in Gemini (gemini://mameko.ddns.net) and I really like the simplicity of this network.
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A totally rainy day here today. Nothing to do outside.
I was bored and I checked my router after long time. I surprisingly found an unused Raspberry Pi, being idle for a year or so. in the network. I really forgot this machine and first had to search it in the living room, haha. I used it as a backup server but don’t need it anymore. And forgot it…
I don’t like lazy Raspberry Pies and searched for a new job for it.
Then I installed OpenWRT on it and now the Pi is a new VPN Router. Fast enough for surfing the web with one ot two laptops.
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Today I got my AMIGA 500 Mini and I’m busy reminiscing about the old days
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Fun times! I remember using my Amiga 1200 as my main machine for many years!
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My first computer was 1988 an Amiga 500 with an external Floppy device and 512 kb extra RAM, so I had 1 MB RAM and was very proud. 
This was my only machine for many years.
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For everyone who, like me, comes from the Amiga and likes the old games without having to set a lot in the emulator, I recommend this console. Thanks to the firmware update (easy to install), I was now able to load the ADF files (up to 3 drives at the moment). Mail is out asking for more drives (Historyline 8 Disks). Even the graphics are automatically upgraded so it looks good on my 109cm TV.
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