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Senior Data Engineer at cfc.com Retro coder & gamer (BBC Micro, DOS, Win 9x, Psion, Linux). I run a YouTube channel dedicated to the Beeb and all things Acorn: http://youtube.com/colinhoad Discord: https://discord.gg/zjvSBjG7rw
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Behold, the Toshiba Desk Station IV! It's... very much larger than I realised when I bid on it 😳

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

It's hot out! Share some movie or TV characters at the beach.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

I've got a joke about Susan Foreman, but you wouldn't know her, she went to another school

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

what do you mean 'normal tools'?

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

Important bear news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

It won't happen, of course, but wouldn't it be wonderful to see the likes of Altman and Amodei forced to go cap in hand into their next VC funding round to raise billions so they could compensate all the writers they plagiarised from...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I got 60 copyright infringement hits from the Libgen database. So $9,000,000 for me? Even with the dollar currently taking a hit on the exchanges, that's £6,570,000. If the UK government wants to boost the economy, how about getting behind authors to enforce copyright law instead of selling us out?

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

submitted 4 days ago • 46 comments

You're looking at the largest land animal of the Permian (~290 MYA), Eryops megacephalus, which translates to "long-face giant-head". It's a GIANT AMPHIBIAN. Like somewhere between a SALAMANDER & a FROG, but hog-sized. And, to get this out of the way, bears a striking resemblance to Barney. 🟣🦖

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

This... could be huge! Neuromancer is quite possibly my favourite book of all time.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It's a bit rarefied, but the Skesis "Hmmmmmmmmm!" voice gets a lot of use in this household 😅

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This looks like it could have been inspired, in part, by Tony Oakden's Star Port for the Beeb/Electron - the main character, setting and game dynamic (solving number puzzles to get through doors) is all *very* Star Port...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The next time you're asked about something at work for which you haven't the foggiest, instead of saying "sorry, I don't know", consider "alas, that knowledge was lost long ago".

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

okay and here is my ‘sounds like a shitpost but it’s genuine’ UK heatwave tip: if there is a Saxon or Norman church near you, and it’s open, go sit in it. not gothic, they have too many windows, get you some thick stone walls with some high up tiny windows. they stay cold. and you can just sit there

submitted 6 days ago • 104 comments

I do feel the box art for the European release of the MS-DOS game "Teenagent" depicts the eponymous teen as being about 50 years old and played by Peter Weller...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment