Post AhulSWbxdF1C5OrWNs by lstaples@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AhtucUnlv3gJncFwVE by twylo@mastodon.sdf.org
       2024-05-15T02:06:34Z
       
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       I’ve finally got the MFM emulator working properly so I can relive AT&T’s gigantic misstep in entering the UNIX hardware market. The 3B3 is a dreadful computer, but I have a fondness for it that I can neither explain, nor justify.
       
 (DIR) Post #AhtupCBOSJCLomMQ5I by twylo@mastodon.sdf.org
       2024-05-15T02:08:55Z
       
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       Also, this was a chance to play with my DMD 5620, featuring an appearance from @robpike !
       
 (DIR) Post #Ahtw33PrwiDYdaIt5U by Bomdia@hachyderm.io
       2024-05-15T02:22:38Z
       
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       @twylo it has a mouse??
       
 (DIR) Post #AhtwSWx7Gg1hTx0Ed6 by duncan_bayne@emacs.ch
       2024-05-15T02:27:05Z
       
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       @twylo It certainly *looks* the part 😍  Portrait monitor (like they should be!), keyboard with the control key in the right place, and 80s PC beige as far as the eye can see.
       
 (DIR) Post #AhtxOHu5NSMzbY7sZc by glyph@mastodon.social
       2024-05-15T02:37:05Z
       
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       @twylo @Phyxis what is going on with the function key row here
       
 (DIR) Post #AhtzOtULpyRG53VQ6C by upmultimedia@mastodon.gamedev.place
       2024-05-15T02:59:55Z
       
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       @twylo interesting shape!
       
 (DIR) Post #Ahu04wq7lftAdWk7Tk by davefischer@hachyderm.io
       2024-05-15T03:07:06Z
       
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       @twylo The 3B2 was a fantastic computer! Ok, very slow IO.  Otherwise excellent.I briefly adminned a room full of them at AT&T around 1989, and then got one for myself a year or two later.  I had a friend give mine a leopard skin paint job:
       
 (DIR) Post #Ahu7CgEs4ZYn95x5ou by clark@hachyderm.io
       2024-05-15T04:27:33Z
       
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       @twylo - Throwback. I vaguely remember using one of those for class involving assembly programming in the 80's.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ahu9HSbcO5i0DfzzjU by mrgtwentythree@mastodon.sdf.org
       2024-05-15T04:50:33Z
       
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       @twylo that tall window. in green. *swoon.*
       
 (DIR) Post #AhukbO08ufWw2Dpo7E by penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
       2024-05-15T11:48:56Z
       
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       @twylo Not having used one, can you explain what was dreadful about it?
       
 (DIR) Post #AhulSWbxdF1C5OrWNs by lstaples@mastodon.social
       2024-05-15T11:58:30Z
       
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       @twylo @SDF I administered two 3B2/400s for AT&T Japan in the late 1980s. They ran really well and never crashed. We had quite a few simultaneous users too.
       
 (DIR) Post #AhvA1vqEDUYvN4x5Cy by j3rn@fosstodon.org
       2024-05-15T16:33:55Z
       
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       @twylo Upon seeing the portrait monitor I immediately assumed it was a Xerox Alto!
       
 (DIR) Post #AhvOmwGzpNwng9mV1s by twylo@mastodon.sdf.org
       2024-05-15T19:19:22Z
       
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       @penguin42 "Dreadful" is a bit of playful hyperbole, but they're really not very good. Even by the standards of the time they are extraordinarily slow. Although their 10MHz clock speed sounds fast for the time, the architecture of the WE32100 CPU makes them much slower than similarly priced (or cheaper!) hardware you could buy from DEC or Sun in 1985.
       
 (DIR) Post #AiC8QO59yMltggmwKW by hub@cosocial.ca
       2024-05-23T20:58:34Z
       
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       @twylo screen optimized for PDF reading !!!
       
 (DIR) Post #Aid0pWbGZmYEbSSZe4 by roroyobert@mastodon.sdf.org
       2024-06-05T20:18:14Z
       
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       @twylo looks dandy