[HN Gopher] How the RESISTORS put computing into 1960s counter-c...
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       How the RESISTORS put computing into 1960s counter-culture
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2025-12-17 19:19 UTC (5 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (spectrum.ieee.org)
        
       | anthk wrote:
       | Trac64 implementation:
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       | https://git.luxferre.top/nntrac/
        
       | throwaway81523 wrote:
       | Web site is still up, resistors.org . It looks like John and
       | Margy Levine (first generation Resistors) are running it now. I
       | think Dave Fox (2nd generation I guess) took care of it before.
       | The linked article looks pretty good. There were a bunch of paper
       | archives kept around that are probably still interesting. I don't
       | know who has them now or if they still exist.
       | 
       | I didn't know about Trac64 or that Trac even really had the
       | concept of bits. It was all string operations, including string
       | arithmetic in arbitrary precision, I thought. But I never used it
       | much. It could be seen as a weird take on both Forth and Lisp.
       | 
       | #(ps,#(rs))
        
       | kmoser wrote:
       | > They borrowed an acoustic coupler--a forerunner of the computer
       | modem--and connected it to a nearby pay phone
       | 
       | The acoustic coupler is mounted on a modem, and is just the
       | cradle where you rest a handset. The device is not a forerunner
       | of a modem, it _is_ a modem.
        
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