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1-16-2026 - Slow computing
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Now that I've got my Models 1 and 2 prototypes fully usable, I'm
finally able to really explore the extent of 'slow computing' --
truly stretching the tolerability of latency using this machine
with an MCU and a slowly-refreshing ePaper display.  So far, it
suits me.  Somehow it seems like this might not be far from what
it was like to use a teletype terminal at 300bps.  Not only that, the
juiced mode I'm using to make the screen updates tolerable also
creates a ghosting effect reminiscent of cheap printer paper rolling
over dirty platens.  Oh, and the properties of LoRa radio for comms
is another patience-building "feature".  Yes, I'm embracing and
promoting slow computing.  Try it.  You might like it.

Of course, I'm no stranger to slow computing.  I continue to author
most of these phlog posts from my Beige G4.  The charm here is in
running an OS that was frankly never really meant to run at all on
this hardware.  It's slow computing, all right.  It was just as
slow in 2007.  :)

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