A wee peek at #Wikipedia: Michelle #Mone admits she lied about her qualifications to get her first job. She claimed that Julia Roberts wore her #Ultimo bras, which wasn't true. Mone illegally #bugged the office of one of her managers. A #tax avoidance scheme at one of her companies was described by the Chancellor George #Osborne as "morally repugnant"- Mone denied wrongdoing/...
What's more luggable than the original, easier to explain to the TSA, and as cute as a button? Yep, it's these 1:6 scale Osborne One miniatures that just landed in my shop! 🎉 Back in the day I spent a fair amount of time on a full size O1 figuring out how to load and unload data from floppies and though I don't miss the tiny screen I do kind of miss the springy coiled cable. #retrocomputing#miniature#restock#osborne https://store.transmutable.com/l/mo1
15 printed parts, a bit of 1mm nylon line, and a short length of filament is, along with labor and CA glue, what it takes to make a tiny Osborne One. Barring interruptions, they'll be in the shop later today. #retrocomputing#miniatures#osborne
Success on the 1:6 scale coiled cable! I can wind thin nylon line around a length of printer filament and then run a thin drip of CA glue to lock it in place. The results doesn't lengthen and spring back but it looks remarkably like the orignal. The CA glue soaks below the surface of the nylon so it isn't visible. In this test I used a light filament to see how much shows through. If it was the same color as the line I think it would not be noticed without magnification. #miniatures#osborne
The micrOsborne 1 design is coming along nicely. I'm still not sure what to do about an electronic display, though. One of my LCD suppliers has a panel the correct size that's used in VR rigs. It has a very high resolution but also would be tricky to integrate and is quite expensive. #miniatures#retrocomputers#osborne
Here's some hard truth about C - It's not going away. It's not that it's perfect, but it is immensely portable and useful. More importantly, no other #programming language has come close to its ubiquity. I'm not saying other languages don't do some things better (they definitely do!), but we're going to be stuck with C for a while yet.
The public shaming of community members via social media symbolises a return to the medieval custom of 'charivari' (a way of censuring people who transgressed social norms) | Dr Stella Perrott
Newest member of the #Commodore family is an #SX64.
Sadly it's a white-screener and its keyboard cable is missing.
Will see what I can do about that cable and according to Miss Google the white screen is a duff PLA chip. #retrogaming#RetroComputing#C64