I write about the past, present, and future of technology across three sites. imapenguin.com explores retro computing and programming fundamentals, milkcrunch.com covers modern software development and engineering culture, and evadot.com examines commercial spaceflight and the new space movement.
Posts
- Reimagining our property in 2024. Project number three for the winter is a mini high tunnel.
- Happy leap day! Decided to do some Gregorian calendar leap year calculations in assembly the hard way. KIM-1 clone is the right tool for the job!
- This "Caring for your Computer" book by Rodnay Zaks/Sybex from 1981 has some EXTREMELY RELEVANT life advice for 2024. Control your emotions... brilliant.
- The keys on this Commodore calculator look pretty familiar to many of us.
- Decided to take the plunge and buy a computer for our home. There are a lot of choices so I found this book to help us decide what’s right for us.
- I have absolutely no memory of this day or who took this picture. But there is proof that I smiled once. It was the 90s, and this is probably at 2 am, so that's my excuse.
- Another super interesting book for my Zaks collection.
- Interference? Whatever, my signal wiring is perfect.
- I get so many questions about this thing on Zoom calls.
- Another great one in the Sybex/Rodnay Zaks collection.
- Change
- I propose we change AI to AIT, meaning Automated Idea Thief.
- Enjoying this add-on to the Flipper. "Games" will be cool, but making screen captures of the Flipper is really what I wanted. Almost as cool as a Commodore (which can also play DOOM).
- Converting my 6502 Cluster to run WOZMON and MS BASIC. It was running just machine code and sometimes Eh-BASIC, but this fits my style better. Happy Thursday!
- Ah HAH. So, THIS is how they came up with those patterns in the 80s
- Funny how time goes by so fast. I put almost 500 hours on that plane in 3 years
- It's a fun and very short little book, but the number of typos, especially in the code listings, is next level. Bravo!
- It's day 12 with the Atari 800XL, and I'm wrapping my head around how far ahead it was in several areas. For example, graphics like this are actually relatively easy.
- You say caps lock, I say return key. Let’s say we all get along.
- Game starts early in my time zone.