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cpcbegin<p>Crear un disco CP/M plus que arranque un programa y ocupe el minimo espacio<br><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_q2Bt7F7eHE&amp;pp=0gcJCX4JAYcqIYzv" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">m.youtube.com/watch?v=_q2Bt7F7</span><span class="invisible">eHE&amp;pp=0gcJCX4JAYcqIYzv</span></a><br><a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/amstrad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amstrad</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/cpc6128" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cpc6128</span></a> <a href="https://masto.nobigtech.es/tags/cpm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cpm</span></a></p>
Felix Palmen :freebsd: :c64:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@jameshowell" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jameshowell</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://functional.cafe/@tfb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tfb</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@jbqueru" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jbqueru</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@gumnos" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gumnos</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@mms" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mms</span></a></span> Yeah, reminds me of the famous story how some guy "fixed" the <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/C128" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>C128</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/CPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPM</span></a> implementation in the <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/hotel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hotel</span></a> just before <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/CES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CES</span></a> presentation for some broken hardware requiring writing a register *twice* to work as intended ... using a stupid DISK EDITOR (and calculating the stupid sector checksums manually). Source: Bil Herd's emails telling all the C128 dev story ... 🙈</p><p>Ok, it's kind of awesome to have THAT kind of skillz, but also kind of weird 😆</p>
eiZen<p>- Bonus section -</p><p>Japanese FORTRAN Handbook Æsthetics</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japanese</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroTech</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/CPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Typography</span></a></p><p>10/10 - E.O.F.</p>
eiZen<p>- Bonus section -</p><p>Japanese FORTRAN Handbook Æsthetics</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japanese</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroTech</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/CPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Typography</span></a></p><p>9/</p>
eiZen<p>Japanese CP/M Handbook Æsthetics</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japanese</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroTech</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/CPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Typography</span></a></p><p>8/</p>
eiZen<p>Japanese CP/M Handbook Æsthetics</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japanese</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroTech</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/CPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Typography</span></a></p><p>7/</p>
eiZen<p>Japanese CP/M Handbook Æsthetics</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japanese</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroTech</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/CPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Typography</span></a></p><p>6/</p>
eiZen<p>Japanese CP/M Handbook Æsthetics</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japanese</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroTech</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/CPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Typography</span></a></p><p>5/</p>
eiZen<p>Japanese CP/M Handbook Æsthetics</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japanese</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroTech</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/CPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Typography</span></a></p><p>4/</p>
eiZen<p>Japanese CP/M Handbook Æsthetics</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japanese</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroTech</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/CPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Typography</span></a></p><p>3/</p>
eiZen<p>Japanese CP/M Handbook Æsthetics</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japanese</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroTech</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/CPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Typography</span></a></p><p>2/</p>
eiZen<p>Æsthetics turned up to 11.</p><p>Japanese CP/M handbook visuals were peak future.</p><p>My brain feels Gundam, Bladerunner, Tetsuo and Retrocomputing in one go.</p><p>Some highlights for your timeline...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japanese</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroTech</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/CPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Typography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Typography</span></a></p><p>1/</p>
Guilherme Dellagustin<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pixelfed.social/gfkDSGN" class="u-url mention">@<span>gfkDSGN</span></a></span> can&#39;t see a mention to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/CPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CPM</span></a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DigitalResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DigitalResearch</span></a> without stopping a moment to remember the life, achievements, and premature death of Gary Kildall, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RIP</span></a> , we need to celebrate him more...</p>
ITs History!With the <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/TRS?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TRS</a>-80 <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/RadioShack?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadioShack</a> sold 5x more than <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Apple?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apple</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/computers?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computers</a>. This beautiful <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/retrocomputer?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputer</a> was the most popular <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/hardware?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hardware</a> to run <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/UNIX?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UNIX</a> for a while. With <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/CPM?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CPM</a> &amp; <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/GEM?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GEM</a> there was even a graphic <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/UI?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UI</a> and <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vectorgraphics?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vectorgraphics</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/art?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/software?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#software</a> available.<br> <br> The <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vector?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vector</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/illustration?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illustration</a> is made with <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/FreeSoftware?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> in <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/SVG?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SVG</a> quality. Instead of <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Adobe?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Adobe</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Illustrator?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Illustrator</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Ai?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ai</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/IP?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IP</a>, we've used <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Inkscape?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Inkscape</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/GPL?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GPL</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/FOSS?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Digiday: TikTok ad prices fall as uncertainty keeps some advertisers away. “Advertisers are split on whether to double down or cash out as TikTok’s future in the U.S. hangs in the balance. But enough have walked away to send ad prices downward for those who do stay. CPMs on the app declined 80% between January 2024 and January 2025, according to an estimate from adtech firm AdRoll based on […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/22/digiday-tiktok-ad-prices-fall-as-uncertainty-keeps-some-advertisers-away/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/22/digiday-tiktok-ad-prices-fall-as-uncertainty-keeps-some-advertisers-away/</a></p>
Saustrup<p>My brand new <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/mfmemulator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mfmemulator</span></a> from <a href="https://decromancer.ca/mfm-emulator/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">decromancer.ca/mfm-emulator/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> arrived from <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> about a week ago. It doubles as an MFM harddisk reader as well as an emulator, and I just happened to have a 40 year old disk lying around.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/MFM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MFM</span></a> was a weird standard, at least compared to SCSI and IDE. It's much closer to that of a floppy drive, than the hard disks we use today. That becomes apparent, when you realize that there are a lot of different standards for putting data on an MFM disks, and I'm just talking ones and zeroes here, not high level data like file systems. Basically, one model MFM controller probably won't read the data that another wrote on the same disk.</p><p>With that in mind, I was a little worried that the emulator wouldn't read my <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/CPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPM</span></a> disk that was previously connected to an old Adaptec SCSI-to-MFM controller. To my surprise it worked like a charm, and I'm now looking at <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pascal</span></a> source code my dad wrote in the mid <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/80s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>80s</span></a>. I'd call that a success! 🙂</p>
Renaissance Dork<p>The <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEC</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Rainbow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rainbow</span></a> never officially supported <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a>, since it came too late to the market to be the bridge between CP/M and <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/DOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOS</span></a> that it wanted to be, with PCs already dominating the market. But some dedicated DEC engineers wanted to see Windows run on the Rainbow. And they did. And you can, too.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/cpm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cpm</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digital</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/z80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>z80</span></a> #8088 </p><p><a href="https://renaissancedork.com/rainbow-through-windows/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">renaissancedork.com/rainbow-th</span><span class="invisible">rough-windows/</span></a></p>
gary<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@Walker" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Walker</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@jerry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jerry</span></a></span> i look at it as more of a call to arms or farewell to arms - if you are a biz you really need all of them; I'd say people on infosecexchange are richer and more well informed than your average apple user <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/mobile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mobile</span></a> ad tiers <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/cpm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cpm</span></a></p>
Saustrup<p>Here's a weird thing I found, while restoring my old <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/CPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPM</span></a> computers from <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/GeminiMicrocomputers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeminiMicrocomputers</span></a>: while there were models available with Winchester drives (that's harddisks for you young folks), the setup was a little weird. This was the time of the <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/MFM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MFM</span></a> and RLL harddrives, used by other systems such as the IBM 5150. Easily recognizable by having two flat ribbon cables instead of just one for each drive. RLL was a little more tightly packed with capacity, but basically the same concept - required slightly different controllers though. </p><p>Anyway, back to the Gemini. It featured a <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/SASI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SASI</span></a> interface, which is sort of an early version of <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/SCSI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCSI</span></a>. Did you connect a drive directly to it? Noooo. You connected a <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/Xebec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Xebec</span></a> SCSI/MFM controller. Did that require a lot of weird SCSI commands for telling the Xebec what disk was attached? Of course. Compared to how it's done today, very backwards.</p><p>Which meant I had zero luck with my new <a href="https://mstdn.dk/tags/zuluscsi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zuluscsi</span></a> device. <a href="https://zuluscsi.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">zuluscsi.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>I've got a plan B though.</p>
ITs History!<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/GaryKildall?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GaryKildall</a> is the real Wizard of <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/DOS?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOS</a> aka CP/M for personal <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/computers?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computers</a>. He developed <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/GEMdesktop?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GEMdesktop</a> on top of <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/CPM?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CPM</a>. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/GEMdraw?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GEMdraw</a> and <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/GSS?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GSS</a>-PLOT been ahead of <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/MacDraw?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MacDraw</a> and sh¡t like <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/MSpaint?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MSpaint</a>. <br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/SVG?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SVG</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vector?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vector</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/graphic?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#graphic</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/retrocomputer?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputer</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/illustration?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illustration</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/gfkDSGN?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gfkDSGN</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/FOSS?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/art?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Inkscape?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Inkscape</a>