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Axel ⌨🐧🐪🚴😷 | R.I.P NatenomSome more pictures from the first day of the <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VCFe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VCFe</a> 24 in <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Munich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Munich</a>:A <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/punchtape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#punchtape</a> reader (and puncher).A <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Mega65" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mega65</a> running <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ManiacMansion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ManiacMansion</a> based on IIRC the Amiga graphics and the C64 sound of the game. I by chance wore the appropriate t-shirt, albeit in the German localization.And I'm still not sure after which related game -- Maniac Mansion or Day of The Tentacle -- the t-shirt is actually modeled after as the verbs don't match as well as I expected.<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/DOTT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DOTT</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VCFe24" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VCFe24</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VCFe2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VCFe2025</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/M%C3%BCnchen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#München</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Mastowall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mastowall</a>

The Oasis BBSVintage Punch Tape Storage Returns to the Commodore 64 Thanks to Róbert Farkas <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Commodore64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Commodore64</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/C64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#C64</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/PunchTape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PunchTape</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VintageComputing</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/RetroTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroTech</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Arduino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arduino</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/sleepTFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sleepTFF</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AssemblyLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AssemblyLanguage</a> <a href="https://theoasisbbs.com/vintage-punch-tape-storage-returns-to-the-commodore-64-thanks-to-robert-farkas/?feed_id=2535&_unique_id=67ebe43f97e94" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theoasisbbs.com/vintage-punch-tape-storage-returns-to-the-commodore-64-thanks-to-robert-farkas/?feed_id=2535&_unique_id=67ebe43f97e94</a>

IT NewsPaper Tape – With LASERs! - Though it is many decades since paper tape was commonly used as a data input or st... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/01/29/paper-tape-with-lasers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://hackaday.com/2025/01/29/paper-tape-with-lasers/</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/lasercutter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lasercutter</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/papertape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#papertape</a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/punchtape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#punchtape</a>

The Skeptic's Book of ListsI'm so old I've loaded a computer game into a computer using punch tape. ___________ <a href="https://c.im/tags/PunchTape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PunchTape</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ImSoOld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ImSoOld</a>

Computer History Museum 🇸🇮When starting machine translation, we assumed ASCII encoding, but discovered a different system. Seeking help on social media, our followers cracked the code in under 24 hours, revealing the use of an IBM Supertyper 8500 punch and BCDIC. 🕵️‍♂️🔍 Thanks to them, we found the decoding table in the IBM 1620 computer manual. 🙌🔠<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computermuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computermuseum</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computerhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computerhistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/slovenia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#slovenia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ljubljana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ljubljana</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwareheritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwareheritage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/digitalheritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#digitalheritage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nostalgia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/punchtape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#punchtape</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintagecomputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintagecomputer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vintagecomputing</a>

LisPi<a href="https://mas.to/@carnage4life" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@carnage4life</a> That's just a function of current digital storage media. Digitalization itself has nothing to do with it.Punched paper/cardboard cards or tape would be able to survive for centuries with adequate storage just fine.Building an optical reader for such is also what I'd consider a first-year electronics project.<a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/Archival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Archival</a> <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/DigitalStorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalStorage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/PunchTape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PunchTape</a> <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/PunchedTape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PunchedTape</a> <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/PunchCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PunchCard</a> <a href="https://mastodon.top/tags/PunchedCard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PunchedCard</a>

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