94 years ago today, John Logie-Baird & the Baird Television company televised the Epsom Derby live to cinemas..
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My career began in electronics & now it's in IT. I talk nonsense here about my hobby stuff: Electronics, STEM, IoT, Meshtastic, Vintage 8-bit computers. My dog is called Holly & she's much cuter than me | West Sussex, UK | Views are my own humble opinions.
Behold, Walkers have produced a crisp flavour "Inspired by Spanish Queso"...using Cheddar and Mozzarella* 🙃 Ciao, duck. *And all the other...stuff listed.
Tesco has the match night covered: * Get pissed on wine and lager * Hydration breaks! * Over indulge and puke everywhere. * Spend the next day clamped to the toilet, and washing your clothes. Enjoy!
I have acquired an AVO 8 Mk.4 meter - very generously gifted via Freecycle. Apparently it's not working. I'll check it over shortly and see what's what. The +ve probe tip is missing, as is one clip. The right case strap is inside so I'll have to brush up on my leather sewing. Lovely bit of kit.
The screws may be good too. Trouble is it's all do it yourself 🤔
Smart people, have you used successfully any of the e-ink shelf label displays from AliExpress with https://www.openepaperlink.de/ I'm designing a system to display occupancy info outside meeting rooms, with no wiring, and central control from a room booking system. Ideas appreciated.
I love seeing and reading here about the stuff people get up to with vintage computing, electronics and STEM-related things. Other matters I'll keep in my news RSS feeds. To that effect, this filter list is very helpful.
I have been writing long-form history articles for Digikey's industry magazine. They have just published my 27th article. My website has a complete catalog of the stories. Each and every article will have a story that you have never heard before, I promise. cybercitycircuits.com/2025/12/31/r...
Just heard from someone that they didn't get a job they interviewed for. Apparently one negative the company noted was that when they offered a drink of tea, coffee or water, he asked for water...and "people should always carry their own water". /smh
I am intrigued by the computer at the start of this clip. It looks like an AI has had a go at making a picture of a Commodore PET and got it wrong. The keyboard is missing a few keys and the disk drives would be an aftermarket add on, and then a separate monitor? Anyone recognise it?
archivetvmusings@archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 2mo agoManaging the Micro (14th June 1981). Brian Redhead looks at word processors and the future of total information systems.
Sycophancy (Noun): When you just want the plain version of something.
I seem to have bought a boxed 'For parts or not working' Commodore 64. How did that happen!? Looking forward to seeing what state it's in. #Commodore
Mrs Linker asked whether I ordered a pizza recently because there's a charge for Domino's on our credit card. Nope. Uh, oh...maybe a fraudulent charge...? Oh, wait, it says 'Domains' 😆
On this Day! In 1941 The Zuse Z3 was completed by Konrad Zuse in Berlin. I's the world’s first working, program-controlled, and fully automatic digital computer. It was a Turing-complete machine and implemented essential components of modern computing . #ZuseZ3 #TuringComplete
That time I got a PocketBeagle to run an RC2014 compatible CP/M OS and fired up WordStar
Did you know that scientists once conducted trials to see whether massive groups of small jumping insects could be synchronised to produce usable amounts of electricity? It was a fleas-ability study.
Woken up at 3am by a poorly Mrs L3K. Couldn't get back to sleep later so I tried the usual - logged on to do some server maintenance, installed patches and fixed a jail issue with fali2ban. I also downloaded and compiled the latest source for Remmina that supports interactive ssh logins with TOTP.
How odd. I've called HMRC a few times from my mobile phone and have posted here about it and nowhere else, and now the Reddit phone app's list of other subreddits in which I might be interested includes posts from r/HMRC. I checked and the app didn't have permission to read my contacts. Uncanny?!
Where did William Shakespeare keep the rope he used for tying up his trousers? In a bard cord box.
BBC reporter interviewing a space scientist about the Artemis mission: "...then the crew will be at the Lunar observation window - what's that for?"
Why did the manager often have trouble locating the office printer? He had poor peripheral vision.
The person who was arrested after throwing powdered Jell-O and a jug of water over Donald Trump has subsequently been charged with trying to set a president.
My Sunday pm was interrupted by Node-RED deciding I had no dashboard pages - no controls or indicators, but the back-end was still working. After trying a few fixes, including restoring 2 backups, I decided this was my cue to migrate everything to Dashboard 2. And here we are..half past midnight! 😣
