@fasterthanli.me not quite what you were asking for, but I've seen languages (or, at least one) where relations are part of the IF statement and are not expressions at all in and of themselves This one is 0basicx on CYBIS/PLATO
Everytime someone mentions Atmosphere I have to remind myself they're talking about the Bluesky protocol and not Adobe's 3D social world software.
Photos and video from VCF East 2026 and surrounding events: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCRPCa Had to remove a picture with a punched card because it has my IRL name on it, and a video with 5 minutes of people trying to run and debug a FORTRAN program because it was too large for Flickr
VCF East 2026
Explore this photo album by Sgeo of Sine on Flickr!
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saitoha.github.io/libsixel/ The very existence of SIXEL and graphics and video in (some) terminal emulators feels like an April Fools joke, but isn't.
libsixel
The new standard of SIXEL development
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I feel like there's not much discussion about IBM 1401 FORTRAN IV. For IBM 1401 FORTRAN II there's a demo at the CHM, a full decompile, etc. etc. For IBM 1401 FORTRAN IV, the Internet has: The manual. The tape.
@tailsteak.bsky.social you might be interested in learning about the IBM 1956 consent decree, where IBM was required to sell computers instead of just leasing them. www.cnet.com/tech/service... (Although I'm not enough of a lawyer to understand the primary sources)
40-year-old IBM antitrust case ends
The Justice Department plans to end a 40-year-old antitrust regulation of IBM.
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Any experts on pre-1970 #FORTRAN around? The below two lines (there's stuff in between) are in IBM's SSP. It looks like it should be an out-of-bounds error, and in fact VS FORTRAN II refuses to compile it. So....??? DIMENSION XCOF(1),COF(1),ROOTR(1),ROOTI(1) 140 COF(2)=COF(2)+ALPHA*COF(1)
How would demos of CD-ROM DOS games have been distributed? I vaguely remember playing Peter Pan: A Story Painting Adventure on DOS as a kid. Looking it up, it seems like it came on CD-ROM. But there was also a demo of it, I wonder how that demo... was distributed? @dosnostalgic.bsky.social
Just made yet another personal project where I just used plain DOM manipulation. It's starting to get tedious. But then I'd have to look at frameworks and frameworks with their build processes always feel like overkill.
What retronetworking networks exist? I know of HNET built on IBM's NJE running on TCP/IP, and vaguely of HECNET (some DEC thing that I know even less about)
Donald Trump must fire Kristi Noem immediately. Or Democrats will initiate impeachment proceedings against her in the House. We can do this the easy way or the hard way.
It's weird to see people yelling at Senator Schumer to do something when he announces that he is, in fact, doing something.
BREAKING: Senate Democrats won't back funding bill if DHS is included, Schumer says, raising risk of government shutdown
I finally figured out how the Android back button works. When you press back, it flips a coin to decide whether to take you back or go to something unrelated.
I was a Dilbert fanatic when I was a kid (not the target audience). Read and owned several of the books, had Dilbert's Desktop Games, watched Dilbert VRML cartoons.
rather than talk about Scott Adams I want to talk about something weirder (me). Who else was really into Dilbert when you were 12. Who else was like, boy, I can't wait to work a cubicle job
Earlier this week I made a video showing how to use IBM's own 1401 emulator (a modified version) in Hercules. I still have some research to do on things like using tapes, the card punch, and sense switches. Also, documentation on the differences between the modified versions we have.
Running an IBM 1401 program in Hercules using Sim1401 for System/360
YouTube video by Sgeo
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@righto.com did any emulators ever start using Unicode characters to represent 1401 characters?
I wonder if I found a bug in IBM VM/370's START command. The below code should look at the PARM, then exit successfully. But when LOADed then STARTed, it crashes. START * works fine though, as though START doesn't give valid PARM
Some humor in Evergreen State College's student newspaper (from 1996: collections.evergreen.edu/s/archives/i...) I've been seeking out information about the BASIC that ran on "Hewpie," it seems to be custom, and there's a simulator of it on CYBIS
Well, this was confusing. Error about missing "dyn", and I thought it was there. Until I tried retyping it. VS Code was suggesting it was implied.
We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.
Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 11mo agoVery, very bad stuff coming from leading right-wingers
PLATO/CYBIS had a BASIC simulator, but I'm not sure... which BASIC it's simulating. This USING command seems distinctive. It also supports matrix operations.
![Screenshot of PLATO terminal BASIC help, with the following explanation of the USING command:
using
using...of
The "using" statement is used to execute the text
of a different line number in place of the current line.
100 print "Hi, Matey"
120 if a[b[33×z9- not sqr(a[1])],3] then print "wrong"
130 using 100
140 using 120
150 using x+5 of 100,100,120
When program execution reaches line 130, the text
of the referenced line (100) will be executed (print
"Hi, Matey").
The "using" statement is really handy to use in
situations where you want to execute an instruction
more than once in a program and that instruction is
very long or complex, such as the one in line 120.
Line 140 will be executed as if it were "if a[b[33×...
etc.".
As shown in line 150, the conditional form may be
used with the "using" statement.
NEXT for another statement
BACK for more options
SHIFT BACK to return to the simulator](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jz7cxchv4deaqzdyzmujwkti/bafkreibwrf5mh3ew7jgo2bbikjmia26x3f2syzyb763axwebkhx4w3or3i)
The LaserActive news has made me curious about how the analog RF... signal actually works. So came across www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2HB... (and there's a playlist of these). Just started watching, so not sure how much detail these go into, but this is... interesting.
Pioneer Video Tuning Fork vol 1 (CD/LD format info)
YouTube video by Chad Page
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the founders envisioned a madman potentially becoming president what the founders did not envision was the majority of Congress and the Supreme Court becoming part of a cult of personality around said president. it’s both pathetic and horrifying
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo agoRep. Greg Steube: "We in the Congress have to back up everything that the president is doing. I have filed dozens of bills to make permanent all of Trump's executive orders."
The IBM PC diagnostics disk has an option for preparing to relocate the system. Apparently this refers to physical relocation. I wonder why the computer needs to be "prepared", what exactly that does.