Tech Trivia

On March 9, 1955, a program called “Director” was demonstrated on MIT’s Whirlwind computer—automatically managing system resources while user code ran. It’s considered one of the earliest rudimentary operating systems ever created.

𝚜𝚢𝚜.𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚗 → 𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚝_𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚝_𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍…

𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚢_𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚎: [𝚁𝙴𝙳𝙰𝙲𝚃𝙴𝙳]…

𝚞𝚙𝚕𝚘𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐_𝚝𝚘_𝚟𝚘𝚒𝚍…

anyone have experience calibrating PVMs, specifically the geometry?

I have a PVM-1954Q, and the geometry has been off since forever, i’d like to finally fix it. If anyone has any tips/precautions, i’d appreciate it ^^

me with my penis stuck in a Macintosh “guess that’s why they call it a floppy drive!”

The applebees waitress:

[𝙱𝙾𝙾𝚃_𝚂𝙴𝚀𝚄𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴_𝙸𝙽𝙸𝚃𝙸𝙰𝚃𝙴𝙳]
𝚌𝚘𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚎: 𝚛𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚍…
𝚗𝚎𝚠_𝚍𝚊𝚢_𝚕𝚘𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐…

Lisa. It works the way you do. (1983 brochure)

Newest acquisition: tape deck! Needs a clean on the moving parts cause it sounds like ass rn but im buzzing. Not pictured is the minidisc player that also showed up today

Make sure you bid on legendary director David Lynch’s random shit, including this incredibly overpriced Apple monitor

oldcomputers.net has some takes

𝚜𝚢𝚜.𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚟𝚎 → 𝚖𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚊: 𝚏𝚕𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚢_𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚔… 𝚍𝚊𝚝𝚊: 𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚎𝚍.

Gunhed (1989)