Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@fillertrack I couldn't finish watching it after that first one.

A bulging CR-2032 button battery. That's a first for me.

Yes, it was supposed to be a BR-2325 button battery instead, but the previous owner either didn't know or didn't care. I found out while removing a MicroBiotics M501-s RAM & Clock Expansion out of my Amiga 500.

@softgoat if you're able to practice in an empty lot, get some traffic or sports boundary cones to practice turns with. something good enough to see from the car & cheap enough nothing's lost if you drive over them.

People are making new games for computers 30-40 years old, and that makes me so incredibly happy. https://youtu.be/FLgYkRLsWqY

BTW, that line after the syntax error message isn't one I typed in again. It printed the line & put the cursor at the beginning so I could edit it.

Also, I miss messy full-screen program editors like that. Press Enter, the line your cursor's on is executed. If the line starts with a number, it's inserted in your program, automatically sorted numerically, replacing the same-numbered line if it already exists.

It's amazing what plugging in a compatible keyboard can accomplish. Now I can clean the floppy drive, get boot disks, & weigh HDD options.

Welcome to IBM PC-XT (5160) Cassette Basic in ROM, required for the earliest PC-DOS BasicA even though the cassette port & header pad both ceased to exist after the 5150.

Selfcare LB: I so need to do that.

@saphire ... That's not as true as it seems, it's pretty irrelevant anyway, & it comes off misogynistic as a result.

What happened in the 1980s that made computers uniquely male-dominated? Lots, but a biggie is that home computers were marketed as toys for boys, not for girls.

@maple Would you mind if I helped fix that?

Reminder: The women who programmed the ENIAC literally programmed on bare metal. That should've made them awesome. Women deserve lots more than just footnotes in the history of computer sciences.