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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.

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disaster fembro [xe/xem]

mastodon is a fascinating social experiment showing that when our online communication is unfettered by algorithms enforcing corporate incentives and when given the tools to better organize and moderate our communities, we inevitably gravitate towards horny on main

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Selfcare LB: I so need to do that.

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selfcare.tech

Set an alarm so you remember to eat regular meals if you have a tendency to get caught up in work and forget.

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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.

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Landy Manderson

@thatcosmonaut For folks asking when 'literally all women used to be programmers' ... when I first started in 1980, over 2/3 of data center developers (working w/COBOL, OLTP, mainframes and such) were women, as were most all production control ops and supervisors. At one point in the mid-80's my boss was a woman, as was her boss, as was her boss, as was her boss. Very different representation now.

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dankwraith KNZK FAREWELL TOUR

tfw you remember that literally all programmers used to be women until men realized that it was actual intellectual work and ran them out of the field so that 17 year old shitheads could make posts on reddit about how man brains are genetically wired for programming

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traabot

An acronym for the transphobes that pretend TERF is a slur. redd.it/9dx81q

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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.

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dankwraith KNZK FAREWELL TOUR

this is Betty Holberton. she invented the concept of breakpoints for debugging. ever heard of her? you probably haven't, because our field sucks ass and constantly erases its own history.

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Correction: Now it's making progress, but it needs lots of elbow grease.

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I'm not sure how to get the last layer of adhesive film off. I know it's there & not just case tackiness because a corner is actually clean & smooth. But a Magic Eraser doesn't seem to be doing anything.

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toxicodendron radicans

Today's fun fact: Forests are inherently socialist. Seriously.

In a forest, most plants are linked together by an underground network of mycorrhizal fungi. Via the fungi, the plants share resources around so that they can all benefit. Wha's more, the plants contribute more or less depending on how much they have. Plants with more resources contribute more to their community, helping to nurture the small, young, and weak ones.

This is one of my favourite random pieces of knowledge!

💚☀️🌳

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Timex Sinclair 1000 (USA's ZX-81) repair (+) 

The replacement ZX81 keyboard arrived, and the ribbons look and feel much more substantial. The only cosmetic differences are a slightly different font, shift-0 is rubout instead of delete, and enter is "new line" instead. Time to clean off the gunk from the top of the case so I can put the new keyboard in.

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I just received a package of mouse balls that shipped from New York & took a 5-day detour through Las Vegas. Everything I get comes through Albuquerque.

This package took the vacation I want to take.

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I want to be lewd and be kinky and boost furry porn, but IDK if it's better to do that from another instance or just do it here. The trouble is that some of what I want to boost isn't CW'd, & there's no status privacy control in boosts like there is with plain toots.

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Federated timeline 

I tried to click on a toot, but the instant the switch closed inside the mouse, the timeline scrolled, and the arrow ended up on top of a favorite star. I didn't even get the chance to read it before the gremlin in the machine decided I should fave it.

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Toshiba T4600C repair (-) 

I need a working FDD in this thing to do anything else anyway.

I have a HDD that booted normally a few days ago, but whoever installed Windows 95 on it installed it using a CD drive the lappy doesn't even have a port for. When I go to change anything, it tells me to put the CD into a nonexistent drive.

I have installation floppies I can blow away the janked install with, but that's why I need a working FDD.

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The most reliable computer I have today:

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Toshiba T4600C repair (-) 

Well, crap. I can't even test if my HDD is good or not (I have a known-working I can reformat if it isn't), because both the FDD inside my laptop & the spare I recently picked up have spindle drive belts that either slipped off the motor or just lost too much elasticity to grip the motor's spindle. Worse, the FDD is a slim model with ribbon cables, & IDEK if off-brand replacements ever existed. (Using a USB FDD is out because USB didn't exist yet.)

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