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Greets come with something that was a bit of a droolsome thing for a teen Sharka seeing them advertised and demoed on Bad Influence: The Amstrad Mega PC!

DOS gaming AND Mega Drive gaming? All wrapped up in the beige-iest of boxes and controllers?

Damn cool then and still today!

The PC side clocked in at a 25mhz 386SX, 1MB ram, and 40MB HDD - not the snappiest of specs for 1993, but there was some wiggle room for what it came with. And at a price of £500-600 in the UK, similar to some of Amstrad's other budget PCs, it was a viable option for a best-of-both-worlds and to get in on DOS gaming without forking out a thousand or more.

#Retrocomputing #Retrogaming #DOSGaming #PC #videogaming #90s

No, I'm not logged into this PDP-11/70 from my Z80 "personal computer" kit to change my grade in Biology class. But I am logged into the BSD 2.11 Unix that is currently running on it using serial-to-telnet capability that understands Hayes-like modem commands.

#RetroComputing #RC2014 #Z80 #CPM #PDP11 #PiDP11 #BSD #Unix

@matoakit yeah! Having a hard time finding out if they're used anywhere else though!

I've always wondered what these plates are for. There's quite a few of them in Bradford city centre.

However I've just worked out, while writing this toot, that they point to Bradford's two central rail stations; Forster Square and the Interchange.

I don't recall seeing these anywhere else! Surely they do appear in other cities?

@kootenay Two years for me to get to London and spend a weekend on those lines then ^^

@kootenay I keep thinking about it! I'd definitely like to go ride the oldest stock of trains currently on the underground before they get replaced. :)

@kootenay Good luck! Always thought about doing something like that myself but never find the time ^^;

I've always wondered what these plates are for. There's quite a few of them in Bradford city centre.

However I've just worked out, while writing this toot, that they point to Bradford's two central rail stations; Forster Square and the Interchange.

I don't recall seeing these anywhere else! Surely they do appear in other cities?

@kevin eBay. Make sure you look up ones you find interesting as they might do modes that aren't in use anymore.

@kevin it's a piece of 80s kit, so communication is via serial, but it's solidly built. Looking forward to getting it working!

Brain has decided that I'm gonna fart about with a TNC this weekend, an AEA PK-232MBX. I've got two, had them for a while, but kept blanking on getting the tools to make it usable. I now have said tools to make up the required cables. :>

Found on Bluesky, and thought I'd share here.

The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food you can make so you don't die

From a co-author;

"I co-wrote a cookbook for depressed people and other folks with zero spoons, only knives. It's not meant to be gourmet cooking so much as a survival guide for late stage capitalism. And you can get it for free!"

#Cookbooks

traumbooks.itch.io/the-sad-bas

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