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  1. Teletype 5620 DMD, Blit (1984)

    xahlee.info/kbd/teletype_5620.

    "Blit terminal was a programmable bitmap graphics terminal designed by Rob Pike and Bart Locanthi Jr. of Bell Labs in 1982. Model 5620 DMD (dot-mapped display) was created in 1984. They were sold by AT&T and Teletype Corp."

    #retrocomputing #tty #teletype #terminal #t5620 #belllabs #att

  2. Teletype 5620 DMD, Blit (1984)

    xahlee.info/kbd/teletype_5620.

    "Blit terminal was a programmable bitmap graphics terminal designed by Rob Pike and Bart Locanthi Jr. of Bell Labs in 1982. Model 5620 DMD (dot-mapped display) was created in 1984. They were sold by AT&T and Teletype Corp."

    #retrocomputing #tty #teletype #terminal #t5620 #belllabs #att

  3. Bell Labs: Where dreams of grandeur meet the reality of uninspired offspring 🤣. Apparently, the peak of #innovation was overshadowed by Dad's telescope show-and-tell in third grade 🎉. Who knew the most groundbreaking invention was the writer's own ego? 🙃🔭
    acesounderglass.com/2025/11/15 #BellLabs #Humor #GroundbreakingInvention #Ego #3rdGradeScience #HackerNews #ngated

  4. Bell Labs: Where dreams of grandeur meet the reality of uninspired offspring 🤣. Apparently, the peak of #innovation was overshadowed by Dad's telescope show-and-tell in third grade 🎉. Who knew the most groundbreaking invention was the writer's own ego? 🙃🔭
    acesounderglass.com/2025/11/15 #BellLabs #Humor #GroundbreakingInvention #Ego #3rdGradeScience #HackerNews #ngated

  5. CW: Political Race Theory

    @CptSuperlative @pluralistic this is the #knowledge shared in stories and #apprenticeships. This is stuff machines can’t capture. This kind of #somatic #tacitknowledge is stored in #mentorships and other human relationships. This kind of sharing made the old #belllabs and makes #amateurradio fun and worthwhile despite the #whitesupremacist milieu.

  6. CW: Political Race Theory

    @CptSuperlative @pluralistic this is the #knowledge shared in stories and #apprenticeships. This is stuff machines can’t capture. This kind of #somatic #tacitknowledge is stored in #mentorships and other human relationships. This kind of sharing made the old #belllabs and makes #amateurradio fun and worthwhile despite the #whitesupremacist milieu.

  7. You know the 90-90 rule, this old humorous aphorism saying "Writing the first 90% of the code takes 90% of the time, writing the remaining 10% of the code, takes the other 90% of the time". This came from #BellLabs more than 40 years ago, and I think is something people coding with #LLMs don't quite get.
    #LLM #Claude #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI

  8. You know the 90-90 rule, this old humorous aphorism saying "Writing the first 90% of the code takes 90% of the time, writing the remaining 10% of the code, takes the other 90% of the time". This came from #BellLabs more than 40 years ago, and I think is something people coding with #LLMs don't quite get.
    #LLM #Claude #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI

  9. New text editor released: it is known as HjiR and is a fork of the text editor ji developed at Bell Labs in the 1970s. It can be obtained at the GitHub github.com/hjirdev/hjir #new #software #linux #ide #c #official #real #belllabs #9front #cubes #hypercubes #geometry

  10. 2/6
    En los Laboratorios Bell de Nueva Jersey, William Shockley, John Bardeen y Walter Brattain buscaban una solución: controlar la electricidad a través de materia sólida, no del vacío. 🧪 Lo que lograron la tarde del 23 de diciembre de 1947 parecía un proyecto escolar de primaria hecho con prisa, pero estaba a punto de cambiar el mundo para siempre.
    #BellLabs #Fisica #Ciencia #Transistor

  11. #KenThompson Recalls #Unix’s Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins
    Thompson's vivid recollection of rowdy roomful of geeks at #BellLabs who built the digital world in a spirit of open play.
    What comes through is his gratefulness for people he’d worked with, and opportunity they’d had to all experiment together in an open environment to explore the limits of new and emerging technologies. It’s a tale of curiosity, a playful sense of serendipity and the enduring value of a community.
    thenewstack.io/ken-thompson-re

  12. #KenThompson Recalls #Unix’s Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins
    Thompson's vivid recollection of rowdy roomful of geeks at #BellLabs who built the digital world in a spirit of open play.
    What comes through is his gratefulness for people he’d worked with, and opportunity they’d had to all experiment together in an open environment to explore the limits of new and emerging technologies. It’s a tale of curiosity, a playful sense of serendipity and the enduring value of a community.
    thenewstack.io/ken-thompson-re