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IMSAI C64 WiFi: Levi’s Digital Voyage Links WarGames Hardware to the C64 Ultimate
#IMSAI #Commodore64 #C64Ultimate #LevisDigitalVoyage #CPM #CCGMS #RetroComputing #WarGames
https://theoasisbbs.com/imsai-c64-wifi-levis-digital-voyage-links-wargames-hardware-to-the-c64-ultimate/?fsp_sid=6236 -
IMSAI C64 WiFi: Levi’s Digital Voyage Links WarGames Hardware to the C64 Ultimate
#IMSAI #Commodore64 #C64Ultimate #LevisDigitalVoyage #CPM #CCGMS #RetroComputing #WarGames
https://theoasisbbs.com/imsai-c64-wifi-levis-digital-voyage-links-wargames-hardware-to-the-c64-ultimate/?fsp_sid=6236 -
IMSAI C64 WiFi: Levi’s Digital Voyage Links WarGames Hardware to the C64 Ultimate
#IMSAI #Commodore64 #C64Ultimate #LevisDigitalVoyage #CPM #CCGMS #RetroComputing #WarGames
https://theoasisbbs.com/imsai-c64-wifi-levis-digital-voyage-links-wargames-hardware-to-the-c64-ultimate/?fsp_sid=6236 -
IMSAI C64 WiFi: Levi’s Digital Voyage Links WarGames Hardware to the C64 Ultimate
#IMSAI #Commodore64 #C64Ultimate #LevisDigitalVoyage #CPM #CCGMS #RetroComputing #WarGames
https://theoasisbbs.com/imsai-c64-wifi-levis-digital-voyage-links-wargames-hardware-to-the-c64-ultimate/?fsp_sid=6236 -
IMSAI C64 WiFi: Levi’s Digital Voyage Links WarGames Hardware to the C64 Ultimate
#IMSAI #Commodore64 #C64Ultimate #LevisDigitalVoyage #CPM #CCGMS #RetroComputing #WarGames
https://theoasisbbs.com/imsai-c64-wifi-levis-digital-voyage-links-wargames-hardware-to-the-c64-ultimate/?fsp_sid=6236 -
The Secret Father of Modern Computing: How Ed Roberts created the personal computer industry—and then walked away
https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-secret-father-of-modern-computing
#Altair #computinghistory #computers #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #vintagecomputers #S100 #CPM #8080 #IMSAI #EdRoberts #ACM
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#WritersCoffeeClub Ch 12 Nbr 15 FEV— Have you used any form of AI to help in creating your work? Do you have a red line? Where is it? Full Essay Version
I've been around long enough that I remember when the #Altair 8080 (the first commercial personal computer) got a full page ad in Scientific American. My BFF and I talked about it after school (11th grade, I think?) for hours. I had my own slimline phone on my own extension. I was a privileged kid. The #computer club had a teletype connection to a computer that ran #BASIC. We also had access to an #IBM mainframe assembler using #MIS (pencil in) punch cards. A friend built an #IMSAI 8080 with 256 bytes of memory and it played songs we could listen to by tuning to part of the FM band influenced by the frequency of bits passing through the memory buss.
Why do I bring this up? The first things we programmed (after ping-pong on the toggle switch lights, Star Trek, and later adventure games) where types of artificial intelligence. We've been "teaching" computers to "think" for us since we could rip them away from the greedy money grubbers who wanted to do things like accounting and payroll. Current concepts of AI rely on pattern matching against databases, in very simplified terms. Early #AI were procedural, and if it solved your math problem, spelled your word correctly, or found data in the noise, it was intelligent. It is inescapable that unless we write longhand or type on a typewriter, that we have used what someone terms AI.
Anybody remember Clippy?
The key to this question, and how I am going to take it, is to focus on the word "creating." To me, that highlights generating something. Text. Graphics. Though this implies #genAI (the current thing, something like #Diffusion or #ChatGPT). It also means graphic tools that I use to remove and add image elements to photos, or otherwise intelligently improve them in ways I could imagine but was previously incapable due to lack of talent, practice, or understanding of the unenhanced tools.
As for text, I remember once writing a chatbot psychologist. IF-THEN-ELSE. In BASIC, back in high school or it may have been in an equivalent language on a DEC-10 at university. It did not pass the Turing Test, but it could lift one's mood, which could help with me "creating" work!
I've no interest in using something like chatGPT to build a story from prompts. It would be the program's story, not mine. It would be a Cliff Notes version of an unwritten story, summarized, never provided a soul, before even being written. Because these things work by pattern matching and predicting what would be the next word (based on an average of everybody's writing or specific genres or authors), it would be pure statistical fabrication—not even fabulation, which implies creative fantasy. It would be a story with none of the emotion, feeling, or meaning I'd put into it. It would be phantom chatter masquerading as wit through statistical randomness. No enlightenment possible, except by accident.
As an author, why would I even try to replace myself, or create the tools for others to try to do the same? I suspect people that do, do so as I wrote above because they are "incapable due to lack of talent, practice, or understanding of the tools." I'll add, also laziness, though I tar myself with the same brush as I wrote above.
Never discount greed. Authors cost money. Computers cost once.
In any case, the AI tools built into the software I do use barely save me time as it is. I can't start a dictation with the 1st person personal pronoun on any of my systems. Statistically, more people start dictation with "Hi" then "I," so I always have to correct that. Thanks to auto-incorrect, even the words I spell correctly (few enough as it is) get changed. In this very article, the tool insisted I had a "teletype connection to a commuter!" Not only do I have to be aware of my own tendency toward grammar issues and typos, I have to proof for AI typos, including chaining typos since the tools keep track of some meaning and can spawn a hellacious brew of misconception and embarrassment should it slip out to readers. I know what I mean to write. Sometimes I find myself overruled by my own tools.
Have I used AI? Not genAI. Procedural tools, yes. Not for willingly generating text.
Red line? Yes. No generating story or text. What's the point?
[Author retains copyright (c)2024 R.S.]
#BoostingIsSharing and #CommentingIsCool
#fiction #romance #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon
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Гэри Килдалл — изобретатель, предприниматель, легенда
11 июля 1994, ровно 30 лет назад, ушел из жизни Гэри Килдалл, автор операционной системы CP/M, ставшей стандартом индустрии в начале 1980-х. Часто говорят, что Килдалл – человек, который должен был стать Биллом Гейтсом. Весельчак, изобретатель, программист, миллионер, телеведущий, просветитель, математик – таким мы его запомнили. Многие из обителей Хабра выросли на его телепередачах о компьютерах. И почти все встречались с его наследием, хоть и не всегда знали об этом. История Гэри Килдалла — это история о творческом гении и предпринимательском духе, которые привели к созданию одной из самых важных операционных систем в истории вычислительной техники. Его инновационные идеи до сих пор актуальны для современных технологий.
https://habr.com/ru/companies/timeweb/articles/824154/
#timeweb_статьи #cp/m #гэри_килдалл #ms_dos #dos #билл_гейтс #PL/M #intel #msft #ibm #история_осб #digital_research #IMSAI
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That's right. #retrocomputing #sgi #imsai
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The Interact was an #Intel 8080-based microcomputer from 1978 that sure didn't look like an #Altair or #imsai . In this blog post, we dig into this computer that didn't last long on the market but still gained a dedicated, if small, following. It's rare and valuable today. #RetroComputing https://dfarq.homeip.net/interact-home-computer-from-1978/
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Look what just came in the mail!
Two-CD OST set, 2hrs 14mins of nostalgic awesomeness!
#WarGames #Joshua #WOPR #OST #soundtrack #CD #album #vintage #DEFCON #movies #film #ArthurBRubenstein #IMSAI #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing
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HELP needed with our #IMSAI8080 computer!
Does anyone of you know these cpu card and knows where to find documentation about? It holds the cpu, voltage for the EPROM, a 416 2k serial RAM and serial chips for direct console communication.
Or maybe you know someone who knows someone who knows about #IMSAI. So sharing desired...
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The people's faces though XD
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Finished the #IMSAI 8080 kit build over the weekend. Since the CPU and peripheral devices are virtualized and running on an ESP32, it connects to the wifi and serves up a very nice web-based desktop interface. It also has two physical RS-232 serial ports on the back that can be used to connect physical peripheral devices.
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Assembly of the #IMSAI 8080esp kit has begun. I noticed that some of the PCB traces glow a bright green when my workbench light is behind it -- looks very #CyberPunk.
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I recently received this #IMSAI #8080 replica kit from Dave McNaughton (The High Nibble). Absolutely gorgeous and so thoughtfully packaged that it made the trip from Sydney NSW Australia all the way to Austin TX USA without any of the contents going astray. I can't wait to get this beauty assembled.
Protovision, I have you now...
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@citizen_astro I’ve always favored the DEC designs. IMSAI, an early personal computer looked much like the DEC unit you show here! I loved all those programming switches! #VintageComputers #computers #DEC #IMSAI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSAI_8080
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17:30 in D.emulator: Learn 8-bit machine language with the Toy CPU #emulator
An emulator in the style of the #Altair 8880 or #IMSAI 8080by Jim Hall
https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/learn_8bit/
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New blog post: A Visit to the Computer Museum at System Source in Baltimore, MD. On Feb 15, 2020, I took lots of pictures of #RetroComputing and #VintageComputing that you might enjoy. #IMSAI, #Apple, #DEC, #Commodore, a #Linotype, and more!
See more: https://biosrhythm.com/?p=2271
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Let's take a look at this IMSAI that I picked up just before we moved from CA to WA last year. #retrocomputing #imsai #s100bus
I had a search alert set for 'Altair' and 'IMSAI' on Craigslist for 6 years in SoCal. This was the 1 success. Sold to my by the original builder of the kit, like a 1 owner vintage car.
Why is one switch plain instead of the IMSAI paddle? Because the kit was missing 1 switch, so the builder subbed in a normal switch
(1 of ?)
