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  1. In der Hybrid-Vortragsreihe "Hack & Play", die heute um 16 Uhr startet, begrüßen wir als ersten Gast Moritz Feichtinger (@feichtimo), der über sein laufendes Forschungsprojekt "Computing the Social" (www.computingthesocial.net) zur Geschichte der datenbankgestützten Bevölkerungskontrolle im Vietnamkrieg referieren wird. Weitere Infos unter: hacknplay2026.rtrlb.de/ #vietnam #punchcards #retrocomputing #retrolab #hacknplay2026

  2. Somewhere, right now, a developer is sorting 400 COBOL cards off a computer room floor after a late night of keying. Nobody wants to look at it. Nobody cares.

    But we do.

    Announcing code review for Punch Cards, powered by Review Board.

    reviewboard.org/punch-cards/

    #mainframes #development #devtools #punchcards #legacy

  3. There is now a hardcover edition of LISP from Nothing, because some people asked. See t3x.org/lfn/
    Nothing new inside, just a hardcover version of the same book about minimal LISP and LISP in the age of mainframe computers.
    #LISP, #eval, #MACLISP, #mainframes, #punchcards, #teletypes, #retrocomputing