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  • rbanffy 36 days ago | parent | on: The Sinclair ZX Spectrum Next Issue 3
    Quite frankly, I'd love it more if it were just a USB keyboard. I could use it for my day-to-day work and, occasionally, enjoy games on an emulator.
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    • zxm 36 days ago
      same, i'd love one but just don't have the space for another computer in a tiny space. will just have to stick with speccy emulators. but as soon as i have the space i'll get one in a heartbeat.
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  • rbanffy 48 days ago | parent | on: 10 Desktop Publishing Tools That Didn’t Make It
    I miss Publish It from that list. It was impossibly good on the Apple //e
    • ohjeez 46 days ago
      It leaves out Framemaker, which was... a thing.
      • bmonkey325 44 days ago
        FrameMaker never went away. It was just subsumed by a sea of Microsoft Word being used inappropriately. Where I work I think we last updated during the pandemic.

        https://www.adobe.com/ca/products/framemaker.html

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    • bmonkey325 46 days ago
      Yes. Newsroom by springboard was popular in Toronto as I was heading to university in mid 80s.
  • rbanffy 82 days ago | parent | on: The Manx catalog website knows about 22,060 comput...
    Is there an easy way to mirror it?
    • viler 82 days ago
      I suppose it can be crawled like any other website, since it's a collection of links - manx-docs doesn't host any of the manuals.

      As such it can be bitten by the usual link rot problem, but at least it has multiple links for each entry, which should minimize that. Where no digitized copies are known to exist, the entry is listed without links - but that's still a good thing to have, for those with the means to do something about it.

  • rbanffy 94 days ago | parent | on: The Golden Age of computer user groups
    > piracy

    Off-site backups, please.

  • rbanffy 192 days ago | parent | on: Whatever Happened to Unix Workstations?
    Technically, nothing. Apple still makes them. And they sell quite well.
  • rbanffy 322 days ago | parent | on: Welcome to the terminals wiki!
    Who manages the website and how can someone contribute to it?
    • bmonkey325 321 days ago
      I found this page to request an account

      http://user.xmission.com/~legalize/wiki-account.html

  • rbanffy 335 days ago | parent | on: A ZX Spectrum in the Palm of Your Hand
    It could have an HDMI or DisplayPort connector though.
  • rbanffy 335 days ago | parent | on: Unicode 16.0: Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplem...
    You’ll need the right font for that. I don’t think terminals will support most of those (VTE will probably support the new 2x4 mosaics)
  • rbanffy 351 days ago | parent | on: Documentation on Retro Computers
    Very good, but a little bit incomplete. Would be worthwhile to include a bit more from the Bitsavers collection (and the OCR’ed versions on the Internet Archive.
  • rbanffy 355 days ago | parent | on: Why the fascination with retrocomputing?
    The best part is that for any interesting application, we’d be writing our own little RTOS from scratch. Nothing quite beats that feeling.
    • bmonkey325 355 days ago
      This. So much this.
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