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Emily

Not only got my Micro 8088 booting, also got the keyboard to finally work! I needed the XTATKEY_RT01 instead of the XTATKEY_094 firmware to work with my PS/2 keyboard.

Next up to get the Floppy and Hard disk controllers added, get a battery on the RTC, and figure out why HDMI graphics fail on the graphics gremlin.

#8088 #XT #vintagecomputing #Retrocomputing

Boot screen from a Micro 8088, showing the CPU and other peripheral info. It's an amber color on an LCD monitor emulating MDA graphics currently via the Graphics Gremlin
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Kleiner Radler - resigniert

Meine heutige Problemlösung an meinem #Gravel war folgende. Ich fahre eine #GRX 1x11. Leider verkraftet das Schaltwerk nur Kassetten mit 11-42 Zähnen. Wenn das Rad unbeladen und der Körper noch frisch ist, ist es spielend möglich mit 40/42 alle möglichen Berge hoch zu fahren. Mit Gepäck und vielen Kilometer in den Beinen sieht es anders aus. Deswegen ist mein Versuch heute gewesen, ein Schaltwerkskäfig vom #XT #Schaltwerk zu verbauen. Und siehe da, er passt auf das GRX. Der Umbau ist schnell erledigt. Ich würde es als sehr einfach kategorisieren. Von nun an kann ich eine Kassette mit 46 Zähnen fahren. Das ist neben einem anderen, breiteren Lenker mit Flare die zweite Verbesserung meines Rades für die #TARNo2.

Ein Schaltwerkkäfig der Shimano XT 1x11 in Einzelteilen auf einer Gummumatte
Ein teilweise zerlegtes GRX Schaltwerk
Das GRX Schaltwerk mit XT Käfig am Fahrrad montiert.
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Thomas Adam

#xterm #xt

Here's another interesting xterm tip (well, I believe it is, anyway... ;))

If xterm is compiled with --enable-toolbar, then it allows for a menu bar to be rendered for access to xterm's builtin menus. These are already accessible with ctrl+2 or ctrl+3 (mouse buttons).

It's very handy.

The two screenshots show how it looks.

It's configured via ~/.Xdefaults

```
!Set the colour for the rest of the menubar line.
XTerm*form.background: gray30

!Set the colour of the menubar buttons.
*menubar*background: gray30

!Set the colour of the menus.
XTerm*SimpleMenu*Background: gray50
```

It's also possible to tell XTerm to add padding to the menu (see screenshots):

```
XTerm*SimpleMenu*HorizontalMargins: 32
```

The X Intrinsics Toolkit is really cool.

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Touaregtweet

2400 ...

2400 demonstranten, onder wie tientallen minderjarigen, opgepakt bij blokkade A12

[...]

"Volgens de politie is er bij de aanhoudingen "enig geweld" gebruikt door agenten."

" Volgens organisator Extinction Rebellion waren er bij beide protesten zo'n 25.000 mensen op de been. De politie laat zich daar verder niet over uit."

nos.nl/artikel/2489897-2400-de #XT #climateprotest #climatecrisis #StopFossieleSubsidies #A12

NOS Nieuws2400 demonstranten, onder wie tientallen minderjarigen, opgepakt bij blokkade A12De politie meldt dat de demonstranten met bussen naar het ADO-stadion zijn gebracht. De meeste demonstranten zijn weer vrijgelaten.
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Thomas Adam

"And the moonbeams kissed the sea: what is all this sweet work worth" -- Shelley

#xmoontool is an #x11 application displaying real time information about the moon.

It uses #Xt and #motif as its main widgets.

Written by John Walker and Ron Hutchins, sometime in 1989, although this version originally ported to "OpenWindows" turned up sometime in December 1991.

I didn't have to modify the code to get it to compile.

When it is iconified, it shows what the moon looks like in the sky (see images attached).

This only works on 8-bit colour-depth displays due to how the XVisuals are used to render the pixmaps.

Interestingly, the following books were used as a mathematical aid for the program to calculate moon things:

"Practical Astronomy With Your Calculator" by Peter Duffett-Smith, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, 1981.

"Astronomical Formulae for Calculators" by Jean Meeus, Third Edition, Willmann-Bell, 1985.

"Planetary Programs and Tables from -4000 to +2800" by Pierre Bretagnon and Jean-Louis Simon, Willmann-Bell, 1986.

"Celestial BASIC" by Eric Burgess, Revised Edition, Sybex, 1985.

"Astronomy: From the Earth to the Universe" by Jay M. Pasachoff, Second Edition, Saunders College Publishing, 1983

The red dot you can see on the iconified window is commemorative, showing Tranquility Base, to mark the 20th anniversary of Apollo 11 (at the time).

What lunatics! #x11cp

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vga256

i'm a recovering #academic and former #gamedev who worked primarily on #adventuregames. now working as a new media #artist producing #retrocomputing interactive installations. currently building 1992: The Simulation.

grew up in the 80s and 90s with a Tandy TRS-80 CoCo II -> Mattel Intellivision -> #Amstrad PC #XT -> IBM PS/1 -> Boring Beige Pentium 133, long before I fell in love with the iBook G4.

nowadays I spend most of my time building period-accurate interactive exhibits with retrocomputing hardware and software.

the rest of my time involves photography and (interactive) documentary filmmaking.

#introduction
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