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Ten years of random, intermittent, and inconsequential utterances all on one convenient web page. Now without all that distracting context!

Hype curve in 3 presentations now! Does that qualify as a an #accessyul meme?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Oct 20 20:16:07 +0000 2012)

@dbournetyson 4D printing?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Oct 20 20:41:45 +0000 2012)

Are there any libraries that have a good mobile interface and where greater than 10% of their web traffic is mobile? #AccessYUL

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Oct 21 14:25:19 +0000 2012)

OK, those are some impressive stats. Maybe this mobile thing has legs :) #AccessYUL

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Oct 21 14:43:03 +0000 2012)

Logo for people who can’t attend #accessyyt : http://bit.ly/16mcLeP

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Sep 23 17:57:15 +0000 2013)

@Runte quoting William Gibson, I’m pretty sure

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Aug 19 23:29:22 +0000 2014)

@Runte I know … Thought it was Gibson himself who noted the change

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Aug 23 16:07:43 +0000 2014)

@Runte but now I think I first saw it on the Gibson message board in 2003, but it wasn’t Gibson who posted it

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Aug 23 16:10:10 +0000 2014)

@dchud @declan @lukask I’ve met them both, and I agree

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Aug 30 01:32:06 +0000 2014)

My Access 2004 t-shirt finally bit the dust.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Sep 21 19:28:55 +0000 2014)

More reasons we need to care about privacy … Just the Facts? This Dossier Goes Further http://nyti.ms/1CJZIjg

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Oct 05 20:03:00 +0000 2014)

@skrrrl I’m thinking Ezra Pound?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Nov 20 17:55:03 +0000 2014)

There is nothing quite like the feeling you get from reading content saved from a Kaypro II on a 5.25" floppy 30 years ago

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Nov 24 20:56:43 +0000 2014)

“Je marche, mais je suis conscient de la confusion et de l’hypocrisie de la situation.” http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/topstories/more-state-power-not-free-speech-the-likeliest-we-are-charlie-result-1.2898354

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jan 13 15:06:12 +0000 2015)

RT @code4lib: Issue 27 of the Code4Lib Journal is out: http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issues/issue27

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jan 21 20:07:32 +0000 2015)

@skrrrl maybe they could hire a disembodied librarian, ie one whose food and shelter requirements are minimal

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jan 21 20:13:40 +0000 2015)

NAPLPS? Telidon? Anyone?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Feb 07 01:56:22 +0000 2015)

RT @evgenymorozov: My critique of “Internet experts” for those who can’t bother to read 5000-word essays

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Feb 15 17:05:41 +0000 2015)

@jordanheit I’d buy one. I’m currently holding onto two dead laptops because I can’t bear to part with the stickers

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu May 07 01:03:52 +0000 2015)

Note to tech vendors: I don’t think “customer service” means the customer serves you

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed May 20 22:23:10 +0000 2015)

@jordanheit I want one! … An xps13 I mean, although I’m sure the label is also very nice

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat May 30 19:07:05 +0000 2015)

“muttering thanks to these souless con artists as we plunder the very data they themselves took from a time now past” http://cd.textfiles.com/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jul 28 17:45:52 +0000 2015)

A little background reading for my talk at #accessyyz - The Original Net Artists | Motherboard http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-original-net-artists

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Aug 05 05:07:40 +0000 2015)

Imagine my joy when I discovered that building simple mailto forms in Sharepoint 2013 involves the same kludgey workarounds as WSS 3 in 2007

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Aug 19 20:37:46 +0000 2015)

sparql is better than prefix query notation? Actually, that’s not too hard to believe #accessyyz

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Sep 09 20:22:22 +0000 2015)

@tararobertson hi! I don’t post much but I’m enjoying the commentary

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Sep 09 20:24:01 +0000 2015)

A huge thanks to the #accessyyz team for another great Access conference!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Sep 11 17:29:33 +0000 2015)

@pabinkley Sadly, couldn’t get permission from Howarths estate. But I’ll send the slides to whoever wants them

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Sep 14 19:05:29 +0000 2015)

Finally figured out why I keep trying to open the lid of my new Thinkpad from the wrong end

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Sep 30 19:52:02 +0000 2015)

I’m pretty sure “faulty colleague” was a typo.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Oct 09 00:27:40 +0000 2015)

Every time I get cocky about my abilities as a digital archaeologist, I come across something like this: http://www.chrisfenton.com/cray-1-digital-archeology/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Oct 21 18:57:41 +0000 2015)

RT @BodilUK: Classic: CIA advice from 1944 on how to sabotage and slow down an organisation.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Nov 02 02:40:01 +0000 2015)

@rtennant Retro gaming console emulator? http://blog.petrockblock.com/retropie

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Dec 09 23:21:18 +0000 2015)

Who needs Episode VII when you can just telnet on over to http://towel.blinkenlights.nl

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Dec 16 22:43:45 +0000 2015)

Words to live by

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jan 05 02:26:10 +0000 2016)

Modern Thinkpad talking to a 35 year old Telidon decoder #SomethingYouDontSeeEveryDay

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Feb 05 22:02:21 +0000 2016)

Needed a few adapters

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Feb 05 22:05:23 +0000 2016)

@daskey might do. But if not, Win2k runs great in Virtual Box

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Feb 13 02:12:43 +0000 2016)

@jordanheit DOSBox

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Feb 23 21:26:20 +0000 2016)

Recording Telidon graphics, old school

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Feb 24 22:47:47 +0000 2016)

Excellent TC write up on the Library’s restoration of Glenn Howarth’s Telidon art, part of our #Ideafest2016 show http://bit.ly/21QEFeV

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Mar 06 23:38:00 +0000 2016)

@ianmilligan1 @tararobertson I believe that’s called the “a million lemmings can’t be wrong” theory of software procurement

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Mar 07 23:19:05 +0000 2016)

@tararobertson If we’re naming condos after vegetables now, may I suggest “Leek”

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Mar 17 16:20:35 +0000 2016)

There’s sometimes a second time for some things

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Mar 22 01:08:12 +0000 2016)

What’s the word for when a Syquest EZ135 drive, 3 Iomega Zip Drives and an 8" floppy drive all land in your office on the same day?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Mar 31 02:30:45 +0000 2016)

That was one productive trip to Surplus … 5 carts of retro gear for the Library

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Apr 08 20:50:18 +0000 2016)

Its a wrap! Two hours of Glenn Howarth’s Telidon sequences recorded for posterity

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu May 05 17:58:14 +0000 2016)

It’s alive!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri May 13 21:08:05 +0000 2016)

Specifically, “it” is a 28 year old Mac Plus recovered from Surplus, booting System 6.08 off a floppy (no HD)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat May 14 00:23:45 +0000 2016)

RT @mattblaze: Forgive my skepticism, but I’m roughly as confident Elsevier’s buying SSRN will change nothing as I’d be if NRLC bought Plan…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed May 18 01:02:41 +0000 2016)

So you’re just going to sit on your secrets, use them to make ham sandwiches and roadblocks?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed May 18 14:49:45 +0000 2016)

To write software, read novels http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/opinion/sunday/to-write-software-read-novels.html

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun May 22 15:58:55 +0000 2016)

I count 19 computers in my office. That’s normal, right?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon May 30 22:50:15 +0000 2016)

@ruebot @declan @AccessLibCon and ipres :(

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jun 14 13:53:44 +0000 2016)

@tararobertson @VIUniversity @DanaMcFarland so that’s where the bunnies went!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jun 16 14:14:13 +0000 2016)

@adr likewise! It was a lousy week to be home sick :(

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jun 21 01:35:03 +0000 2016)

DEC VT125, found in a stairwell. Every day’s like Christmas around here :)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jun 22 17:06:10 +0000 2016)

Looks promising …

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jun 23 20:03:10 +0000 2016)

@adr 1996 for me. And yeah, that was where the jobs were then. I applied for /everything/; tech-ish jobs were the ones I got

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jun 28 14:56:53 +0000 2016)

Checking out the historic sites in Charlottetown #access2009pei

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jul 08 17:55:18 +0000 2016)

@bryjbrown @adr @redlibrarian that’s insane! We pay $150/year for a basic VM from UVic IT, if we do our own admin.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jul 08 18:25:40 +0000 2016)

@tararobertson @lisagoddard @AccessLibCon Hmm … Have to think about that. Hard to believe it’s been 10 years since the last time …

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jul 14 10:08:18 +0000 2016)

@pabinkley as in “unimplementable abomination”? (1988 version)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jul 14 23:41:19 +0000 2016)

@pabinkley but Index Data eventually did a pretty good job with Zebra

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jul 14 23:43:28 +0000 2016)

RT @textfiles: For anyone who missed it linked over the weekend, my presentation on archiving, emulation, and a little more: https://t.co/V…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jul 26 21:55:50 +0000 2016)

Glenn Howarth’s Telidon art installed at the Legacy Maltwood gallery. Exhibition runs Jul 30 - Oct 12

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jul 29 00:11:13 +0000 2016)

“Since huge quantities of information can be computer-digitalized and transmitted, music researchers could…swap records over the Net” 1/2

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Aug 04 18:56:35 +0000 2016)

“… So much for record stores (in their present form)” - Stewart Brand, 1972 2/2

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Aug 04 19:02:07 +0000 2016)

Expense checker. Wicker store clerk. Shipper-receiver. Gallery assistant. Library assistant. Mail room.Book store clerk. #firstsevenjobs

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Aug 07 20:01:52 +0000 2016)

RT @illarterate: Tech enthusiasts bring TV teletext back from the dead http://www.standard.co.uk/news/techandgadgets/tech-enthusiasts-bring-teletext-back-from-the-dead-in-new-launch-of-tv-service-a3316211.html @PeterKVT80

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Aug 10 14:36:56 +0000 2016)

Have to say I’m really looking forward to this … https://twitter.com/ipres2016/status/767813743241732097

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Aug 23 01:19:20 +0000 2016)

Not a lot of pokemon north of Sechelt. #rethinkingTheVacation

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Aug 29 21:02:33 +0000 2016)

Guess we’re going to be here for a while

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Sep 08 03:06:36 +0000 2016)

@DanaMcFarland … So many I’d forgotten …

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Sep 11 16:26:46 +0000 2016)

RT @jmhuculak: Download new #book, “Fronts of Modernity” avail @UVicLib. Many thanks to @UVicEnglish & @UVicHumanities colleagues https://t…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Sep 13 18:36:51 +0000 2016)

I’m pretty sure Symantec Antivirus /is/ a virus. Just saying. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-crashes-startup-symantec-norton-update

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Sep 14 18:44:42 +0000 2016)

RT @textfiles: Why the Apple II ProDOS 2.4 Release is the OS News of the Year http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5054

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Sep 16 02:48:48 +0000 2016)

@daskey and the linoleum is colour coded to indicate the load bearing capacity of different areas of the building … Very cool

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Sep 19 15:40:35 +0000 2016)

@daskey I was there for ELAG five years ago - great conference, awesome venue

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Sep 19 16:11:41 +0000 2016)

Couple of new additions to the vintage computing collection … Altair 8800 & 8800b

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Sep 19 21:41:26 +0000 2016)

@jddurno the 8800b might still work, but I’m hesitant to plug it in

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Sep 19 21:45:45 +0000 2016)

@declan we’ve got a nice one here too

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Sep 27 02:09:02 +0000 2016)

@declan fancy! This is the art in my room

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Oct 03 05:41:02 +0000 2016)

Unexpected HST reference at #ipres2016 #ohcanada

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Oct 04 19:50:14 +0000 2016)

I dream of a future without futurists

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Oct 05 07:34:09 +0000 2016)

Tech vendors: it really doesn’t look good when your promotional pen craps out before the end of the conference

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Oct 06 13:18:21 +0000 2016)

@librarialstudy not if I didn’t buy their product ;)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Oct 06 14:04:51 +0000 2016)

More of Glenn Howarth’s Telidon art on display now at the Legacy Gallery downtown Victoria. Great paintings too

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Oct 22 19:41:38 +0000 2016)

Pleased to see my article on working with floppy disks from the 1980s was published today in Code4Lib http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/11986

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Oct 26 00:12:49 +0000 2016)

@DanaMcFarland Definitely, send it along … WP 5.1 not a problem :)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Oct 26 00:18:01 +0000 2016)

@ruebot #firstsevenjobs?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Oct 27 01:28:20 +0000 2016)

Next gen Macbooks will remove the ‘x’ key. Letter combination ‘ecks’ can be used instead for backwards compatibility with English language

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Oct 28 18:33:35 +0000 2016)

Luckily, the kind of stagnant monopoly situation Jobs is describing could never happen in Library tech https://twitter.com/ow/status/792284416286523392

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Oct 31 05:12:31 +0000 2016)

@adr people can’t memorize computer industry acronyms

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Nov 24 20:26:49 +0000 2016)

RT @lorenzoFB: The Internet Archive is moving to Canada for fear of the upcoming Donald Trump presidency. https://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-entire-internet-will-be-archived-in-canada-to-protect-it-from-trump

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Nov 29 19:31:24 +0000 2016)

RT @richmccue: Studying @uvic? Want a short break? Try some classic arcade games at the Music & Media desk in the library! @uviclib https:/…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Dec 10 02:10:20 +0000 2016)

Reconstruction of interactive videotex on modern system (trying out the new whiteboard)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jan 24 21:51:18 +0000 2017)

PiDP8 is coming along nicely #whatsHeBuildingInThere

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Feb 14 04:27:54 +0000 2017)

@adr it’s been fun putting it together, although initially I had concerns that I might just wind up with a large blob of solder

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Feb 14 04:36:02 +0000 2017)

RT @claytoncubitt: We may not have expected to have to fight these battles, these battles are really weird, but we will win, goddamnit ht…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Mar 17 13:59:17 +0000 2017)

Do what someone is willing to pay you to do and the money will follow

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Mar 17 23:24:54 +0000 2017)

Joseph Heath has an interesting take on l’affaire Potter, as one might expect http://induecourse.ca/laffaire-potter/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Mar 25 17:37:00 +0000 2017)

Really looking forward to demoing the Canadian Videotex Artists restoration project at the #dhsi2017 colloquium

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Mar 27 20:31:26 +0000 2017)

Feels good to finally hit the submit button on my @AccessLibCon session proposal

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Mar 31 21:13:37 +0000 2017)

@jljordan42 awesome! - that you can bring it, and that it still exists…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Apr 03 00:48:51 +0000 2017)

@daskey @McMasterU I switched to Netscape years ago

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Apr 13 01:26:18 +0000 2017)

http://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2017/04/identity-crisis-the-reality-of-preparing-mls-students-for-a-competitive-and-increasingly-digital-world/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Apr 14 14:45:04 +0000 2017)

Will I never be rid of this diabolical thing?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Apr 19 17:12:55 +0000 2017)

3 prototypes and 1 finished USB housing - thanks @richmccue @UVicDSCommons @tinkercad

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Apr 20 21:06:51 +0000 2017)

@DanaMcFarland Good to have a fallback in case the librarian thing doesn’t pan out

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Apr 27 14:22:58 +0000 2017)

I assume the library futurists will soon be telling us to build shelves like there’s no tomorrow - http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/27/media/ebooks-sales-real-books/index.html

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue May 02 04:52:56 +0000 2017)

Colour Classic for the collection (June 1993 vintage)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue May 09 17:24:31 +0000 2017)

How to [re]create an interactive NAPLPS presentation on modern hardware. I’ll be demoing this at #dhsi2017 https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/8084

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed May 10 16:44:23 +0000 2017)

And, after quite some time in the garage, the PiDP8 is up and running

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun May 21 17:53:52 +0000 2017)

RT @pkp: PKP Position on Online Harassment: https://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp-position-on-online-harassment/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue May 30 01:08:13 +0000 2017)

RT @lisagoddard: Hey #DHSI2017, come check out @UVicLib’s new Digital Scholarship space at our reception on Thurs June 8th at 5:30 https://…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jun 04 20:56:47 +0000 2017)

@UVicLib #DHSI2017

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jun 09 01:14:15 +0000 2017)

Taking the new computer for a test drive

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Jun 12 01:39:04 +0000 2017)

Apple lle box: “installing circuit boards is a breeze!”

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jun 14 20:14:12 +0000 2017)

Jobs needs to change this

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jun 14 21:03:10 +0000 2017)

@adr If we did a surgical strike on OSS in our library, literally nothing would run, including our vendor apps. OSS pervades our stack

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jun 22 14:27:55 +0000 2017)

@adr Also, the idea that OSS is developed by a bunch of independents “scratching an itch” is dated. Lots comes out of foundations/industry

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jun 22 14:37:35 +0000 2017)

Hardly universal - Where’s the DB9 connector? https://twitter.com/evankirstel/status/878313648157900800

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jun 25 22:20:29 +0000 2017)

Password theft? https://twitter.com/lis_grievances/status/879710479383498752

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jun 28 03:57:12 +0000 2017)

Always knew those 3 USB ports would come in handy @UVicDSCommons #arduinoctopus

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jul 19 21:34:27 +0000 2017)

PiDP8, meet VT125

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jul 21 20:45:56 +0000 2017)

Honoured that my pidp8 is now featured on the project web site (next to a copy of the Small Computer Handbook): http://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-8

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Aug 08 18:14:32 +0000 2017)

Could someone talk me out of getting this? Thanks

https://www.altairduino.com

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Aug 17 02:12:41 +0000 2017)

RT @benjedwards: I’ve put together notes on how to preserve vintage electronics, based on my experiences over the past 24 years https://t.c…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Aug 19 20:06:25 +0000 2017)

@librarialstudy Wow! Your mother in law wrote one of Mother Tongue’s Unheralded Artists books? That’s a great series - I’m impressed!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Aug 23 04:56:02 +0000 2017)

RT @TheRegister: Exec: What do you do all day?

IT: Fix computers.

Exec: But they’re not broken

IT: Precisely. https://twitter.com/profdaveandress/status/904240965229129730

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Sep 04 21:01:50 +0000 2017)

RT @xkcdComic: Obsolete Technology https://xkcd.com/1891/ https://m.xkcd.com/1891/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Sep 19 01:14:09 +0000 2017)

@daskey @elibtronic Increasingly vendors don’t offer locally hosted products as an option, so there’s that

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Sep 20 00:37:57 +0000 2017)

@daskey @elibtronic And another reason: insufficient attention paid to exit strategies

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Sep 20 00:41:44 +0000 2017)

RT @TDTechHistory: The First Personal Computer You Never Heard Of September 25, 1973 Micro Computer Machines… http://bit.ly/1KzbCRA https…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Sep 25 14:28:52 +0000 2017)

@denials @lufappul Dang! You will be missed. And yeah, sorry to hear about the strike

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Sep 25 18:13:26 +0000 2017)

Excellent pres. by J. Hodge on privacy a hopeful take on issues that go back a ways, eg http://library.usask.ca/access98/steevestalk.html #accessYXE

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Sep 28 17:30:41 +0000 2017)

Don’t keep sensitive data you don’t need … one of many important points in Hannah Rainey’s talk #accessYXE

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Sep 28 17:48:43 +0000 2017)

more of Glenn Howarth’s Telidon art at http://uvac.uvic.ca/gallery/howarth/computer-graphic-art/video-2/ #accessYXE

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Sep 28 20:15:44 +0000 2017)

@adr I don’t know what this means, but I like it!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Sep 28 20:33:43 +0000 2017)

Been a while since I’ve heard a “MARC must die!” argument at Access … ah, nostalgia #accessYXE

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Sep 29 16:00:30 +0000 2017)

This microfilm idea won’t work - who can read it? #accessYXE (1938)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Sep 29 17:38:54 +0000 2017)

@loraba I prefer a more traditional approach involving a magnifying glass and a coal oil lamp

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Sep 29 17:43:15 +0000 2017)

manuscript restoration via IIIF one of the cooler things I’ve seen in a conference full of cool things #accessYXE

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Sep 29 20:02:54 +0000 2017)

As someone who routinely deals with compromised accounts in EZproxy, I am really liking Kenny #accessYXE

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Sep 29 20:36:54 +0000 2017)

I reject your terms of use and substitute my own

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Oct 01 17:08:44 +0000 2017)

RT @AccessLibCon: Hot off the presses! Our videos from #accessYXE are here for your viewing pleasure! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLomHagvStAaDzXullxohONtPPcD_T2AO4

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Oct 06 03:31:19 +0000 2017)

RT @dancohen: Good to see that the Association of Research Libraries is developing a code of best practices for preserving software under f…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Oct 20 03:06:10 +0000 2017)

@adr 8 inch, yes indeed

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/60-minutes-shocked-to-find-8-inch-floppies-drive-nuclear-deterrent/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Oct 25 13:57:57 +0000 2017)

RT @benjedwards: I’ve been uncovering more lost video game history – this time, I tell the story of the first known female video game deve…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Oct 27 14:34:14 +0000 2017)

@adr @stevelibrarian I’m still bummed that “CD ROM Librarian” ceased publication

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Oct 27 19:13:33 +0000 2017)

Altairduino’s coming together

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Nov 05 01:17:38 +0000 2017)

Holy smokes, just realized it’s 30 years since I got my first library job. Punch cards, catalogue updates on microfiche, good times

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Nov 07 17:46:46 +0000 2017)

@DanaMcFarland Library paste for the card pockets?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Nov 07 18:47:01 +0000 2017)

@DanaMcFarland Truly a lost art

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Nov 07 19:30:06 +0000 2017)

8” floppies returned from Oregon following successful data extraction- thanks Sydex!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Nov 15 22:22:48 +0000 2017)

Probably the last remaining copies of the Canadian Telidon exhibition at the 1983 São Paulo biennale

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Nov 15 22:24:31 +0000 2017)

Walkthrough of the UVic Computer Centre 1995 https://youtu.be/8_0XfL885Uk thanks for the link @coremania !

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Nov 17 21:05:20 +0000 2017)

@telezoic’s presentation is funny and interesting and includes slides like this. #thatsNotEasy #c4lbc

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Dec 01 17:19:53 +0000 2017)

Very cool workflow for linking video & audio transcipts to facilitate cross-linking in Hansard. #c4lbc

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Dec 01 17:46:06 +0000 2017)

Rebecca Dickson talks Google Docs for Himalayan/Tibetan OCR, with automation no less. Who’d have thought? #c4lbc

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Dec 01 19:35:07 +0000 2017)

Thanks so much to hosts VIRL & VIU, and all the #c4lbc 2017 organizers - it was an awesome couple of days!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Dec 02 00:44:47 +0000 2017)

RT @histoftech: The cloud is someone else’s computer–before we called it the cloud we called it timesharing. Ann Hardy wrote the OS that u…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Dec 13 20:04:43 +0000 2017)

After a couple of unsuccessful attempts to get Myst III:Exile running in XP in Virtual Box, I’ve found that it runs just fine under Wine … Myst III, after 16 years of not trying very hard, this is the holiday season I beat you.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Dec 20 05:25:47 +0000 2017)

@HalperEl @ZxSpectROM The PiDP8 is also an awesome kit. One really needs both :)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Dec 31 21:04:04 +0000 2017)

@computerfact Have I just been rickrolled?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jan 09 03:49:03 +0000 2018)

RT @textfiles: So, now you know (a little) about WARCs. Naturally, WARCs do not work against every one of the hellscape websites out there,…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jan 10 01:55:07 +0000 2018)

Today’s rescue from the discard pile, a DEC unibus terminator from 1986. Now, if I could just find the rest of the PDP-11 …

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jan 11 22:40:13 +0000 2018)

Affixed to my office door following my return after a bout of ‘flu … thanks for your concern @richmccue 😷

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jan 19 23:47:43 +0000 2018)

Reliving the heroic age of personal computing on my newly assembled Altairduino, trying to figure out the right $#@$!! terminal settings for Wordstar

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jan 21 02:35:49 +0000 2018)

@peterjfischel It is very neat. It’s a kit made by Chris Davies, based on the work of David Hansel. Web page is https://www.altairduino.com

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jan 21 16:13:45 +0000 2018)

@ChartreuseK Part of that is an artifact of taking the photo in low light; the leds look way less bright in real life. That said they could well be brighter than they were on the real Altair. Interesting to know low brightness leds are still available, but alas, too late for me …

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jan 21 21:45:58 +0000 2018)

@ned_potter @axfelix So, (NL NOT B), NOT ((NL AND B) OR (NL OR B)) where NL = natural language and B = Boolean?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Jan 22 18:03:39 +0000 2018)

I started at 35 … coding that is. Arguably I never learned computer science https://twitter.com/hadip/status/958786536794873856

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jan 31 20:11:08 +0000 2018)

RT @benjedwards: Huge breakthrough in dispaying 1980s vector NAPLPS graphics in JavaScript. Soon we will try this with recovered Prodigy ar…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Feb 10 02:22:31 +0000 2018)

IoT sump pump is OK, but what we really need is an AI sump pump

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Feb 10 18:32:17 +0000 2018)

@adr Thanks John! Should be fun, I think

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Feb 12 23:01:23 +0000 2018)

RT @ef1j95: Compiling and running LOVE.BAS

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Feb 15 02:24:06 +0000 2018)

@adr We had a Gremlin with a Levi’s denim interior and a thrush muffler. I only wish we had it still

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Feb 16 01:36:31 +0000 2018)

Always good to get a second opinion before naming your computer company

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Feb 24 00:19:30 +0000 2018)

RT @jmhuculak: Join me & @jddurno on Monday, Feb. 26 from 1pm-4pm in the @UVicLib foyer to play vintage video games like Nintendo’s DUCK HU…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Feb 24 00:20:22 +0000 2018)

@DanaMcFarland Challenge accepted :-)

While that particular initialism might not have been as widely used back then, I did find a few citations like the following, that weren’t about computers

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Feb 24 04:54:04 +0000 2018)

@DanaMcFarland My school got around the terminology problem by ignoring the whole thing

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Feb 24 05:04:24 +0000 2018)

@librarialstudy Saw that! Dang, if only I had the budget …

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Feb 27 14:52:11 +0000 2018)

Videotex graphic by my son, drawn with MGE, a DOS graphics editor made by Canadian company Microstar back in the late 80s. #NAPLPS4ever

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Mar 04 05:10:44 +0000 2018)

@adr True that. My pre-MLIS was an MFA in visual art. Which is not to say I didn’t struggle with imposter syndrome for the first 5 years of my career, all the while stuffing my head with as many O’Reilly books as I could cram in there.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Mar 06 16:57:15 +0000 2018)

@deans Do you have a blazer, wear glasses and do this with your hands?

https://archive.org/details/youtube-_ZBKX-6Gz6A

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Mar 08 14:44:00 +0000 2018)

@librarialstudy Interesting… I’m a little dubious about these “let’s make emulation super easy” projects. Emulation is actually pretty easy in most cases if you’re willing to read some documentation. But turn key emulation for multiple systems presents a whole whack of hard challenges

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Mar 12 19:05:06 +0000 2018)

RT @UVicDSCommons: Earlier this year, Media Services printed a sign for their new digital media studio space. They used the Atari 8-bit fon…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Mar 15 19:20:06 +0000 2018)

Very pleased to be giving an updated talk on my Telidon art restoration projects in Toronto on May 11 at Inter/Access, a major centre for Telidon art back in the 80s (when it was called Toronto Community Videotex)

http://interaccess.org/event/2018/digital-archaeology-excavating-telidon

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Mar 16 22:41:29 +0000 2018)

RT @dcbrock: Fascinating response by a computer club to Bill Gates’ famous “Open letter”: A call to create a public domain BASIC for 8080 m…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Mar 21 01:29:48 +0000 2018)

@adr @sleslie @daskey Compute Canada offers 50g owncloud space but of course you need to be eligible for a CC account. So fine for librarians, but not a library-wide solution

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Mar 26 15:42:12 +0000 2018)

RT @jim_boulton: Dear Twitter, I need 1,000 YouTube subscribers to remain part of the Partner Program. Any help reaching this number, much…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Mar 31 15:09:33 +0000 2018)

@adr Style over substance every time! I’ve loved Myst and Riven for years

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Apr 13 00:03:34 +0000 2018)

@adr Compared to other puzzle solving games they seemed to be a bit more figure-outable

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Apr 13 00:05:22 +0000 2018)

It dawned on me today that the Star Wars saga is really just a series of case studies showing how single points of failure in your tech deployments can have catastrophic consequences for your entire organization

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Apr 14 19:08:37 +0000 2018)

I’m definitely not the first person to realize this

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Apr 14 19:12:15 +0000 2018)

Awesome find in the Chemistry department! Plus 3 vintage PCs, all for the historic computing collection

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Apr 18 20:35:22 +0000 2018)

Atari came with this interesting add-on. Not sure what it does, but I bet there’s not many on eBay

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Apr 18 20:37:44 +0000 2018)

@adr 20 mb, never need more than that

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Apr 18 20:39:45 +0000 2018)

Wikipedia tells me IEEE 488 is a spec for an 8bit parallel bus used mostly for connecting to test equipment. Which makes sense given the Atari has been deployed in a Chemistry lab for the past quarter century

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Apr 18 20:57:35 +0000 2018)

@adr_ebooks Aren’t we all?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Apr 27 01:03:47 +0000 2018)

On my way to Toronto for what will one day be known as “the great NAPLPS revival of 2018” @InterAccessTO @TSVToronto #NAPLPS4ever

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon May 07 18:16:43 +0000 2018)

Very cool Minitel terminal at @InterAccessTO

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu May 10 10:13:16 +0000 2018)

Awesome talk on developing a browser-based NAPLPS decoder at @InterAccessTO last night - Thanks @n1ckfg!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu May 10 12:40:01 +0000 2018)

Spent an amazing and memorable day at YUCoM, the York University Computing Museum.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri May 11 02:48:41 +0000 2018)

The demo of their NABU Network reconstruction was a real highlight

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri May 11 02:50:10 +0000 2018)

@dgrigar Thanks for asking! We have some ideas, media studies being one, archival work with digital media being another … but it’s still rather early days at this point. We’ve been accumulating for the past 2 years, now we need to get it organized and set up in a permanent space

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri May 11 16:43:45 +0000 2018)

And belatedly here’s a photo of the NABU setup at YUCoM

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri May 11 16:47:29 +0000 2018)

@dgrigar We will be located in the lower level of the Main Library at UVic. Don’t quite have the space yet though, awating renovations

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri May 11 22:45:23 +0000 2018)

@jesswhyte Excellent!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri May 11 22:45:43 +0000 2018)

@dgrigar I do! I’d really like to talk with you about it. If we are able to meet up at DHSI that would be awesome

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat May 12 03:02:35 +0000 2018)

@dgrigar Sometime during Session 1 it is! I have quite a bit of availability the 4th to the 8th so if there’s a particular day/time that would work best for you, please let me know

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun May 13 23:11:04 +0000 2018)

RT @arduinoenigma: [OscarV] has done it again! He is currently taking names for when the PiDP-11 kit, a recreation of the PDP-11/70, becom…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon May 14 14:20:12 +0000 2018)

@dgrigar That would work well. I’m booked 11-12 that day, but no other commitments

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue May 15 04:49:39 +0000 2018)

@adr But deep down, I’m still just the humble Systems Librarian I always was

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu May 17 01:48:06 +0000 2018)

Still some spaces left for An Intro to the Archaeology of 1980s Computing workshop, Sunday June 10 at #dhsi18. Compact Macs, floppy disks, emulators and more! https://bit.ly/2ITBjUk

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri May 18 22:00:11 +0000 2018)

@dgrigar Yes, absolutely! Be great to have you there

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat May 19 00:07:29 +0000 2018)

@DJWrisley Excellent - Welcome aboard!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat May 19 15:52:46 +0000 2018)

I’ll be darned. The thing still boots! (Powerbook 165, circa 1993, System 7.1)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue May 22 20:30:43 +0000 2018)

@dgrigar Well , I do have a few others that aren’t being quite as cooperative … :-)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed May 23 01:01:05 +0000 2018)

RT @Foone: one of the downsides to being a reverse engineer is that sometimes you see something in a store and have to buy it just to take…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu May 24 01:21:58 +0000 2018)

Found a piece of Canadian Library tech history in a box of old floppies

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu May 24 13:47:44 +0000 2018)

Not sure selling floppies with software for breaking floppy copy protection was such a great business model

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun May 27 02:04:27 +0000 2018)

Showed off a small part of the Historic Computing Collection at the Donor celebration yesterday. Pleased to see how much interest there was. Also pleased that nothing blew up :-)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed May 30 18:47:00 +0000 2018)

While I would not generally recommend audio cassettes as long term preservation media, I’m pleased to report the data on this one has lasted 39 years and counting

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Jun 04 23:26:11 +0000 2018)

@adr I’ll have laptops on hand for those without. I’ve set up a vbox appliance with some emulators & utilities installed to hopefully simplify the tech support issues

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jun 05 18:04:16 +0000 2018)

@adr Well, you could just install the vm when you get here, or I can send you a list of stuff to install if you’d rather set it up yourself.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jun 05 18:12:31 +0000 2018)

@adr Ok, I’ll send out the list via email to the whole class. Should be able to do that in the next hour

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jun 06 21:52:16 +0000 2018)

RT @fcambus: Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs https://www.cambus.net/oldest-domains-in-the-com-net-and-org-tlds/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jun 27 00:42:04 +0000 2018)

Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid made a film about their cats! - who knew? https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1012016298803585025

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jun 28 04:17:06 +0000 2018)

@shlew @jordanheit I once bought a used book that had a prescription for glasses for me in it. I’d sold it to a completely different used book store 10 years previously

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Jul 02 22:08:02 +0000 2018)

Nice to see amidst the traction engines, tractors, and old radios in the Saanich Historical Artifacts Society Museum

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Jul 02 22:22:40 +0000 2018)

Coolest keyboard ever

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Jul 02 22:23:21 +0000 2018)

@jordanheit @shlew Way

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Jul 02 23:06:22 +0000 2018)

@dgrigar Heritage Acres, an open air museum mostly focused on the rural/agricultural history of the Saanich peninsula. So interesting (to me) to see a few old computers & some ham radio gear have made their way into the collection http://heritageacresbc.ca

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jul 03 14:29:00 +0000 2018)

Our 1986 Zenith laptop with pop-up floppy drives is up and running

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jul 03 17:36:13 +0000 2018)

@dgrigar A personal favourite for sure

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jul 04 03:14:43 +0000 2018)

@DanaMcFarland You bet. Dual 720k 3.5” floppies. Apparently a 10M external hard drive was an optional accessory, but a bit on the pricey side

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jul 04 03:22:57 +0000 2018)

@adr Yes, let’s all buy the same product, ensuring no competition in the academic ILS marketplace. Economists all agree customers benefit from being locked in to proprietary technology in a choice-free environment

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jul 12 19:06:57 +0000 2018)

@adr It is, and it amazes me how few other folks seem to get it. Especially given the experience we have with monopoly type journal vendors.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jul 12 19:12:11 +0000 2018)

@DanaMcFarland Wow! Going full Worldshare, or … ?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jul 17 01:33:59 +0000 2018)

@DanaMcFarland My understanding is Worldshare is a closed system, so can’t interact with other ILL systems.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jul 17 02:42:47 +0000 2018)

@DanaMcFarland But sounds like I may have misinterpreted your gif?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jul 17 02:43:26 +0000 2018)

@adr Ech, dreams. Ceased to follow them years ago, no regrets

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jul 21 18:20:20 +0000 2018)

Hooking up the Altairduino to Geoff Graham’s ASCII video terminal. https://geoffg.net/terminal.html

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jul 21 20:06:53 +0000 2018)

Pretty much done, except for the cable management

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jul 21 20:08:29 +0000 2018)

RT @hvdsomp: Hi there, digital preservation and web archiving friends, I would genuinely appreciate a retweet as a means to help @Dotster u…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jul 22 04:44:37 +0000 2018)

@adr_ebooks Have you considered posting to Slashdot? Tweets like this could significantly raise the level of discourse

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jul 27 01:43:47 +0000 2018)

RT @dgrigar: @jddurno, Head of Lib. Sys. @ UVic Library, & I are teaching Retro Machines & Media at DHSI 2019. It provides hands-on experie…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jul 31 01:09:25 +0000 2018)

@DanaMcFarland Well, to be fair, monopolistic vendors and their absurd profit margins have undermined my confidence a bit

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Aug 08 15:30:21 +0000 2018)

And after 22 years of pondering the problem, it finally becomes clear: the Artificial Intelligence RISC chip in the Thinking Machines 686 prototype was a coprocessor! It all makes sense now

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Aug 08 15:37:03 +0000 2018)

7 VGA monitors from surplus! Good news is they all work. Bad news is we need to find a place to store them

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Aug 08 16:31:31 +0000 2018)

@benjedwards Would have been a lot harder if I’d started collecting surplus CRTs 10 years ago

https://youtu.be/vb0jXw63IHU

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Aug 09 03:28:24 +0000 2018)

@dgrigar I’d really love to have a CGA monitor storage problem, but alas, those are long gone

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Aug 09 03:30:18 +0000 2018)

RT @molleindustria: I’ve got some retro propaganda for you

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Aug 10 00:38:36 +0000 2018)

But will any of it actually run on a compact Mac? https://twitter.com/CANARIE_Inc/status/1026862415164723200

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Aug 12 20:09:32 +0000 2018)

Hey, is that scrolling green text? Just what is going on here?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Aug 12 20:10:51 +0000 2018)

Just picked up a NeXT Cube from the School of Music. Let’s see if it still works

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Aug 13 18:45:28 +0000 2018)

@adr It is nice looking for sure. What were they like to work on?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Aug 13 18:48:54 +0000 2018)

@adr Cool. Some interesting hardware design decisions as we’re finding out, such as the keyboard & mouse that plug into the monitor, not the computer…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Aug 13 18:55:19 +0000 2018)

@adr No floppy drive sadly. I’d like to get Sir Tim’s original WWW Browser installed on it if we can but yeah, I think only the Select Few would be impressed at all .

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Aug 13 19:01:07 +0000 2018)

@adr Good thought. I’m not in the same room with it at the moment so can’t confirm network connection details, but I’ll relay to the stellar YCW student who has been getting all our old gear up and running this summer.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Aug 13 19:07:57 +0000 2018)

Looks promising, but hangs before loading the OS. Some troubleshooting required

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Aug 14 22:28:51 +0000 2018)

And in other news, we now have a retro oscilloscope for working on our retro computers

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Aug 14 22:30:33 +0000 2018)

@robcruickshank @Beetlenaut For the 2235, maybe “classic” is a better term

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Aug 15 01:41:38 +0000 2018)

@adr_ebooks In my experience, central IT has a surprisingly low tolerance for goat bots

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Aug 18 22:40:06 +0000 2018)

@journeygalactic oo

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Aug 19 05:03:46 +0000 2018)

RT @Foone: no joke, one of the reasons I got into computer programming is cause I was a young kid trying to look up info on UFOs and bigfoo…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Aug 20 04:53:41 +0000 2018)

@sleslie I read it as the student being concerned about lack of transparency wrt handling of personal info. The questions asked are reasonable; I’m surprised answers were not readily forthcoming. Would be very interested to hear UBC administration’s take.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Aug 21 01:12:35 +0000 2018)

RT @Foone: You want to see some weird shit? so Dynix is an old library index program, and there’s a screenshot of it on wikipedia. Where’d…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Aug 24 05:30:19 +0000 2018)

@ireneista Croquet was pretty surreal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Aug 25 02:45:09 +0000 2018)

@librarialstudy Croquet. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project (also replied to original post)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Aug 25 02:46:30 +0000 2018)

@dgrigar @CyndeMoya @LivingComputers I’m really hoping to get there for VCF PNW in March

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Sep 03 14:45:29 +0000 2018)

@ranti @illarterate And a shout out for Telidon! It’s coming back https://www.cbc.ca/arts/this-canadian-dial-up-art-is-older-than-the-internet-and-was-long-thought-to-be-lost-until-now-1.4662086

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Sep 05 01:11:41 +0000 2018)

@daskey Hey, it held off until September this year! (Ok, I’m joking… kind of. But I did see a few flakes in late August one time)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Sep 13 01:23:06 +0000 2018)

@DanaMcFarland @pabinkley @ryregier @redlibrarian I can recall one vendor who provided a login form we could host on our site that had a username/pwd embedded in a hidden input field. That would have been late 90s.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Sep 25 00:29:07 +0000 2018)

@redlibrarian @DanaMcFarland @pabinkley @ryregier They used newlines to make the page really long, and put the username and password at the bottom of the page, so it wouldn’t be immediately visible if you did a view source. Security, so important.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Sep 25 00:39:04 +0000 2018)

Very timely! I’ve got about 80 8" floppies I need to process … https://twitter.com/wxsampson/status/1045335157400641539

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Sep 27 20:24:57 +0000 2018)

The long awaited #PiDP11 kit has arrived! Anticipating much fun putting this together

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Sep 28 02:38:54 +0000 2018)

@dgrigar Will do! Could be a little while before I get to it though

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Sep 30 00:34:25 +0000 2018)

@wxsampson Thanks, I appreciate the interest and will let you know how it goes

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Sep 30 00:35:18 +0000 2018)

@bitsgalore Thanks! Glad you liked it

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Oct 09 01:59:18 +0000 2018)

@calvinmah I heard they played a great gig at one of the Access ‘96 social events. (Before my time though, so never did see them myself)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Oct 11 20:35:08 +0000 2018)

@ToddMundle @calvinmah Truly, there were giants on the earth in those days

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Oct 11 21:27:19 +0000 2018)

RT @dgrigar: Here are details for the 2018-19 Live Stream Traversals of early born digital literature hosted at the Electronic Literature L…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Oct 13 14:13:38 +0000 2018)

Fairly amazed that a NAPLPS viewer written by @AlastairMayer in java in the late 90s compiles on Ubuntu 16.04 twenty years later

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Oct 22 04:07:27 +0000 2018)

RT @DrBeef_: left: the “AI generated” portrait Christie’s is auctioning off right now

right: outputs from a neural network I trained and p…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Oct 25 19:11:29 +0000 2018)

@librarialstudy To me it looks like two bears, and he’s riding one of them. The symbolism remains obscure. A culture hero who brought bananas to the boreal forests of the north?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Oct 28 20:11:38 +0000 2018)

RT @dgrigar: Here’s a blog post about Deena Larsen’s visit to @ELitLab, entitled "Why a Lab Like ELL Is Needed for Digital Preservation and…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Nov 12 20:53:13 +0000 2018)

@DanaMcFarland @shlew I’ve long thought Aporia would be an excellent name for a child. Or maybe a cat

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Nov 16 00:40:24 +0000 2018)

PiDP-11, assembled

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Nov 19 02:14:14 +0000 2018)

@patriciaypang And an excellent talk it was!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Nov 30 00:55:04 +0000 2018)

@DanaMcFarland I like where this is going. Of course I’d really like to work harder on lawn maintenance but hey, you know, the bees

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Dec 05 01:35:23 +0000 2018)

@Foone Man, I am so glad you posted this last month! I just had to move a whole whack of files across share volumes, a few of which were called names like ‘com1.text’ … had I not read your rant I would have been very confused …

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Dec 10 21:52:24 +0000 2018)

@daskey Misconfiguration of antiquated systems also a big problem. Bet there’s more than a few unsecured NCIP servers out there sending data down the wire in plain text

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Dec 11 02:38:42 +0000 2018)

@daskey Although to be fair it’s not just Library software that has problems with ancient cruft. Just came across a bug in Windows 10 today that pre-dates MS DOS. Yep, you read that right. It was copied over from CP/M, intentionally

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Dec 11 02:44:22 +0000 2018)

@daskey There’s a great rant about it here: https://mobile.twitter.com/foone/status/1058676834940776450?lang=en

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Dec 11 02:48:49 +0000 2018)

It’s not every day I come across pictures of my Dad and a DEC VT 100 terminal in the same brochure

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Dec 16 19:58:28 +0000 2018)

Come for the tips on C pointers, stay for the Morris Dancing Cheat Sheet. Thought they didn’t make websites like http://duramecho.com/ anymore, but apparently they do! Nice work.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Dec 20 02:58:42 +0000 2018)

@adr The first pair I owned were made in Australia, the ones I wear now were made in SE Asia. No difference quality-wise. For extra librarian cred I wear them with orthotics.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Dec 24 05:34:18 +0000 2018)

@adr Perhaps a bit overqualified

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jan 05 01:23:34 +0000 2019)

RT @ItsTheShadsy: Tonight’s the night for Multimedia Cats, a 1995 reference CD-ROM by InRoads Interactive about… cats https://t.co/p2eyZr…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Jan 21 02:11:38 +0000 2019)

It occurs to me that videotex was, among other things, the ancestor of Powerpoint

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Feb 01 17:03:16 +0000 2019)

@MinitelResearch @desconcentrado Nice to meet you! I’m part of a project team working to restore Telidon artworks made by dozens of artists from across Canada. Not much we can show yet, but lots of work going on

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Feb 01 19:29:22 +0000 2019)

@desconcentrado @MinitelResearch Great, thanks! - that’s really good news. Didn’t know anyone was working on Telidon besides us

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Feb 01 21:03:32 +0000 2019)

@desconcentrado @MinitelResearch There’s some background on our project at https://www.cbc.ca/arts/this-canadian-dial-up-art-is-older-than-the-internet-and-was-long-thought-to-be-lost-until-now-1.4662086

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Feb 03 02:49:49 +0000 2019)

UVic Libraries has just posted for a Web Strategy Librarian https://partnershipjobs.ca//jobs/15847 …. Interested? UVic is an awesome place to work, and Victoria ain’t bad either …

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Feb 06 17:11:04 +0000 2019)

Today on the surplus pile: what appears to be a simple AM radio is in fact a sophisticated ionospheric wave sensor

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Feb 13 16:59:27 +0000 2019)

#WorldRadioDay

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Feb 13 21:11:58 +0000 2019)

RT @ETCLatUVic: Interested in #ElectronicLiterature? @UVicDSCommons is hosting Tim McLaughlin & @dgrigar (who happens to be an instructor a…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Feb 22 03:08:44 +0000 2019)

Really keen to see @dgrigar & Tim McLaughlin’s traversal of Tim’s early hypertext novel “Notes Toward Absolute Zero”, this Friday in the @UVicDSCommons, 2pm. Join us! https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/dsc/workshops/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Feb 27 21:01:39 +0000 2019)

What’s … interesting … with this picture?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Feb 28 19:50:26 +0000 2019)

Hint: Here’s what’s hooked up to the projector

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Feb 28 19:51:30 +0000 2019)

@48kRAM Ha! I think we should permanently install it as our presenter workstation.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Feb 28 19:55:00 +0000 2019)

RT @ELitLab: Per Eastgate Systems, Inc.,"Tim McLaughlin’s stunning ‘Notes Toward Absolute Zero’ interweaves historical documents of the ill…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Mar 01 02:06:51 +0000 2019)

RT @MinitelResearch: just acquired this beauty to expand our museum collection to #minitel competitors! #telidon #videotex https://t.co/u72…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Mar 05 00:45:27 +0000 2019)

@richmccue The retro room awaits!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Mar 09 02:24:24 +0000 2019)

@_01010101 @MinitelResearch Nyan cat?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Mar 13 03:33:29 +0000 2019)

@adr I once instigated a wildcat strike during a role playing exercise at NEL, if that helps at all

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Mar 29 18:30:50 +0000 2019)

Now, if the Bibliocafe follows up with a drone sandwich delivery service, I’ll never have to leave my desk again! https://twitter.com/UVicDSCommons/status/1112751136426070017

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Apr 01 18:58:55 +0000 2019)

@UVicDirSCUA I get a nickel every time someone clicks on that

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Apr 02 02:26:07 +0000 2019)

How better to spend Saturday afternoon than browsing the 1981 usenet archives on the http://quux.org gopher server in Cool Retro Term?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Apr 06 23:49:54 +0000 2019)

RT @dgrigar: Here is a link to the website for the course, entitled “Retro Machines and Media,” that @jddurno and I teaching this summer at…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Apr 09 03:38:50 +0000 2019)

Seriously cool archaeology of DEC terminal typography

https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2019/dec-crt-typography

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Apr 10 03:47:54 +0000 2019)

Finally got around to setting up wifi on the Commodore 64, then connected to the awesome Centronian BBS. Dang, do I know how to have a good time or what

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Apr 23 03:57:11 +0000 2019)

Have to say I’m really happy about this one. This grant will make it possible to recover a whole lot of early Canadian digital art, made by dozens of artists working with Telidon/videotex back in the early-mid 1980s.

And also, hey, congratulations @LibrarianPia! … https://twitter.com/UVicLib/status/1123721627131437058

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed May 01 23:25:29 +0000 2019)

Molar Mac boots!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri May 10 21:58:12 +0000 2019)

It’s real name is the Powermac G3 All-in-one. Called the Molar Mac because it looked like a tooth. Considered a design mid-point between beige box G3s and those bondi-blue iMacs that we’re popular at the turn of the millennium

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri May 10 22:03:51 +0000 2019)

@48kRAM It turned up when the Fine Arts department at our university was cleaning out a storage closet prior to a renovation. Not sure why they held onto it. Maybe it was just too heavy to move - the thing weighs 60 pounds! 😁

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat May 11 03:50:33 +0000 2019)

@adr @ArchiveThoughts @pabinkley Very much of its time. There was all kinds of concern about who had access to digital information and who was being left behind, how to provide access, etc.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue May 28 00:47:38 +0000 2019)

@adr @ArchiveThoughts @pabinkley No, sadly. I’m remembering stuff from library school in the mid-90s. I didn’t make it to Access until 1998.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue May 28 00:52:33 +0000 2019)

Just setting up UVic Libraries’ new (mostly) Mac Lab

…. for the Retro Machines and Media course I’ll be co-teaching with the extremely cool @dgrigar next week at DHSI 2019

@uviclib

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri May 31 23:57:31 +0000 2019)

@adr @dgrigar @UVicLib Indeed! Sorry you won’t be here!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri May 31 23:59:11 +0000 2019)

@adr @dgrigar @UVicLib That would be awesome! Your assistance would be /very/ welcome

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jun 01 00:00:30 +0000 2019)

@CyndeMoya @dgrigar @UVicLib Thanks! We’ll be creating new work on old computers, saving to real floppies, then making disk images and using them with emulators. Sort of going through the whole 30 year cycle in 5 days.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jun 01 04:06:22 +0000 2019)

@WencyLum @CyndeMoya @dgrigar @UVicLib Thanks Wency! The project owes quite a lot to Stephen Wylie in Purchasing, who sourced most of this equipment for us. LSYS tech Jerry Trofimchuk and YCW student Jacob Lower also deserve a lot of credit

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jun 01 16:20:47 +0000 2019)

@timtomch @dgrigar @UVicLib Thanks! …. When I started at UVic Library in 2006, those blueberry iMacs were still in service in our computer labs. So not /that/ long ago …

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jun 01 16:28:13 +0000 2019)

Playing Wolfenstein on an Apple ||e at #DHSI2019. The distance between these two game states is very short

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jun 07 16:47:31 +0000 2019)

@dgrigar @WSUVancouver @CASatWSU It was awesome to spend the week with such a great group & amazing co-teacher! Thank you all!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jun 07 23:34:16 +0000 2019)

@jfoxgord Ouch. Come by the lab sometime! We’ll see if we can get Wolfenstein going on one of our C64s & you can experience the frustration of actually trying to play the game …

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jun 09 03:36:00 +0000 2019)

The Access ’96 website is back, after some time away …

http://webapp.library.uvic.ca/jdurno/access96/

Featuring such topical themes as: * Emerging network access tools * User authentication and security * Electronic payment systems * Network saturation * Censorship on the net

@AccessLibCon

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jun 09 03:47:58 +0000 2019)

@pabinkley On a CD I found in my desk, so yeah, pretty much

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jun 09 19:39:50 +0000 2019)

@adr @AccessLibCon I still think it’s necessary

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jun 09 21:31:38 +0000 2019)

@adr @AccessLibCon Work on Z39.50 continues

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jun 09 21:35:45 +0000 2019)

@pabinkley @AccessLibCon Thanks Peter! That makes it official :-)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Jun 10 16:05:47 +0000 2019)

@navbassi @jfoxgord Good article! Really speaks to the point of why its important to keep some of this old gear around. Somewhat surprised that he talked about hypertext without mentioning HyperCard though.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jun 12 15:54:31 +0000 2019)

@jfoxgord @navbassi The ones with HDs were nice. The ones without HDs (and only a single floppy) were unbelievably aggravating to use … I seem to recall having to swap the OS disk with the application disk 9 times just to start up MacPaint

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jun 12 21:23:08 +0000 2019)

@navbassi @jfoxgord HyperCard was very much ahead of its time. I’m pretty sure Ian Bogost knows about it though. It comes up in another really interesting article he did for the Atlantic, “Ulysses and the Lie of Technological Progress”, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/everyday-is-bloomsday/487313/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jun 12 21:38:28 +0000 2019)

https://twitter.com/jhowesuk/status/1139488323825819648

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jun 15 23:47:42 +0000 2019)

It’s official: the code for Bill Perry’s COMPUTERESE #videotex image has been found! There’s a direct line between this image and the emergence of the #Telidon art scene in Toronto in the early 80s. Here’s me next to the image rendering on a 1983 Telidon terminal @InterAccessTO

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jul 03 22:41:52 +0000 2019)

The federal Department of Communications was so impressed by this graphic they gave Bill a $25,000 Norpak workstation which a whole bunch of different artists wound up using to create Telidon artworks, first at Trinity Square Video and later at Toronto Community Videotex

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jul 03 22:46:35 +0000 2019)

And this is just one of ~7500 Telidon graphics files recently recovered from 86 8-inch floppy disks in the @InterAccessTO archives. Lots of fun ahead.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jul 03 22:53:43 +0000 2019)

@DanaMcFarland You’re in the fridge_admins group in Active Directory?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jul 17 19:53:55 +0000 2019)

Well, looks like the Altairs are no longer the oldest computers in our collection

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jul 23 22:44:15 +0000 2019)

It’s from the Physics Department… there was a prof there who used it for something, but we’re not sure what. He retired in the 1970s

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jul 23 22:48:47 +0000 2019)

@jfoxgord Yeah, some great aesthetics there. It’s a shame that modern computers don’t come with volt meters

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jul 24 02:09:30 +0000 2019)

@jhowesuk Absolutely! With handy drawers in the front where you keep the schematics. I never know where to keep the schematics for my laptop.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jul 24 16:17:10 +0000 2019)

@dgrigar Thanks! But ethically I must turn over all ascriptions of coolness to Jacob, through whose sole efforts & connections this amazing piece of hardware came our way.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jul 24 20:36:57 +0000 2019)

@adr I’m sorry to report Star Wars Rebels already did the helicopter lightsabre thing, in what our resident Star Wars consultant advises is the cringiest episode of that particular series

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Aug 26 21:50:13 +0000 2019)

@adr @deans Aw, shucks. Thanks! UVic is indeed a great place to work, and there are a lot of folks who share the credit for that

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Aug 30 01:15:41 +0000 2019)

@adr Hmm. When we hosted SubjectsPlus it was run by the same 2.25 folks in Library systems responsible for the ILS, DSpace, OJS, Library website & intranet, CONTENTdm, SFX, Metalib, etc. Was not possible to provide same level of support as vendor focussed on a single product.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Sep 07 17:16:42 +0000 2019)

@daskey @adr That is an important question. Many of the applications (or equivalents) on that list are now run by UVic Systems or by vendors. My current thinking on where local hosting adds value centres around 1. Long term stewardship and 2. avoiding vendor lock-in.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Sep 07 18:08:24 +0000 2019)

@daskey @adr I would argue we add value to all of the applications we host, since hosting adds value whether local or cloud. More of a question of whether local hosting represents the best allocation of resources possible in each case. Too many variables for one approach to always be right.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Sep 07 18:36:38 +0000 2019)

@DanaMcFarland @adr Agreed. I’m pretty neutral on Libguides; don’t use it myself but other folks find it works for them, and it barely impacts my department, so why would I object? Springshare’s tech support has been quite good the few times I’ve communicated with them.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Sep 08 21:53:41 +0000 2019)

@adr This is more of an aspirational goal for me

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Sep 12 01:47:27 +0000 2019)

Some excellent airplane reading for the trip to ⁦@iPRES2019⁩

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Sep 14 21:50:10 +0000 2019)

It’s highly satisfying the promotional video for my ⁦@iPRES2019⁩ poster is showing alongside a major Tarkovsky exhibition at the @EYE_film museum

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Sep 16 11:09:05 +0000 2019)

@kimnayyer @iPRES2019 @EYE_film Thanks, first day was great! And the setting is spectacular

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Sep 16 14:29:11 +0000 2019)

@adr https://archive.org/details/Libraria1947

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Oct 01 00:50:28 +0000 2019)

@redlibrarian @SarahStang I for one miss the annual Z39.50 update

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Oct 01 00:59:10 +0000 2019)

@pabinkley Great talk! I love the idea of a geographically distributed Access!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Oct 02 14:33:58 +0000 2019)

@pabinkley Extremely late Hackfest suggestion: scope out technology planning and overall logistics for Cross Country Access

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Oct 02 14:36:23 +0000 2019)

@pabinkley We probably don’t want to call it that

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Oct 02 14:37:08 +0000 2019)

Oh my gosh, it captures my very soul

iPres 2019 conference #flickr https://flic.kr/p/2hgVTMf

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Oct 04 23:27:55 +0000 2019)

@sleslie JupyterHub is one option. I’ve never used it for teaching myself, but I have taken a couple of classes that used it. Pretty seamless for the students, but there would be some work involved in setting it up

https://jupyterhub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Oct 10 18:59:08 +0000 2019)

@doug_sartori @adr Dang, I totally want one of these

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Oct 10 19:06:05 +0000 2019)

@adr I’ll just leave this here

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Oct 10 19:08:09 +0000 2019)

RT @NuclearAnthro: Yes, we still use 8 inch floppy disks in the LCCs for Minuteman ICBMs.

BUT NOT FOR LONG! https://twitter.com/kingstonareif/status/867845377453633543

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Oct 17 20:49:45 +0000 2019)

RT @robincamille: I spent some time thinking about the worst possible ways to design a library website

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Oct 24 18:14:20 +0000 2019)

@DanaMcFarland Nice to see Hampsterdance made the cut

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Oct 31 01:05:09 +0000 2019)

@DanaMcFarland Made by Nanaimo resident and former Malaspina student Deidre LaCarte … Does VIU have any sort of commemorative plaque or anything?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Oct 31 01:16:04 +0000 2019)

@adr https://youtu.be/es9DNe0l0Qo

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Oct 31 22:05:09 +0000 2019)

@adr Me too. I remember it was bad, but … yeesh

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Oct 31 22:11:09 +0000 2019)

RT @journeygalactic: [Nov. 1, 1964] A computer of your very own? Not exactly, but time sharing is the next best thing. Read all about it…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Nov 05 02:23:19 +0000 2019)

The Obsolete Computing and Media Lab at UVic Libraries will be having drop in sessions on Friday afternoons in November! More information at: https://ocam.library.uvic.ca/news.php

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Nov 06 22:09:55 +0000 2019)

@retrofuturiste @adr That’s pretty much what we do too. It’s remarkable how often that works

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Nov 08 04:10:45 +0000 2019)

The new Amstrad boots! …thanks to a boatload of C-cells … now to find a real power supply for this thing …

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Nov 08 21:17:58 +0000 2019)

@dgrigar @adr Right back atcha!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Nov 12 06:22:07 +0000 2019)

RT @dgrigar: Have you heard ‘A Conversation with Eduardo Kac’ by Dene Grigar on #SoundCloud? #np https://soundcloud.com/dene-grigar/a-conversation-with-eduardo-kac

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Nov 14 15:43:12 +0000 2019)

RT @0xfraq: HTTP 210 OK BOOMER

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Nov 15 15:11:02 +0000 2019)

… and the somewhat questionably branded Mini-Micro also boots! It’s another Obsolete Computing open house success. Looks like it came with some interesting software, courtesy of the Physics dept.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Nov 15 21:28:08 +0000 2019)

@kimnayyer Cool! Hope you can make it!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Nov 17 01:37:57 +0000 2019)

I was a Librarian Coordinator with BC ELN for 7 fabulous years. If you’re looking for a great gig with a great team, you should totally apply! https://twitter.com/bceln/status/1196890506212462592

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Nov 20 05:41:43 +0000 2019)

@rrroooiiirrr @adr There are still tilde web home dirs for faculty and staff at UVic. I really ought to make better use of mine while I still can http://web.uvic.ca/~jdurno/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Nov 26 01:15:04 +0000 2019)

Found a copy of Sim City today. Glorious 16 bit colour!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Nov 26 05:13:39 +0000 2019)

@daskey Darned cute though!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Nov 26 05:35:05 +0000 2019)

@daskey I was about to say something like “I don’t know how anyone got anything done on those tiny screens” but it occurs to me I’m replying from my phone

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Nov 26 16:15:25 +0000 2019)

Last Obsolete Computing Open House of 2019 takes place this afternoon from 12-4pm in the UVic Main Library https://ocam.library.uvic.ca/news.php

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Nov 29 17:46:45 +0000 2019)

Today’s photo depicts a recent addition to our collection, two dozen CPU cards from the extremely rare Mimic Spartan, an Apple II+ clone that you could plug into the back of your Commodore 64. The Spartan was designed and built right here in Victoria BC back in mid-80s

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Nov 29 17:51:25 +0000 2019)

Good writeup on the Mimic Spartan here: https://dfarq.homeip.net/ode-to-the-spartan/

Documentation here: http://mikenaberezny.com/hardware/c64-128/mimic-systems-spartan/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Nov 29 17:52:15 +0000 2019)

Many thanks to our Department of Mechanical Engineering for donating this cool remnant of local computing history

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Nov 29 17:53:23 +0000 2019)

RT @despens: From a preservation perspective, the switch from 4:3 to 16:9 video was just a small hiccup compared with the desaster that is…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Dec 04 16:46:54 +0000 2019)

@pabinkley I’m a @CountBinface man myself. Bring back Ceefax!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Dec 10 02:14:06 +0000 2019)

@adr It’s clients all the way down. . . . No, I don’t know what this means either

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Dec 10 02:18:09 +0000 2019)

@LambdaCalculus From the project site: “The VT100 is not damaged and can even be reused as a regular terminal within seconds: Just plug off the internal BeagleBone RS232 cable and you have a plain VT100 again.” Phew!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Dec 10 02:35:41 +0000 2019)

Cubicle life, BC ELN, circa 1999

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Dec 10 05:56:36 +0000 2019)

Featuring The Whole Internet, Web Client Programming with Perl, Webmaster in a Nutshell… and is that a book on BBEdit… ?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Dec 10 06:00:38 +0000 2019)

Oh yeah, and an iMac G3. Played a lot of Nanosaur on that baby. On my lunch breaks, of course

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Dec 10 06:04:59 +0000 2019)

@mimilambeales Yes, as I recall a kangaroo in a kind of Burt Reynolds centrefold pose, looking mighty pleased with himself.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Dec 10 06:44:51 +0000 2019)

@mimilambeales Further research indicates the kangaroo pic was on a birthday card from my lovely (then-future) wife

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Dec 10 17:40:39 +0000 2019)

@mimilambeales No, I don’t keep absolutely everything. Just the important stuff :-)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Dec 10 17:41:14 +0000 2019)

RT @MarySafroArt: The Untold Story of Jaime Levy, Punk-Rock Cyber-Publishing Pioneer https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/claire-evanss-broad-band-excerpt.html What an amazing read, honestly…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Dec 11 02:10:43 +0000 2019)

@dgrigar @UVicLib Thanks! Really looking forward to showing it off at #dhsi2020!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Dec 14 17:26:30 +0000 2019)

RT @MinitelResearch: there’ll be an undoubtedly fascinating #minitel talk by @zigazou #fosdem2020 on Reviving Minitel: How web technologies…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jan 03 02:45:59 +0000 2020)

It’s totally possible to connect a C64 1541 floppy drive to a Lenovo T61 laptop via the parallel port on the dock. In case anybody was wondering

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jan 04 23:34:36 +0000 2020)

@CyndeMoya Thanks! Possibly more useful info: -T61 boots MS DOS 6.22 natively -floppy drive connected via XA1541 cable -using Star Commander software

The only part I wasn’t really sure about was whether the dock would complicate things, but it doesn’t seem to.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jan 05 00:24:37 +0000 2020)

@dgrigar Will do! With this and the pi1541 floppy emulator we should be able to do some interesting stuff

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jan 05 01:51:19 +0000 2020)

RT @xkcdComic: JPEG2000 https://xkcd.com/2254/ https://m.xkcd.com/2254/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jan 14 00:48:52 +0000 2020)

@bloodredruby Our engineers are staring into the bottomless abyss of the problem

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jan 17 14:47:27 +0000 2020)

The surplus gods were kind today, bestowing upon us a Datacomp DFK 555 XT/AT switchable PC keyboard. The collection can certainly use another XT keyboard, particularly one with such a nice heft to it …

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jan 21 19:55:05 +0000 2020)

@benjedwards I think this is the only switchable keyboard in our collection. We have plenty of AT keyboards but only a couple of working XT models. Ah, if only I’d started raiding Surplus a few years earlier

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jan 21 20:37:37 +0000 2020)

@deans 😢

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jan 22 00:45:08 +0000 2020)

@deans Also, John 2020: Ow! Watch the claws!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jan 22 00:45:56 +0000 2020)

RT @satoshi_aizawa: Paul Brown ‘Untitled Computer Assisted Drawing’ (1975) The program was written in Fortran and drawn with Calcomp’s drum…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jan 22 15:09:55 +0000 2020)

@dgrigar Thanks! … possibly, for some nonstandard definitions of cool … :-)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jan 22 17:28:43 +0000 2020)

@mkirschenbaum Jim Starkey invented the Blob data type when he worked at DEC, so that would have been some time in the late 70s or early 80s. Fun trivia: Blob was a reference to the 1958 Steve McQueen movie; Binary Large Object was a marketing bacronym

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jan 24 03:12:58 +0000 2020)

@ViewdataUK According to Douglas Parkhill, Hong Kong Telephone offered a service called Viewdata that was based on the Prestel system, circa 1982. (in his unpublished manuscript, the Beginning of a Beginning, p. 605- )

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jan 24 17:50:45 +0000 2020)

Sinclair ZX-81 says “HELOL” from within its aftermarket Indescomp case

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jan 24 23:18:41 +0000 2020)

@adr But you have to come back! The Obsolete Computers beckon

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jan 25 00:55:54 +0000 2020)

@adr Oh yes! If you’re in town, we will rope you in most definitely

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jan 25 02:47:45 +0000 2020)

@ZxSpectROM @zuiko21 Documentation is a bit scarce. According to Wikipedia they were located in Spain and distributed the first Spectrum there. Eventually they were absorbed by Amstrad. This particular unit got here via a reseller located in Redmond Washington (guessing not Microsoft :-) )

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jan 26 01:39:10 +0000 2020)

RT @cowsayplz: Beware of low-flying butterflies.

^^ (oo)_______ (__) )/|—-w ||…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jan 28 14:11:02 +0000 2020)

@navbassi @JAMFSoftware @uvicsystems @uvichelpdesk … Suitable for our next IT Community forum …?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jan 30 21:43:38 +0000 2020)

RT @despens: Going in between Europe and the US a lot I am still confused by imperial units, but at the same time disappointed that there i…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Feb 01 21:56:43 +0000 2020)

RT @zigazou: Reviving Minitel

https://video.fosdem.org/2020/K.3.401/retro_reviving_minitel.webm

Yes, my english is bad but french technology is the best 😁

#FOSDEM2020 #minitel #r…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Feb 06 03:36:34 +0000 2020)

My Telidon Art restoration talk is up on YouTube. It’s a really geeky version I gave at the Vintage Computing Festival held at the Living Computers museum in Seattle last year. #knowyouraudience #vcfpnw @LivingComputers @vcfederation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQV9i8CFUUo

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Feb 07 17:57:51 +0000 2020)

RT @pabinkley: Anti-adblocker pop-up, 1837

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Feb 12 01:14:36 +0000 2020)

@herrprofdr @LibColleen @benjedwards Thanks! … and I’ll take this opportunity to give a shout out to my colleague Corey Davis, who has done great work over the past 3 years setting up a regional digital preservation network & services with the COPPUL consortium

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Feb 23 18:07:42 +0000 2020)

@dgrigar I went last year. It was awesome

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Feb 24 06:29:39 +0000 2020)

RT @cowsayplz: O, it is excellent To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. – Shakespeare, "Measure for Meas…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Feb 26 00:59:33 +0000 2020)

It was a compare & contrast playing Omega Race on a real C64 vs the same game on an emulated C64. Most folks liked the original better but a few liked the emulation more. Unsurprisingly, no one felt the emulation perfectly recreated the experience. https://twitter.com/jmhuculak/status/1232768713465749506

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Feb 27 00:39:09 +0000 2020)

How is it possible that $fortune | cowsay has only 17 followers? https://twitter.com/cowsayplz/status/1235173149580439552

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Mar 04 15:10:23 +0000 2020)

Front page!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Mar 04 16:49:39 +0000 2020)

@jhowesuk Had me worried for a minute there, but Wikipedia tells me Black Press Media is owned by David Holmes Black, no relation to Conrad. Phew!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Mar 05 07:26:37 +0000 2020)

RT @cowsayplz: Don’t look now, but there is a multi-legged creature on your shoulder.

^^ (oo)_______ (__)…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Mar 15 20:09:17 +0000 2020)

An awesome donation, thanks very much. And I sure do appreciate the documentation that came with it, too! https://twitter.com/UVicLib/status/1239930549629644800

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Mar 17 16:18:38 +0000 2020)

… and I’ll just tweet this again with a few @’s @bthom @UVicSC @UVicDSCommons https://twitter.com/jddurno/status/1239949273296486404

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Mar 17 16:27:46 +0000 2020)

@navbassi @uvicsystems @uvichelpdesk @uvic The team was stellar today! The turnaround on my endless string of VPN group additions and network troubleshooting requests was amazing, given how crazy busy they must be

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Mar 18 00:09:56 +0000 2020)

RT @MinitelResearch: Dear fellow “Zoom University” professors – do you need a guest lecture on #minitel? here you go! https://t.co/IhI8q…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Mar 23 00:40:44 +0000 2020)

@pabinkley Audrey’s is still around? That’s awesome! I bought books there when I lived in Edmonton back in the late 70s, early 80s. Great book store

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Mar 24 14:11:02 +0000 2020)

@pabinkley Yes. Awful to contemplate all we could lose as a result of this

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Mar 24 15:52:28 +0000 2020)

Just adding an action item to Library Systems’ operational plan

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Mar 24 23:33:33 +0000 2020)

@herrprofdr basically we just have to plug the network cable into a different jack

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Mar 24 23:54:08 +0000 2020)

MacGyver’d up a keyboard tray for the new home office

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Mar 26 19:32:18 +0000 2020)

@jhowesuk Few attain verbness, but I feel he is worthy

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Mar 27 14:49:37 +0000 2020)

@jfoxgord Gotta keep the Thinkpad running somehow.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Mar 27 19:08:36 +0000 2020)

RT @GeoffGlave: Gartner Hype Cycle for Emergening Quarantines, 2020

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Apr 04 18:58:19 +0000 2020)

RT @bbcmicrobot: @rheolism

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Apr 07 14:29:31 +0000 2020)

RT @RMTS_Victoria: #TBT to the fall of 1918 to an article in the Daily Colonist newspaper outlining the closure of all crowd gathering buil…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Apr 10 01:43:08 +0000 2020)

Hi @TELUSsupport, I’ve received numerous reports of folks who can’t connect to various University of Victoria services (eg, http://mail.uvic.ca) over the past few days, getting 404s and sever not found errors. Our servers are fine, looks like a problem with your DNS?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Apr 14 16:34:14 +0000 2020)

RT @iperryon: Circa 1982 Telidon/videotex Canadian art http://telidonart.ca #telidon #videotex #borndigital

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Apr 15 14:57:52 +0000 2020)

RT @ViewdataUK: aaaaaaand. …..

We’re live!

Searchable archive of found viewdata pages, plus slightly more teletext pages. Not everythi…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Apr 19 15:08:57 +0000 2020)

Not sure what happens when I retweet this https://twitter.com/cowsayplz/status/1256372841789956096

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat May 02 00:51:24 +0000 2020)

RT @iperryon: #ahummerformayor 1982 Mayoral election videotex coverage. http://telidonart.ca

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon May 04 00:48:20 +0000 2020)

I have restored balance to the force. #MayTheFourthBeWithYou

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue May 05 02:12:43 +0000 2020)

RT @larsbrinkhoff: I found a December 1977 copy of #Zork, and I’m happy to report @MIT decided to make it public: https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/347748

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu May 07 19:53:54 +0000 2020)

Happy Sunday. Please enjoy this early-80s Telidon graphic of a Commodore Pet and an Apple II.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon May 11 04:28:55 +0000 2020)

@dgrigar Dang, me too! 2021 perhaps?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon May 11 04:42:05 +0000 2020)

RT @GIFmodel: Now we’re talking! (on curating online exhibitions) https://rhizome.org/editorial/2020/may/13/curating-online-exhibitions-pt-1/#_ftnref5

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu May 14 01:15:22 +0000 2020)

RT @jim_boulton: Researchers analyzed 10,000 websites — and yes, they all look the same https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2020/05/16/researchers-analyzed-10000-websites-and-yes-they-all-look-the-same/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue May 19 00:28:38 +0000 2020)

Text from my wife (to me in the garage): “you got REALLY weird mail”

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed May 20 23:40:10 +0000 2020)

I had completely forgotten about the MDA/EGA/CGA to VGA converter I’d ordered back in January. I don’t think I realized it was from Moscow when I ordered it.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed May 20 23:42:13 +0000 2020)

Almost 5 months in transit! The shipping cost did seem rather low in retrospect. Also, nice stamps.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed May 20 23:43:18 +0000 2020)

RT @48kRAM: So….all the things that “Belong in a Museum” are somehow safer than with private collectors? If LCM+L can go poof, I’m not su…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri May 29 20:10:59 +0000 2020)

RT @textfiles: So, when the dirt comes out, nobody’s going to like it.

Suffice to say that the Living Computer Museum organization, in my…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat May 30 00:27:00 +0000 2020)

Made a working null modem in #Minetest

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jun 17 04:22:33 +0000 2020)

@navbassi Of course, now (or soon, anyhow) is the time to start collecting Intel Macs, just like 1993 would have been the time to start collecting Commodore 64s, when nobody wanted them, there were lots around and you could get them for nothing.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jun 24 01:47:25 +0000 2020)

@navbassi But … limited space in the Library. So plan B … let them gather dust in various UVic departmental storage closets and my successor can pick them up in 20 years or so :-)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jun 24 01:50:31 +0000 2020)

@robcruickshank @herrprofdr @Foone I’ve used a couple of commercial data recovery services for 8” floppies (DEC RX02 mostly) Happy to provide a recommendation - send me a DM if you’d like one

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jun 27 03:37:41 +0000 2020)

@vcfederation Any chance they’ll ship outside the US at some point?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jun 28 00:07:59 +0000 2020)

Nice to see CTV News is keeping it backwards compatible

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jun 28 06:31:45 +0000 2020)

@vcfederation Hi Mike! That makes sense. It is a very nice T-shirt, but yeah, customs and taxes would probably take it north of what I’d be willing to pay for it. Alas.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jun 28 19:46:30 +0000 2020)

RT @herrprofdr: A fun #archaeogaming chat with @arch_arise, and I think the first time in my life that I’ve been subtitled in Portuguese!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jul 04 00:36:10 +0000 2020)

RT @TiffChan29: Just for fun, I made a Twitter bot that zooms into a random part of a random image from our exhibits/collections. That’s it…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jul 07 19:36:30 +0000 2020)

RT @mwichary: As good time as any to show these photos from Dutch National Archive, without any context. (Because they don’t show any eithe…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jul 08 01:24:50 +0000 2020)

@leahhenrickson @icpetrie Ouch. That dredges up a long-suppressed memory…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jul 26 16:34:50 +0000 2020)

A couple of fascinating conversations on the history and transformative restoration of The Thing BBS, recordings and restoration at https://thingbbs.rhizome.org/ https://twitter.com/rhizome/status/1286360674814308353

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Jul 27 23:12:25 +0000 2020)

RT @climagic: curl -s http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/globe.vt | pv -L9600 -q # Spinning ASCII art globe. Visit the parent directory…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jul 31 20:57:00 +0000 2020)

@mcclure111 @Foone Not at home, but I have several Zip drives at work

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Aug 03 01:33:34 +0000 2020)

@redlibrarian @axfelix @adr Well, I hope any aversion to video games won’t stop you all from logging in to the Access 2020 Minetest server!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Aug 15 02:36:19 +0000 2020)

It’s coming … ride the Duct Tape Express to the Access 2020 World Expo @AccessLibCon

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Aug 17 04:18:22 +0000 2020)

RT @melissaterras: Welp #digipres

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Aug 20 19:27:17 +0000 2020)

So the answer is … yes, mostly?

Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02462-7

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Aug 25 23:04:45 +0000 2020)

Years ago I swore off doing computer support for library conferences, but today I set up a whole lab! @AccessLibCon

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Aug 30 00:58:09 +0000 2020)

Making sure it’s well stocked with floppies

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Aug 30 01:00:28 +0000 2020)

@pabinkley @AccessLibCon Nope, just skins!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Aug 30 02:29:05 +0000 2020)

@herrprofdr @splorp Very cool! And very rare. Do you know if it works? I have a few NAPLPS sample files I could send if you’d like to test it …

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Sep 01 16:27:15 +0000 2020)

RT @doctorow: In the immortal words of @GreatDismal: "Night City was like a deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored re…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Sep 02 01:43:00 +0000 2020)

I have many passions, but it would appear they’re all computing related :-) https://twitter.com/UVicLib/status/1304450208865099776

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Sep 11 23:53:29 +0000 2020)

RT @rose_alibi: please read this lovely piece from @histoftech https://logicmag.io/care/built-to-last/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Sep 15 04:43:24 +0000 2020)

RT @MinitelResearch: Our @IEEESpectrum article on #minitel has been getting some renewed play lately, so, in case you haven’t gotten the ch…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Sep 17 15:06:17 +0000 2020)

RT @ben_nuttall: Ok this is pretty good https://www.teefantastic.com/stay-at-127-0-0-1

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Sep 28 19:59:36 +0000 2020)

RT @textfiles: These are VINTAGE virusea

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Oct 05 14:51:20 +0000 2020)

#AccessWWW https://twitter.com/MinetestProject/status/1315005348466569217

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Oct 10 21:47:16 +0000 2020)

Several Things have appeared on Exploding Thing Island … still time to add your Thing and become part of #accesswww history!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Oct 22 19:37:02 +0000 2020)

@kaitlinnewson Brilliant!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Oct 23 01:35:40 +0000 2020)

@AccessLibCon More Things have since appeared …

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Oct 23 13:49:32 +0000 2020)

@pabinkley @accesswww For “I think it’s a ruined train station” read “very impressive grotto”

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Oct 23 19:43:12 +0000 2020)

How it started and how it’s going #accesswww edition

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Oct 23 19:44:54 +0000 2020)

The goat abides

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Oct 23 19:45:30 +0000 2020)

@AccessLibCon You’re welcome! Nothing like a good explosion to round things out … And thanks so much to all of you for putting on such an excellent conference!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Oct 23 19:51:27 +0000 2020)

@bloodredruby @AccessLibCon Hope yours was more impressed than mine would have been :-)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Oct 23 19:53:00 +0000 2020)

@adr I once declined an opportunity to go for drinks with Kiefer Sutherland

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Nov 03 15:02:55 +0000 2020)

RT @CaylinSSmith: .@theUL is about to embark on an exciting programme to set up the Cambridge University Libraries Digital Preservation Ser…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Nov 05 16:32:34 +0000 2020)

RT @tjowens: “What’s a Digital Preservation System Anyway?” excited to follow and see how this @IthakaSR project develops -> https://t.co/G…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Nov 07 16:35:38 +0000 2020)

RT @EnvMediaLab: We’ve launched!

https://www.environmentalmedialab.com/launch

Thank you to everyone who has supported us so far. What an amazing community of…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Nov 10 22:34:02 +0000 2020)

As if I didn’t have enough to remember

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Nov 12 23:03:53 +0000 2020)

@mimilambeales I’m scared

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Nov 13 05:55:29 +0000 2020)

@start_words I believe it unleashes a “click of death” on anyone so foolish as to try

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Nov 13 05:57:29 +0000 2020)

Not me. I did not use the Internet in any meaningful way until I went to Library School in the fall of ‘94. https://twitter.com/markrendle/status/1331194975590240256

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Nov 26 01:20:20 +0000 2020)

@bloodredruby That would be the author of The Bibliographic Record and Information Technology, Dr. Hagler himself, IlRC… I still have a copy in my office, but I don’t refer to it /too/ often anymore

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Nov 26 01:33:39 +0000 2020)

@bloodredruby I could totally be wrong too. 1994 is a bit hazy in recollection, and that’s probably a good thing

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Nov 26 01:55:31 +0000 2020)

@DanaMcFarland @bloodredruby @jordanheit Since Mosaic became the first codebase for Internet Explorer, that’s still true!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Nov 26 02:20:08 +0000 2020)

@adr So …. Victoria’s out then. It can last as long as two weeks here.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Dec 01 22:19:41 +0000 2020)

@sleslie @adr Well, yes, but one must be prepared for the eventuality

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Dec 02 00:15:02 +0000 2020)

@adr True, but I’m fairly sure they enjoy wearing felt antlers

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Dec 05 17:05:53 +0000 2020)

@adr I think I might have read it on the Internet

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Dec 05 21:20:07 +0000 2020)

Installed a parallel port in one of my Commodore 1541 floppy drives, it doesn’t look terrible, and the drive still works! I’d say that was a good Saturday afternoon.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Dec 06 00:09:14 +0000 2020)

@jfoxgord That’s a thought …

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Dec 06 04:09:56 +0000 2020)

presenting the Holiday Desktop for 2020

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Dec 08 00:56:50 +0000 2020)

@dgrigar I really like xsnow

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Dec 08 05:06:47 +0000 2020)

@adr I’ve always admired Ving Rhames’ Thinking Machines “686 prototype with the Artificial Intelligence risc chip” in the first Mission Impossible movie that looked suspiciously like a PowerBook 180

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Dec 10 02:41:34 +0000 2020)

@adr That’s quite… something

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Dec 10 05:57:46 +0000 2020)

Assumed they were just continuing the “No Frills” series https://boingboing.net/2019/06/10/the-strange-no-frills-seri.html https://twitter.com/ibogost/status/1336884694873419776

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Dec 10 15:19:01 +0000 2020)

@DrJessicaLanger @ibogost About time there was a sequel!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Dec 10 15:21:07 +0000 2020)

@adr For me, time to re-read Smiley’s People

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Dec 14 02:19:51 +0000 2020)

@adr Like WAIS or GILS …

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Dec 19 22:36:05 +0000 2020)

Merry Videotex-mas

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Dec 25 16:03:31 +0000 2020)

@adr Won’t argue with you there, but without Agrippa we wouldn’t have had @mkirschenbaum’s great essay about how it was “hacked” within minutes of its release to become (ironically) one of the most widely distributed electronic texts of its day … so we owe it that much :-) …

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Dec 25 16:23:52 +0000 2020)

I like how John McClane is trapped in an office tower full of computers and needs a walkie talkie to communicate with the outside world

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Dec 25 21:21:36 +0000 2020)

Tangent: cellphones should have been called “walkie talkies”

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Dec 25 21:23:16 +0000 2020)

@48kRAM Good point. I take it back :-)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Dec 25 21:57:34 +0000 2020)

@jhowesuk I have been advised my critique was deeply flawed. I have seen the error of my ways and have published a retraction

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Dec 25 22:36:58 +0000 2020)

@jhowesuk I do stand by my other point about cellphones though

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Dec 25 22:37:41 +0000 2020)

@adr I remember exploring the foundations of a concrete apartment building that was under construction in the formerly vacant lot nearby our house, in the evenings after the workers went home. I think I was 10 or so.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Dec 27 21:44:41 +0000 2020)

@freimacher @NanoRaptor Cool Retro Term in Linux, it can run in Windows 10 in an X windows session on the Linux subsystem

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Dec 28 02:12:42 +0000 2020)

@iperryon Even got a nice twitter tribute from our PM https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1339784494052761600

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jan 02 22:36:07 +0000 2021)

@librarialstudy The big time!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jan 19 04:56:44 +0000 2021)

@navbassi Nothing the kids can’t learn if you have a big enough whiteboard!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jan 27 04:39:10 +0000 2021)

@adr @rrroooiiirrr He’s related to Waluigi, if that helps

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jan 31 04:20:37 +0000 2021)

@robcruickshank As a former Edmontonian, I agree

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jan 31 20:06:37 +0000 2021)

Honestly, if Windows Subsystem for Linux can’t run a proper PDP8 emulation inside of simh, what good is it?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Feb 09 06:47:40 +0000 2021)

#weDoWhatWeMust

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Feb 17 04:10:52 +0000 2021)

@adr Vim is good, but it lacks important features such as a psychiatrist mode and Tetris

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Feb 18 18:50:31 +0000 2021)

Seems to be a shrine of some sort

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Feb 23 20:11:47 +0000 2021)

@benjedwards Hard to clean as I recall

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Feb 24 15:34:59 +0000 2021)

@adr @redlibrarian I’m thinking a reference to its beginnings as an under-resourced skunkworks project with a focus on text processing… ?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Feb 26 15:25:38 +0000 2021)

@adr I’m impressed! That’s been on my list of “things I’m too scared to try” for well over a decade

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Feb 27 02:13:28 +0000 2021)

RT @chanezon: @girlie_mac @mattetti You’re ready for nocode:-) https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Feb 27 15:05:40 +0000 2021)

@ShortFormErnie @n1ckfg @InterAccessTO Very cool! And, yes, obscure … I’ve been researching Telidon/NAPLPS since 2015 and this is the first I’ve heard of Genesis StoryTime. Somehow missed your post 3 years ago.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Mar 02 20:35:45 +0000 2021)

@ShortFormErnie @n1ckfg @InterAccessTO Although … not sure why it turned up in my notifications today … ?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Mar 02 20:37:51 +0000 2021)

@sleslie @OCLC Yeesh. First I’ve heard of it - when was that announced?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Mar 05 02:44:40 +0000 2021)

@sleslie @OCLC That’s … not good

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Mar 05 05:19:20 +0000 2021)

InterAccess needs an interpretive planner for a online exhibition of Telidon videotex art … pass it on … https://twitter.com/InterAccessTO/status/1367944189112115202

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Mar 05 23:12:15 +0000 2021)

RT @internetarchive: So, just how does a small-ish nonprofit like the @InternetArchive manage to serve & preserve 70 petabytes of data, 24/…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Mar 12 15:41:49 +0000 2021)

@mediarchaeology I am currently in the 6th year of a Telidon videotex art recovery project. One more year and the project will have lasted longer than Telidon did

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Mar 14 02:40:26 +0000 2021)

RT @WebDesignMuseum: Wikipedia in 2001 in Netscape 6.0

Evolution of Wikipedia homepage 2001–2016 https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/timeline/wikipedia-2001 #Wikipedia #Inter…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Mar 14 16:20:21 +0000 2021)

@redlibrarian @adr @elibtronic @sleslie Probably not /quite/ that easy, but hey, for 10 years or so EZproxy dev and support was a moonlighting gig for Chris Zagar so how hard can it be?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Mar 16 01:21:02 +0000 2021)

RT @jamescummings: When talking sustainability for websites outputs, at #DHNetwork21 meeting @DHNetworkOrg, I honestly think that the princ…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Mar 17 17:36:11 +0000 2021)

@sleslie Islay. Bit peaty.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Mar 20 01:07:38 +0000 2021)

@sleslie Which autocorrect tried to turn into “I slay. But party.” Neither of which is true

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Mar 20 01:10:10 +0000 2021)

RT @cowsayplz: You will live a long, healthy, happy life and make bags of money.

^^ (oo)_______ (__)…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Mar 20 01:11:51 +0000 2021)

RT @larsbrinkhoff: Plugging Oscar Vermeulen’s upcoming kit in the PiDP series.

"…this kit will be the most significant technological eve…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Mar 20 14:34:12 +0000 2021)

@adr That would explain why, as a long time emacs user, I never really got into curl

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Mar 20 19:11:24 +0000 2021)

@adr Notwithstanding the above I do of course wish curl a happy 23rd birthday 🎂 https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/03/20/curl-is-23-years-old-today/comment-page-1/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Mar 20 20:02:29 +0000 2021)

@Runte Wonderful- Really enjoyed it!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Mar 24 01:30:39 +0000 2021)

@dharmascholar Air date: June 2, 1961 In this totalitarian society, Romney Wordsworth (Burgess Meredith) is arrested for being “obsolete”. The reason for this is his profession, librarian.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E65TheObsoleteMan

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Mar 25 01:05:57 +0000 2021)

@axfelix The 70s were great for paranoia. Looking forward to loading up the Coma DVD that landed on the doorstep today

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Mar 25 02:21:34 +0000 2021)

The forgotten director who gave us The Force, inspired 2001, and changed film https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/04/roman-kroitor-changed-film-and-unknowingly-inspired-2001-and-the-force/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Apr 04 15:02:29 +0000 2021)

Did it come with an Allen key? https://twitter.com/bittenapple/status/1378602431152525312

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Apr 05 05:21:23 +0000 2021)

Visible scroll bars was one of the reasons I themed my desktop to look as much like CDE circa 1998 as possible. It’s … surprisingly functional https://twitter.com/elibtronic/status/1379054850026135552

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Apr 06 15:55:49 +0000 2021)

@adr hmm … xmonad you say …

… actually I did play around with i3 a little while ago but in the end decided it’s not for me. tmux rocks the terminal though.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Apr 06 16:08:31 +0000 2021)

@adr And speaking of good things … Not sure how well known this is, but Canadian academic librarians are eligible to set up a server VM or two on the Compute Canada cloud, in support of our research. I’ve had one going for the past couple of years.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Apr 07 03:59:42 +0000 2021)

RT @iperryon: The Telidon Art Project Locating & restoring 10K+ Telidon graphics by 60+ artists from 35 yr old magnetic oxide media with @j…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Apr 07 13:30:30 +0000 2021)

“The disappointing thing is that while there are many marketing photos showing impossible scenes like the one below, none show anyone blowing mainframe water into a toilet.” https://twitter.com/AussieStorBlog/status/1380006416988049412

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Apr 08 14:47:02 +0000 2021)

@adr I’m booked for the AZ this Sunday. This oldster is stoked!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Apr 15 18:44:38 +0000 2021)

@adr Thanks! It’s a huge relief. Really hope your number (ie cohort) comes up soon.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Apr 15 18:49:11 +0000 2021)

@adr Have not heard plans for 2022 yet. I suspect they’re keeping their options open. But would be great if it works out. Be awesome to have you here!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Apr 15 18:58:34 +0000 2021)

@jmhuculak @edtechfactotum @sunnydeveloper @LeachWriter @richmccue @jimgroom I’d definitely be interested! Be great to add that to the Libraries’ collection

https://ocam.library.uvic.ca

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Apr 18 05:44:29 +0000 2021)

RT @InterAccessTO: InterAccess is excited to announce the Telidon Art Project! 📺 🌐 This cross-Canada initiative will restore and reveal th…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Apr 20 02:23:35 +0000 2021)

This is awesome! https://twitter.com/robcruickshank/status/1384524957187821568

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Apr 20 15:17:22 +0000 2021)

@robcruickshank @InterAccessTO Wow, nice work!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Apr 20 15:17:44 +0000 2021)

@robcruickshank @InterAccessTO Thanks but I didn’t really do that much! Apart from yourself I’d say @iperryon was the critical factor here

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Apr 20 20:29:52 +0000 2021)

@dylanlorenz01 @retrofloppy has done great work recovering data from over 100 DEC 8” floppies for one of the projects I’m working on. Not sure whether a Kryoflux is involved though

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Apr 23 19:52:15 +0000 2021)

@rdhdbibliophile Does Cheez Whiz qualify as food?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Apr 26 19:38:21 +0000 2021)

Time to get out the Kryoflux! It’s another shipment of Telidon floppies from ⁦@InterAccessTO⁩

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat May 01 00:29:22 +0000 2021)

RT @robcruickshank: More Telidon! Python script by @jddurno showing slides by Glenn Howarth, via a Hemton EPS 1 decoder. https://t.co/T5uMv…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat May 01 19:24:54 +0000 2021)

@robcruickshank There were Telidon-based online learning & conferencing systems back in the day! Not sure how much they were actually used though … https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0360131582900082

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat May 01 19:37:12 +0000 2021)

@adr As I understand it, his real name is David Webb

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue May 04 19:30:10 +0000 2021)

@loriemerson Another + for catalog… brings to mind Ed Krol’s Whole Internet User’s Guide and Catalog, which seems appropriate

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed May 05 14:47:07 +0000 2021)

@adr On the flip side maybe we’ll get superpowers or better cell phone reception

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat May 08 02:55:25 +0000 2021)

By far the most disturbing scene in Rosemary’s Baby. #CovidFail

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon May 10 03:38:35 +0000 2021)

RT @scott_bot: maybe (and I’m just spitballing here) we should never have dug ourselves into this hole to begin with, and (again just a tho…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon May 17 15:22:39 +0000 2021)

@dgrigar That reminds me ….

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue May 18 00:50:30 +0000 2021)

@dgrigar I am! I’ll send an invite shortly

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue May 18 01:16:28 +0000 2021)

That moment when you realize the dot matrix printer needs a parallel cable with a Centronics connector, and you just happen to have one in the supply cabinet. Years of “better keep that I might need it one day” have finally paid off!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri May 21 03:44:38 +0000 2021)

RT @dgrigar: @jddurno & I are planning our DHSI21 course. Topics: preserving Flash media, hosting a Traversal w/legacy hardware & software,…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat May 22 19:23:57 +0000 2021)

@adr http://nardwuar.com is better than any statue. Timeless.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jun 02 00:48:11 +0000 2021)

Somehow it’s 39 years old and also brand new. Not sure I’ve ever seen a computer this old in such great shape!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jun 03 23:02:58 +0000 2021)

@adr Donation from a generous community member who wishes to remain anonymous. CRT is perfect, floppy drives work flawlessly, key caps unworn - heck, there aren’t even any scuff marks on the thing!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jun 03 23:18:46 +0000 2021)

@adr Not to mention it came with all the manuals and original floppies, which are all also in perfect condition.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jun 03 23:20:45 +0000 2021)

@daskey It’s a really nice design, would have been very impressive when it was new

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jun 04 00:01:45 +0000 2021)

@dgrigar Will do!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jun 04 01:55:12 +0000 2021)

@adr Or at the very least, have an exit strategy. I’ve felt like Cloud Cassandra for the past few years. It’s … tiring.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jun 06 20:26:49 +0000 2021)

@PeterSheltonTV @n1ckfg @ShortFormErnie @InterAccessTO While it was mainly vector graphics, NAPLPS had a rarely-used “incremental point” feature the standard describes as “a string of color specifications that are deposited in a raster-sequential manner.” I believe this picture of Grace Jones by R. Fisher is an example:

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Jun 07 02:52:40 +0000 2021)

@n1ckfg @ShortFormErnie @InterAccessTO I’m definitely not an authority on that. I know there was a thing called the North American Broadcast Teletext Specification (NABTS) that could encode NAPLPS and other things in the vertical blanking interval https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NABTS

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Jun 07 02:58:30 +0000 2021)

@n1ckfg @ShortFormErnie @InterAccessTO but I’m not sure how much NAPLPS was used in that context.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Jun 07 03:04:40 +0000 2021)

@n1ckfg @PeterSheltonTV @ShortFormErnie @InterAccessTO In theory, I think NAPLPS might have been capable of that … but in practice, I don’t think anyone ever implemented more than a 4 bit color map, so it was never possible to display more than 16 colors at the same time. The palette was as you say quite customizable though

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Jun 07 03:22:23 +0000 2021)

@ShortFormErnie @PeterSheltonTV @n1ckfg @InterAccessTO Sounds about right! Wikipedia tells me CD+G was 4 bit colour also

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Jun 07 04:37:07 +0000 2021)

… Continuing the “all Telidon, all the time” focus of my life, work, and twitter … https://twitter.com/UVicLib/status/1402342953293582338

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jun 08 20:42:49 +0000 2021)

@Foone Yes! We have one here at the University of Victoria Libraries. I know pretty much nothing about it however; nor did the person who gave it to us. It’s possible it came from our Computer Assisted Learning Lab, so it too might be from EIS … fascinating thread, thanks!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jun 10 21:28:55 +0000 2021)

@LordSiBorg According to an article in the Times (June 15, 1989) prior to 1984 WI made printers for BBC schools and sold printers to British Telecom. Then their managing director Ron Brand read about PC clones in a US magazine, following which WI entered that market in 1985.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jun 12 19:10:20 +0000 2021)

@LordSiBorg They produced AT & XT clones at 40% of IBM prices. They were the first British company to take out an IBM patent license, so they paid royalties to IBM rather than risk a lawsuit.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jun 12 19:12:47 +0000 2021)

@LordSiBorg That proved to be quite profitable. In 1987 they were sold to Williare plc. By 1989 they were selling laptops and 386 machines.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jun 12 19:14:26 +0000 2021)

@LordSiBorg Interestingly, the only reference I can find to “Williare plc” is that same article, not sure what that means. Possibly “Williare” is a typo?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jun 12 19:21:41 +0000 2021)

Coincidentally, I’m in the lab today troubleshooting our NeXTCube … https://twitter.com/benjedwards/status/1408088067903266820

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jun 24 18:59:36 +0000 2021)

RT @lunasorcery: So let’s talk about video game preservation, data hoarding, and Minecraft.

(🧵 thread)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jun 26 18:02:50 +0000 2021)

RT @cowsayplz: Don’t look back, the lemmings are gaining on you.

^^ (oo)_______ (__) )/|…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jun 29 01:10:47 +0000 2021)

Don’t use it much myself, but happy the tilde webspace is still an option at UVic https://twitter.com/the6p4c/status/1409710987708538883

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jun 29 19:24:56 +0000 2021)

Genius https://twitter.com/kamelito/status/1411590330290425858

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jul 04 15:13:07 +0000 2021)

RT @euanc: Bringing emulation into the 21st century - David Tyler’s Blog… https://blog.davetcode.co.uk/post/21st-century-emulator/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jul 04 19:46:55 +0000 2021)

RT @AccessLibCon: Call for proposals is open! See you all online Oct 18-22. This year’s theme, “the Slow and the Furious”, is an invitation…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jul 06 21:00:31 +0000 2021)

@benjedwards You can also still buy ribbons and sheet feed paper for 30 year old dot matrix printers, as I recently discovered

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jul 07 00:48:18 +0000 2021)

@dgrigar @mimilambeales @eliterature @WSUVancouver @CASatWSU @ELitLab What Dene said :-)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jul 08 00:41:24 +0000 2021)

@benjedwards Omega Race (C64 cart)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jul 08 00:42:47 +0000 2021)

SCSI2SD card works

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jul 08 19:41:52 +0000 2021)

@daskey Glad you like them! … and yeah, no fear I’ll stop anytime soon.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jul 08 23:38:50 +0000 2021)

@thecomputerclan It came pre-loaded

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/274584260107?mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11051.m43.l1123&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=5edb3c1cda134c80b073f95368afe5ee&bu=44498499684&osub=-1%7E1&crd=20210708122730&segname=11051&sojTags=ch%3Dch%2Cbu%3Dbu%2Cosub%3Dosub%2Ccrd%3Dcrd%2Csegname%3Dsegname%2Cchnl%3Dmkcid

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jul 09 03:00:17 +0000 2021)

@gabor_samu Happy to recommend …

https://www.ebay.ca/itm/274584260107?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3D8354cdd2f2a642deb205b6058d2dd607%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D274584260107%26itm%3D274584260107%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A3c25dbe3-e0d2-11eb-b8af-b6e56d447d0e%7Cparentrq%3A8c1656c217a0a4d7cfee4c53ffcefcbe%7Ciid%3A1

The seller was very helpful

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jul 09 16:26:59 +0000 2021)

@trisvoid It’s branded Ariel, and I believe it was for audio processing. Which would make sense, as the Cube was sourced from the Music department here at the University of Victoria. There is an external Ariel device as well. I can post pics next time I’m in the lab.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jul 09 16:38:32 +0000 2021)

@hypertalking See reply to @trisvoid above …

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jul 09 16:41:04 +0000 2021)

@trisvoid Cool! I’ll have to see if I can find out anything more about it

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jul 09 19:45:40 +0000 2021)

@climagic What was http://godot.uvic.ca? Curious because that’s where I work

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jul 11 00:56:56 +0000 2021)

RT @loriemerson: Solid-State Post Office, from the cover of Monday Magazine in Victoria, BC 1979. I was 5 years old, living in Victoria at…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jul 15 01:01:21 +0000 2021)

@robcruickshank @n1ckfg One of my favourite examples along this line is Murray Leinster’s “A Logic Named Joe”, which dealt with the promises and pitfalls of networked personal computers with uncanny accuracy. It was published in 1946

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jul 15 16:16:25 +0000 2021)

RT @LeapingRobot: I love that Don Knuth’s first publication was in Mad magazine and he lists this on his c.v.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jul 27 01:20:30 +0000 2021)

@benjedwards @firefox Case in point: the Kermit project sites, 20,000 FTP URLs. Lots of great tech history there, now a lot harder to access

https://www.kermitproject.org/firefox-ftp.html

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jul 27 23:06:14 +0000 2021)

@benjedwards Some Canadian federal government agencies still make documents available over anonymous FTP

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jul 28 02:34:47 +0000 2021)

@doctorow Lewis Baltz

Cray supercomputer, C.E.R.N. Geneva, Switzerland From the series Sites of Technology, 1989

http://www.artnet.com/artists/lewis-baltz/cray-supercomputer-cern-geneva-switzerland-from-a-80qCCaQ6Ts4tsuLphlVABA2

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jul 30 14:29:37 +0000 2021)

And here I thought everyone was using org mode https://twitter.com/pomeranian99/status/1421125074954989570

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jul 31 00:45:15 +0000 2021)

@axfelix Cool! I’ll have to check that out

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Jul 31 22:16:58 +0000 2021)

Xbiff can talk to Exchange! … in case anyone was wondering

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Aug 01 03:57:11 +0000 2021)

Ok, more like Xbiff can talk to Python, which can talk to Exchange (via EWS).

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Aug 01 03:58:17 +0000 2021)

RT @lilabailey: Libraries must own their books, not rent them. https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/libraries-digital-publishing-ebooks/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Aug 04 02:11:27 +0000 2021)

What are the odds I’d get the #ArduinoFDC wired up right first time around?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Aug 04 22:19:18 +0000 2021)

I doff my hat to the amazing David Hansel, who also developed the Altairduino

https://www.hackster.io/news/david-hansel-s-arduinofdc-converts-an-arduino-into-a-usb-floppy-drive-controller-9e242b50161e

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Aug 04 22:22:39 +0000 2021)

@adr By the end of my MFA I felt that I might know Art, but I no longer knew what I liked

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Aug 05 02:49:44 +0000 2021)

@JohnKennedyMSFT I suggest endlessly recycling the same half-dozen Rich Tennant cartoons

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Aug 06 21:16:32 +0000 2021)

RT @denials: In case you try to search the @LaurentianLib catalogue and find it’s not working, it’s because @ExLibrisGroup ran scheduled ma…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Aug 09 20:47:06 +0000 2021)

RT @weelibrarian: it begins. come on all you other universities and colleges! https://www.uottawa.ca/coronavirus/en/mandatory-covid-19-vaccination?fbclid=IwAR1pKy7ebFxHfIl_c5jLA2FiSkOyeJgO380xuabKUPdQ41byP0KBYKw0Qaw

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Aug 11 01:15:24 +0000 2021)

RT @EFF: The Canadian government is planning to implement new dangerous content moderation rules – and a new speech czar with broad powers…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Aug 11 15:02:22 +0000 2021)

@navbassi Excellent presentation Nav!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Aug 11 15:05:21 +0000 2021)

@adr I burned out a few pixels in the center of my monitor installing Red Hat 3 back in the day. Just lucky it wasn’t any worse

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Aug 11 20:46:19 +0000 2021)

@adr I had no idea what I was doing when I started. Red Hat was on the CDs in the book I bought, so that’s what I used … not sure I even knew there were other distros. It was quite the learning process getting it running. Not sure what the equivalent would be now, Arch Linux maybe?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Aug 11 21:20:26 +0000 2021)

RT @WebDesignMuseum: Happy 30th Birthday World Wide Web Virtual Library! In August 1991, the creator of HTML and WWW Tim Berners-Lee compil…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Aug 15 02:24:01 +0000 2021)

RT @loriemerson: too many years ago, I wrote a piece called “The Net Has Never Been Neutral” that looks at what TCP/IP is & how it could ha…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Aug 17 00:47:45 +0000 2021)

Makes me appreciate @uvicsystems all the more! https://twitter.com/jasonlamb/status/1427971450695258112

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Aug 18 14:50:33 +0000 2021)

I’ll be lighting a candle outside Vancouver Public Library, Central branch https://twitter.com/jessnevins/status/1429935296930582529

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Aug 24 14:38:58 +0000 2021)

I’m on the edge of my seat https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1431665855876636674

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Aug 28 19:15:42 +0000 2021)

That was very satisfying

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Aug 28 19:49:50 +0000 2021)

RT @UVicSC: Here @UVicLib we’re keeping it #ArchivesOldSchool with Alfred Perlès’ typewriter for the #ArchivesHashtagParty . Perlès was an…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Sep 04 14:54:03 +0000 2021)

@mediarchaeology NAPLPS FTW

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Sep 06 04:01:05 +0000 2021)

@memotv Most of that art still exists and will be the focus of a couple of exhibitions in 2023

https://interaccess.org/news/2021/apr/announcing-telidon-art-project

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Sep 06 15:34:34 +0000 2021)

@varcharr Incinerate its morality core so it can’t stop firing missiles. Then incinerate the rest of its cores before deadly neurotoxin fills the room

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Sep 08 03:17:55 +0000 2021)

@adr @AccessLibCon Excellent! What are you presenting on?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Sep 08 03:37:46 +0000 2021)

It was a surprisingly good book - or so I thought when I was 16, not sure what I’d think now. And it was great to see the look on folks’ faces after they asked me what I was reading. https://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/status/1435318272388382720

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Sep 08 17:47:27 +0000 2021)

@80l I don’t think that was ever explained. Nor was the modern two storey house floating in space

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Sep 08 23:46:53 +0000 2021)

@loriemerson I keep hoping the AMC NAPLPS files will turn up, but so far no luck

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Sep 11 00:29:56 +0000 2021)

@loriemerson That would be awesome! And I’d really like to talk with you about MAL

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Sep 11 01:21:18 +0000 2021)

Brings to mind UVic L-Hut Recycling Classics https://youtu.be/vb0jXw63IHU via @YouTube https://twitter.com/archillect/status/1436794624526458886

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Sep 13 04:51:27 +0000 2021)

RT @CultureDoug: New today on #OpenGLAM Medium 💫

@TylerGreenBooks and I talk about open access, art history and the public commons, in the…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Sep 14 14:40:56 +0000 2021)

Please enjoy this photo of colourful floppy disks

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Sep 17 01:58:53 +0000 2021)

@jhowesuk @AudainArtMuseum Nice! I still haven’t quite managed to get there

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Sep 17 03:04:00 +0000 2021)

@jhowesuk @AudainArtMuseum That is a nice one. Not entirely sure why there’s a fish on the roof, but that’s art for you

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Sep 17 03:19:39 +0000 2021)

RT @Foone: ahh yes, my favorite flavor of security questions, “ones you can figure out by just searching my public twitter” https://t.co/XW…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Sep 21 19:21:11 +0000 2021)

@twylo This 1976 Teleray turned up at the University of Victoria last year … but yeah, not too much of this stuff left anymore.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Sep 26 01:21:29 +0000 2021)

@twylo Still working, after a bit of TLC

http://madrona.ca/e/teleray3931/index.html

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Sep 26 01:23:22 +0000 2021)

RT @bitsgalore: New blog post, with some thoughts on the recent @openpreserve Archives Interest Group report on the Significant Properties…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Sep 28 14:49:58 +0000 2021)

@adr According to Gartner, the Web reached the “peak of inflated expectations” in 1996. Honestly, I don’t know why anyone pays attention to them

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Sep 29 01:07:35 +0000 2021)

@AccessLibCon @adr @TwitterSupport Good grief, just checked and it also happened to me

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Oct 05 14:45:32 +0000 2021)

@adr @AccessLibCon @TwitterSupport That’s nuts! How is this possible?!?!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Oct 05 14:51:11 +0000 2021)

Looks like @AccessLibCon is knocking it out of the park again this year, program-wise!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Oct 06 01:03:38 +0000 2021)

@richmccue Met an injured buck when my son and I were out delivering papers one evening. Half the block didn’t get their papers that day.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Oct 09 19:17:01 +0000 2021)

@richmccue Then there was that time a buck jumped into the road and hit the side of my car. Left a noticeable dent in the door.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Oct 09 19:18:28 +0000 2021)

@redlibrarian “Cellphone - don’t have one” … ah, I miss the oughts

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Oct 15 20:05:01 +0000 2021)

@pabinkley Bet you could! Pretty easy to get JSDOS up and running with npm

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Oct 18 18:54:14 +0000 2021)

@adr Thanks! You are too kind! Very much looking forward to your talk tomorrow

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Oct 18 18:57:21 +0000 2021)

@pabinkley What does that one do?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Oct 18 18:57:50 +0000 2021)

@elibtronic Well, it should have been!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Oct 19 00:49:25 +0000 2021)

@lydia_zv @elibtronic Thanks! Kind of you to say so

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Oct 19 00:49:52 +0000 2021)

Tired: Web 3.0 Wired: Gopher 2.0

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Oct 19 14:35:57 +0000 2021)

@tararobertson @pabinkley And continues a fine Access tradition!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Oct 19 23:08:44 +0000 2021)

@adr @sdf_pubnix is pretty awesome, but yeah, not for work stuff

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Oct 20 00:27:16 +0000 2021)

RT @brlamb: On the Abject: some rambling and ill-tempered thoughts on changes to BC’s privacy law, and higher ed’s ongoing abandonment of i…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Oct 26 15:30:31 +0000 2021)

RT @PulpLibrarian: Tron is a film about a computer programmer transported inside a mainframe computer. He has to compete with the other pro…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Oct 30 22:11:06 +0000 2021)

@loriemerson Interlibrary lending of physical items, for sure

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Oct 31 19:59:22 +0000 2021)

Bring on the trick or treaters

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Nov 01 01:00:12 +0000 2021)

@80l They do mitigate the stench of mortality somewhat

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Nov 01 14:12:49 +0000 2021)

@sleslie Oh yeah, that’s a depressingly accurate analysis

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Nov 02 00:34:07 +0000 2021)

RT @Foone: Web 1.0: the web is for sharing information! Web 2.0: but what if we could make money too? Web 3.0: the web is only for making m…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Nov 02 19:28:34 +0000 2021)

@adr This has been tried before. Will they never learn

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8yrOAjfKM

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Nov 03 13:53:58 +0000 2021)

@WebDesignMuseum NeXTSTEP FTW

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Nov 03 18:56:05 +0000 2021)

@pabinkley @adr I’ll send a DM.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Nov 05 17:25:16 +0000 2021)

@pabinkley @adr Oops, missed that this was specifically an @adr question. But now you know ours too!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Nov 05 17:29:58 +0000 2021)

RT @cynthiablee: Still one of the proudest moments of my career: making this browser extension.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Nov 06 19:44:23 +0000 2021)

“ I consider it to be inevitable that the traditional journal industry will very soon be completely bypassed in favour of other forms of Open Access publishing. “

Good article, but man I wish I shared the author’s optimism https://telescoper.wordpress.com/2021/11/08/learned-societies-equityand-open-access/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Nov 09 20:23:58 +0000 2021)

@PavelASamsonov @ShortFormErnie @readtedium We’re working on it :-)

https://interaccess.org/news/2021/apr/announcing-telidon-art-project

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Nov 10 14:48:32 +0000 2021)

RT @WarronBebster: mom can you come pick me up? I’m at the intersection of art & technology

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Nov 11 01:57:27 +0000 2021)

@adr Did up my recent study leave report in emacs org mode converted to LaTeX and yep, I think it’s the best looking thing I’ve ever written. Also way easier to do numbered sections, footnotes and that sort of thing.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Nov 12 17:22:00 +0000 2021)

@adr And appearance is everything!

That said, if your report covered the same things as your Access prez I think “absolute flaming garbage” might be a wee bit harsh :-)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Nov 12 17:58:16 +0000 2021)

@ShortFormErnie To be fair, I would pay money to hear the Chipmunks cover Anarchy in the UK. But I’m guessing that wasn’t on the album

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Nov 16 19:45:12 +0000 2021)

We interrupt our regular program to bring you this morning’s sunrise

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Nov 22 15:37:49 +0000 2021)

1994 for me, unless we count that time I connected to the UofA library catalogue via telnet from the UBC library and thought “what is this magic?” https://twitter.com/MIT_CSAIL/status/1464643934051840005

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Nov 28 01:59:54 +0000 2021)

RT @WebDesignMuseum: 1992: The Web vs Gopher, and the First External Browsers

https://webdevelopmenthistory.com/1992-web-vs-gopher/

#InternetHistory

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Dec 02 22:43:28 +0000 2021)

RT @PulpLibrarian: “Twenty twenty twenty four hours to go…”

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Dec 05 21:36:36 +0000 2021)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Dec 07 16:21:39 +0000 2021)

@adr Kernel and I have things in common

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Dec 07 16:23:28 +0000 2021)

@adr Expanse is by far my favourite sf show these days. Really looking forward to the next season, but also sad that it will be the last

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Dec 10 01:29:03 +0000 2021)

@adr Season 5 def. had a different feel to it as everyone went in separate directions. New bad guy was perhaps a bit one dimensional. Still pretty good though.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Dec 10 01:49:48 +0000 2021)

@WebDesignMuseum https://arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Dec 11 20:34:33 +0000 2021)

@adr Baffles me how it’s even possible to push /everything/ off to campus IT. Over the years we’ve shunted as much commodity IT stuff as possible to Central, and yet Library Systems is busy as ever, and still as many staff as we had 10 years ago

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Dec 17 02:00:15 +0000 2021)

RT @hvdsomp: @rybesh @OCLC @perio_do Interesting in light of the $2.5M 2020-2021 grant from @MellonFdn to @OCLC to explore support for link…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Dec 19 21:21:33 +0000 2021)

I’d just like to thank the University of Washington for continuing to host the web site for WILLOW (Washington Information Looker-upper Layered Over Windows) as a top-level directory, 22 years after support and development was discontinued. https://www.washington.edu/willow

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Dec 21 19:53:28 +0000 2021)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Dec 22 04:54:35 +0000 2021)

Project Gemini works in this space too, with the added benefit of minimizing browser dependency

https://gemini.circumlunar.space https://twitter.com/lproven/status/1474405233224818705

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Dec 24 17:01:58 +0000 2021)

@lproven Unicode support is a definite improvement over Gopher, and encryption is a big plus for some folks. Also simplifies markup. That said I’m not completely sold on Gemini, but I do think it’s an interesting effort

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Dec 24 17:55:16 +0000 2021)

RT @kellianderson: RISO animation on card catalog cards (!! it WORKED!! )

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jan 04 20:43:11 +0000 2022)

RT @robcruickshank: News story on electronic art from 1986,with Norm White and Doug Back, Jean Piché, and some elk. https://youtu.be/XHk_MWIIJOs

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jan 06 00:53:11 +0000 2022)

@dan_ness @benjedwards @howtogeek There was mention of a 3rd dimension in the NAPLPS spec but implementation details were deferred to future versions.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jan 13 01:54:46 +0000 2022)

I don’t do Wordle but please enjoy this grid of coloured squares.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jan 13 23:06:11 +0000 2022)

Anyone know where to source early versions of Peter Scott’s groundbreaking Internet directory program, HyTelnet? I’ve found version 6.9 on http://www.devili.iki.fi/pub/IBM/PC/packet/ but I’d be really interested to see versions from the very early 90s. (I am aware of the web version at floodgap)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jan 18 17:03:42 +0000 2022)

Ah, may have just located version 1.1 at http://cd.textfiles.com/garbo/PC/CONNECT/ … stay tuned …

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jan 18 17:23:27 +0000 2022)

Yep, version 1.1 from (I think) 1990. As you’d expect, quite a difference from 6.9, released in 1995

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jan 18 19:22:32 +0000 2022)

Really liking this entry for TULIPS, the Tufts University Library Information Processing System

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jan 18 19:26:35 +0000 2022)

Alt text: “If you do not support VT100 or VT220 emulation directly your screen will begin to flash and seem to go berzerk. Wait until it stops, then type ?? (yes, two of them) and you will get a help screen.”

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jan 18 19:54:50 +0000 2022)

RT @leahhenrickson: Bukowski on personal computing, everyone.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Tue Jan 25 01:35:40 +0000 2022)

RT @json_dirs: More fun publisher surveillance: Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is *unique for each time a PDF is downloade…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Jan 26 15:01:50 +0000 2022)

@mediarchaeology Amber terminals installed in the shipping/receiving area of the plastics factory where I worked a summer job, replacing our paper-based inventory control system (very early 80s)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Jan 27 15:13:28 +0000 2022)

@adr I wouldn’t call that failing, at all! Far more academic librarians than there are AUL or UL positions. We can’t all ascend to those dizzying heights.

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Jan 28 01:32:56 +0000 2022)

@adr With rising horror, I realize I’m the freshly minted guy in the suit just now emerging from the Evil Book. It’s too late for me John, you warned me but I didn’t listen!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sun Jan 30 02:59:05 +0000 2022)

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Feb 10 16:53:59 +0000 2022)

As appropriate for a University, this unqualified assertion has become a matter for ontological debate

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Feb 11 16:53:04 +0000 2022)

Happy Valentine’s Day!

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Feb 14 17:37:33 +0000 2022)

tip of the hat to the ACME Heartmaker https://acme.com/heartmaker/

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Feb 14 17:38:32 +0000 2022)

RT @ecukier: Hey all, my latest @OIF blog post is up! Many thanks to my @WSULibraries reading group colleagues for introducing me to this t…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Wed Feb 23 15:30:10 +0000 2022)

@sarahemm @adr That’s AWESOME

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Mar 10 19:22:44 +0000 2022)

RT @PulpLibrarian: I’m not saying Apollo 11 wasn’t important, but other stuff was happening too in 1969…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Thu Mar 17 01:05:59 +0000 2022)

RT @ELitLab: Women’s History Month 22: For well over a decade Lori Emerson’s Media Archaeology Lab has “preserve[d] and maintain[ed] access…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Fri Mar 18 14:16:16 +0000 2022)

RT @textfiles: We are so far into the darkness at this point that the single bright light of the promise of the internet and the web is a d…

(Originally on Fowl Place: Sat Mar 19 01:27:53 +0000 2022)

@adr I have a visual arts degree and folks seem to think I’m a pretty decent Head of Library Systems. So maybe we should be requiring fine arts degrees?

(Originally on Fowl Place: Mon Mar 21 01:34:11 +0000 2022)

@adr It’s a crap shoot. The best sysadmin I’ve ever worked with has a Bachelors of comp sci. And one of the worst had a Phd … albeit not in CS, but in a related field.