asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-09-2015#1269406 << needs some 'entomological' work, yes. gotta log'em. ☝︎

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-09-2015#1269404 << got any captures ? ☝︎

asciilifeform to bed

asciilifeform: http://cdn.omg-facts.com/2013/2/7/36a5cd01a61e425274ac73c3726e0151.jpg

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://punix-os.blogspot.com/2012/03/first-time-real-calc.html << possibly of interest to you

asciilifeform was about to sleep but will stay awake for this

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ??

asciilifeform: that rich.

asciilifeform: hey not everybody is rich

asciilifeform: does mazerati idle more luxuriously at the red light than ford pinto ?

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: one day someone will explain to me the point of buying a $megabuck machine to sit in traffic jam in.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the funnier part still is that the childrenz cooperated eagerly, because you could play 'tetris' and 'dope wars' on the thing

asciilifeform: hey, if microshit excel can be a class

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they actually tried to force the kidz to memorize key sequences for various statistical ops ☟︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the funny part is ~why~ they were required

asciilifeform: trinque: there are several versions floating around, including v6 for winblowz

asciilifeform: trinque: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/derive.zip.sig

asciilifeform: i think all the ti widgets had stats

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: the '83' was actually mandatory at the school i went to. but normally the warde^H^H^H^teacher wouldn't notice if you had something vaguely shaped like '83'

asciilifeform: trinque: i signed it! see log

asciilifeform: unless you went and put that in by hand.

asciilifeform: it won't even function. lacks the db locks correction

asciilifeform: this is not a 'v' build...

asciilifeform: http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-August/000161.html << sequence displayed here is current.

asciilifeform: and certainly will not build in rotor.

asciilifeform: and prevent a functioning stator, period.

asciilifeform: in fact that would leave dns invocation in

asciilifeform: iirc that's not even rel1 !

asciilifeform: srsly ?!

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha it takes a destionation dir name and a patch name (called in this case 'head'). applies sequence up through and including head.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: lulzy. i'm slightly surprised the thing sold at all other than to a junkyard

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ^ which head did you press to ?

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=06-09-2015#1264281 ☝︎

asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu even has rel2-beta going on an actual battlefield box. but he's a brave fella, and has fallbacks

asciilifeform: mod6: hence why i asked.

asciilifeform: mod6: i was recently in a slightly awkward situation of explaining therealbitcoin to an intelligent n00b, but not able to recommend anything hosted at therealbitcoin.org for actual use

asciilifeform: shinohai: please consider using a civilized pgp key in the future

asciilifeform: shinohai: i guess hitler can decrypt it also, and use the rom.

asciilifeform: shinohai: i sent it to your email addr

asciilifeform: Subkey fingerprint: 7B0D 6C5D D3C6 46DE EB0D F73D B4A0 4553 7370 8B0E

asciilifeform: Primary key fingerprint: FDF6 3798 C83A 7B13 75F7 2468 E335 8571 3E18 4252

asciilifeform: pub 2048R/73708B0E 2015-01-21 shinohai <shinohai@sdf.org>

asciilifeform: gpg: 73708B0E: There is no assurance this key belongs to the named user

asciilifeform: shinohai: your key is not self-signed

asciilifeform: back when it was nontrivial

asciilifeform: interestingly, ti is (or at least was) one of the most tightfistedly-drm-besotten hardware makers; to the point that PEOPLE GANGED UP AND FACTORED THEIR RSA KEY - http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/145/145273.html

asciilifeform: impressive, what they fit in there, no ?

asciilifeform: it is EXACTLY 1MB.

asciilifeform: sha512:9924f6921f3fcfd9069a79bfb5f49336789a0cf798cabc26660e4d0129d0708cfd32e6960367b5ebc5f34475d24940d244e1f15c752d1f6c9990f10380038873

asciilifeform: Dec 25 2000 TI92.ROM

asciilifeform: i have a:

asciilifeform: (if you need the rom, ask me)

asciilifeform: it exists.

asciilifeform: who really desperately wants this, can download emulator

asciilifeform: i'll leave it there.

asciilifeform: http://web.alfredstate.edu/quagliato/ti92/tialg/IMG00044.GIF << compositor of functions.

asciilifeform: http://web.alfredstate.edu/quagliato/ti92/tialg/IMG00049.GIF << lim.

asciilifeform: it's like cutting somebody open to count their tree rings or sumthing.

asciilifeform: etc.

asciilifeform: http://web.alfredstate.edu/quagliato/ti92/ticalc/IMG00009.GIF << double integral.

asciilifeform: http://web.alfredstate.edu/quagliato/ti92/ticalc/IMG00013.GIF << maximi

asciilifeform: e.g., http://web.alfredstate.edu/quagliato/ti92/tigraph/IMG00042.GIF

asciilifeform: complete with the 3d grapher thing

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you're mystified as to wtf all of this was, these old gadgets are (literally) 'derive.exe'-in-a-can. ☟︎

asciilifeform: it never made sense to me.

asciilifeform: save questions from exam for crib sheet?

asciilifeform: somehow, automagically doing most of symbolic manipulations through sophomore uni maths or so, is a-ok, but oh noez, keyboard could be used to... what?

asciilifeform: but not 92.

asciilifeform: believe or not, they let u.s. schoolchildren use '89' on exams.

asciilifeform: 92 is ~25 usd surplus.

asciilifeform: it is ~identical~ to the 92 but has no qwerty

asciilifeform: shinohai: if you're not a schoolboy, avoid the 89.

asciilifeform: http://web.alfredstate.edu/quagliato/ti92/tiprog/tiprog.htm << even the asinine 'basic' of these things beats just about anything given to pc novices now

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: shinohai: some folks even today do crypto on these

asciilifeform: or 'delta'

asciilifeform: who the fuck wants to type the word 'lambda' ?!

asciilifeform: i regard it as the mark of a thinking man's computer

asciilifeform: greek appeared on the early lisp machine keyboards, as well

asciilifeform: (via a meta key, sure. but worked seamlessly!)

asciilifeform: btw these humble machines were superior to pc in a certain respect - greek symbols on kbd !

asciilifeform: shinohai: didja have one of these as a boy ?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the 'equation solver' is actually half of why people bought the thing ☟︎

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: unrelated but useful for you, http://web.alfredstate.edu/quagliato/ti92/tiintro/tiintro.htm

asciilifeform: kinda like what gavin&hearn make.

asciilifeform: if it isn't, it is rather like merely an expensive sort of 'sybil'

asciilifeform: every full node is rightfully a walk through all of history

asciilifeform: the thing is supposed to sync itself, that is part and parcel of how bitcoin is meant to work.

asciilifeform: at the risk of repeating myself, shipping blockchains is sad.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: l0l! what would this fella use for a node ? gurlz with pencils ?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: what is the purpose of this? i mean, you can transmit a pgp sig and post the disk

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 4 BTC to 400 for shipping ?! what do you intend to use, ballistic rocket ?

asciilifeform: ditto the famous teapot

asciilifeform: but somehow they only ever get sold to folks who aren't me

asciilifeform: shinohai: i keep looking for this, because it'd make a glorious esp8266 substitute

asciilifeform: perhaps even sold openly: 'buy this bottomless drive!'

asciilifeform: it will be quite the ideal nsatron

asciilifeform: as i understand this presently exists as a deliberately-crafted commercial product, used in cameras. but picture if it were picked up by cn artisans of flimflam