asciilifeform: KRS1: circus animals have skill sets, people have the ability to figure oddities out on the spot.

asciilifeform: just over different physical layer

asciilifeform: KRS1: funny part is that iscsi, sata, even usb mass storage standard still use the classic scsi-2 command set.

asciilifeform: it had keyboard/mouse decoders, and a 16-bit (!) sound card

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: sym. console was more than a display

asciilifeform: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=52

asciilifeform: got one right here under desk

asciilifeform: curious thing. looks and weighs like a soviet tv set, but with supervga res.

asciilifeform: symbolics, if i recall, had to have tubes custom blown.

asciilifeform: the latter posed some issues in the '80s, from lack of suitable tubes

asciilifeform: same connector as my SGI Octane, if i recall

asciilifeform: afaik all went to gold reclamation junkyard.

asciilifeform: i pined for one as a student. then they all ended up at the university surplus shop, in a gigantic mountain.

asciilifeform: still plentiful in closets and garages around the world.

asciilifeform: and dirt cheap to free

asciilifeform: but the hardware ought to suffice for a sufficiently late-1980s-like experience

asciilifeform: and perhaps network

asciilifeform: you will need a hack to attach keyboard

asciilifeform: port a unixlike to 'sega genesis' or 'super nintendo'

asciilifeform: here's a potentially neat project

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: you theo de raadt, by any chance ?

asciilifeform: read danny hillis, 'the connection machine.'

asciilifeform: 'cpu' is perhaps a misleading word for what they were

asciilifeform: fully stocked, 65536 cpus.

asciilifeform: i know a fellow who passed up a chance to buy a 'connection machine.'

asciilifeform: *recommend

asciilifeform: for calculator aficionados, i recomment HP-16C.

asciilifeform: i like to use 10 fingers.

asciilifeform: at one point there was a version with a qwerty keyboard (92?)

asciilifeform: never bothered to pop it, wonder if there's an ARM running an emulator of the original in there.

asciilifeform: takes a whole second (or two?) to switch on.

asciilifeform: the one starting with the grey chassis is a turd

asciilifeform: poor 89. ever see what they did to it?

asciilifeform: (asm on a machine where you cannot directly diddle the peripherals isn't fun in the traditional way)

asciilifeform: to an asm programmer - always

asciilifeform: peripherals

asciilifeform: in just the same way as 68k mac differed from amiga, say

asciilifeform: each vendor's peripherals will be quite different

asciilifeform: 'system on chip' is inevitably a different feel than a classical cpu

asciilifeform: 68k lives on in some micros

asciilifeform: inspired by pdp

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 68k was perhaps the last arch that was actually fun to program in asm

asciilifeform: i've never concerned myself with keeping 'on top' of anything

asciilifeform: KRS1: everyone seems to say this, but it never made any sense to me

asciilifeform: what would actually catching it look like ?

asciilifeform: and a coke bottle sized cap

asciilifeform: think 'camera flash' but with two electrodes in place of the xenon tube.

asciilifeform: but cheap.

asciilifeform: only good for battery tabs, more or less

asciilifeform: pulse discharge welder won't patch your boat

asciilifeform: well, in the ports tree, rather than at install, but what difference.

asciilifeform: freebsd did, when i had it on my original libretto, circa 2001

asciilifeform: openbsd has 'apm' util out of the box.

asciilifeform: rebuild battery.

asciilifeform: invest $50, 1F or greater capacitor + fist-sized power FET, discharge spot welder.

asciilifeform: still got the pieces of a phriend's latitude ls here.

asciilifeform: http://www.alfar.com/~amanda/pc110/palmtop1.gif

asciilifeform: the other being 'ibm pc110'

asciilifeform: libretto is one of two 'netbook' sized machines ever built that isn't a chinese turd

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i don't do vintage for the sake of vintage

asciilifeform: that is, MOV predicated on flags, a la conditional jumps

asciilifeform: i686 aka 'pentium pro', introduced a number of instructions, mainly 'CMOV'

asciilifeform: ?

asciilifeform: if you own this box, make sure to use 'i386' kernels rather than 'i686'

asciilifeform: only the last was usable immediately

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: gentoo, debian, freebsd, openbsd, all booted

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: how much would you pay to watch gold bullion alloyed with atomic waste and drowned in the ocean?

asciilifeform: in this case, 'stage magic' being almost literally the explanation, being a case where the audience is enthusiastically cooperating in being fooled

asciilifeform: 'proof of work' is just a piece of stage magic, to create the appearance of seigniorage-free currency.

asciilifeform: heads neither teleport nor are particularly uncommon

asciilifeform: the notion that proof of work is what gives btc value is mistaken. a btc is in a sense a kind of machine, with useful properties (e.g. teleportation, provable scarcity, etc)

asciilifeform: everybody who wants a skull ash tray probably has one already.

asciilifeform: proof of destruction alone does not command a price. snowden's head could be worth $100K (fox news audience pitching in pennies) but yours or mine...

asciilifeform: mission accomplished.

asciilifeform: with same serials.

asciilifeform: then, reprinted at the u.s. mint

asciilifeform: cameras rolling

asciilifeform: then gathered into a pyre and set alight.

asciilifeform: the cash was photographed individually, benjamin by benjamin,

asciilifeform: there is, for instance, a legend of an occasion where it was necessary to move several $mil in dollars out of the ussr ☟︎

asciilifeform: proof of destruction makes sense in context

asciilifeform: long pork, in modern times, is generally served when short port is in short supply

asciilifeform: buy $10K keychains often?

asciilifeform: keychain?

asciilifeform: but, what can i do with your finger?

asciilifeform: or fingers

asciilifeform: i still don't get it, what use are teeth to the buyer

asciilifeform: e.g. 'sd card' tooth (a la cyanide tooth)

asciilifeform: and, while you might relish the thought of cutting pipes with your teeth, there are other uses

asciilifeform: one would need to get them in matched pairs.

asciilifeform: well, opposite of it

asciilifeform: re: carbide tooth: picture what would become of a natural tooth under that crown.

asciilifeform: (the merchants get shafted on charge-backs, the banks lose nothing)

asciilifeform: probably the latter - they profit from card skimming fraud

asciilifeform: remaining question is, would banks move to challenge/response silicon cards first, or just focus on hunting down and impaling the hypothetical daring 'dread pirate'

asciilifeform: good chance that 90+% of the data sold will be of stolen cards

asciilifeform: it's a simple, if suicidally dangerous, solution to 'how to teleport fiat'

asciilifeform: the penalty for using it will be death-by-ants and people will still use it.

asciilifeform: eventually some fellow with boron nitride balls will open an exchange of writeable bank card #s to/from btc.

asciilifeform: btw the mother of the girl in the film, is, clearly, standing for ussr.