asciilifeform: it is almost as if they did not want their 3-10k $ investments to turn into the equivalent of old nintendo.☟︎
asciilifeform: or even to take and post a high-resolution photo of the thing.
asciilifeform: for some odd reason, not a single one of the folks who bought these relics, has seen it fit to do this work.
asciilifeform: ( it would be possible to build a behavioural test stand for it, if the pinout and timing characteristics were known. theoretically anyone with a 'macivory' and some spare time, could come up with these. )
asciilifeform: re 'non-crown' jewels of bolixdom, one example of useful thing that does not publicly exist anywhere -- the mere pinout of the 'ivory'.
asciilifeform: most of it is described, in painful detail, in the logs.
asciilifeform: well, starting with the crown jewels , and down :☟︎
asciilifeform: perhaps doppler will break the radio silence and post some docs
asciilifeform: we had a lively thread not long ago, where asciilifeform complains re primary activity of the top bolixologists seems to consist of sitting quietly, dog-in-the-manger-style, on piles of unpublished goodies
asciilifeform: incidentally the real titan of 'bolixology' here is phf , rather than asciilifeform .
asciilifeform: ( asciilifeform in particular is not esp. interested in 'lisp machine restoration' in the sense of 'old car restoration' hobbyists, but in reverse-engineering )
asciilifeform: y'know one could build a mass of cockroach 10km on all sides.
asciilifeform: say why i ought to be interested in anything other than the height of the plank.
asciilifeform: in abstract it sounds entirely tru -- 'gotta get the money out of the hands of the beetle man.' but the actual history is somewhat puzzling -- 'beetle man' su had , e.g., steklov mathematical institute. '90s ru -- cocaine yachts, golden toilets.
asciilifeform: orcs just pour golden toilet, and prop up western 'bank' chumpatron.
asciilifeform: this was tested in late su/90s ru. afaik summed to 0.
asciilifeform: tru. all of the nonsense of versailles did not destroy euro culture; the 20th c -- did.
asciilifeform: ( and hitler was not even the champ, in his circle. consider the idiot chicken farmer's 'ahnenerbe' for instance. )
asciilifeform: dun have to be mass/konsoomer oriented.
asciilifeform: iirc no less a man than hitler, supported whole stable of alchemists, quacks.
asciilifeform: faux crypto ain't ever going away, it is like homeopathy, astrology, fills a niche in the poor, the lazy, the intellectually powerless, for 'control'
asciilifeform: ideally you'd have the glass window on it, as on an epro, also! but strictly so that you can read it optically.
asciilifeform: (oh imho a future otp rom, if anyone finds himself sitting on a throne, and wants to make one, ought to have not one but TWO fuses per bit. so that nobody can turn a 1 into a 0 later by blowing an unblown fuse. so you'd have 10 -> 1; 01 -> 0; 11 -> dead cell, ergo dead chip; 00 -> blank cell, only found on blank (new) chip.)
asciilifeform: ( you can easily piss an exe into existence, via vnc, using 'alt codes' , or by getting hold of exploder and pissing in a url to load from, or possibly other ways. similar process in other os with exposed vnctron )
asciilifeform: incidentally, i wonder if anybody's ever written a vnc worm.
asciilifeform: ( consider the barbarisms winblowz folx are STILL stuck with, e.g., vnc. )
asciilifeform: not moving bitmaps when there is any way to avoid it, also.
