asciilifeform: theoretically mircea_popescu dun need, e.g., computer, could have continued to sit on his cocaine yacht in costa rica, until end of his days
asciilifeform: well if mircea_popescu's statement is to be taken literally, 'one ox is worth 50 ducks', seems like if you need ducks for something, it'd be a trade you could make.
asciilifeform: i have 0 comment on what the duck and the ox are worth
asciilifeform: last i looked out the window i was as 'in' the field as one might hope in any nightmare, neh
asciilifeform: implement a stream cipher instead of the DES algorithm.'
asciilifeform: 'The PX-1000 is a device capable of transmitting encrypted text messages over telephone lines. We show that the original version that was produced by TextLite implements the DES algorithm correctly. In 1983, when Philips USFA distributed this device as the PX- 1000Cr, the NSA made a deal with Philips USFA to implement an alternative algorithm. For this alternative version we show that it does
asciilifeform: nao we know where dks's stockpile went.
asciilifeform: this isn't the only 1 on the net, either, i found several, they bought lispms, one took hundreds of photos of himself 'hipstering' near it, then one final one where it (??!) burned down☟︎
asciilifeform: phf: it hit me in the face immediately
asciilifeform: but let american navy dig, on bottom of the sea, looking for boojums. just what the doctor ordered.
asciilifeform: time must flow a little faster on mircea_popescu's planet.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and waiwut, 50?! founded in '80
asciilifeform: BUT i do have the chip, bought for some bux, from the old days of giving a shit, and so offer it to phf et al.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i did describe earlier, having concluded a few yrs ago that it is cheaper, easier, moar pleasant, to cut appart 'snap4' emulator (i have a pc build here ~with debug symbols~, comes apart in ida nicely) than to suffer with nitric acid and electron microscope☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: well, https://symbolics.lisp.engineer/goals appears to be a list of what d00d aims to do with the thing, and typical example is 'port classic games to it', more or less 0 to do with reversing the thing
asciilifeform: though i wonder if optical microscope will be worth a damn in this case : iirc smbx cpu was 'gate array', an early form of fpga based on mask rom
asciilifeform: (i don't expect to ever run across another.)
