Notes

When your normal keeb is too loud to use at night...

Let's ignore the world around us for an hour and add a proper GUI to our ported diff(1) utility

https://jcs.org/2020/11/04/diff_gui

If you found my C Programming on System 6 videos but somehow haven't seen @[email protected] making an entire operating system, go do that now. He's been a huge influence on me in the past year and I continue to be amazed at his skill and ambition, delivered with humility and humor.
https://twitter.com/awesomekling/status/1322836922641821696

Let's port OpenBSD's diff(1) to System 6

https://jcs.org/2020/10/28/openbsd_diff

Let's show new messages in bold, and introduce some bugs in the process

https://jcs.org/2020/10/27/message_flags

The lag becomes more noticeable through an HDMI capture device recording in OBS. Kinda loses its magic not seeing the actual CRT on video :/

Fly my toaster friends

Here is live screen mirroring of an unmodified Mac Plus over its external SCSI port to a Raspberry Pi with a RaSCSI hat, drawing the screen data on the Pi's 640x480 framebuffer and displaying it on a tiny HDMI monitor

Success!

Nice @[email protected] clue

I've never used Discord, but I opened the first episode of @[email protected] five years ago with "hello cyberpals"

https://garbage.jcs.org/episodes/0

I read it in Phrack like ten years ago and it stuck with me
https://twitter.com/sijmen/status/1319041453004378113

Let's view a random OpenBSD commit e-mail from @[email protected]

https://jcs.org/2020/10/21/viewing_messages

If you're using a SCSI2SD v5.5 on a Mac Plus, these L-com DG9025MF1 ("exit 1") adapters fit perfectly and can free up some desk space behind your Mac

https://www.alliedelec.com/product/l-com/dg9025mf1/70126251/

Inventory:
- (Desk) Toshiba Libretto L5
- T1 CSU, Cisco 2500-something router, Soekris
- CRT, T1 SmartJack
- DEC VT510
- Sun Ultra10

Inventory:
- Tektronix X Terminal
- DEC VT510
- CRT for the X Terminal
- DEC AlphaStation 200 and OpenBSD 2.9 CD, Toshiba (Tecra?) laptop, Cisco 760 ISDN modem, 3Com hub
- Power Computing PowerTower, some random i386

(High-resolution photography had not yet been invented)

Some later gear

Can you identify all of the equipment from my home office in 2001?

In this video, I made a date/time parser and hooked it up to the IMAP code to get message dates showing in the message list

https://jcs.org/2020/10/16/parsing_dates

Find out which celebrities are using this one weird trick to create LDEFs that doctors don't want you to know about!

https://jcs.org/2020/10/14/ldef_trick