Soh Kam Yung<p>"If you bought a ThinkPad between 1995 and 2017, it was probably designed under the oversight of David W. Hill, who served as lead designer under both IBM and Lenovo for those 22 years. We caught up with Hill, who today runs his own firm, ThinkNext Design, to talk about the history of ThinkPad, what drove him to make key design decisions, and the products he wanted to come out with but just couldn't."</p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/02/thinkpad_david_hill_interview/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/08/02/thi</span><span class="invisible">nkpad_david_hill_interview/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Computers</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Thinkpad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Thinkpad</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Lenovo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lenovo</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Keyboards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Keyboards</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerHistory</span></a></p>
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JdeBP<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@cks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cks</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>simontatham</span></a></span> </p><p>If we go with What Multics Calls Things as a guide to what the name would have been in an alternative history, it is a "search list".</p><p>The mind boggles as to what we would have got with an IBM heritage.</p><p>"Authorized Ordered Command Location Facility Set" or some such.</p><p>And they'd have made it a set, too. No duplicates. (-:</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/PATH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PATH</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Multics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Multics</span></a></p>
Laptop Retrospective<p>For the 10th anniversary of <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ThinkPad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThinkPad</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> Japan released a 65% scale model kit of one of the most iconic computers ever built: the ThinkPad 701c. Today, let's build one of those kits and talk about this amazing portable computer.<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ThinkPadThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThinkPadThursday</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqQRHlI3-B8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=gqQRHlI3-B8</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
vga256<p>inexplicably removed from youtube, this has just been recovered with wbm:</p><p>ibm hires kate mulgrew/captain janeway in 1994 to promote OS/2 Warp 3 after patrick stewart shits the bed on a paid appearance</p><p>it's painful.</p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/ibm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ibm</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/os2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>os2</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/retroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/starTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>starTrek</span></a></p>
Jason Bowen 🇺🇦<p><a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> and <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/AIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIX</span></a> friends: is there any place I can get a shell account on an AIX box (any version, any processor generation) for <= 25USD (not a hard cap). To be clear, I'm not looking for Linux on POWER, but prpoper AIX.</p>
JdeBP<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ioc.exchange/@vt52" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>vt52</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.vlhl.dev/users/navi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>navi</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@ska" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ska</span></a></span> </p><p>When someone does, I shall enjoy mucking that nice straight line between two points up with a third point to fit, being 16-bit OS/2's limit of 32KiB in 1987. (-:</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/CommandLines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommandLines</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/OS2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OS2</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/CMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CMD</span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p>Okay, the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PicoMEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PicoMEM</span></a> is cool for early <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> - <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/PC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PC</span></a> machines...</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwSLWsxip00" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=PwSLWsxip00</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
ltningUgliest and most poorly hidden <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/easteregg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EasterEgg</a> in <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/operatingsystem" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OperatingSystem</a> history? Literally an executable - `\OS2\BITMAPS\AAAAA.EXE` - on the boot drive. CW: your eyes may bleed. Boost to people you don't like. <br><br>Don't get me wrong - I really like OS/2. But IBM never really made pretty things, did they?<br><br>And the alt text needs to be forced upon y'all in this one:<br><br>Short video clip showing a vector drawing of a green field with a road leading past some purple mountains in the background. There's a small blob of water next to the road. There are gradients everywhere: background, mountains, road, water..<br>The sun is orange (also gradient) with a drop shadow like only late 80s vector drawing software could. Corel Draw maybe? It reads "OS/2 Warp" in the top right corner.<br><br>There is an absurdly large metal pole with an even larger white sign full of names printed in a horribly-rendered font (probably System Proportional). The background of the sign is white and, thankfully, not gradient. I suspect this is due to technical limitation, not artistic ones. <br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/retrocomputing" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/os2" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OS2</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/warp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Warp</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/ugly" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ugly</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/ibm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IBM</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.anduin.net/tag/bigblue" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigBlue</a>
Xavier «X» Santolaria :verified_paw: :donor:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@spacerog" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>spacerog</span></a></span> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> 🤘 -- Do more of these please! :blobfistbumpB:</p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://rollenspiel.social/@alatariel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>alatariel</span></a></span> You mean the <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IBM3592" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM3592</span></a> / <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TS1170" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TS1170</span></a>?</p><p>I mean they are the go-to accessory for <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/zArchitecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zArchitecture</span></a> mainframes...</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3592" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3592</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Kevin Karhan :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@glitzersachen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>glitzersachen</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://groupe-tazor.com/@Yuki" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Yuki</span></a></span> propblem is that AFAIK all <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/LTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LTO</span></a> drive mechanisms are made exclusively by <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> and at a pretty premium.</p><ul><li>Compared to the masses of consumer ODDs, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TapeDrives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TapeDrives</span></a> have been on a steady decline since the proprietary destandardization of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/QIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QIC</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/TapeDrives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TapeDrives</span></a> & <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter-inch_cartridge" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">-media</a> in the early 90s.</li></ul><p>I acquired an <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/iomega" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iomega</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/ditto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ditto</span></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditto_(drive)" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">800</a> about two decades ago...</p>
Francois Dion<p>And it has this nice booklet inside published by Bell Labs, with Max V Matthews as technical consultant</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digital</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/electronic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electronic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a></p>
Francois Dion<p>I have a large collection of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/electronic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electronic</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/vinyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vinyl</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/records" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>records</span></a>. I had a radio show on FM on the subject for about a decade. So it is always exciting to find something I don't have, especially early stuff. Found this 10" boxed "Music from Mathematics" from 1960, bell labs. Much more rare than 1962 Decca 12". Never seen it before. Found in a local shop, of all places, hiding inside a vinyl carry case.<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/belllabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>belllabs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/computerassisted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computerassisted</span></a></p>
Peter Riley<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UnitedNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedNations</span></a> Special Rapporteur <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FrancescaAlbanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrancescaAlbanese</span></a> report, exposing how technology companies fuel Israel’s illegal occupation, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/apartheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apartheid</span></a> regime, and its ongoing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> against Palestinians in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ai</span></a> cloud and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> by big tech corporations <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alphabet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alphabet</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a>), <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HP</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Palantir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palantir</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session59/advance-version/a-hrc-59-23-aev.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ohchr.org/sites/default/files/</span><span class="invisible">documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session59/advance-version/a-hrc-59-23-aev.pdf</span></a></p>
Loki the Cat<p>IBM's 1995 ThinkPad 701 had the most elegant solution to laptop keyboards - a butterfly mechanism that expanded from 9.7 to 11.5 inches. Sold 215k units, then tech progress made it obsolete within a year. Sometimes being perfectly timed means perfectly mistimed. 🦋</p><p><a href="https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/20/0557204/why-ibms-amazing-sliding-keyboard-thinkpad-701-never-survived-past-1995" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slashdot.org/story/25/07/20/05</span><span class="invisible">57204/why-ibms-amazing-sliding-keyboard-thinkpad-701-never-survived-past-1995</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ThinkPad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThinkPad</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/VintageComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VintageComputing</span></a></p>
Jeff Horton :canada:<p>Had coffee with a guy this morning, he mentioned os/2. Do you remember and know what that is?</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/computing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/os2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>os2</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ibm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ibm</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ms</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/winnt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>winnt</span></a></p>
Larvitz :fedora: :redhat:<p>Ich habe jetzt einen kleinen E-Ink Ticker auf dem Schreibtisch, der den Aktienkurs vom Mutterschiff anzeigt. Plus eine Farb-LED, als Indikator für steigende oder fallende Kurse. </p><p><a href="https://burningboard.net/tags/ticker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ticker</span></a> <a href="https://burningboard.net/tags/aktien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aktien</span></a> <a href="https://burningboard.net/tags/finanzen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>finanzen</span></a> <a href="https://burningboard.net/tags/parqet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>parqet</span></a> <a href="https://burningboard.net/tags/stockmarket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stockmarket</span></a> <a href="https://burningboard.net/tags/ibm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ibm</span></a></p>
FunHouse Radio<p>"A passionate enthusiast has just built an entire processor—yes, not a development board, not a microcontroller, but a full-on, instruction-capable, memory-addressing CPU using nothing but old memory chips and logic components from the 8-bit era."<br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/pc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pc</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>windows</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/diy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/hobbies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hobbies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/electronics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electronics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/msdos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>msdos</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/upcycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>upcycling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/nerds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nerds</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/nerdcore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nerdcore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/nerdware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nerdware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/chips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chips</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/odd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>odd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/strange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>strange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/weird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>weird</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/unusual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unusual</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/omg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>omg</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/genius" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genius</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/invention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>invention</span></a><br><a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/passionate-enthusiast-builds-a-fully-functional-processor-out-of-old-memory-chips-hand-solders-every-wire-writes-1800-lines-of-assembler-code-and-makes-it-play-the-matrix-on-a-vfd-display" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tomshardware.com/pc-components</span><span class="invisible">/cpus/passionate-enthusiast-builds-a-fully-functional-processor-out-of-old-memory-chips-hand-solders-every-wire-writes-1800-lines-of-assembler-code-and-makes-it-play-the-matrix-on-a-vfd-display</span></a></p>
penworks<p>Ideal Home</p><p>Src (all over the internet)</p><p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/ibm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ibm</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computers</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/1960s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>1960s</span></a></p>
openSUSE Linux<p>🐧 Curious about <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/s390x" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>s390x</span></a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> Z <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LinuxONE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinuxONE</span></a>? Learn the key differences from x86 and others on how <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/openSUSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openSUSE</span></a> works with big-endian systems. <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/oSC25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oSC25</span></a> <a href="https://youtu.be/QG7IdToO4ek?si=63vxCS5JDxfjVWJI" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/QG7IdToO4ek?si=63vxCS</span><span class="invisible">5JDxfjVWJI</span></a></p>
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