@xChaos this is a strategic question for me, yes--i am imagining a 'left wing' long termism, to put it quickly.
i encountered something like this while studying hegel--italian fascists also loved him, it seems.
maybe a built in EEPROM flasher--and the permacomputer will be geocached/time capsuled with a stash of EEPROMs?
i wonder what the most ubiquitous form of audio playback device is now
probably people's phones... i ask because i am trying to think of a way to help the permacomputer project store data in a format that would be used day-to-day.
the requirement of long-term data integrity is not a requirement, that will require some other medium. this question concerns more short- to medium-term storage.
ideally you would have a long term, well-engineered master copy, and then many cheaper, lossier copies made off that.
i figure something analogous to a cassette tape could work--audio data transfer is easily implemented in TTL circuitry, so it would make the permacomputer much simpler.
i wonder how one might store audio in the future? after a technological and ecological decline? maybe a lil mp3 player with a universal adaptor for any kind of drive, flash memory, smart card... old laptop hard drive?
i was originally gonna keep the 80s microcomputer/BASIC type-in noodlings separate from the people's permacomputer project.
but i may collapse parts of the 6502 hardware build i am doing into the permacomputer project.
it seems this would contradict the latest direction that the project took--the path the permacomputer project has gone down has been rather unpredictable. it often oscillates between several opposing recommendations for action, such as whether it is a good idea to actually commit to providing some specific hardware.
i do encourage you to follow along, it has been very exciting so far
If you’ve already set up an adventure log for this year’s #DecemberAdventure and you want me to include it in the big list of adventure logs drop me a link to it!
New #RC2014 boards that arrived today work exactly as planned. That's a huge relief having changed a lot since the last revision.
Spent a lot of time on the firmware today. Happy to report that it is making progress... bars




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We'll look at Cat's gopher given enough time
the music this week is the silence in between my thoughts

alright the 6502 thingo is going ahead.
i purchased the following
- 2 x MC6847 video display generators (keeping a spare on hand)
- 1 x T48 (TL866 compatible??) EEPROM programmer
- large amount of 74LS00 NANDs
i already have:
- 2 x 61256 32K SRAMs
- 1 x AT28C256 32K EEPROM
- 1 x ACIA
- 1 x VIA
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links:
https://pmig96.wordpress.com/2020/07/15/mc6847-test-circuit/
https://github.com/adumont/hb6502?tab=readme-ov-file#memory-map
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memory map:
address | component |
---|---|
$0000-$3FFF | RAM (16KB) |
$4200-$4203 | ACIA |
$6000-$600F | VIA |
$8000-$FFFF | ROM (32KB) |
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honourable mention:
As a necessary prerequisite to getting some of my VM/OS goals accomplished, I'll need something akin to a standard library for doing stuff like printing numbers and such.
In this case, my formatting library takes its inspiration directly from ANS Forth's numeric conversion primitives.

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The search box also searches for accounts (via webfinger).
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I wonder how often people do a deep cleaning of their Emacs configs? I ran into an issue with mine over the weekend and ended up throwing out a huge amount of obsolete settings that dated from several major revisions ago.
In the process, I also tried out a new theme. It feels...different. Weirdly like a new system, just because some colors changed. So far it's nice and I will see if I stick with it.
Next step is removing obsolete packages without breaking everything.
Woohoo! Apparently it was a long drive from Cincinnati, but DHL have finally bought my boards from JLCPCB.
Should be enough stock to see me through the weekend. And I need to test and sort out the firmware on the new board.

Played little bit with the #amstrad464 #basic. This picture is made by eight lines of code ... :)