three new text editors added from Computer Notes magazine, issue October 1977:

- "EDIT"
- "Quick Word Processing System"
- "Disc BASIC Editor"

Please see:

https://git.sr.ht/~vidak/peoples-permacomputer/commit/b48afdf

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# NOTES

very exciting. these will suit Stefan's BASIC on the Arduino Mega very, very well.

Altair BASIC is the target for these programs, ie. "8K BASIC".

see in particular the "Quick" system, which is merely half a page.

I wrote some VimScript after a long time. (Toxic experiences in /r/vim back in the day, don't ask.)

Problem: sometimes I want to compare two hashes or fingerprints. Say I got one from the terminal and one from a webpage. I often find myself copying one to near the other and trying to eyeball for differences.

Solution now: Paste the 2 lines into a vim buffer, position cursor on the upper line, press backslash h.

function HDiff()
let l:line = line('.')
normal 0
while v:true
let l:col = col('.')
let l:c = getline('.')[l:col - 1]
exec "let l:line2 = search('\\%".l:col."c".l:c."')"
if l:line2 != l:line + 1
call cursor(l:line, l:col)
break
endif
" one character right
normal l
" back to previous line
normal ^Vk
if col(".") == l:col
break " at end of line
endif
redraw
sleep 50m
endwhile
endfunction

map <Leader>h :call HDiff()<CR>

As a bonus this is a much more "visual" solution than I used to make the last time I wrote VimScript. How I've grown.

(Please report issues. The "^V" in the middle there you'll need to replace with a literal ctrl+v character. In insert mode press ctrl+v twice.)

CADR4 #MIT #CADR #LispM #LispMachine current status is we are optimizing the simulation runtime (it takes about 10 minutes to run through almost all the boot PROM to the point we are accessing memory -- which isn't fun when you want to work on accessing memory).

#Lisp #VHDL #HDL

https://github.com/ams/cadr4

https://archive.org/details/Computer_Notes_1977_03_05/page/n11/mode/2up

Hi everyone,

The project is looking for 8K BASIC programs, also known as Altair BASIC.

For development, we have BASIC running on an Arduino Mega 2560, and it has 6.5K RAM available after BASIC is loaded. Also 4K EEPROM.

If you have any advice on finding programs we can run on the Arduino, we would be very grateful.

This slipped under the radar - age verification for search engines in Australia to start in "no later than six months" after the “Internet Search Engine Services Online Safety Code (Class 1C and Class 2 Material)” was accepted by the eSafety Commissioner a few days ago. They're gonna require age verification for way more than just social media.

https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/australians-to-face-age-checks-from-search-engines.html

Potentially of interest to anyone in Western Sydney who's renting.

Western Sydney Community Legal Centre is hosting a free one-hour info session on tenant rights. It will cover topics such as lease agreements, bond security, maintenance obligations, and dispute resolution.

5 August, 11.30am at Phive in Parramatta. Register here if you're interested: https://parramatta-events.bookable.net.au/#!/event-detail/Tenant-Rights-Parramatta #auspol #nswpol #renting #tenancy #tenants #housing

@vidak Have you looked at all at Basic Anywhere Machine? It has a few fora at https://basicanywheremachine-news.blogspot.com/p/discuss.html

going to the river to take a break from writing about teenagers so i can write about teenagers

*abruptly begins rotating in sync with a satellite*