Notes

School's out, you walk home to an empty house, go to the room with the family computer, turn on the computer & monitor, wait for Windows to boot up, open AOL, click Sign On, wait for the modem to dial and connect, and hear "welcome", now which button are you clicking (or keyword are you typing in)?

Out of the ~100 new old stock 800k floppy disks I bought on eBay, 4 unbranded and 0 Sony disks were unable to be written/verified successfully

Lots of floppy disk writing going on today

A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine

https://byte.tsundoku.io/

Eraser

NIИ

I'm going to make a browser plugin that analyzes the closed caption transcripts of @adriansdigitalbasement.com's videos to find him saying "un-freaking-believable" so I can jump right to the money shot of discovering what the weird problem ends up being, before going back to watch the whole thing

A short update about VCFMW and CMaster

https://jcs.org/2025/08/15/cmaster

In the way BlueSCSI rescues old computers with failed hard drives, I wish there were a universal thing that could save old laptops by replacing their screens with modern ones that are more power efficient with better backlighting.

Like RGBtoHDMI but with LVDS and whatever laptops used before that.

Are chatbot companies taking advertising dollars yet to make their LLMs subtly suggest certain products or services?

Seems like compared to ads on a Google web search, it would be much harder to detect (and block) an influenced recommendation vs. a "natural" one.

Total Control servers are rad

I was using one with an 8-port ATA for my BBS (that never got more than one concurrent phone call)

guys you could just download it for free

Post from The Verge:

Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion

"Whoa, Git is 20 years old!"
"CVS is 34 🙃"

I feel seen

https://jcs.org/notes/2021/05/21/529220759337529835

Lenovo made a portrait laptop

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkbook/thinkbook-plus/thinkbook-plus-gen-6-rollable-14-16-inch-intel/len101b0056