The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was launched 1983 as Timex Sinclair 2068 computer on the US market. Even when Commodore won the #8bitWars in the end, the ZX Spectrum sold 5 million units until 1992 for a initial price of £175 (48KB in the UK). With a Z80A 8-bit CPU running oh 3.5 MHz it was capable to do fancy computer graphics on a regular telly, at home for everybody.
Most likely because Quantel named their first system as simple as they did, Print'n'Plotter sold their graphic software under the same product name "Paintbox", but for the ZX Home Computers. In a resolution of 256×192 pixels and limited to 15 colours #IT was great for the budget. Demo graphics been fancy, even if not as WOOOW as the real Paintbox. https://gfkdsgn.wordpress.com/2020/01/01/quantel-paintbox/
Quantel wasn't in the Home computer business so not even MTV could afford more than a few. Real Paintbox systems are rare today, while the ZX Spectrum isn't so much.
The series of our 2023 tech anniversaries comes to a natural end and content plans for the next year have to be talked about internally. AFK
Fuck that Elf: it's so stupid and a forced, modern tradition of materialism & consumerism atop a forced, older tradition of materialism & consumerism.
Also, it's exceedingly creepy, but not in the good way.
Celebrate with us a bit that 2023 was packed like that with important IT Anniversaries.
Events didn't line up as well for the last #Infographic that we've tooted like for this historic layout of information technology development on a #timeline.
• Ist eine "#Passphrase" sicherer als ein "#Password" oder nicht? (Ich habe mal gelernt, dass Einträge aus Wörterbüchern vermieden werden sollen, weil Computer die leicht abgleichen können.)
1973 #Ethernet as one of the defining information technologies in modern communication was developed at #PARC by Chuck Thackers for #Alto#Computer s. What Bob Metcalf, Butler Lampson, and Dave Boggs built for the #ARPAnet is connecting us all today— via the #Internet, & @fediverse.
So, on my last stream I demonstrated how to setup Mastodon vanilla Ruby on Rails (contributed to it in past) server.
Got production mode working +properly answered a lingering question on github
Replaced Puma b/c its simply not well suited, for the design of mastodon which is websockets (WS) heavy
Demonstrated how easy it is to switch to Iodine and remain working. Below=local VM HTTP benchmarks. WS benchmarks on VPS to come. Notice open file err w/ Puma
There is no reason why in this day and age that municipal, state, provincial, and federal #government cannot stand up their own #fediverse instances that they control to provide their citizens relevant information. Whether that be #mastodon, #lemmy, #kbin, #peertube, #pixelfeed, or #whatever. Why should we have to rely on #meta (#facebook and #instagram) or #x (#twitter) #databrokers for publicly funded and public relevant information and communication.
Hello everyone, how is the law structured for individuals with autism in your country? Are there specific rights or provisions? Please, can you discuss them? And, where are you from? #it#autism#adhd#ActuallyAutistic@actuallyautistic
Henri of Navarre The smelliest people in history #facts #history #shortvideo (youtube.com)