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µP<p>Last week I learned Wolfgang Nake had died on July 17th. Wolfgang has dedicated is retirement time to reenact the early <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> TTL games - especially <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pong</span></a>. We cooperated in talks, exhibitions, and in papers many times. I am very sad he died only 70 years old! One of my forthcoming essay collections on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerArchaeology</span></a> will be dedicated to him and his work.</p><p>In my weblog I wrote a short obituray on him:</p><p><a href="http://www.simulationsraum.de/blog/2025/08/01/wolfgang-nake-1954-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">simulationsraum.de/blog/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">8/01/wolfgang-nake-1954-2025/</span></a></p>
root42<p>What do you do when you are sick with the flu on the sofa? Me, I am reading <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nickmofo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nickmofo</span></a></span>‘s excellent book „Racing the Beam“ about the Atari VCS. This also led me to nanochess‘s blog post about Video Chess. <br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/computerarchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computerarchaeology</span></a></p>
µP<p>Another English translated chapter from my earlier work is uploaded to ResearchGate:</p><p>Little Data – Fractal Image Compression: From a Network-Historical Miscellany to a Media-Structural Rupture</p><p><a href="http://txt3.de/el-data" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">txt3.de/el-data</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fractals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fractals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerArchaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerGraphics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerGraphics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Compression</span></a></p>
µP<p>Today the 4th issue of the German <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameStudies</span></a> magazine "Spiel-Formen" has been published. Main topic of this issue is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameLabs</span></a>. I contributed a photo galery about the "Signal Laboratory" at HU Berlin:</p><p><a href="http://txt3.de/signal-noises" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">txt3.de/signal-noises</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerArchaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameLab</span></a></p>
µP<p>Today I've published an english translated version of my paper on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerArchaeology</span></a> of (early) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialNetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialNetworks</span></a>, describing the "Community Memory" project from Lee Felsenstein and others in the 1960s/70s SF Bay Area:</p><p>"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" – Public memories, democratic information, and restrictive technologies using the example of "Community Memory"</p><p><a href="http://txt3.de/grace-e" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">txt3.de/grace-e</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Power</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataBase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataBase</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigData</span></a></p>
µP<p>Today I'm going to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Munich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Munich</span></a> for the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@vcfe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>vcfe</span></a></span> where I'm exhibiting early <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atari</span></a> home computers, giving a lecture on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOTO</span></a> controversy and holding an editor-editorial meeting about the next volumes in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerArchaeology</span></a> book series. As the icing on the cake, swap (my) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/THAT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>THAT</span></a> analog computer for a Leyboldt-Haraeus <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AnalogComputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnalogComputer</span></a>.</p>
µP<p>Another pre-print from me: "»I Program my Home Computer«. Discourse and Computer Archaeological Localizations of a Technology" - where I try to define "home computer" as a term, a technology, and a media historic event:</p><p><a href="http://txt3.de/homecomputer" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">txt3.de/homecomputer</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaStudies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerArchaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HomeComputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomeComputer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PostStructuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PostStructuralism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Serres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Serres</span></a></p>
µP<p>Just published: my (translated) chapter on "Unconventional Computing" as a pre-print on ResearchGate:</p><p><a href="http://txt3.de/ucomp" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">txt3.de/ucomp</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UnconventionalComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnconventionalComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToyComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToyComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Complexity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerArchaeology</span></a></p>
µP<p>My proposal for this years SHOT conference in Luxembourg was accepted! I contribute to the "Code Histories" session with a talk about my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> research project.</p><p><a href="https://shrtn.escalar.pt/E3XO" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">shrtn.escalar.pt/E3XO</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameStudies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BreakOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BreakOut</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalCodeStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalCodeStudies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerArchaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerPhilology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerPhilology</span></a></p>
µP<p>Last week I found these cassettes with an audio manual and bit-stream software for the "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Signetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Signetics</span></a> Instructor 50" <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SingleBoardComputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SingleBoardComputer</span></a> from 1978. Today I ripped the audio to an MP3 file. Feel free to download it here:</p><p><a href="https://cloud.uni-halle.de/s/6M6iiq8rsF4lXQ1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cloud.uni-halle.de/s/6M6iiq8rs</span><span class="invisible">F4lXQ1</span></a></p><p>And take a visit to this marvelous Instructor-50 website: <a href="https://ztpe.nl/2650/hardware/signetics-instructor-50/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ztpe.nl/2650/hardware/signetic</span><span class="invisible">s-instructor-50/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Assembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Assembly</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Signetics2650" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Signetics2650</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerArchaeology</span></a></p>
µP<p>Today I had an all-day seminar about "Code Critic" at MeWi Uni Bonn. I organized the talks of the students as a symposium. The last talk was about the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOTO</span></a> controversy that started in the end of the 1960s with a rant from Edsger W. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dijkstra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dijkstra</span></a> and lasts until today. The student's talk ended with a self-made meme.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CCS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CCS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalCodeStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalCodeStudies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Paperware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paperware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerArchaeology</span></a></p>
root42<p>Request for information on FPS-100 and related arithmetic processor machines:</p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=ufOHzGh-jbs&amp;si=MmkXbZv5kQvOyV7C" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=ufOHzGh-jb</span><span class="invisible">s&amp;si=MmkXbZv5kQvOyV7C</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/computerarchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computerarchaeology</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/pdp11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pdp11</span></a></p>
plinth<p>Today I hooked up a USB DVD drive to a MacBook and put in a CDR I burned circa 1997 from a PowerBook 540c. Totally surprised that MacOS read it and displayed files in the Finder from a 27 year old obsolete file system.<br>At any rate, here's a picture of me with a face hugger I made for fun. The picture was taken with a Quickcam. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/oldmacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oldmacs</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/computerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computerArchaeology</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/alien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alien</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/prop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prop</span></a></p>
Mäh W.<p>Dear <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> folks attending <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/38c3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>38c3</span></a>: is anyone of you willing to lend me a 5.25" floppy disk drive to read — in case I don't get my own drive before? It should be okay to remove the drive from the machine because I plan to connect it to my <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/greaseweazle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greaseweazle</span></a>. Of course, others could use my gw. The floppy is (likely, I don't have it yet) a 360 kByte DS DD MFM one intended for IBM PC. As it's called "master disk" I am expecting some kind of copy protection. <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/computerarchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computerarchaeology</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Bitsavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bitsavers</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/flux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flux</span></a></p>
µP<p>Today I start my lecture series "The World of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Game" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Game</span></a> Labs" at the Department for Media and Communication at University Halle.</p><p>The first talk will be given by myself about the ten years of "Signal Laboratory" in the Media Science Department at the Humboldt University (2012-2022).</p><p>The talk will be in German and starts at 16:00 (4 pm) ct.</p><p>You can attend online here: <a href="https://mluconf.uni-halle.de/b/ste-zv2-y8r-ecd" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mluconf.uni-halle.de/b/ste-zv2</span><span class="invisible">-y8r-ecd</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameLabs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaStudies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaArchaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameStudies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerArchaeology</span></a></p>
µP<p>The <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaStudies</span></a> of Uni Halle, where I am invited as a guest professor for the next semester, is about to establish a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameLab</span></a> called "Circuit Lab". We will use this for one or two rounds of "Game Circuits".</p><p><a href="https://circuitlab.medienkomm.uni-halle.de/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">circuitlab.medienkomm.uni-hall</span><span class="invisible">e.de/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaArchaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerArchaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameStudies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a></p>
µP<p>In the winter term 2024/25 I am teaching at the universities in Halle and Bonn:</p><p><a href="http://www.simulationsraum.de/blog/2024/07/30/lehre-im-wintersemester-3/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">simulationsraum.de/blog/2024/0</span><span class="invisible">7/30/lehre-im-wintersemester-3/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerArchaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalCodeStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalCodeStudies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftwareStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoftwareStudies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GDR</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameLabs</span></a></p>
µP<p>Next month the enzyclopedia „Digitalität von A bis Z“ will be published. I contributed a chapter on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerArchaeology</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6765-3/digitalitaet-von-a-bis-z/?number=978-3-8394-6765-7" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">transcript-verlag.de/978-3-837</span><span class="invisible">6-6765-3/digitalitaet-von-a-bis-z/?number=978-3-8394-6765-7</span></a></p>
µP<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerArchaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computerarchitecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computerarchitecture</span></a></p>
µP<p>Today my copy of "The Oxford Handbook of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VideoGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VideoGame</span></a> Music and Sound", edited by William Gibbons and Mark Grimshaw-Aargaard arrived.</p><p>I contributed a chapter about "Symbolic Music and Algorithmic Composing. Computer Archaeological Perspectives on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Game" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Game</span></a> Sounds"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerArchaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoundChips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoundChips</span></a></p>