Everything else has FTPed over to the Minitel/PiDP8i evening stereo without any trouble apart from Floral Shoppe. A problem with the Japanese characters? I've moved a tonne of City Pop over without any issues.
Finally moved it physically with a USB drive. We might have expected this from Vektroid.
Makes no difference to how it looks, but I upgraded the microSD that the PiDP8/i runs on from 32GB to 256GB, which gives it some decent storage capacity in its main role as the evening stereo system.
FTPing music from my main desk PC seems to work pretty well. It's almost like a feasible solution.
#minitel #pdp8 #pidp8i #retrocomputing #MusicForLeisure
This morning's magic trick is that I can now read my emails on the Minitel 1. Everyone will be doing this in the year 2000.
#minitel #pidp8i #raspberrypi #mutt #retrocomputing
Okay, a little more work on getting my head around cmus and this might be the most perfect audioplayer setup. I mean, better than Winamp even. Without a WIMPS interface it'd be clumsy to add new tracks to this, so we just add them on a USB stick as needed.
Just makes you a bit more mindful about the process of listening to music.
For its latest trick, the Minitel 1 can now act as an interface for playing music on the PiDP-8/i (which is really a Raspberry Pi in disguise).
This is what the kids describe as "neat".
#minitel #minitel1 #pdp8 #pidp8i #raspberrypi #retrocomputing #RM #kpop
Okay, the Minitel 1 is connecting to the PiDP8-i as a terminal. That wasn't something I was expecting to figure out before lunchtime.
#pdp8 #pidp8i #raspberrypi #minitel #retrocomputing
My brother got me a #pidp8i kit, assuming I knew how to solder it together. It makes a #RaspberryPi look and work like a #PDP8 minicomputer. Took me a while to put together, but it works! And it has tactile switches! Thanks Adam for the gift, and thanks @rehana for giving me the confidence and the documentation to re-learn how to solder after 25+ years.
The Universe has been restored to order 
I carefully flipped the Deposit switch in my beloved PiDP-8, so it is now operating the same way as a real PDP-8. How I hate cutting PCB traces 
but it was for a good cause.
Meet Sprout, the new release of #GenBerry with:
- templates for: #pidp8i #pidp11 and #octoprint
- use qemu
- change root default pw
- add user
https://github.com/dervishe-/GenBerry
#gentoo
