I once emailed Bob Yannes in 1998 about the C64 SID chip. I mentioned my soft synth (SoftSID) and the Elektron Sidstation. But all he was bothered about was his Ensoniq Fizmo. I'd love to get my hands on one of those now.

I told him of the bad review in Future Music. He was a bit annoyed but explained what they had missed in the review.

A nice guy.

Don't forget JWZ of Netscape fame.

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/

Will it be ported to wayland?

NSFW.

It's only NSFW if you click the link from this site. It's a referrer Easter egg.

Which is funny, because I'm aware of jwz and the history, but only clicked on the link because of the referrer joke. Maybe I should open a club down the street from DNA called DnB.

Good article, I enjoyed it.

Can anyone get the latest Firefox working on XP?

Sounds oddly like Russ Hanneman from TV show Silicon Valley. Wonder if they got the story from this.

Guy throws away stick with hundred million on it and goes to the tip to find it.

"That's not a thumb drive, that's a thumb! Put it back!"

I worked with Ted a few years from 2001 and though we kind of stopped working together, I knew him! So I do know him personally. He's a great guy though intolerant of nonsense.

He gives that impression from his videos. He seems to speak his mind honestly and rightfully demands reciprocity.

Seen him live in Leeds in 1998. Sat in the cubicle he vacated when he left the place at a Rephlex gig he didn't play at in 2001 (At the Leeds Brudenell Social Club). And I played live at the same venue as a previous Rephlex gig in Edinburgh (the University) in 2001.

Well Usenet provider Giganews has 10 years of Usenet, but I don't know if they kept it from 1990 or... just threw it away.

Ten years doesn't even go back to when google bought dejanews's archive, in 2001.

I remember running Ultima 6 and installing - using the hard disk option - to a RAM disk. My friend had a 4MB RAM expansion. I was basically having a 2MB hard disk in RAM!

I'd load the whole of U6 from 4 floppy disks, then fire it up and play, and when done, I'd save my position and copy it all back to the 4 floppy disks!

What helped were 2 things:

    *Utility to format disks to high capacity
    *Fast shareware disk copy utility

I just want to buy a phone with this on. Is this possible? I don't want the hassle of finding a phone on Ebay and installing some bundle of software. I just want to plug and play.

The secretive Hacker Conference is for people featured in the book Hackers. Ted Nelson is one person who I know, who is in it.

Interesting, this pointed me to a documentary that might be worth watching: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Wizards_of_the_Electr...