*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@social.cleverlibre.org

Now working on my beloved laptop, there's no comparison; mobile for me is on the road only, much more limited.

Waterfox homepage is at https://www.waterfox.net/

There are TWO versions now:

- Classic is a custom build of FF, with all telemetry removed, it also supports lots of older Extensions which Mozilla has deemed no longer supported. I used this for years now.

- Currrent just launched, this Octover, and is based on current FF code, on the Aurora channel. Current version is 68.0a2 as listed above, and it's amazingly FAST and stable.

It has become my go to Browser, installed on my various systems and in my phone as well, the Android version.

#browser #Waterfox #Aurora

Another system photo. IBM ThinkPad, model T23, a powerful model at its time, I used it for ten years at work.

Still runs well, used it for some Cad work the other day, the version of AutoCAD I have won't run on newer opsys.

Maxed out with 1 GB of ram, 1.1 GHz PIII processor, single core. XP for Legacy systems os.

Photo by Xiao MI Red MI Note 5 Prime. Sys specs greatly outweigh the ThinkPad.

8 cores processor, 3 GB RAM, Arm 64 processor. Android 7.1.2,. MIUI 11.

#retro #vintage #computer

Give me enough Tabs and the world is my Library... I actually have about twice as many shown in the picture, and the system is stable.

Waterfox Current, based on Firefox Aurora channel, v. 68.02a

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix

"Ken Thompson (sitting) and Dennis Ritchie working together at a PDP-11"

A Mini computer, made by DEC, Digital Equipment Corporation, one of the great names in American computing history that disappeared into mergers and acquisitions (bought by Compaq, I think)

#vintage #retro #computing

Feel like focusing and going for a Longer Read? This week's best at LongReads.com

https://mailchi.mp/longreads/longreads_top_5_nov_15_2019

My idea of Heaven.

@Full_marx An awesome article on The Guardian (my favourite newspaper,) which is VERY relevant.

"To decarbonize we must decomputerize: why we need a Luddite revolution:"by Ben Tarnoff

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/17/tech-climate-change-luddites-data

@Full_marx "A 32 x 32 core memory plane storing 1024 bits (or 128 bytes) of data."

I missed adding the photo caption.

That whole module won't hold one average Tweet post, even the short old 140 chars max ones. This is 128 Bytes total.

No bloated software in those days. 😈

"Magnetic-core memory was the predominant form of random-access computer memory for 20 years between about 1955 and 1975. Such memory is often just called core memory, or, informally, core.

Core memory uses toroids (rings) of a hard magnetic material (usually a semi-hard ferrite) as transformer cores, where each wire threaded through the core serves as a transformer winding. Three or four wires pass through each core.

Each core stores one bit of information. A core can be magnetized in either the clockwise or counter-clockwise direction. The value of the bit stored in a core is zero or one according to the direction of that core's magnetization."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory

#IT #Tech #vintage @Full_marx