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Arkadiusz Sikorski arQ.PL<p><span>1973</span><span> </span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/Poland" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poland</a><span> : Warsaw Center for Electronic Computing Technology<br>Signature : 3/40/0/10/111<br>Old signature: 40-X-111-14<br>Archive : National Digital Archive<br>Group: Grażyna Rutowska Archive<br>Publications: "Dziennik Ludowy" - Sunday edition - 23.09.1973<br>Description : Situational photographs.<br>Upload: Sikorski Arkadiusz htTPS://arQ.PL<br>Licence: Public Domain<br><br></span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/it" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#it</a><span> </span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/girlsit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#girlsit</a><span> </span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/itgirls" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#itgirls</a><span> </span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/poland" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poland</a><span> </span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/computing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computing</a><span> </span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/tape" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tape</a><span> </span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/oldtech" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oldtech</a><span> </span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/europa" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#europa</a><span> </span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/informationtechnology" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#informationtechnology</a><span> </span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/womens" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#womens</a><span> </span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/computers" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computers</a><span> </span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/history" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a><span> </span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/ithistory" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ithistory</a><span> </span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/memorex" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memorex</a><span> </span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/imm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#imm</a><span> </span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/tape" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tape</a><span> </span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/DigitalData" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalData</a><span> </span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/datatapes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#datatapes</a><span> </span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/rack" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rack</a><span> </span><a href="https://bytes.programming.dev/tags/racks" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racks</a></p>
𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕<p>Good morning Monday, let's start the new week like never before.</p><p>🔧 <a href="https://defrag98.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">defrag98.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/win" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>win</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/win98" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>win98</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/win9x" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>win9x</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/defrag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>defrag</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/it" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>it</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/nerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nerd</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/nerdHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nerdHistory</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/windows95" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows95</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ithistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ithistory</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/oldnerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oldnerd</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/disk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disk</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/monday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monday</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/start" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>start</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/goodmorning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>goodmorning</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/weekbegin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weekbegin</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/newweek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newweek</span></a></p>
𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖗𝖔𝖐 🇨🇿🇪🇺<p>The "broken vertical bar" ¦ (code 0xa6 in most encodings) is an interesting character with history which seems to be almost forgotten. Let's revive it 🙂⌨️</p><p>"Many early video terminals and dot-matrix printers rendered the vertical bar character as the allograph broken bar ¦. This may have been to distinguish the character from the lower-case 'L' and the upper-case 'I' on these limited-resolution devices."<br><a href="https://mastodonczech.cz/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonczech.cz/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonczech.cz/tags/IThistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IThistory</span></a> <br>More info: <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_bar#Solid_vertical_bar_versus_broken_bar" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertic</span><span class="invisible">al_bar#Solid_vertical_bar_versus_broken_bar</span></a></p>
Vitex<p><a href="https://f.cz/tags/OperatingSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OperatingSystem</span></a> <a href="https://f.cz/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://f.cz/tags/ithistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ithistory</span></a></p>
inside_it<p>Welches ist die teuerste Internet-Domain aller Zeiten? <a href="https://federated.press/tags/ITHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ITHistory</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.inside-it.ch/vor-24-jahren-eine-domain-wird-fuer-millionen-verkauft-20231201" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">inside-it.ch/vor-24-jahren-ein</span><span class="invisible">e-domain-wird-fuer-millionen-verkauft-20231201</span></a></p>
Dwight Walker<p>pretty cool video of person cleaning then booting old PDP-11 with VT320 slow scroll. I only had VT100 at UQ Computer Science Huts using PDP-11 KA and KL in 1980s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAG5wVJjANM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=JAG5wVJjAN</span><span class="invisible">M</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/pdp11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pdp11</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/ithistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ithistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a></p>
emmajane<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@profbriancox" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>profbriancox</span></a></span> <br>The floppy disk I wish I’d kept was the Y2K Reboot Protection Disk that IT made us all put in our drives on New Year’s Eve. It was blank, but it stopped anyone booting up their PC before the techies had had a chance to check that the world wasn’t broken…</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/ITHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ITHistory</span></a></p>