Notices by 48kRAM (48kram@oldbytes.space)

Happy 5.25 day! Here are just a few of my many (many) 5.25" floppies. Tried to represent as many platforms as I could find. Most of my stash are PC and Apple 2.

Okay. $dayjob has gotten to the point where I need to do something about it.

I'm officially looking for other opportunities in the sysadmin/IT/devops/etc space. I've been a linux/unix sysadmin generalist for ~20 years now and I'd like to apply my considerable skills and experience to the aid of some organization seeking to do good things in the world.

You can find my resume at https://github.com/48kRAM/resume (Yes, my resume has a Makefile)

Open to both remote positions but also to relocation. I enjoy having my hands on hardware and fixing problems. And, of course, I'll bring all the retro gaming nerdery with me.

I'd love to #getfedihired :)

Thanks

1990s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Watch framework of site gradually appear
- Start reading site text
- View images once they load
- Click a hyperlink to more information on the thing you're looking for

2020s web experience

- Open site in browser
- Wait for Cloudflare to verify you aren't a bot
- Wait for background movie to load
- Dismiss cookie popup
- Decline to subscribe to their mailing list
- Decline to speak to a chatbot that promises it's a human
- Scroll infinitely looking for the information you want that's probably not there since it's all generated text intended for other robots to read anyway

@dosnostalgic

@dosnostalgic Hrm. The original Weird Al tune came out in 1999. I'm trying to recall how we felt about upgrades back then. I want to say that this line was just Al poking fun at the extreme upgraders, but... were we upgrading more frequently in '99?

@dosnostalgic
Bravo!

Okay:
- Modems? Not relevant... unless we count cable modems maybe? Hrm... tough one

- Is the Etch-a-Sketch still a thing? Apparently so. Some toys just never die, do they?

- Why is desktop and laptop age no longer relevant? Because we all use phones instead?

- I guess this is also why the mizouse is red-X ☹️

I just feel old now

@dosnostalgic 48 systems! 😱 Holy heck that's a lot of setup and tear-down work. Hope you can sleep for a few days

@dosnostalgic A fowl knock-off of Worms?

@dosnostalgic Still better than H&R Block's online system

Good morning-ish everyone! Hope you're all enjoying Mastodon. For your viewing pleasure, I present to you, a photo of my Epson HX-20. Considered to be the first laptop computer, it used a pair of Hitachi 6301 CPUs running at about 600kHz. Yes, that's a built-in printer and micro-cassette tape drive.

Have a great day, everyone!