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Claude retrocomputing: emulating a QIC-117 tape drive
For my next trick frivolous use of LLMs, I'm building an emulated tape drive! TLDR: The 86Box emulator now allows you to emulate a QIC-117 tape drive connected to the floppy controller, or to a parallel port, and make "backups" to virtual tape images usin
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Claude retrocomputing: emulating the TC2000 supercomputer
A few years ago I received a package of tapes that came from a TC2000 system, which was a supercomputer from the late 1980s built by a company called BBN (Bolt, Beranek and Newman). The data on these tapes was recovered without any issues, and it turned o
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Brain dump, May 2026
My old Kindles With Amazon having ended support for many older-generation Kindle devices, I thought I'd go back and make sure that my existing Kindles will still be usable for the foreseeable future. Up until now, I've been using a 2nd generation Kindle (
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Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
That's right - this little device is what stood between me and the ability to run an even older piece of software that I recently unearthed during an expedition of software archaeology. For a bit more background, I was recently involved in helping a frien
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