SDF

The Interim Computer Festival is September 30th - October 1st in Seattle WA at the INTRASPACE event space at the Rainier Brewery. Registration is open.

Painting by Younga Barlow for Pacific Commodore Expo NW 2023

The Pacific Commodore Expo NW is being held this weekend June 24th and 25th! Please feel free to stop by and play with your favorite Commodore and Amiga computers.

Location: 3100 Airport Way S, Seattle WA 98134 (old rainier brewery at Intraspace in front of Lula Coffee) Hours: 11am - 5pm Saturday and Sunday Admission: FREE - (Donations can be made to SDF.ORG)

Could the Meta NDA be used as a trojan horse? Anything Meta discloses to a developer/admin could be legally used against them if they acted upon the information. Not just leak of information shared, but modifications to Mastodon or Pixelfed that go against Meta's pursuit of success in the Fediverse.

If you are offered a meeting with Meta and are required to sign an NDA, be sure to read it fully so that you understand what your obligations are and what freedoms and friends you give up.

Earlier this morning SDF Chatter was upgraded for Lemmy 0.17.4.

RIght now we're trying out a few methods of distributing the service across multiple hosts much in the same way that we have grown the SDF Mastodon instance.

Thankfully, the Lemmy code is performing very well in its current configuration and the SDF community is growing at a moderate pace.

If the Fediverse does take on a full migration of the Reddit community whole, it would seem now is the time for that. A lot was learned from the Twitter migration last fall and while many instances were not prepared and scrambled to accommodate for folks, those communities have built the infrastructure since then and it is ready for you all.

How exciting is that?

Fediverse 2023!

On June 16th, 1987 the SDF-1 BBS received its first caller at 300 baud. Happy 36 years SDF!

Real box art aesthetic

Your keyboard is (probably) gross!

A ritual cleaning and cap refresh can be a spiritual experience

At one point in time the most common system on the INTERNET was the PDP-10, a 36-bit mainframe computer developed by Digital Equipment Corporation int the 1960s. As the ARPAnet grew so did the number of interconnected PDP-10s. When the ARPAnet moved towards privatization in the 1980s companies such as Systems Concepts and Cisco Systems were working on developing the next generation of PDP-10. By 1984, DEC had turned their focus fully to the popular 32-bit VAX architecture with operating systems such as VMS and the thriving UNIX system. This left many PDP-10 hackers trying to figure out what to do with their octal counting and extra bits that they couldn't cram into VMS or UNIX comfortably.

Timesharing bureaus as such CompuServe, TymShare and Applied Data relied on the PDP-10 for their large service networks. CompuServe had System Concepts building SC20, SC30 and eventually SC40 units as replacements for DEC PDP-10s. In fact, CompuServe was growing so quickly, that they effectively licensed the design of the SC40 and began building them in house.

In 1994 there were still many PDP-10s running on the INTERNET, but their days were numbered. SDF users started project "TWENEX" as a way to continue a TOPS-20 system alternative to UNIX for the community. (more details can be read at https://twenex.org).

Today, SDF continues to run PDP-10s and offers access on a Systems Concepts SC-40 and an XKL Toad-2

A FaceTime for a more civilized age.

caturday is only a day away.