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Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:15:53 +0000

Have you ever daydreamed about talking to someone from the past? What would you ask someone with no knowledge of the modern world? What would they ask you? While we don’t have time machines yet, we can simulate this experience by training, in Owain Evans’s phrase, ‘vintage’ language models: LMs trained only on historical text.

Tags: #ai #llms #retro #vintage

Raster CRT Typography (According to DEC)

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 05:13:36 +0000

The time it takes for the phosphor to become fully activated is actually longer than the pulse representing the timing to draw a single pixel (40 nanoseconds). Meaning, if we were to attempt to display just a single pixel, the phosphor on this particular spot will never reach its full activation level resulting in a fuzzy image of varying brightnesses between dimmer, thin strokes and heavier, thick strokes. So the typography has to adjust for this, by streching the pulses to double width (80 ns), at least, in order to provide an even image and legible text and to work around the shallow flanks of the screen intensification.

Tags: #computer #design #imported:pinboard #retro #typography #vintage

VC&G | Wikipedia is Deleting BBS Game History

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 04:27:09 +0000

As we speak, certain vigilante Wikipedia users are hard at work erasing whatever scraps of little-known BBS door game history that resides in Wikipedia's databases. The first casualty in this war was the entry for Space Empire Elite, which was deleted early this morning.

Tags: #bbs #gaming #history #imported:pinboard #to:fb #vintage

Vintage food

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:11:02 +0000

Tags: #food #photos #vintage

A trip down memory lane and beyond at Vintage Computer Fest - Ars Technica

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:50:43 +0000

"A photo essay featuring some hardware you may remember, some you may have only heard of, and a few things that you were probably never aware existed. One thing we learned: the older a computer is, the more likely it is to be blue."

Tags: #computer #east #festival #oldschool #retro #vintage

pagetable.com » Blog Archive » Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language for UNIX and Windows - now Open Source

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:11:10 +0000

"Today, we are releasing Commodore BASIC as a Scripting Language - it works on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X 10.4/10.5 (Intel and PowerPC), and you even get the source, so you can adapt it to other operating systems and CPUs."

Tags: #basic #c64 #commodore64 #holycrap #nifty #oldschool #opensource #retro #scripting #vintage

The diskette that blew Trixter’s mind « Oldskooler Ramblings

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:11:46 +0000

"The manual for Mental Blocks claims that, for both C64 and IBM, you put the diskette in label-side up. I thought that had to be a typo, since every single mixed C64/IBM or Apple/IBM diskette I have ever seen is a “flippy” disk where one side is IBM and the other side is C64 or Apple — until I looked at the FAT12 for the disk and saw that tons of sectors in an interleaved pattern were marked as BAD — very strange usage."

Tags: #badsectors #c64 #commodore #disks #filesystems #gaming #geek #hacks #ibm #pc #retro #vintage

Vintage Computing and Gaming | Archive » StarTTY: Turn Your Vintage Computer Into an Information Appliance

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 06:14:58 +0000

"StarTTY, created by Dorian Garson, is an information “push” service designed for old serial terminals and computers than can run terminal emulators"

Tags: #nifty #retro #startty #vintage

Vintage Computing and Gaming | Archive » Why Super Nintendos Lose Their Color: Plastic Discoloration in Classic Machines

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:55:45 +0000

"The top half of the console’s plastic body retained a uniformly nasty yellow-brown hue, while the bottom half flaunted its showroom shine — that native SNES gray that we all know and love."

Tags: #gaming #nintendo #retro #snes #vintage