2026-09-14 21:02 UTC
RE: https://masto.ai/@hackaday/117269814563752444
@screwlisp@gamerplus.org
I just forwarded this to Amen, but it did make me think of you, too.
Just the spirit, not the retro-BASIC. 🙂
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@screwlisp@gamerplus.org 2026-09-14 21:12
@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz As you may know, I had an exchange about with with @jhlagado@jorts.horse about whether there was genuinely something magical about Z80s as a substrate (mostly virtual now, formerly mostly real) for computing. Or whether it was retro kitsch. This is similar to [dartmouth+] #basic and #lisp in different ways, though they are both spawn of that dartmouth workshop on AI in the mid-50s. But basic was basically an attainable home computer, and lisp was sort of commentary on fortran list macros.