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@Gammitin Loving your work there bud. :)

“I love being at home. My life is very simple. I install a lot of obsolete OS's. I save and fix things that most people throw in eWaste. I build retro computers for pure nostalgia. I tinker in my workshop. I retro game with my family. Yeah, I'm boring.” — Gammitin (Ben)

@Nightmarepark4 @commodoreofcl Hey, thanks. Been here, just not posting. Hopefully back a bit more... 👍

@CommodoreLad @commodoreofcl Welcome back have not seen about

Oh my... Its here... #keepitcommodore #commodorerulez Thankyou @commodoreofcl Looking forward to getting it hooked up.... 😊

@retroguybry Oh man.....

@CommodoreLad I know what you mean but I had to check it was okay and damage free.

My Founders Edition arrived today complete with T-shirts and a flag! Actually looks a lot smarter than expected and the keyboard definitely feels better than the Starlight. Whether by design or luck the power switch isn’t as stiff either. #Commodore64Ultimate #FoundersEdition

@isedwards @commodoreofcl It is. Hopefully have a chance to unbox it soon and have a good look. 👍

@CommodoreLad @commodoreofcl Is that the Founder's Edition? Looking forward to seeing what you think of it

@tandemar I'm not entirely sure Keiren knows how to cut and paste, I think he types it out 2 fingers at a time....

So which version did your older sister buy then Kieren? Spectrum, MSX or Amiga? Or did she buy all three? Because surely you're not just cutting and pasting content? #kierenhawken

@_MG_ @TracketPacer There's an awful lot of CCA in the underground telecoms networks in the UK. It's shyte.

This is a great demo. The know-it-all contrarian replies make me cringe. Here’s a quick explainer what’s going on AND why it’s much worse than it appears. Copper Clad Aluminum (CCA) cables are copper cables with aluminum cores. They exist purely for the ~25% cost reduction. They almost always have cost-cutting insulation. Let’s touch on both topics, then combine into a unified nightmare :) CCA vs solid copper: CCA has lots of negatives. The primary in this context is that it has ~60% more electrical resistance. This degrades high speed signals(2.5G/5G/10G), especially as you get near the limits of length. It also significantly increases how much the cable heat up. Let’s say you are doing PoE++ at 100W, across 100 meters, on a tiny 24 bundle pair. The CCA will produce ~150W of additional heat. Thats a small space heater! But it’s not evenly spread across the cable because… CCA is also brittle, so any partial hairline cracks will become concentrated hot spots. CCA also doesn’t “bite” well when terminating, which creates another opportunity for hot spots. Worse: this gets worse over time due to aluminum oxidation. And then we get to the insulation. Flame retardant and stiffeners cost money, so they are left out. That means you have insulation that gets very soft under much lower temperatures on a metal that gets much warmer. That the metal starts to squeeze together which will mess with the data signal, or worst case, allowing the start of a short (another hot spot). Keep in mind, these cables are often run in bundles (compounding the heat) and through hot locations like attics. And if the insulation ever catches fire, it does NOT self extinguish. Yes, the cable itself could ignite, but ANYTHING starts a fire, you effectively have a fuse inside your walls now. That’s exactly what @TracketPacer is showing in this video. Lots of commercial buildings have “fire walls” that stop the spread of fire between sections of the building. One of the few things allowed to pass through these fire walls is… data cables! So to save 25% on your cabling, you are accepting a big degradation in data performance which will often lead to lots of debugging. It drops the voltage for PoE equipment… more debugging! Anytime the bundles are disturbed in any way… good chance of more debugging! And then you have the fire safety hazard and code violations that can leave you holding the bag for the consequences instead of the insurance. STOP BUYING CHEAP CABLES!

@KTHopkins @BBCNews I, erm, I... Erm... Nope.

What we need for this VT is a chumbawhumba cock in a frock who is pro-pally gluten-free bi curious queer ally, loves a booooosta and preferably has a nut allergy @BBCNews … no worries:

@RDKLInc Holy shit. I can feel the heat from that bad boy from here. Do the lights dim when you start it up...?

For some reason the NCR Decision Mate V comes with dual space heaters

@mr_james_c @NoodlesTech Basically... "Industry".... Asshats, the lot of them.

It's odd that the "Thatcher is evil because she destroyed industrial jobs in Northern England" people seem to be very very quiet about Miliband and Labour doing *exactly the same thing* to Britain's oil and gas industry, steel industry, petrochemicals industry, farming, pottery industry, hospitality industry... basically any industry that uses electricity.

@MyTeslaMoonship Seems fair. 👍

Wasn’t sure if everyone knew this but: -a person can like EVs and gas cars. -a person can like EVs and not care if others get one or not. -a person can like EVs and not care about the environment. -a person can like Tesla and other EV brands. -a person can question something and still like it. -a person can cheer for something and know it has flaws. -a person can like people who like different things. 💕

@RDKLInc If you think about what they did with what they had 40+ years ago, the entire machine (64) is incredible. As you said, the SID especially so...

@CommodoreLad And PAL vs NTSC adds to the sound differences as well. SID is really a remarkable chip

Flexgate is the ultimate video glitch

@elormkdaniel I read that. Pretended to understand it but then just realised it made my balls hurt. However, I am grateful smarter people than me exist. Cos we'd be screwed without them. 👍👍

Take your card number and starting from the second-to-last digit, double every second digit moving left. If doubling a digit produces a number greater than nine, subtract nine from the result. Then add all the digits together, the doubled ones and the untouched ones. If the total is divisible by ten, the number is valid. If it isn’t, the number is mathematically impossible as a card number and the form rejects it on the spot. This is the Luhn algorithm written in 1954 by a computer scientist at IBM named Hans Peter Luhn. It still runs inside every payment form on the internet today. And it turns out that valid card numbers are not random. They follow this mathematical rule, and any number that breaks it is immediately disqualified without ever touching a bank’s systems. No server contacted. No database checked. No network request made. The validation happens entirely on your device, in milliseconds. The first six digits do additional work before the Luhn check even runs. They are called the Issuer Identification Number; the first digit identifies the card network (4 means Visa, 5 means Mastercard, 3 means Amex), and the following digits identify the specific bank that issued the card. This is why payment forms show you the Visa or Mastercard logo the moment you type the first digit. No server needed. The network is encoded in the number itself. The last digit of every card number is called the check digit it exists for no other purpose than to make the entire number pass the Luhn algorithm. When a bank generates a new card number, it calculates what the last digit must be to make the sequence valid, then stamps it on the card. It is a built-in mathematical fingerprint.

@Amelia558rs Diesel.

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The C64 actually had a higher speed interface designed at it's inception. However, somewhere in the process of laying out the PCB, the 2 lines that would have controlled this were missed off. This wasn't spotted ubtil they made a feck ton of PCBs without the lines. Commodore beinf very "economical" decided to hack the kernal until it was slow enough to cope with the serial bus they had. Only what I've read.. But, I believe its true. I think the 1540 with a VIC 20 is faster....

@CheekyC64Gamer @AnnatarTheMaia Yeah, except the standard loading routine on the 1541s / C74 kernal was awful. I mean really awful. So loading anything game size still took ages. Not C2N ages, but, ages....

Bit of C64 truth… 🇬🇧 UK = tapes 📼 ⏳ Long loads, rewinds, praying it didn’t crash 😅 🇺🇸 US = disk drives 💾 ⚡ Loading in seconds Same machine… totally different experience 🕹️ (And yeah… some had cartridges 😏🎮) #C64 #Commodore64 #RetroGaming

@BenGrahamUK Was Rachel Reeves CFO? Just asking...?

A lot of people have pointed out failure here comes down to debt and mismanagement. It’s not the model that failed, it was the execution. A company like NCP should be a cash machine.

@RDKLInc Yeah, the defective SIDs can sound kinda crazy.. Like... Wait, that shouldn't be there.....

@CommodoreLad I do have some defective SID chips that malfunction and sound kinda crazy. Always means to get some dual-SID setups going with those

@AuntCunt Haggis is the bomb. Have had a proper burns night one in several occasions. Bit fecking rocks. Just don't ask whats in it. My fater in law was a Scottish butcher, so I know. 😂

People that talk shit on haggis usually haven’t even tried it and are absolute pussies while missing oot on something that’s actually very nice

@RDKLInc NP, Ill dig it out and see what I can do. The tight interdependence of the chips in the retro machines produce some really freaky effects when they fail... 😂👍

@CommodoreLad Very cool! You should post some pics! I collect glitch machines that I use as filters for photography, I've got probably 200 at this point between broken screens and GPU defects. I don't have much on the vintage side though cuz they tend to be lower-res