Martin Burch
@martinburch.com
Data research and computer history
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Martin Burch
@martinburch.com
· Nov 23
Today has been a long year.
I made a bot post one-liners people put at the end of posts/messages in the early 90s bsky.app/profile/tagl...
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PET Invaders – Release!
As the Earth Space Monitoring Network sounds alarm, you and your LASER tank are Planet Earth's only hope… Exciting space arcade PETSCII action for Commodore PET (40 cols, 16K RAM)!
Downloads & online emulation at:
www.masswerk.at/pet/prgs/#pet-invaders
As the Earth Space Monitoring Network sounds alarm, you and your LASER tank are Planet Earth's only hope… Exciting space arcade PETSCII action for Commodore PET (40 cols, 16K RAM)!
Downloads & online emulation at:
www.masswerk.at/pet/prgs/#pet-invaders
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 AM
PET Invaders – Release!
As the Earth Space Monitoring Network sounds alarm, you and your LASER tank are Planet Earth's only hope… Exciting space arcade PETSCII action for Commodore PET (40 cols, 16K RAM)!
Downloads & online emulation at:
www.masswerk.at/pet/prgs/#pet-invaders
As the Earth Space Monitoring Network sounds alarm, you and your LASER tank are Planet Earth's only hope… Exciting space arcade PETSCII action for Commodore PET (40 cols, 16K RAM)!
Downloads & online emulation at:
www.masswerk.at/pet/prgs/#pet-invaders
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When you repeatedly measure the positions of over a billion stars so accurately that you can see a star moving by an amount equal to the size of a pinhead on the Moon, as seen from Earth... you find amazing things!
It's great.
mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosb...
It's great.
mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosb...
John Carlos Baez (@[email protected])
Holy crap! The Gaia space telescope is expected to find 120,000 ± 22,000 planets orbiting other stars! Most will be super-Jupiters, because those are the easiest to find. But we'll know much more ...
mathstodon.xyz
November 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
When you repeatedly measure the positions of over a billion stars so accurately that you can see a star moving by an amount equal to the size of a pinhead on the Moon, as seen from Earth... you find amazing things!
It's great.
mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosb...
It's great.
mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosb...
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Only 12 days left! Please help support getting this book printed about the little-known Sphere computer!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzo...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzo...
Go Computer Now! – The Story of Sphere Computers
A book telling the extraordinary story of Sphere, a 1970s Utah personal computer maker far ahead of its time—until its sudden collapse.
www.kickstarter.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Only 12 days left! Please help support getting this book printed about the little-known Sphere computer!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzo...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzo...
Feels like a perfect autumn album, like a road trip to a pumpkin patch in a comfortable knit
haleyheynderickxmaxgarciaconover.bandcamp.com/track/boars
"Haley Heynderickx and Max Garcia Conover return with another set of gorgeous Folk songs ... inspired by the life and music of Woody Guthrie."
haleyheynderickxmaxgarciaconover.bandcamp.com/track/boars
"Haley Heynderickx and Max Garcia Conover return with another set of gorgeous Folk songs ... inspired by the life and music of Woody Guthrie."
Boars, by Haley Heynderickx & Max García Conover
from the album What of Our Nature
haleyheynderickxmaxgarciaconover.bandcamp.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Feels like a perfect autumn album, like a road trip to a pumpkin patch in a comfortable knit
haleyheynderickxmaxgarciaconover.bandcamp.com/track/boars
"Haley Heynderickx and Max Garcia Conover return with another set of gorgeous Folk songs ... inspired by the life and music of Woody Guthrie."
haleyheynderickxmaxgarciaconover.bandcamp.com/track/boars
"Haley Heynderickx and Max Garcia Conover return with another set of gorgeous Folk songs ... inspired by the life and music of Woody Guthrie."
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Halloween - Snowman
https://macthemes.garden/themes/d4ea71672a4e-Halloween
https://macthemes.garden/themes/d4ea71672a4e-Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Halloween - Snowman
https://macthemes.garden/themes/d4ea71672a4e-Halloween
https://macthemes.garden/themes/d4ea71672a4e-Halloween
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Recently I’ve been combing through newspapers from a hundred years ago, and in the spirit of the season (and in the spirit of procrastination) I’ve assembled a little gallery of Halloween advertisements from 1925 on my site: dansinker.com/posts/202…
October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Recently I’ve been combing through newspapers from a hundred years ago, and in the spirit of the season (and in the spirit of procrastination) I’ve assembled a little gallery of Halloween advertisements from 1925 on my site: dansinker.com/posts/202…
Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers
October 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers
Absolutely not. I want my notes to be private and have no chance of escaping, much less resulting in notifications.
September 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Absolutely not. I want my notes to be private and have no chance of escaping, much less resulting in notifications.
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Spot Daphne enjoying her front-row seat as the sparrows enjoy the spa ...
August 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Spot Daphne enjoying her front-row seat as the sparrows enjoy the spa ...
#Podcast and audio people, if you can, get outside and join me at the second annual Tremula Festival this September. I'll be speaking again, this year on tips for international scriptwriting. tremula.network/festival
Tremula Festival 2025 — Tremula Network
tremula.network
July 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
#Podcast and audio people, if you can, get outside and join me at the second annual Tremula Festival this September. I'll be speaking again, this year on tips for international scriptwriting. tremula.network/festival
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*beep*
PhoenixBIOS Energy Star
*dit dit dit dit ... brrrrr*
HIMEM is testing extended memory ... done.
*chuga chuga whrrrr chuga chuga*
Error reading drive A
Let's hear your old personal computer memories.
PhoenixBIOS Energy Star
*dit dit dit dit ... brrrrr*
HIMEM is testing extended memory ... done.
*chuga chuga whrrrr chuga chuga*
Error reading drive A
Let's hear your old personal computer memories.
December 25, 2024 at 2:30 PM
*beep*
PhoenixBIOS Energy Star
*dit dit dit dit ... brrrrr*
HIMEM is testing extended memory ... done.
*chuga chuga whrrrr chuga chuga*
Error reading drive A
Let's hear your old personal computer memories.
PhoenixBIOS Energy Star
*dit dit dit dit ... brrrrr*
HIMEM is testing extended memory ... done.
*chuga chuga whrrrr chuga chuga*
Error reading drive A
Let's hear your old personal computer memories.
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We all like to joke about July being "Gay Wrath Month" but it's actually Disability Pride Month, so have the Disability Pride Flag from VGAPride and my AST Premmia LX MS-DOS machine
July 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
We all like to joke about July being "Gay Wrath Month" but it's actually Disability Pride Month, so have the Disability Pride Flag from VGAPride and my AST Premmia LX MS-DOS machine
Post your favourite Doctor Who Wrong Answers only.
June 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Post your favourite Doctor Who Wrong Answers only.
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If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown Iran S04 E06
Dailymotion video by L3arnTV
www.dailymotion.com
June 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
If you’re an American should watch the Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown ep on Iran. A deeply humanizing look at a country full of people just like you and me. I watched it after Anthony died and it moved in ways that are hard to relay. I also immediately ran out to try kabob koobideh and tahdig.
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That rare and wonderful thing, when you woke up early without an alarm clock, the children are miraculously still asleep, and you are already sitting on your sofa, reading.
June 21, 2025 at 5:19 AM
That rare and wonderful thing, when you woke up early without an alarm clock, the children are miraculously still asleep, and you are already sitting on your sofa, reading.
Apple's new liquid glass theme?
Nautiqua Bondi - Kevin O'Boyle
https://macthemes.garden/themes/7cfd33e6c8a9-Nautiqua-Bondi
https://macthemes.garden/themes/7cfd33e6c8a9-Nautiqua-Bondi
June 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Apple's new liquid glass theme?
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Let's distract ourselves with a little short story. At some point I'll sort out a proper website, but for now here's something I wrote a while ago.
If you enjoy it, please repost - sharing other people's work is the only way to spread the word.
If you enjoy it, please repost - sharing other people's work is the only way to spread the word.
Jennie Rex
Jennie Rex - A Science Fiction Convention hides an unusual merchant.
feersumbeasts.com
February 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Let's distract ourselves with a little short story. At some point I'll sort out a proper website, but for now here's something I wrote a while ago.
If you enjoy it, please repost - sharing other people's work is the only way to spread the word.
If you enjoy it, please repost - sharing other people's work is the only way to spread the word.
A little (text) adventure @retrocollective.co.uk today 🙂 🧶
February 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
A little (text) adventure @retrocollective.co.uk today 🙂 🧶
Is it?
"Power Macintosh is here... and the future is better than you expect."
Computer Commercial: Power Macintosh (1994)(Apple).mp4
Internet Archive
archive.org
January 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Is it?
loud speaker phone call, overheard:
"Tell me what it says now"
"nine six, double zero, eight N as in ... er ... Nancy ... one"
_hmm, oddly familiar_
"good! now type in NEGOTIATE 1"
_ah, the horrors of servers and terminals!_
"how do you spell that?"
_ah, the horrors of tech support!_
"Tell me what it says now"
"nine six, double zero, eight N as in ... er ... Nancy ... one"
_hmm, oddly familiar_
"good! now type in NEGOTIATE 1"
_ah, the horrors of servers and terminals!_
"how do you spell that?"
_ah, the horrors of tech support!_
January 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
loud speaker phone call, overheard:
"Tell me what it says now"
"nine six, double zero, eight N as in ... er ... Nancy ... one"
_hmm, oddly familiar_
"good! now type in NEGOTIATE 1"
_ah, the horrors of servers and terminals!_
"how do you spell that?"
_ah, the horrors of tech support!_
"Tell me what it says now"
"nine six, double zero, eight N as in ... er ... Nancy ... one"
_hmm, oddly familiar_
"good! now type in NEGOTIATE 1"
_ah, the horrors of servers and terminals!_
"how do you spell that?"
_ah, the horrors of tech support!_
@stevesgaming.bsky.social the link to YouTube in your profile doesn’t work for me, I had to search for you on YT youtube.com/@stevesgamin... … is this you?
Steve's Gaming
Hi, I'm Steve and I'm a huge 80's gaming fan. Back in the day I had a ZX81, BBC Model B, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Atari 800 and other systems and this channel is me playing 8 bit games I love (and ...
youtube.com
January 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
@stevesgaming.bsky.social the link to YouTube in your profile doesn’t work for me, I had to search for you on YT youtube.com/@stevesgamin... … is this you?