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Phil M0OFX
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Software preservation | electronics | software dev | ham radio | a maker of things!

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I miss when databooks had interesting front covers.

It's a scene from Moby Dick, 3D rendered by Joe Kelly (a Philips employee, I guess?) and featured on the front cover of the 1994 Desktop Video Data Handbook. Full details in the alt text

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3D rendering of a scene from Moby Dick, featured on the front cover of the Philips Semiconductors Desktop Video Data Handbook. From the facing page: Cover art by Joe Kelly. Moby Dick, the tale of a deranged whaling captain's obsessive voyage to find and destroy the great white whale that had ripped off his leg, is at once an exciting sea story, a sociological critique of various American class and racial prejudices, a repository of information about whales and whaling, and a philosophical inquiry into the nature of good and evil, of man and his fate. And it is three pages shorter than the Philips Semiconductors 1994 Desktop Video Data Handbook. Although it is now considered among the greatest of all novels, Moby Dick was ill-received and poorly understood at the time. Herman Melville, its author, died in poverty and obscurity in 1891. No endorsement of contemporary whaling practices is intended by the allegorical cover art. No animals, virtual or otherwise, were injured in the creation of the cover.
December 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy
That's definitely a new error.
Counterfeit Cloudflare error screen. The error code is 621 and described as a "spline reticulation failure". Under "what happened?" the text reads " There is an internal error on Cloudflare's turboencabulator. Excessive side-fumbling has been detected in the spurving bearings supporting the orbital waneshaft. " Under "what can I do" is the text " Consider obtaining the services of your chosen religious representative. Exorcism may be necessary. " It would appear there are ghosts in the machine.
December 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy
Not even just the Americans... I turn the radio off at this time of year because it follows this pattern so much (comic: XKCD)
December 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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One thing I haven't seen mentioned very widely is that the 5230 seems to flip this pixel every frame. Maybe it's just mine.
December 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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And now my Philips PT5230 analog-digital test pattern generator has a clock and a time code input! #analogcable
Philips 4:3 TV test pattern with Pluge, overlay text and AntiPAL test blocks. PTV PT5230 test pattern generator front panel
December 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy
I love the trains.
A snow leopard paw motioning toward a large blue button labelled "delay repay" Because that's about all you can do when you're delayed enough that there's no way you're making your connection home.
December 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I'm pretty sure FurryMUCK was around when Windows 3.11 was current...
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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I think Brynmawr, Wales has a better claim to the name "big hill".
December 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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This CD cover is calling out my friends, awful, should be banned.
December 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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My new mug processes in parallel. #transputer #transputers
Inmos T9000 promotional mug. Reads "The T9000 Transputer". The text "9000" is overlaid over a large letter T, with a XOR mask. That's a nerdy way of saying where the 9000 text is, the blue "T" inverts. The text "THE" "TRANSPUTER" is above and below, printed in red. Other side of the mug showing four chain links oriented North, South, East, West, interlocking in the centre with a black square enclosing them through the middle of each link. View from above. Yes it has four handles. Perfect for sharing a hot toddy with three colleagues. Or just for yourself, as a treat.
December 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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If there's only one reason to install 4DOS on your retro battlestation PC, it's to have file and directory descriptions

Especially when the Inmos compilers insist on being in directories named with their part number
December 1, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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This is not your cousin's FRACTINT.
#transputer
November 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy
A few emoji make a lot of difference.
Google search screenshot incorrectly identifying the lyrics "The winter is cold, I've got plenty of gold, and I'm standing in line, for a loaf of bread" as being from the song "Fairytale of New York". Google search screenshot correctly identifying the source of the lyrics as the song "A Complete History of the Soviet Union, Through the Eyes of a Humble Worker" by Pig with the Face of a Boy. The only difference in search terms is this one doesn't have any emoji in it. (I turned my face away, and dreamed about you.)
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy
#edinburgh is so scientific, they have fractional platform numbers. At least it's easier to remember than "Platform 0.36787968862663154".
Railway platform sign with white text on a dark blue background. The text reads "9/9e" which if you're a particular sort can be read as "nine divided by nine times Euler's constant"
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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The closest thing IRL to Sensible_chuckle.jpg
A copy of Private Eye magazine
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Reticulating splines...
Steam game startup message. "Launching Satisfactory" "Processing Vulkan shaders (0%)" [Skip] [Cancel]
November 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy
"My CPU is a T800 Transputer, a parallel processing computer."
#retrocomputing #transputer
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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I hope one day someone 3D models a recreation of the #toshiba #libretto 110CT case plastics that I can get 3D printed. They just...crumble. :(
#retrocomputing
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Sharp, pointy, and safely stowed. Turns out I have three carving knives. One is in the drawer now...
A stack of assorted knives in a wooden slotted knife block
November 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy
I can see why Tormek include a pack of sticking plasters with their machines.
A Spontex non-scratch sponge scourer with several thin slices in it.
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy
Imagine naming your cats after ARPANET nodes.
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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The scary pat of #icre is when photos like this start to make sense.
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Which pad is which? #BSBACM edition.
First we trace out the power pads...

There are 52 bond pads and 48 pins, so 4 of those pads need to double up...
November 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Maybe my expectations are too high but these look better
November 14, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Can't say I'm impressed with the focus stacking on this one.
November 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM