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512 kilobytes of ram, two 5.25" drives, 9" monochrome monitor, and MS-DOS 2.11! Sweet. I want one.

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oh hey Rolm is nearby. TO THE CAR! IT'S ROADTRIP TIME

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gonna knock on the door and go HEY YOU KNOW THIS COMPUTER YOU MADE IN 1985? YEAH, ABOUT AS OLD AS ME. DO YOU STILL HAVE ANY OF THOSE? CAN YOU CHECK IN THE BACK?

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it cost 4,995$, or the equivalent of 13,000$ today

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Daniel Burgess made a neat 3D model of it: artstation.com/artwork/NxYXz5

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BTW the code on screen is from the linux kernel, from kernel/groups.c. It got used in that hacker-type website, so it became a sort of lorem-ipsum for computer code.

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cred: simpler, 1D supplementary groups · torvalds/linux@81243ea

that's this website: hackertyper.net

6:58 PM · Nov 4, 2021

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Fun fact: that code got rewritten in 2016 so it no longer matches the hackertyper code. Commit 81243eacfa400f5f7b89f4c2323d0de9982bb0fb on Oct 7, 2016, "cred: simpler, 1D supplementary groups":

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Current supplementary groups code can massively overallocate memory and is implemented in a way so that access to individual gid is done via 2D array. If number of gids is <= 32, memory all...

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ok so I got nerdsniped. The commit shown in hackertyper is either 9984de1a5a8a96275fcab818f7419af5a3c86e71 or b0e77598f87107001a00b8a4ece9c95e4254ccc4

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meaning it's actually code from 2011 that got rewritten in 2012.

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so we can tell it's commit b0e77598f87107001a00b8a4ece9c95e4254ccc4 or later because it uses nsown_capable instead of capable:

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the problem is, it could also be commit 9984de1a5a8a96275fcab818f7419af5a3c86e71, because all that commit did was change an include:

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and if you look at the output of hackertyper, or the text file backing it, you can see that it has no includes. they were removed to make it more hackery. hackertyper.net/kernel.txt

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and it can't be the next commit, ae2975bc3476243b45a1e2344236d7920c268f38, because that one removes the "unsigned int cp_count = min(NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK, count);" line that's still present.

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anyway I was posting about this computer bectause I saw it pop up on google images as I was searching "terminal computers" while trying to figure out what machine is behind Wendy Carlos in this picture:

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behind her and to the right, obviously. I recognize the one on the left.

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because I thought it might have been a Heathkit H19, but NOPE

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Now there's another lovely phone/terminal. The GTE XT300! terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php

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the problem is that there's not a good term for "all in one terminals from the 70s and early 80s" that you can just stick into google and scroll down through images. (picture from terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php )

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and everyone in the 70/80s made at least one of these. It's a big box with a big, probably monochrome, screen with some keys and no smarts. Here's the Intecolor 2405, for example s-wiki.org/wiki/index.php

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Tektronix 4023. terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php

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TeleVideo 910. terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php

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CDC CC6A9 terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php

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The DEC VT05: terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php

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The ITT 3501 Asciscope terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php

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Micro-Term ACT-5A terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php

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The Quantel 4011: terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php

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The Tandy DT-1 terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php

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TEC 535 terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php

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Wang 2236: terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php

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Westinghouse 1600 terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php

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Zentec Zephyr: terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php

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Datapoint 3600: terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php

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anyway my point is: 1. I can't find that particular terminal/micro. 2. THERE ARE 900 DIFFERENT MODELS WITH THAT DESIGN

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okay

points out her site has some info on it: It's a terminal for a Crumar GDS Master Synth

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probably GDS Master Synth & Terminal, according to her site: wendycarlos.com/photos.html -> wendycarlos.com/photos/studio8 -> "Behind to the right, note the GDS master synth & computer terminal, used for building sound cartridges played on the Synergies."

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the problem is that that's really just the computer the terminal is plugged into. Not what the terminal IS

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