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A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/spartan-and-the-mime/
7•rfarley04•2h ago

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orionblastar•1h ago
>Before later joining Apple as a senior engineer in the early 2000s, Brent claimed that, “the president of the company wrote himself a big cheque from the payroll account and took off for South America.” His claim is quoted as fact all over forums and blogs that are still live today, despite the final four words of his story: “according to legend, anyhow.”

Seems legit.

A friend of mine in 1984 bought an Apple //c instead of a Commodore 64 and Spartan, because the Spartan had compatibility problems with Apple ][+ software. Also you needed to mod the 1541 drive with the DOS card and press F6 to switch between Apple and Commodore modes. A good way to mess up disks.

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55•networked•1h ago•19 comments

There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get

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22•zkehs•42m ago•8 comments

Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says

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81•ijidak•1h ago•37 comments

Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2026-85046
623•negura•17h ago•350 comments

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https://collusion.wiki/
1858•moultano•1d ago•1419 comments

.gitignore Everything by Default

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12•der_gopher•1h ago•14 comments

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392•Cider9986•14h ago•157 comments

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36•cl3misch•4h ago•12 comments

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82•ndsipa_pomu•1h ago•65 comments

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669•jlebar•20h ago•423 comments

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189•daniel_iversen•4h ago•117 comments

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363•p4bl0•18h ago•166 comments

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256•sylvainkalache•7h ago•218 comments

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18•Bluestein•4h ago•5 comments

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10•bryanrasmussen•2d ago•1 comments

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161•sevenseacat•8h ago•91 comments

Kale: A Transformation-Safe Spreadsheet System

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38•zdw•4d ago•13 comments

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18•mkl•52m ago•2 comments

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300•iopapa•19h ago•179 comments

A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/spartan-and-the-mime/
8•rfarley04•2h ago•1 comments

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263•Topfi•17h ago•177 comments

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184•cebert•15h ago•97 comments

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172•tosmatos•3d ago•103 comments

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332•stingrae•21h ago•110 comments

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72•ErenayDev•4d ago•14 comments

Shutting down our public encrypted DNS

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387•mywacaday•20h ago•182 comments

IBM Bob

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300•artpar•1d ago•310 comments

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32•ingve•3d ago•3 comments

Can guitar frets perform multiplication?

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105•wibbily•16h ago•29 comments

Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4

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130•aaraujo002•19h ago•26 comments