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µPAnother English translated chapter from my earlier work is uploaded to ResearchGate:Little Data – Fractal Image Compression: From a Network-Historical Miscellany to a Media-Structural Rupture<a href="http://txt3.de/el-data" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://txt3.de/el-data</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fractals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fractals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerArchaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerGraphics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerGraphics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Compression</a>

µPToday the 4th issue of the German <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GameStudies</a> magazine "Spiel-Formen" has been published. Main topic of this issue is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GameLabs</a>. I contributed a photo galery about the "Signal Laboratory" at HU Berlin:<a href="http://txt3.de/signal-noises" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://txt3.de/signal-noises</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerArchaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GameHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GameLab</a>

µPToday I've published an english translated version of my paper on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerArchaeology</a> of (early) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialNetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialNetworks</a>, describing the "Community Memory" project from Lee Felsenstein and others in the 1960s/70s SF Bay Area:"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" – Public memories, democratic information, and restrictive technologies using the example of "Community Memory"<a href="http://txt3.de/grace-e" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://txt3.de/grace-e</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Power</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataBase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DataBase</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BigData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigData</a>

µPToday I'm going to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Munich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Munich</a> for the <a href="https://mastodon.social/@vcfe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@vcfe</a> where I'm exhibiting early <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Atari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Atari</a> home computers, giving a lecture on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOTO</a> controversy and holding an editor-editorial meeting about the next volumes in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerArchaeology</a> book series. As the icing on the cake, swap (my) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/THAT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#THAT</a> analog computer for a Leyboldt-Haraeus <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AnalogComputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnalogComputer</a>.

µPAnother pre-print from me: "»I Program my Home Computer«. Discourse and Computer Archaeological Localizations of a Technology" - where I try to define "home computer" as a term, a technology, and a media historic event:<a href="http://txt3.de/homecomputer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://txt3.de/homecomputer</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaStudies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerArchaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HomeComputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HomeComputer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PostStructuralism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PostStructuralism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Serres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Serres</a>

µPJust published: my (translated) chapter on "Unconventional Computing" as a pre-print on ResearchGate:<a href="http://txt3.de/ucomp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://txt3.de/ucomp</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UnconventionalComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnconventionalComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToyComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToyComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Complexity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerArchaeology</a>

µPMy proposal for this years SHOT conference in Luxembourg was accepted! I contribute to the "Code Histories" session with a talk about my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BASIC</a> research project.<a href="https://shrtn.escalar.pt/E3XO" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://shrtn.escalar.pt/E3XO</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GameStudies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BreakOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BreakOut</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalCodeStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CriticalCodeStudies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerArchaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerPhilology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerPhilology</a>

µPLast week I found these cassettes with an audio manual and bit-stream software for the "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Signetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Signetics</a> Instructor 50" <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SingleBoardComputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SingleBoardComputer</a> from 1978. Today I ripped the audio to an MP3 file. Feel free to download it here:<a href="https://cloud.uni-halle.de/s/6M6iiq8rsF4lXQ1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cloud.uni-halle.de/s/6M6iiq8rsF4lXQ1</a>And take a visit to this marvelous Instructor-50 website: <a href="https://ztpe.nl/2650/hardware/signetics-instructor-50/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ztpe.nl/2650/hardware/signetics-instructor-50/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Assembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Assembly</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Signetics2650" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Signetics2650</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerArchaeology</a>

µPToday I had an all-day seminar about "Code Critic" at MeWi Uni Bonn. I organized the talks of the students as a symposium. The last talk was about the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOTO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GOTO</a> controversy that started in the end of the 1960s with a rant from Edsger W. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dijkstra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dijkstra</a> and lasts until today. The student's talk ended with a self-made meme.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BASIC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CCS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CCS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalCodeStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CriticalCodeStudies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Paperware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Paperware</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerArchaeology</a>

root42Request for information on FPS-100 and related arithmetic processor machines:<a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=ufOHzGh-jbs&si=MmkXbZv5kQvOyV7C" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/watch?v=ufOHzGh-jbs&si=MmkXbZv5kQvOyV7C</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/computerarchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computerarchaeology</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/pdp11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pdp11</a>

plinthToday I hooked up a USB DVD drive to a MacBook and put in a CDR I burned circa 1997 from a PowerBook 540c. Totally surprised that MacOS read it and displayed files in the Finder from a 27 year old obsolete file system. At any rate, here's a picture of me with a face hugger I made for fun. The picture was taken with a Quickcam. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/oldmacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oldmacs</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/computerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computerArchaeology</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/alien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#alien</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/prop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prop</a>

µPToday I start my lecture series "The World of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Game" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Game</a> Labs" at the Department for Media and Communication at University Halle.The first talk will be given by myself about the ten years of "Signal Laboratory" in the Media Science Department at the Humboldt University (2012-2022).The talk will be in German and starts at 16:00 (4 pm) ct.You can attend online here: <a href="https://mluconf.uni-halle.de/b/ste-zv2-y8r-ecd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mluconf.uni-halle.de/b/ste-zv2-y8r-ecd</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GameLabs</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaStudies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaArchaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GameStudies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerArchaeology</a>

µPThe <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaStudies</a> of Uni Halle, where I am invited as a guest professor for the next semester, is about to establish a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GameLab</a> called "Circuit Lab". We will use this for one or two rounds of "Game Circuits".<a href="https://circuitlab.medienkomm.uni-halle.de/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://circuitlab.medienkomm.uni-halle.de/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaArchaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerArchaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GameStudies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroGaming</a>

µPIn the winter term 2024/25 I am teaching at the universities in Halle and Bonn:<a href="http://www.simulationsraum.de/blog/2024/07/30/lehre-im-wintersemester-3/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://www.simulationsraum.de/blog/2024/07/30/lehre-im-wintersemester-3/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerArchaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CriticalCodeStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CriticalCodeStudies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftwareStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareStudies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GDR</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GameLabs</a>

µPNext month the enzyclopedia „Digitalität von A bis Z“ will be published. I contributed a chapter on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerArchaeology</a>:<a href="https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6765-3/digitalitaet-von-a-bis-z/?number=978-3-8394-6765-7" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6765-3/digitalitaet-von-a-bis-z/?number=978-3-8394-6765-7</a>

µP<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BASIC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerArchaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computerarchitecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computerarchitecture</a>

µPToday my copy of "The Oxford Handbook of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VideoGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VideoGame</a> Music and Sound", edited by William Gibbons and Mark Grimshaw-Aargaard arrived.I contributed a chapter about "Symbolic Music and Algorithmic Composing. Computer Archaeological Perspectives on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BASIC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Game" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Game</a> Sounds"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerArchaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoundChips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoundChips</a>

µPFinished the slides for my (closing) talk at the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/c64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c64</a> symposium "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Commodore64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Commodore64</a> - Past, Present, and Future of a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HomeComputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HomeComputer</a>" next weekend in Bonn:<a href="http://rtro.de/c64" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://rtro.de/c64</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerArchaeology</a>

µPNext week I will give a talk at the lecture series "Digital Humanities im Fokus" at the Rostock University - invited by <a href="https://fedihum.org/@toroe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@toroe</a>. I will talk about my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BASIC</a> research project, its materials, methods, and first outcomes:<a href="https://www.germanistik.uni-rostock.de/forschung/digital-humanities/rosdh/ringvorlesung/2024/n/literatur-fuer-compiler-was-koennen-computer-lesen-was-menschen-gelesen-haben-was-eigentlich-nur-computer-lesen-sollten-188647/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.germanistik.uni-rostock.de/forschung/digital-humanities/rosdh/ringvorlesung/2024/n/literatur-fuer-compiler-was-koennen-computer-lesen-was-menschen-gelesen-haben-was-eigentlich-nur-computer-lesen-sollten-188647/</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerArchaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PaperWare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaperWare</a>

µPMy former friend Nils (left), me (right), and my "Video Genie II" (middle) in 1987 ...<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/C64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#C64</a>'ed for the upcoming issue of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalTalk64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalTalk64</a> where I contributed an essay on "home computer user photos from the 1980s".<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PixelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PixelArt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ComputerArchaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Commodore64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Commodore64</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TRS80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TRS80</a>

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