Darius Kazemi
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Having fun with BASIC-8 interpreter on the PDP-8/e at the Living Computers Museum in Seattle. Made a weird little landscape/flag generator.

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Darius Kazemi

You know what's fun? Pressing a button and making this thing click and whirr and blink.

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Darius Kazemi

I took snippets of the DEC BASIC-8 manual for the TSS/8 operating system and inserted them into a poetry generator. This is the poem. (The randomizer runs the same every time (no seeds though I could fake it) so this is in a sense *the* output.)

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doctor garbage expert

@darius YES

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Maybe it's Eyesaline

@darius Hell yeah, love the LCM, love the PDP.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber

@darius Ooh... no surprise probably that I love this

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Sebastian Lasse, redaktor.me

@cwebber @darius

note to me :
The response to the photoflood caused by smartphones is that all friends are returning to pixels.

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doctor garbage expert

@darius YES

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ranjit

@darius user society must have an end.

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DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

@darius this is like the anti-time cube. like the time cube had a goatee.

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Gracious Anthracite

@darius

That's... kind of apocalyptic, really. REPLACE EVERYTHING.

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CMDR Yojimbosan [UTC+13]

@darius The computer is your friend. Trust the computer.

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Blake C. Stacey

@darius 🎶 Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do ... 🎶

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Cybre Rick

@darius
This looks like a fatally broken AI about to destroy the world. 😟

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jim

@darius READY PLAYER OBVIOUS

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Cyber Insect
@jim @darius Sounds like a Radiohead lyric.
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Jurmo Landgren

@darius "Ready" is the icing of the cake.

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squirrel

@darius I had totally forgotten about Dim statements. - thanks for reminding me. VB.net is coming to .net core - a language that is persistent if nothing else!

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Darius Kazemi

@squirrel amusingly my Dim statement is 100% superfluous in this program and was left over from some other code

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Teknari

@darius

So sexy.

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