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World's first mass-market #laptop was the #T1100 computer by #Toshiba. Introduced with a 4.77MHz #CPU, 512KB of #RAM, #monochrome #LCD display, and battery capacity up to 7 hours, it changed the world of #IBM compatible portable computers. It even worked with #MS #Windows1 in 640x200px #CGA #graphics, but only within a narrow view angle https://youtu.be/qk04sDF5SrM

Even without a hard disk this machine was very important, since the plus model was re-engineered in #USSR as Электроника #МС1504. Unlike #US, users in #Russia didn't pay royalties, or used the internal 3.5" floppy drive to boot #MS-DOS 2.11 https://youtu.be/_u5LwiP5Q4g

Our #graphic #illustration is a tribute to this #IT #milestone, celebrating the 40th #anniversary of this historic #microcomputer achievement in 1985. See it in comparison of #ComputerChronicles to #Tandy or #Dynamac #laptops two years later https://youtu.be/tPEMilDYpgY

The #screenshot of this #retrocomputer #cgi #art shows #SVG #vector #outlines around the cursor in #xRay view-mode. Made with #Inkscape and #FreeSoftware

From: blenderdumbass . org

I decided to re-watch the first Transformers film today, but differently. Instead of indulging in it as mindless entertainment, I decided I want to actually view it seriously, as I would with somebody like Steven Spielberg, who, by the way, was an executive producer on the film.

Read: blenderdumbass.org/reviews/tra

blenderdumbass . orgTransformers is Good if You Take it Seriously
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@paoloredaelli @wollman @rubenerd @dexter Reading the original post, it kind of alienated me, but the reason wasn't #perl but #CGI. There's nothing wrong with #perl at all (although now I wonder, I didn't see it used on the #web #backend for quite a while, is there actually a *SANE* integration with web servers available, that doesn't require forking a process for each and every request?)

I'll never get how people come to think #python could be the "modern replacement". A language that makes whitespace syntactically relevant already failed every sanity check. And it kind of proves that by incorporating exceptions in normal control flow. screw that nonsense.