Martin

Martin

@martinburch.com

Data research and computer history

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Walter was more than Chekov. He was a writer, a teacher, a thoughtful man, and a loyal friend. To the fans who loved him for so many years, thank you. He loved you too. Rest well, my dear friend. Keep navigating a steady course. – George

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Somewhere in the 90s it’s still Sunday afternoon 📼☀️ The street is quiet and the future is just a sci-fi movie. Track 9, “The Future”, from the upcoming album Neon Airlines. Pre-order link in the reply 👇

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Big milestone for my 6502 based Wildbits/K2. My C programming project, non-vibed, old school perseverance and learning. I made a multi-music file player with the cute mascot "Whiskers". Uses all 5 sound chips of the system: SID, OPL3, PSG, MP3, MIDI. 2 years to get to this point!

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Vinny does a fantastic job on his FREEZE64 magazine, well worth a look ❤️

#90DayCountdownToChristmasDay - one issue of FREEZE64 per day… DAY 18: FREEZE64 issue 18 We celebrated Activision/Firebird’s fabulous PARK PATROL and also created two different covers for our readers to enjoy. freeze64.com/freeze64-iss... #Commodore64 #C64 #Commodore64Ultimate

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hey everyone here is a brand new totally free CC0 font for your collection please enjoy :) 12px height, contains latin extended, latin supplemental, gender symbols, maths symbols, cyrillic, runic, and probably more not-jam.itch.io/not-jam-seri...

Reading the latest #FREEZE64 is going to be much more interesting than looking out the window on this train (that’s restricted to about 30 mph). Say, @freeze64.bsky.social, why is DARTH VADER getting a mention in the issue-number box?

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i was warned about the mad rush to get EMF tickets, but not the mad rust to sign up for volunteering to avoid the mad rust to get EMF tickets

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Hello! Next Saturday at 4:30 PM, I'll speak at #EMFcamp Stage B on the obscure, innovative, unusual Flex computing environment for #PERQ workstations. (Demo included!) Fitting everything into a half-hour will be tough: expect fast talking, big gestures, and maybe a bell or gong to mark chapters...

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I could have utilized Y2K technology to record and play back a loop of myself reading Goodnight Moon, instead of doing it 10 times a night, but the reason I did it myself SHOULD be obvious...

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Sick of AI, social media and horrible tech? Celebrate the good bits of the internet with THE TINY AWARDS 2026! The Tiny Awards celebrate the small, non-commercial, fun, silly, poetic, frivolous web - nominate your favourite site from the past year here, and please tell the world: tinyawards.net

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When you repeatedly measure the positions of over a billion stars so accurately that you can see a star moving by an amount equal to the size of a pinhead on the Moon, as seen from Earth... you find amazing things! It's great. mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosb...

mathstodon.xyzJohn Carlos Baez (@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)Holy crap! The Gaia space telescope is expected to find 120,000 ± 22,000 planets orbiting other stars! Most will be super-Jupiters, because those are the easiest to find. But we'll know much more ...