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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2026

Tell me your secrets, little hard drive.... #MaxtorLXT

Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2026

Yes it's a 16700A Option 2 with the extra RAM. It wasn't originally, thankfully someone was breaking down a broken Opt 2 and I bought the RAM upgrade from them. The development tools licences weren't generally available - you needed a really good reason (like […] [Original post on digipres.club]

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2026

That moment when you muse that when Agilent did the V2 software for the 16700A they should have called it ATLAS (Agilent Technologies Logic Analysis System). Then you remember the software dates back to the HP 16505A Prototype Analyzer and is called "VP" or […] [Original post on digipres.club]

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2026

You can tell everyone's suddenly trying to find out which council tax band they're in. #UKPol #UKBudget

Gov.uk " Check and challenge your Council Tax band " page.
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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Turns out you can run RISC OS 3.71 on an A5000. (with some minor bugfixes)

RISC OS 3.71 running on an emulated Acorn A5000. This is not supposed to be possible.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

And this is how we grab the firmware. There's little that can hide from a sniffer probe. (Maxtor LXT200A project)

An upturned Maxtor LXT200A with a SOIC test clip attached

The tail end of a HP 16700A with precisely one tail plugged into an acquisition blade

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

It took a surprising amount of work to get the fonts right on this HP16700A...

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

I guess even Pomona haven't been able to escape enshittification.

A SOIC test probe, under an inspection microscope. Four pins on one side are pushed back into the plastic body.

...And two of the contact pins have fallen out too.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Violent protests are no laughing matter, but the combination of a really ornate statue with the One Piece straw-hat skull-and-crossbones graffiti made me chuckle.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I love foreshadowing as a literary device, but there are some questions you just don't ask.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I'd love to find a copy of one of the Ferranti ULA Design Manuals. They were such fascinating devices (and eminently suitable to having a design/netlist re-entered into CAD and reverse-engineered - ho ho ho)

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I'd better find the errata for this. (ARM Architectural Reference Manual by Jaggar, edition B)

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I make no apologies for using Faston tabs for the backplane connector. I should probably ask WISI if there's a spec for the RS485 comm bus, that'd be fun to play with.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Woohoo, working RF modulator. Shame the only TV I have with an RF-in and PAL decoder lives upstairs.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

#Transputer on an Acorn A5000? ISpy 3 with a GUI? What is this dark magick?

Inmos ISpy with a WIMP front-end, running on RISC OS 3.1

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Online arguments suck, but it's nice that the great John Robertson gave us the perfect video to end them with, video link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=npPHHeANN4w

Firefox screenshot showing a link to John Robertson singing "Shut Up You Tiny Fool" at PAX Australia in 2024, along with that very same video bookmarked, alongside some less spicy icons like Grocy, Jellyfin and a folder called "Local" which I'm not going to get into!

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

The Penistone-Scunthorpe Problem, Supermarket Edition... Half the good quality meat is discontinued but we've got pop-rocks ice cream and faggots!

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

This had better be worth the mortgage.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

By Grabthar's Hammer, what a fleecing!

Amazon screenshot, a Sandisk NVMe SSD for ... £1829 on a "Big Prime Deal"...

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Someone just told me about these (expensive) tracking conference room microphones, and the 2nd image is what sprang to mind... It hears you, it looks at you, it hoots...

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The burns on this Tek 4010 screen make me wonder if the previous owner was a fan of generating Mandelbrots with text characters. It's all letters, no graphics. Quite odd.

Tektronix 4010 screen after poweron. Text characters are burned into the screen, roughly in the shape of a Mandelbrot.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Recreate Acorn-style technical documents in LaTeX? Don't mind if I do. (and no, I didn't pay for ITC Novarese, that's TeX Pagella Italic which looks almost the same, and close enough to pass at a glance)

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

TMW your email gets spammed with Mastodon notifications from nearly 20 days ago and you realise this is probably what's happening at Your Mastodon Instance HQ. (this was a GIF but video uploads seem to be broken and I'm not posting a Tenor link)

Groundskeeper Willie unblocking a toilet. Meme caption: "Oh! Whoa! That's a nasty clog. Oooh, you've got yourself a partner, have you?"

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Add in the forecast price-caps from EDF and Cornwall and we get a side order of "well your guess is as good as mine, really."

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I wonder when I'm going to get a message from Octopus asking me to stop hammering their API? On the plus side: this is much easier to understand than "we think you'd pay £x a year based on last year's totals".

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

OECD has an interesting definition of "high". > Note: ‘High or moderately high’ corresponds to the aggregation of response options 6-10 to the question “On a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 is not at all and 10 is completely, how much do you trust [institution]?” […] [Original post on digipres.club]

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I'm still trying to work out if this is a tool or a fidget toy

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

What on earth is going on with my FTTP line? I've never seen latency like this before... (seriously if you have any ideas, ping me. Ethernet cables and ONT have been changed, two Openreach engineers have deemed the line good)

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Fail whale was better. Oh well at least I can stop doomscrolling now.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Celebrating my birthday by making dragons Art by @tigerknight

An embroidered blue dragon patch

Art by Tigerknight (Jan)

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Part of me really wants to lasercut a fox or wolf with a hole in its belly to fit a @nottinghack microplastic bunny. We could call it educational. Teach kids about the food chain or something...

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Any #embroidery experts in the room? This is my first attempt embroidering a patch (of the sort people put on bags) on a Brother machine.. The thread seemed to bunch up a little at the top of the left arm but recovered. When the machine started on the right […] [Original post on digipres.club]

The unfortunate aftermath of trying to embroider a dragon patch for my bag

The design I tried to embroider - in "preview" mode in the Brother software

Framegrab showing the state of play before things went horribly wrong.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

My first laserwork. Quite chuffed with these.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

I think the Donner probably tastes nicer.

A takeaway called MacDonners sits next to a digital billboard advertising McDonald's.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

And still Copilot is not appeased. How much energy is this insanity wasting?

Github screenshot showing Copilot's AI review comments. It's not happy.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

This is the moment I realised PJSIP as a project is just a bunch of LLMs rolling coal and barking at each other.

Screenshot of the text of a PJSIP maintainer's comment on my PR, pasted into GPTZero and reviewed. The score is "100% AI".

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

I've heard Sky had a couple of full-size Peterbilt trucks converted into OB studios, and a bunch of Mercedes Sprinters as camera vans - though I've never seen photos of them. Still, these look nice on the shelf.

A bunch of Matchbox model cars/trucks sat on a bookshelf. One is an articulated 10-wheel lorry (ostensibly a Peterbilt of some kind) set up as an outside-broadcast truck, carrying 1980s-vintage Sky TV branding and "Mobile Two" moniker. Behind it are two "Mobile One" branded Sky camera vans, which appear to be modified Mercedes vans, going by a Matchbox catalogue.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

[Food, breakfast, pancakes] Oh bloody hell. My pancakes have declared independence.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Edinburgh is a lovely city but every time I visit, I feel like I'm walking into Ankh-Morpork.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

I think I'm going to be humming "you're on my moon team" for the rest of the night. Last show tomorrow night - scifi comedy movie spoof with a hint of audience participation. (Moon Team IIIV) #edfringe