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joshua stein via twitter.com/jcs - Oct 29 2021 17:02:13

Wikipedia seems to agree, indicating it started on Lisa OS:

"The keys involved all cluster together at the left end of the bottom row of the standard QWERTY keyboard"

I guess I should have actually looked at my keyboard before asking...

https://twitter.com/Sakurina/status/1454204882886565888

17:02 - October 29, 2021 - Source

joshua stein via twitter.com/jcs - Oct 29 2021 16:49:32

How did the keyboard shortcut for Paste become Command+V in Mac System 1? Obviously it couldn't be P because Print used that, but why V?

16:49 - October 29, 2021 - Source

joshua stein via twitter.com/jcs - Oct 29 2021 10:53:36

LaserWriter II was a fun read
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1452358244823863296

10:53 - October 29, 2021 - Source

joshua stein via twitter.com/jcs - Oct 28 2021 12:18:32

I was sad OpenBSD wouldn't work on the original Raspberry Pi Zero since it was based on the original Pi 1 and we no longer have an armv6 port, but the Pi Zero 2 is based on the Pi 3 which is supported by OpenBSD/arm64 so hopefully it will work on this. I have one pre-ordered...
https://twitter.com/Raspberry_Pi/status/1453602899737591812

12:18 - October 28, 2021 - Source

joshua stein via twitter.com/jcs - Oct 25 2021 19:05:16

Pretty rad A/UX shirt - "/nev/dull"

https://www.etsy.com/listing/951954737/aux-shirt-apple-computer-shirt-90s

19:05 - October 25, 2021 - Source

joshua stein via twitter.com/jcs - Oct 25 2021 11:27:32

After selling 21 of them, I only have one WiFiStation kit remaining and I will probably not be making/selling any more (myself, anyway)

https://www.tindie.com/products/jcs/wifistation/

11:27 - October 25, 2021 - Source

joshua stein via twitter.com/jcs - Oct 24 2021 18:36:47

https://deskto.ps/u/jcs/d/jtz1lg

18:36 - October 24, 2021 - Source

joshua stein via instagram.com/jcs - Oct 23 2021 12:28:08

12:28 - October 23, 2021 - Source

joshua stein via twitter.com/jcs - Oct 22 2021 17:16:25

I've returned to System 6 programming again after a hiatus. Recently I made a small revision control system called Amend to manage the code that I write on my Mac.

https://jcs.org/2021/10/22/amend

17:16 - October 22, 2021 - Source

joshua stein via twitter.com/jcs - Oct 21 2021 15:09:44

When you write a bunch of code at once and don't trust that it won't bomb the computer so you single-step through every line in the debugger to inspect variables along the way and it's actually working