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Dec 21, 2021 • 8 tweets • 7 min read
Passion project time! I love the HP-45 #calculator. It's beautiful on the outside, but I wanted to show people that it's beautiful on the inside, too. So, as a #coding & #retrocomputing challenge I wrote a simulator, & I'm now making it available to all. (Retweets welcomed.) 1/7
The simulator was designed for the Z80-MBC2, a computer designed by @Just4Fun_J4Fun with a #Z80 processor running CP/M. (If you like #retrocomputing, do try it.) But after some tedious wrangling, I was able to write code which also compiled for Windows, Linux & MacOS. 2/7
Jan 27, 2021 • 24 tweets • 16 min read
It's time for a thread of (my) editions of Alan Garner's "The Owl Service" & related books. I'd love to hear what you think, and all about your own copies. And do, please, share if you enjoy it.
Anyway, off to the magical Shelf of Garner...
— #OwlService 1/22
"The Owl Service", Alan Garner, Collins, 1967
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Starting at the beginning, here's the first edition of "The Owl Service", with a jacket design by Kenneth Farnhill.
— #OwlService 2/22