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S-100 Virtual Workbench

Oh my. I've spent waaay too much time trying to figure out how does the Ladder works. Still was unable to play that one.

And I won't even mention that I have no idea how to use ED.

11 minutes agoIFC_LLC

Wonderful! :-)

Was going to comment that this reminded me of the old S-100 bus, and looking at the ads in Byte, and reading Chaos Manor, but obviously that couldn't be it, it had to be something else entirely, clicked and was pleasantly surprised.

2 hours agompweiher

Heh, not sure why but it makes me wonder if you could 'Ship of Theseus' something like that into a modern day desktop. By going thru the different eras of DIY compute.

26 minutes agosumtechguy

It has IMSAI-8080!

You don't get the satisfying tactile flick-click of the real thing, but still, for about 0.06% of us, this brings an enormous smile!

:)

2 hours agoMarkusQ

How do I... use this? There's no help button or anything

34 minutes agoNooneAtAll3

Wish I could read the text but someone decided it was more important to use dark gray text on black and dark-green backgrounds because it looks all trendy and cool and shit.

an hour agoCamperBob2
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an hour ago

Thanks! Now I will procrastinate the whole day.

an hour agopo1nt

Holy crap! When I was a child, my father got me my first computer, and it had a bunch of dongles and red LEDs. I looked at it for a few minutes, and was like, what the hell am I supposed to do with this? My dad was an electrical engineer at a steel plant, so I had assumed it was some sort of industrial automation computer. But no, it was an Altair 8800.

I couldn't figure it out so they just got rid of it. Wish I could go back in time and try again.