dillekant@slrpnk.net to Solarpunk@slrpnk.netEnglish · 22 days agoWhat if Humanity forgot how to make CPUs?youtu.beexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up11file-text
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minus-squaredillekant@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 days agoThis is about institutional memory. Like we know how to make a cassette tape player, but we can’t actually do it.
minus-squarebacon_pdp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 days agoThere are a half dozen people on YouTube today that literally made their own cassette encoding and decoding circuits for the Kansas City Standard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_standard Which is good enough to bootstrap 1990s grade computers. Never underestimate the power librarians protect in their hallowed walls.
This is about institutional memory. Like we know how to make a cassette tape player, but we can’t actually do it.
There are a half dozen people on YouTube today that literally made their own cassette encoding and decoding circuits for the Kansas City Standard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City_standard
Which is good enough to bootstrap 1990s grade computers.
Never underestimate the power librarians protect in their hallowed walls.