Notices by ⚳ rapid unscheduled assembly ⚳ (coregaze@mstdn.social)

@foone I am trying to attach a photo of the one I have, but mstdn.social is not cooperating right now. It's a "Radio Shack Electronics Learning Lab 28-280". I would have hoped that Elenco or someone might have picked it up but it doesn't look like they did.

@foone There's one with a solderless breadboard that works perfectly with a Teensy. I own one. It is a thing of beauty.

@coprolite9000 @bbcmicrobot @arx 🚀 it is not.

But it's real.

My other Electron has a 2021 WDC 65C02S in it, it feels like that would be somehow less genuine; this Synertek part came from (another) Electron.

I don't know why I like the Electron so much. It makes me happy.

https://mstdn.social/@coregaze/109583561755712597

@bbcmicrobot @coprolite9000 @arx I'm guessing more like eight, given that it has so far done this much, and it's been going for an hour and twelve minutes.

@bbcmicrobot @coprolite9000 @arx Four hours and we're maybe halfway, or not quite halfway.

@coprolite9000 @bbcmicrobot @arx the sky does indeed seem to be a little faster! Quite a bit, actually- maybe two or three times the speed. Five hours in and we're definitely past halfway!

@coprolite9000 @arx @bbcmicrobot How long do you think it would take on an Electron, and do you want me to try it and find out?

@bbcmicrobot @coprolite9000 @arx Two hours, and it is apparent that the Electron's aspect ratio is slightly taller than the BBC's. I guess they don't want to keep the CPU halted longer than 40 µs if they can avoid it...

@coprolite9000 @bbcmicrobot @arx Six hours!

@coprolite9000 @bbcmicrobot @arx Seven hours! In the home stretch now.

@jacqueline so ChatGPT is a falsehood engine. It is designed to lie. GPT stands for Generative Pretrained Transformer, which is to say:
Generative means it makes shit up
Pretrained means that it plagiarizes a huge database of shit
Transformer means it permutes the shit until it passes a plausibility metric