@jameshowell @tfb @jbqueru @gumnos @mms Yeah, reminds me of the famous story how some guy "fixed" the #C128 #CPM implementation in the #hotel just before #CES presentation for some broken hardware requiring writing a register *twice* to work as intended ... using a stupid DISK EDITOR (and calculating the stupid sector checksums manually). Source: Bil Herd's emails telling all the C128 dev story ... 
Ok, it's kind of awesome to have THAT kind of skillz, but also kind of weird 
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Æsthetics turned up to 11.
Japanese CP/M handbook visuals were peak future.
My brain feels Gundam, Bladerunner, Tetsuo and Retrocomputing in one go.
Some highlights for your timeline...
#Japanese #RetroTech
#CPM #RetroComputing
#Typography
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@gfkDSGN can't see a mention to #CPM and #DigitalResearch without stopping a moment to remember the life, achievements, and premature death of Gary Kildall, #RIP , we need to celebrate him more...
Wow, I didn't realise that LibreOffice turns 40 this year with it's latest release.
It started out as closed source Star Writer for CP/M in 1985 with DOS 3.2support in 1986.
Then became Star Office in 1994 for Windows 3.1
It became open source as Open office in 2001 and the LibreOffice fork in 2010.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice
As promised: a complete deep clean of the late #70s #GeminiMicrocomputers parallel #keyboard by #Rotec. Everything disassembled, cleaned, lubed, rubber liners treated with silicone and brand new rubber feet installed. All keys are working, but some don't sit as well in their sockets as they used, so I expect the keys to stay in place if I hit someone with it! :D Also some electrical issues with scanning of the key matrix being incredibly slow - but it lives!! 
And yeah, the "DISASSEMBLE FROM PCB SIDE" sticker was added by me. Taking this apart the wrong way will end in disaster. Learned that the hard way.
No spiders were hurt in this cleaning, although they had clearly taken up residency at some point.
41 years ago, my first article was accepted for publication in #Lifelines Magazine, a #RetroComputing publication. It was in the March 1984 issue of the magazine. A program called List, it is a paging text file to terminal program for #CPM. I had nine more articles in the magazine before it ceased publication. 
For those of you who are interested in my latest project, #dxbbs you may like to know that I've done some code cleanup, renamed existing variables and introduced new ones, especially for the message base files. this is in preparation of handling multiple message bases.
I've also implemented "message flagging/unflagging" in combination with the msg_purge routine. The latter takes some time to process all messages since it actually creates a re-indexd copy of all files for the selected message base.
So I thought it would make sense to "flag" messages for deletion, effectively excluding these from being listed or read and then have the option to physically delete them and re-arrange the message file during a maintenance window, where there is enough planned downtime for such an action.
Let me note that the code is by no means an example for proper #forth programming. I'm not there yet, but in case you are interested, here's the link:
https://gitlab.com/ufud-org/rc2014-dxforth/-/tree/main/bbs?ref_type=heads
if you are interested in the various drivers and programs I've so far written in #DXForth for the #rc2014 computer running the CP/M #cpm operating system, I'd like to remind you of the code repo I've put up recently. Documentation is rare, to say the least. But all the code is there:
