: It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C
A tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years. The question is whether researchers will be able to take this piece of middle-aged media and rewind it back to the 1970s to get the data off.
the pdf only works on chrome 🤢 and the pregnancy test is kind of cheating, because the dude hollowed it out and replaced the hardware in it with more powerful stuff.
Yeah, running Doom on stuff is a meme, that’s why I posed the challenge … but a lot of the time it’s just not real.
Sometimes the device is used just as an external screen for some regular device. Other times not even the screen is kept.
(Love it when they manage to hack-run in on actual odd hardware tho!)
Like the pregnancy test - if you replace everything from it except the plastic shell then it’s just this:
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M … make it run Doom.
I think so, if DOOM even works in a PDF file
https://doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf
And even on a pregnancy test stick
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a33957256/this-programmer-figured-out-how-to-play-doom-on-a-pregnancy-test/
the pdf only works on chrome 🤢 and the pregnancy test is kind of cheating, because the dude hollowed it out and replaced the hardware in it with more powerful stuff.
Yeah, running Doom on stuff is a meme, that’s why I posed the challenge … but a lot of the time it’s just not real.
Sometimes the device is used just as an external screen for some regular device. Other times not even the screen is kept.
(Love it when they manage to hack-run in on actual odd hardware tho!)
Like the pregnancy test - if you replace everything from it except the plastic shell then it’s just this:
Yeah, but a PDF file is another thing. Anyway old DOOM works on a shoebox if you want and for sure also in the old UNIX.
youtube.com/no0CkQk7id0