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This profile might be managed by Terraform.

Or, as my "professional" email signature says, "IT expert and mixed media artificer".

Despite being a late millennial, I grew up with a ZX Spectrum and kept using an i486 as my main PC until 2008.

I have a degree in electrical engineering, majoring in industrial and microelectronics, but somehow ended up building massively distributed computer systems. I helped to roll out HTTP/2 at a Google's competitor, then eventually helped to ensure that Instagram deletes the user data that users asked to delete, and until recently was a site reliability engineer for a big chunk of iCloud. I learned a lot during my long-ish career, and this knowledge makes me sad and keeps me up at night sometimes.

I never post here in a "working adult" capacity, and wouldn't dare to speak for my current or past employers. Instead, I engage in playful shitpost and creative exploration of technologies that have no commercial applications.

Feel free to DM me, I'll try to reply to all!

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nina_kali_nina , an Random Englisch
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That's all you need to know about "standardization" IRL

nina_kali_nina , an Random Englisch
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The CPU is far from being the most sophisticated component of a computer.

At least if we're talking about , or, rather, scavenging and collapse computing. Okay, maybe in open source hardware, too.

Designs of new hobbyist computer architectures are seemingly revolving around inventing a CPU and/or mapping the peripherals on the system bus.

And you could find many simple CPUs based on FPGAs, logic chips, transistors, valves and even relays.

What you usually don't find is custom RAM. Before Intel introduced cheap solid-state RAM in 1969, there were at least six contemporary competing types of RAM used in computers, and at least as many were already considered obsolete.

What you don't find is peripherals. There are rare cool appliances, like punch tape readers. But have you seen a custom hard drive? A printer?

All these are "easy" in terms of relative complexity for industry. But they are simultaneously very hard for a hobbyist/DIYer/tech collapsnik.

Change my mind, show me the good stuff~

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@nina_kali_nina I've built a printer from scratch, but it's an electromechanical contraption not directly related to computery things and not exactly a convenient form-factor.
(though watch this space, I still have loads of ink and I've been Having Bad Ideas for future projects after watching too many teleprinter videos... 😳)

https://oldbytes.space/@zxguesser/112507889200685155

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@zxguesser

Open-source printers would be a godsend.

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