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“2001” laptop: more keys

April 24, 2023

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scottlowther

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Art, history, Science Fiction

On the left of the briefcase computer are numeral keys. These seem to have come from a Remington Rand Printing Calculator or something […]
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“2001” laptop: second success

April 23, 2023

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scottlowther

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Art, Awesomeness, blather, history, Science Fiction

Part of the “keyboard” from the briefcase computer has been identified. Many of the keys come from a Remington “Super Riter” typewriter; a […]
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I’m sure this sort of society seems like a good idea to *somebody*

April 23, 2023

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scottlowther

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AARRRGH, blather, Forward, Gah, I’m from the government, Politics, ಠ_ಠ

Behold the Chinese surveillance state: Almost any American would look upon this sort of thing with horror. And yet… I wonder how […]
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2001 laptop: first success

April 22, 2023

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scottlowther

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Art, Awesomeness, history, Hmm…, Science Fiction

Thanks to commenter “Mr_Hiena: ” the phone component of the “laptop” appears to be a Bogen TQ12a intercom: Fortunately there were (“were“) […]
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Pretty sure this’ll be a movie soon

April 20, 2023

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scottlowther

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Gah, Hmm…, News, ಠ_ಠ

The script writers are doubtless already hard at work. or at least, busy feeding news reports into chatbots to do the work for […]
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“2001” laptop: what phone is this?

April 20, 2023

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scottlowther

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Art, Awesomeness, blather, history, Hmm…, Science Fiction

I would love to have a replica of the briefcase “laptop” that was built for “2001: A Space Odyssey.” I don’t know that […]
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Starship: RUD

April 20, 2023

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scottlowther

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AARRRGH, Awesomeness, News, rockets, spacecraft

Well, it got off the pad. That’s good. But at least six of the engines didn’t seem to be burning, and the whole […]
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Not a headline I would have immediately expected

April 20, 2023

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scottlowther

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AARRRGH, News, science, spacecraft, ಠ_ಠ

Potatoes are better than human blood for making space concrete bricks, scientists say Potato starch was used to create bricks from simulated Martian […]
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Next Starship launch attempt

April 19, 2023

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scottlowther

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Awesomeness, history, News, rockets, youtube

Launch window opens tomorrow (suspiciously, 4/20) at 8:28 AM central time, lasts for about an hour.
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Infrastructure collapse comes to New York City

April 18, 2023

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scottlowther

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AARRRGH, Gah, News, youtube, ಠ_ಠ

1 person killed, multiple injured in NYC parking garage collapse Things in this country have gone from “weird” to “concerning” to “downright embarrassing.” […]
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