Happy new year! I have some history gems in here – not archival material but people that made history, speaking again, now.
- A TI-99 programmer resurfaces. (via Paul Ivanov, thanks)
- Fall 2024 FreeBSD Summit – The History of the BSD Daemon. The original artist, Phil Foglio, is still making excellent comics. (video, via)
- Technical Marvels, Part 9: Program-Controlled Musical Picture Clocks. Novel to me. (via)
- Developing a public-interest training commons of books. (via)
- Not BSDTalk, but talk(1) on BSD. Follow the thread.
- Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository. I remember reading this but not linking this. (via this long thread)
- An oral history of AutoDesk. (via)
- What an Atari workstation might have looked like.
- Apropos for the new year: BSDCan 2025 call for papers.
- MNT laptops are neat, but they also do… earrings? (via)
- Research of RAM data remanence times. (via)
- Public Domain Day at the Internet Archive.
- And at the Public Domain Review.
- QEMU Virtualization on BSDs, Jim Brown, in 3 days. RSVP needed if you are going, which I recommend.