Seventies/Eighties computing, this week.

• books chapter ten
• Eclipses and decibels.
• Twenty-plus years on, SMTP callbacks are still pointless and need to die.
• Destroy All Monsters: A Journey into the Caverns of Dungeons and Dragons.  First comment in the source link is great.
• The Icewind Dale Problem.  Related to previous link.  (via)
• The Enduring Legacy of Zork.  (via)
• Your load is too heavy: Zork deep reading.  (via)
• Noticed in the same place, in an article about VERB and NOUN buttons: People are patching the code for the Apollo 11 guidance computer. People apparently can’t help patching code.
• Interface, a decent non-serif, non-monospaced font.  (via)
• So You Want to Read… A Guide to Sci-Fi and Fantasy Subgenres.  (via I lost it, sorry!)
• The Return of the Cray files (2013-2016)  (via)
• Arithmetic for Beginners.  (via via)
• 1976 word processor error messages.  They sound exactly right.  (via)
• Having Played Every Adventure From the 1970s, Some Thoughts.  (via)
• 6502cloud – Bringing the 80’s to the cloud.  (via)
• Software development 450 words per minute.  (via)
• The Light Phone.  (via)