Hardware ceased to be relevant after the '90s. Prior to that I had many different favorites. Sparcstations, 8086, 68000, M365, Z80, SYS/7, Varian 620F, PDP-8, IBM 360, ECP-18 and others.
I am most nostalgic about the PDP-8 because it was the first machine I learned in any kind of detail; and was the machine I dreamed about owning while in High School.
The machine I enjoyed the most was the M365, which was a proprietary machine built by Teradyne Inc, based on a PDP-8 but greatly enhanced.
The machine I was most impressed by was the Sparcstation in the late 80s. By the standards of the day it was pretty zippy. It was fun to have a full bore Unix machine with X windows sitting on my desk.
From: atyh<-Vishalxl at 06/29 19:10
> of all the computers you’ve used, which has been your favorite hardware/software combination, and why?
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If you want to have some fun and waste an afternoon, see if you can get my PDP-8 emulator working on your iPad...
https://github.com/unclebob/PDP8EmulatorIpad
Try to run Lunar Lander.
I donated a PDP-8 to Bill Degnan's Museum. He got it working!
I just finished reviewing the page proofs of the first five chapters of Functional Design. It's always great to see things come together so nicely!
A note id is easy to add; but before I do let's see if this is the direction we want to go. If I understand the issue correctly, Apple has said that it will, in future, not allow zaps in any form -- even in the profile.
We can completely bypass Apple's beligerence by allowing apps to send messages with payment instructions. If you send a DM to yourself, and your desktop client receives it, then the desktop _knows_ that it's you, and has the wallet connect information with which to pay the zap. So there's no custodial risk, no forgery risk, and no static from Apple. The only inconvenience is that users will have to have one and only one desktop client running at all times somewhere in the world.
From: graycat<-nathanday at 06/28 14:16
> I can still zap people in Damus, from their profiles. The auto-DM needs a note ID.
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I just zapped #[1] 88 sats by using Damus on my iPhone to send myself this DM: "zap 88->jb55 hi there".
This worked because more-speech, which I have running on my laptop, will do the zap for me if it recieves a DM from myself to myself (an auto-dm) with that message format.
It seems to me that every desktop client could be set up this way. Then, when you use your phone you can DM yourself with a zap request and your desktop client will do the job for you.
To make this easy Damus, and other mobile apps, could allow users to create message templates. Something like: "zap {amount}-{user} {comment}". Such a template could be invoked with a single button push. It could pop up a dialog asking for the variables and then send it as a auto-dm.
Canadian smoke. 
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Lots of people run nodes without knowing it. These are just little apps that get fired up by your laptop or desktop at bootup and just happily sit there quietly running. All you need is a simple installer with a wizard. Most people would be able to do that -- especially if they wanted to participate in the zappiverse.
From: DerekRoss<-cameri at 06/26 17:16
> We were discussing a scenario like this earlier. The tech savvy community will do it. The average person who doesn't run a node will not. It's a nice workaround though.
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Actually, since it is possible to send a DM to yourself you wouldn't need the second mini-me id.
Or consider this.
Anyone who wants to send zaps creates a new user id and gives it a wallet connect. They run a little background app on their desktop machin, or a personal raspberry pi, or a friends computer, or a tiny imgage on amazon. This little app listens on specific relays and waits for incoming DMs from the user that instruct it to send a zap. No custodial risk. The little app should be open source and reviewed by nostrites who can affirm that it does not leak anything.
Now phone apps users can simply send messages (DM or plain text) "Hey @mini-me-xxx, zap #[1] 1,000,000 sats"
I'm sure someone has thought of this before.
I'm sure this has been thought of before; so tell me to shut up if I'm being redundant.
We create a nostr app named something like "TheZapperXXX". We give it an id and a profile so we can send notes to it. It lives on a raspberry pi or something somewhere. Perhaps many of them run on many raspberry pis in many somewheres and we create a clever little N-phase-commit protocol that allows them to negotiate amongst themselves.
Those of us who want to send zaps using a phone app that doesn't want us to send zaps register with TheZapperXXX with our wallet connect info using a special DM.
When we want to zap someone we send a DM to nostr:TheZapperXXX with a content like "zap nostr:someguy 1000."
Apps for phones made by Big Tech Asshole companies who don't like zaps, allow users to create template messages and attach them to buttons. The phone user has to set this up one time; but it's easy. When the user wants to zap someone he hits the template button he set up. That button loads the appropriate zap message to TheZapperXXX and the user sends it.
OK, why won't this work? Or is someone already working on this?
GMPV Nostralusians:
Yesterday was a busy day indeed. I started the day doing some chores around the cabin in preparation for visitors. Then I worked on the more-speech cleanup for a couple of hours. Then I drove the UTV to the airport and buzzed around in the sky for awhile, practicing engine-out procedures. Then I returned to welcome a gaggle of young, hormone drenched, adults (granchildren and friends) who are spending the weekend with us at the lake. Also my lovely wife brought a friend up to go herbing and nature walking.
Once settled, I hopped on my bike for an hour while listening to Abbey Road. And I finally understood the test-tube joke. Upon returning I sat on the porch with a nice slug of Bulleit, and watched the nubiles play, and watched the sun set.
Today is likely to be much like yesterday. My life is perfect. I live in paradise.
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I’m seventy+ years old, on a bike ride, listening to Abbey Road — and I just got the test tube joke.
“I’m sitting here with my father…”
A clause which will live in infamy.
I flew N345TS (The Countess) up to our Northern Hideway. My lovely wife will drive up tomorrow. So tonite it's just me and the dogs. Fun.
Gary, you might enjoy more-speech. github.com/unclebob/more-speech. The UI is more like an email/news reader. I created a video about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3gQ42aUhls
From: garyKrause_<-Dere... at 06/21 18:21
> Nostr frenz. I’m sorry. I have not been present here enough. Honestly all the links and images is a turn off. I just want text. Is there an iOS client like gossip where text is primary and links are optional?