Nostr notes by Jason Scott

Oh, you got your emulator running with a few games to play? ...

2026-05-24T01:37:55Z

Oh, you got your emulator running with a few games to play? That's cute.

Andrew Warkentin has made a VM that has over 1,700 operating systems on it that you select from a launcher. One Thousand Seven Hundred Plus.

Aww, your emulator takes a couple gigs. His takes 174 of them.

https://www.virtualosmuseum.org

Spammers run rampant against the archive, trying their best to ...

2026-02-22T21:24:41Z

Spammers run rampant against the archive, trying their best to post advertisements and tricky links outward to sketchy sites. They've been doing it for years, and there's mitigations I and others work to keep it contained and miminal. Recently, someone is trying to break out of containment and is posting literally thousands of items a day.

It's not about rhyme or reason or being careful - there are ...

2025-11-07T02:10:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…npr6
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It's not about rhyme or reason or being careful - there are doubles, the contents may be different than the labels, and of course many scanned labels seem weird or dirty - likely they've seen the floors of offices for years.

But they exist now. Someone can download them, curate them, find the value. I hope they have a joy doing it. For me - it's about moving on through the next few thousand.

Next on the digitization death march are 3.5" floppies. ...

2025-11-07T02:09:18Z

Next on the digitization death march are 3.5" floppies. I've been sent thousands of them over the years. I'm going to just image and scan them and pack them for perm storage.

May I present the first 847.

https://archive.org/details/2025_01_NOOKS_AND_CRANNIES

Floppies read by Applesauce, and the front of the floppies scanned in a flatbed at 600dpi.

I won't be stopping until all my donated floppies are online.

Two losses over the least bit of time: Janis Kracht of FidoNet ...

2025-04-04T21:34:08Z

Two losses over the least bit of time:

Janis Kracht of FidoNet Zone 1, who ran Zone 1 for many years:

https://www.perkinsfh.com/obituary/Janis-Kracht

And Doug Rhea of BBSFiles.com:

https://www.batescoopersloanfuneralhome.com/obituary/douglas-rhea

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2025-03-18T01:29:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…czdh
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https://web.archive.org/web/19970407121018/http://wiretap.spies.com/

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2025-02-04T18:25:58Z

Artifacts and materials are not people, and datasets are not ...

2025-02-01T04:05:49Z

Artifacts and materials are not people, and datasets are not lives, but if you're in need of haven or hard drive for the works of transgender materials, you got a free consult, anonymous or otherwise, from me. DMs open.

2025 is the year of the 20th Anniversary of BBS: The Documentary. ...

2025-01-01T19:30:04Z

2025 is the year of the 20th Anniversary of BBS: The Documentary. I'll be doing a round of updates, events and even a sale of some old copies I found while moving offices. Let's enjoy what some people say was my only good documentary!

Was sent this excellent video about a two year journey to brin g ...

2024-12-18T22:59:13Z

Was sent this excellent video about a two year journey to brin g a Commodore 64 dial-up BBS back. English and German. Snobsoft lives!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEv5_tC-vVE

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2024-12-13T01:53:18Z

.....no.

UMATIC (also known as 3/4" tape) is a professional format ...

2024-11-24T16:53:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…suf8
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UMATIC (also known as 3/4" tape) is a professional format from the 1970s and 1980s. The tapes often need to be baked to get them back to functional. I've been doing thousands of these tapes and it wears down the machinery, needing repair. But the results are striking.

I just dropped $1,600 for a full servicing and repair for two ...

2024-11-24T16:50:28Z

I just dropped $1,600 for a full servicing and repair for two UMATIC tape decks, money I don't really have to spend. I asked for people to help and some have, I just want to make the appeal more informative.

I'm paying to have two UMATIC decks restored to service ...

2024-11-22T20:26:26Z

I'm paying to have two UMATIC decks restored to service standards, if anyone wants to throw some bucks at this (everything I digitize ends up at the Archive, always) my paypal is jason@textfiles.com and the venmo is Jason Scott (npub1qkf…jma5)

One of the hacking casualties, emulation in the browser, is BACK ...

2024-11-13T01:41:42Z

One of the hacking casualties, emulation in the browser, is BACK at Internet Archive. A quarter million programs run again. But let's enjoy the #1 title first.

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990

Internet Archive Thoughts 2024-11-09 ...

2024-11-10T03:29:32Z

Internet Archive Thoughts 2024-11-09

https://www.reddit.com/r/internetarchive/comments/1gnrfnj/internet_archive_thoughts_20241109/

blocking people is like a spa treatment for my online life

2024-11-09T16:19:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…pmz7
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blocking people is like a spa treatment for my online life

https://give.archive.money/

2024-11-07T04:08:25Z

https://give.archive.money/

If I can sadly skip the anniversary of the day that Internet ...

2024-11-04T21:07:38Z

If I can sadly skip the anniversary of the day that Internet Arcade slammed the Archive's bandwidth to death levels and crashed their servers, you can wait a few more days for the features to return.

Someone is selling a $60 DMR-ES10 with $130 shipping on Ebay and ...

2024-10-15T01:08:51Z

Someone is selling a $60 DMR-ES10 with $130 shipping on Ebay and I need to know if Amazon can ship herpes to someone

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2024-10-14T23:12:57Z

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/ward-christensen-bbs-inventor-and-architect-of-our-online-age-dies-at-age-78/

stick around a while, guy, you are also one of my favorites

2024-10-14T05:48:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…64e6
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stick around a while, guy, you are also one of my favorites

Ward Christensen has died at 78. This guy was a giant, a humble ...

2024-10-14T05:20:42Z

Ward Christensen has died at 78. This guy was a giant, a humble one, and I'm proud to have known him.

because 1. This is the backlog since the services were cut off ...

2024-10-13T05:28:09Z

In reply to nevent1q…t07k
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because 1. This is the backlog since the services were cut off from the network to do a security sweep and 2. There have been review spammers and I've been running custom scripts to deal with it while we fixed up solutions but I'm not able to do so currently.

My face when I've got the UMATIC tape deck up and running ...

2024-08-16T03:47:30Z

My face when I've got the UMATIC tape deck up and running again.

Here was 10 days ago. ...

2024-08-09T16:36:25Z

In reply to nevent1q…6r3s
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Here was 10 days ago.

For the first time in about 15 years, I have no storage. ...

2024-08-09T15:52:10Z

For the first time in about 15 years, I have no storage. Everything is either in my new office or gone. This is a pretty notable day.

The 86box emulator is mature enough that I hope someone steps in ...

2024-08-04T01:00:30Z

The 86box emulator is mature enough that I hope someone steps in to consider making a WASM compile of it. If we can get that running, a whole host of Windows and other operating systems come to the Internet Archive's emulation system.

https://86box.net/2024/07/26/86box-v4-2.html