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My roommate recently alerted me to the handiwork of the lyrically-named Johan Van den Brande, who apparently has far more free time and Commodore 64 know-how on his hands than myself. His Twitter system, called BREADBOX64, is coded in C and takes advantage of an Ethernet add-on cartridge to allow a completely stand-alone system, unlike Twittjr. And [...]
As you may have deduced from the contents of this blog’s sidebar, I am an active Twitter user, and so are many of my friends. Among people I’ve met who don’t use Twitter, the most common question is: “What is it for?” A valid question indeed, as one must be wary of investing time in [...]
Twittjr is a system that allows an IBM PCjr to search the public timeline on Twitter. In case you weren’t aware, Twitter is a social micro-blogging service introduced in 2006 and has over five million active users. The IBM PCjr is a personal computer introduced in 1984 and has a 4.77MHz processor, 128KB of RAM, and uses 360KB floppy disks [...]