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Ken Shirriff
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  • righto.com
  • San Francisco Bay Area, CA, United States
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Interested in computer history and reverse engineering old chips. Currently restoring a Xerox Alto.

Some projects: Wrote the Arduino IRremote library for infrared remotes. Attempted Bitcoin mining on a 55 year old IBM punch card mainframe. Got six symbols added to Unicode including the Bitcoin symbol (₿).

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A two-thresholds poison: how does it work?
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Homebrew will not run wget command (Library not loaded)
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Were people building CPUs out of TTL logic prior to the 4004, 8080 and the 6800?
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Pillow: strange behavior using Draw.rectangle
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Could the museum Saturn V's be refitted for one more flight?
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Did the Apollo Guidance Computer really use 60% of the world's ICs in 1963?

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