Added some green freehand flames to my #whirlwind #warhammer #minipainting

Wow, yesterday was a #Whirlwind with all the #OutpouringOfLove from many of you about my post about leaving #Teaching. https://jswordsmith.com/why-im-leaving-the-classroom/

We can see that #Teachers are hurting for some love. So today, tell me who your favorite #Teacher was! Bonus points if you can #TagThem in your response so they know how you feel!

RT @dcatdemon
RT @dcatdemon
A minor #whirlwind or some would say a #dustdevil was observed just 10m in front of me. A #weather phenomenon indeed.
https://pixelfed.de/p/dcatdemon/559777741790039890

Guten Morgen zusammen. Ich starte heute ganz gemütlich mit einem Kaffee und #brekennedy in den Tag.

https://youtu.be/YSd4eQ8x1RI

#brekennedy #whirlwind #music #MorningSound

https://invidious.sethforprivacy.com/watch?v=lIvLNGTtFPY

#TheGits #Whirlwind

#music #musik #musikken #musique #musica

#WeAreTheRadio #TootRadio #MastoRadio #pouetradio #FediRadio

OK, enough #whirlwind. What came next? Well Whirlwind had pioneered stuff like RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORY (most people used old RADAR tech in the 40s and early 50s for storage: sometimes CRTs with photosensors, which weren't very good, and the most reliable thing was a weird sort of shift register made out of tubes of mercury and some audio equipment: it was real Stone Knives And Bearskins stuff), and the next place to go was clear:

#Transistors!

So they designed a machine they called the "TX-1" for "Experimental Transistor computer, Mark 1" or similar. I say designed, because it was never built, although the TX-0 and TX-2 were.

They built the TX-0 as a really quick and dirty exploration of the technology. It was little more than a test harness for a number of the things they wanted to go into the real computer, although it was Turing-complete and had more RAM than most big fancy valve computers.

The TX-0 comes up in Steven Levy's "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution". So does Margaret Hamiltion: She's the person trying to get some work done on a PDP-6 that the titular Hackers have rewired overnight. I think the book kind of glosses over that this was a moment of some punk kids literally setting back the Apollo guidance computer...

Anyway, the TX-2 is where we FINALLY get into the tape situation. It was called the TX-2 because they learned a LOT from the TX-0, and scrapped the TX-1 design in favour of something else.

A lot of what I know about this comes from a few talks given by the late Wes Clark and his contemporaries. I'll link them individually but here's a really good session where people reminisce about the stuff I'm talking about here: https://youtu.be/ZgPfLWt5FWE

The vegetarian 🥟 are about cooked through, so I'm going to pause for dinner and resume after.

Anton Petrov
Important Mars Updates: Strange Sounds, Helicopter Records, Unusual Minerals And More!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCVfSaqqnU8

#AntonPetrov #Ingenuity #Insight #MarsQuake #Perseverance #Whirlwind

Whirlwind (Transmission64 2022) (Commodore 64) (C64) (4k Intro)

#C64 #COMMODORE #Commodore64 #Intro #Onslaught #Whirlwind

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https://www.retroveteran.com/2022/12/17/whirlwind-transmission64-2022-commodore-64-c64-4k-intro/

When the rover #Perseverance landed on #Mars, it was equipped with the first working #microphone on the #planet’s surface. Scientists have used it to make the first-ever audio recording of an #extraterrestrial #whirlwind.
#SpaceScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2022/12/sn12132201.html

When the rover #Perseverance landed on #Mars, it was equipped with the first working #microphone on the #planet’s surface. Scientists have used it to make the first-ever audio recording of an #extraterrestrial #whirlwind.
#SpaceScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2022/12/sn12132201.html

Watercraft
#art #whirlwind #watercolor

Spectacular vision of a twister-like whirlwind that sent a tent swirling into the sky, damaged a roof and forced a group of mates playing golf to take cover in Australia's Northern Territory town of Katherine, has been identified by the Bureau of Meteorology as a rarely seen phenomenon called a gustnado. #gustnado #Australia #weather #whirlwind #meteorology #BoM

Rarely seen 'gustnado' weather phenomenon captured by NT mates playing golf - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-26/gustnado-storm-hits-katherine-/101701856

More on #jimmywhite #whirlwind #snooker mentioned in the previous toot.