I check this forum several times a day. Usually there's nothing new, so it just takes a second.
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It's been a bit quiet here lately - perhaps because it's summertime for most of us - but I was just wondering how often people stop by.
I like many of your interesting posts on computer history, but don't usually have anything to say, so it may look quiet, but the "views" number goes up.
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While we're here, though, where else do you look for homebrew computers and homebrew CPUs? Do you have many RSS feeds? Perhaps Hackaday?
I check all of these several times a day:
- AnyCPU.org
- http://forum.6502.org/
- http://bradsprojects.com/forum/index.php
- http://forum.hp41.org/ (regarding the HP-41 calculator/computer)
- http://hpmuseum.org/forum/ (mostly only "General Forum" and "Not remotely HP Calculators," occasionally another one or two) regarding calculators
hpmuseum is the most active, followed by 6502.org. I only go to Hackaday if someone links to it on one of the forums, or if I get a notification that someone else posted in a page I posted on. I also go to the google+ 6502 pages when you post indexes of new articles.
I'm on several Yahoo forums, but they're pretty dormant. I'm on:
- Rob Finch's bc cpu forum,
- 6502ag
- Apple II
- c64
- fig-forth-uk
- forthintherealworld
- piclist
These all email you every time there's a new post, so there's no need to check frequently. A disadvantage with that however is that things are not as nicely categorized as they are on phpBB forums, and once you post, you cannot make corrections, because it's already mailed out. The 6502ag forum was ruined by spammers years ago, which is where my strong commitment to keep forums clean came from. I saw first-hand how a nicely running forum was destroyed. 6502ag is still there, but traffic died down to near zero because of the bad taste left in everyone's mouths by the spammers, and it never recovered. It didn't help that Yahoo had problems for a couple of years making it look like there was no interest when really people were unable to post. Now it goes months without a post. I'm often the only one starting new topics, then interest is sometimes aroused and people will respond.
The fb 6502 Programming group is kind of lame, not because of the people, but just that fb does not allow formatting like you need for code, is not searchable, records can hardly be considered permanent, etc..
I tried a few others like EEWeb, but they took too much time because the range of subjects was much broader than my interests.
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Where else do you post your electronic experiments, if anywhere? Maybe you use twitter, or Hackaday.io? Or your own hand-crafted website?
Not much of my own projects yet (although that should be coming, time allowing), but I enjoy writing for my website
http://wilsonminesco.com/ . I've been trying to finish up another major feature for it [Edit:
done], about the size of the
6502 primer, and I have more things lined up for after that. The website is mostly on the 6502 microprocessor, plus a little
material on the HP-41 calculator/computer, PIC16 microcontrollers, and even
my slide rules I used before calculators.