> Still better than no funding at all.

Exactly, plus no grantor I know operates on a blank check basis, its always budgeting, prioritisation, and new applications and grants are for a specific period, can come in tranches, etc. Just how these things work, Germany or not.

0: https://archive.org/details/fivehundredseven00browiala

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_&_Al's_Incredible_Toons

I could swear there once was a (n)curses or otherwise text based GTK+ implementation / backend. It didn't do everything of course, and this was, I don't know, about 2003-2007, but you could compile a GTK application and run it in the console.

I tried finding a link, but unfortunately could not, can't even remember the name, I only remember building a piece of software that way that did GUI or TUI depending on how it was linked.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf#Hallmarks - a brief explanation

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzvXWl2UxXc - a compilation of all smegs in Red Dwarf

My once top of the range Brio USB 3.0 webcam produces so much high frequency EMI that GNSS receivers in its vicinity completely fail to operate across all bands (1.1 - 1.6 GHz). I had to disconnect it and use it from elsewhere, otherwise my lab dies. I have tens of others USB 3.0 devices that don't do this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4si8w8WMFc

(Rob Paravonian - Particle Board) - of Dr. Demento, etc., fame.

There is a community and a very devoted one, yes, but it's a very small and dispersed one as well, a lot happens over email. There is a group of collectors who mostly hoard the devices and ROM cards and keep them under glass and like these things to keep value, and then there's the more engineering types like me, who actively tinker and actually use the things.

At least the manual thankfully "leaked" - just take a look at this behemoth: https://archive.org/details/dl-pascal-manual-ocr

This is all on a pocket 8-bit - calling the platform a "programmable calculator" is downright offensive! ;)

I wrote an (unfinished as of yet) IP stack for it in DL-Pascal, I have working UDP and a DNS resolver but no TCP yet: https://github.com/wowczarek/pbnet

How about a Casio PB-2000C, in all its pocketable 910 kHz glory, up to 64k RAM shared between heap, stack, code and RAM filesystem. 192 x 32 LCD and a piezo buzzer. Serial and parallel ports available and a FDD. It also has a ROM card slot. And a card was developed, the only third-party ROM for this platform, by one Hans Larsson in Sweden, in the late 1980s.

A 64k ROM with:

- a mostly TP 5.5 compatible Pascal compiler, crt and friends

- inline assembly

- units, loadable libraries and all

- debugger

- full-screen editor, global search and replace, etc.

- visual file manager

- CLI with redirection and rudimentary shell scripting - variables, conditionals, arguments

While the hardware platform is somewhat available and there is a very good emulator, due to "issues", the DL-Pascal ROM is not at this time publicly available and only a chosen few have access to it. Luckily there is a preservation effort underway.

I needed some dozen of short, reasonably unobtrusive but distinct sounds. You know where this is going.

I ended up assigning a set of two-letter codes, first letter = source, second = same letter for generic, others for specific initials, so things like NN = other, EE = email, WW = WhatsApp, TB = text message from Bob.

When generating the Morse WAVs I set it to 40 WPM where longer sequences mostly blur into "outlines", but they are short, so I manage, and I added some 0.3 s padding on both ends to account for things like sound ducking and other hiccups. Works great.