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zyzzyva.bsky.social
If you're gonna put in dry ice fog, go the whole way and have a van de graaff ladder on the table and a giant computer with lights and reel-to-reel tape printing fanfold paper in the background.
A "Jacob's ladder" electric spark toy, as seen in every 1950s B-movie science lab ever.
November 3, 2026 at 4:55 PM
thebigbadme.bsky.social
Things I have inadvertently stockpiled:
TVs from friend's hotel job
fanfold insulation panels
100lbs of pitted cherries
secretedinburgh.bsky.social Secret Edinburgh @secretedinburgh.bsky.social · 10d
Things I have inadvertently stockpiled:

- Maps
- Pencils
- Hair bobbles
- Lightbulbs
- Greetings cards
October 28, 2026 at 5:20 AM
chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Jeff Shrager, Kent Pitman and Claude Code Got Herbert Simon's 1961 Heuristic Compiler Running Again, and It Prints the Code From His 1963 Paper

https://lockergnome.com/executable-archaeology-claude-code-reanimates-simon-1961-heuristic-compiler/

#aihistory #lisp #softwarepreservation #tech
Chris kneels in an excavation trench, brushing dirt off a long fanfold computer printout as a small old terminal beside him lights up with the same pattern.
October 29, 2026 at 2:40 AM
kober.bsky.social
"At a football game, the Real Programmer is the one comparing the plays against his simulations printed on 11-by-14 fanfold paper."

No, nechal jsem si navibecodovat simulaci zbývajících 11 zápasů páté ligy mladších žáků...
October 23, 2026 at 3:58 PM
matthiasschuessler.ch
3️⃣ Tech-Historie – Schweizer Medien zum ersten Mikroprozessor
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2️⃣ #Vibecoding – so setzt man sein #CMS vor die Tür
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1️⃣ Bedo hat ein Rezept gegen das Doomscrolling – #Fanfold
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Acht Metallbeine in einer Kinderhand
Die NZZ schaffte es 1971 nicht, der Leser­schaft die Be­deutung des ersten Mikro­chips der Welt zu ver­mitteln. Und um ein Haar wäre dieses Kapitel der
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October 25, 2026 at 1:48 PM
wanderoo.bsky.social
Oh, I disavow any printer that doesn't use tractor-feed fanfold paper, like God intended.
October 21, 2026 at 9:24 PM
christianginsig.ch
Die #Fanfold-App fürs iPhone ist ein Segen: Endlich wieder in Ruhe lesen, statt sich durch Bilder und Werbung zu klicken. Such ein paar Schweizer Titel wie #Watson #SRF und #Tagesanzeiger sind schon dabei.
October 20, 2026 at 4:36 AM
rearlamp.bsky.social
Thinking about 384bit certs, stars and trees.

When Arthur C Clarke used a billion he meant a million million (10^12).
So a 44bit binary computer?
An IBM chain printer would need 875million sheets of fanfold paper to print the 9billion names.
Or ~100,000 trees.
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October 22, 2026 at 8:58 PM
arcanamatic.bsky.social
When the cipher outgrows the page and builds its own architecture in the dark. Pushed Tri-X 1600 grain and the quiet tension of 1980s analog codebreaking.

Made with NeuraScene: https://neurascene.site

#NeuraScene #AIFilm #Infopunk #FilmPhotography
The Permutation Matrix
In a dimly lit 1980s basement office, a cryptanalyst watches punched paper tape and fanfold printouts lift from the desk, their perforations projecting a self-assembling lattice of structured light in the air. Shot on Kodak Tri-X pushed to 1600 with a 50mm f/1.4 lens, the low-key black-and-white print shows heavy silver grain, thin grey shadows, and warm foxing along the worn borders.
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October 22, 2026 at 12:08 AM
matthiasschuessler.ch
#Fanfold ist auf moderne Weise altmodisch: Die RSS-App liefert Lesestoff nicht en gros zum wilden Scrollen, sondern als Magazin mit einer ersten und einer letzten Seite – damit wir uns dem Lesestoff in Ruhe und zur Entschleunigung widmen. Eine schöne Idee des Zürchers #BedoHamza, dem ich hier gern…
Bedo hat ein Rezept gegen das Doomscrolling
Fanfold ist eine Android-App, die uns Online-Inhalte als Magazin darbietet: mit ruhiger Typo­grafie und Um­blät­tern, statt ewigem Scrollen. Dieser span­nende Ansatz zur Ent­schleu­ni­gung stammt von Bedo Hamza, einem Zür­cher Ent­wickler, der noch andere gute Ideen hat.
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October 20, 2026 at 4:01 AM
martinsteiger.ch
Das gleiche Bild zeigt sich auf der Website unter www.hmz.swiss. «Schweizer Handwerk», genau … 😬
HMZ.swiss
HMZ.swiss aus Zürich: eigene Apps wie Bionic Tape und Fanfold, Innovationsmanagement, Vorträge und Swiss-engineered Software der HMZ craftsmanship GmbH.
www.hmz.swiss
October 20, 2026 at 7:13 AM
martinsteiger.ch
Das ist ein Screenshot aus dem App Store von Apple. Man könnte meinen, ein solcher Screenshot wurde besonders sorgfältig erstellt. Er zeigt aber klassischen KI-Slop, sprich 08/15-KI-Layout, plus eine typografisch schmerzhafte erste Zeile.
Screenshot: https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/fanfold-news-als-magazin/id6821134750 (Auszug).
October 20, 2026 at 7:13 AM
ant.org
Got any green and white fanfold paper tho?
October 15, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Having once in that era gotten forty pages of fanfold like that code bug free I have a sense of the accomplishment.
October 8, 2026 at 12:13 AM
glitchdeals.bsky.social
PONNOR Label Holder for Rolls and Fanfold Labels, Thermal Sticker Holder for Desktop Printer only $14.24 (Reg $27.99)
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October 7, 2026 at 11:22 AM
glitchdeals.bsky.social
PONNOR Label Holder for Rolls and Fanfold Labels, Thermal Sticker Holder for Desktop Printer only $14.24 (Reg $27.99)
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October 6, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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September 28, 2026 at 2:22 AM
catbus.phd
it's all this guys fault
vintage illustration of a guy with a floppy's disc for a hard, the old rainbow Apple logo on his tie, several small desktop computers dangling from his belt holding a fanfold printout
September 25, 2026 at 4:20 AM
haemaker.hae.com
Siri's Grandfather...
vintage illustration of a guy with a floppy's disc for a hard, the old rainbow Apple logo on his tie, several small desktop computers dangling from his belt holding a fanfold printout
September 25, 2026 at 4:39 AM
samiamnurnot.bsky.social
I used to work for a Japanese based company, whose CEO was from Japan, and didn't speak a lick of English. We had a Telex, and his morning newspaper came in on it. It took me sometimes 2 hours to fanfold it for him to read. I was the switchboard operator. Lovely coworkers- terrible job.
September 22, 2026 at 5:24 PM
jakehamby.bsky.social
It was making the wrong colors or shapes. He showed us a dot-matrix fanfold paper printout of the BASIC code. The punchline was that the operators of the factory didn't want to stop the program to patch the one line of code to do the right thing so they put a rubber band on a valve as a workaround.
September 3, 2026 at 1:22 AM
jaimeiniesta.com
I’m back to blogging!

Here’s a story that begins in 1994 with a Turbo Pascal code snippet and ends up involving cellular automata, DOSBox, Three.js, and a few doughnuts 😀

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#artificiallife #pascal #threejs
The Griffeath demons
A friend kept the fanfold printout of a program we wrote in Turbo Pascal in 1994 all these years. It turned out to be a cellular automaton, and now it runs in the browser.
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September 1, 2026 at 5:34 PM
gdinwiddie.bsky.social
Happy 90th birthday to Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer for the Apollo flight software that took astronauts to the moon.

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Margaret Hamilton shown in 1969 standing beside listings of the software developed by her and her team for the Apollo program's Lunar Module and Command Module. The fanfold listings reach as tall as she it.
August 17, 2026 at 4:50 PM
mfelps.bsky.social
I used to use a page of pregenerated rolls for Champions to speed up combat. I'd have a page of fanfold paper with just an endless list of 3d6 rolls and rolls in the amounts of the villains attacks, so I wouldn't have to spend time counting 20 dice twice every round.
August 15, 2026 at 8:27 PM
blank.org
Same: Pennsylvania wouldn’t even accept an application for college financial aid if I didn’t have a HS diploma. Eventually had to hand deliver my college transcripts to a dust covered office in a voctec school where they printed my GED on fanfold paper on a dot matrix printer.
August 10, 2026 at 9:52 PM