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Building QEMU 10.0 on Raspberry Pi OS

Introduction

And so it came to pass that QEMU – a dependancy for ‘Period Sites in Period Browsers‘ – moved from version 9.0 to 10.0.

Netscape Navigator User Demographics circa 1996

So this lunchtime Period Sites in Period Browsers (PSPB) threw up an interesting bit of history – a brief overview of Netscape Navigator users circa 1996.

Pimoroni’s NVMe Base Case for Raspberry Pi 5

After running my Pimoroni NVMe bases for over a year without enclosures, I figured it was time to stop pushing my luck. Enter the Pimoroni ‘NVMe Base Case for Raspberry Pi 5’.

The old MS Mac Lab

The cost of a PDP-11 circa 1971

Whilst trying to track down the cost of memory for a PDP-11 I stumbled across The PDP-11 FAQ and it’s rather excellent collection of early 70s PDP-11 price lists. It’s a fun little list, rammed through of interesting little nuggets – today it’s hard to imaging it but in 1972 a line printer would have set you back at least 12,000 USD. That’s almost 92,000 USD in 2025 prices!

A 27 Year Old Easter Egg

So apparently the firmware for a number of of the old PPC Macs had Easter Eggs embedded within them and, with the right combination of woo, you could get the firmware to spit these Easter Eggs out for you to view.