Karl
@karlbauers
Computer Programmer / System's Analyst. Kidney transplant for 23+ yrs. 34+ yrs relationship. lgbtqia2s+, Love: Earth, astrophysics, cosmology, sciences, sci-fi, and electronics. he/him, born 319 ppm
I've downloaded DOSBox-x (a DOS emulator) and found a great version of Moraff's Dungeons of The Unforgiven, and still play it today. I still love playing these types of games. I also played Diablo I and II, beat them both. 😀
My first computer, in grade 11, with a 6502 family processor running at 4.77 MHz, 4K RAM (paid $200 for nine 6550 Rockwell RAM chips for 4K extra RAM making 8K RAM total), a cassette drive, and mini-keyboard. It also had an S-100 Bus I used for a small thermal printer I purchased later.
Totally amazing. I used the photo as a wallpaper for a while, now I'm using the Flying Dragon Nebula; very beautiful.
I asked Chatgpt6 to calculate to spin rate and equatorial radial velocity for the supermasive black hole TON 618, which I agreed with the norm to be 66 billion Sols. Here it is.
I asked ChatGPT 5 to give me a self portrait of itself; "evaluate what you are deeply composed of and create a non-anthropic image of yourself". This is it's self image:
Just for a lark and curiosity, I decided to ask ChatGP to calculate the spin rate and surface velocity of the huge M87* black hole. Here are the results: