It didn't hurt that ARM was spun out entirely. The computer side of Acorn was wound up in 1998/9, and then the remnant of that went onto DSL boxes, exiting by getting picked up by Broadcom for £366 million.

It'd be very expensive to get a setup that can run non-flash well.

If they were still at original price I'd get a couple of DGX Sparks myself to run Flash models at a decent quant/context combo.

Not directly related, but reading this after looking at https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wa544p makes me think the writing style here is how LLM's probably should write web pages - simple explinations, defines things people might not already know, etc.

More related: What can an abliterated Qwen 3.8 28B do?

TBF the fizzbuzz code works just fine in CPython.

Indeed, for some code, CPython and this interpreter produce identical output. I gave it an upboat.

The original neo6502 is available from Mouser and Digikey, so I don't see why they won't get this.

If they're USB, they should! At least the Apple/Oric software supports USB flash storage, and the USB floppies are the same protocol.

The problem is Apple II 3.5" disks are in GCR so you would need a custom controller (IMO certainly doable with an RP2040 let alone RP2350) that is not bound to just PC formats.

There were cheap nvidia crypto GPU's based on the A100 that recently got unlocked. They are no longer cheap.

... and practically nobody's got the money for Fable at API prices. with GLM 5.3 Flash being a Reasonable Opus 4.x Substitute, Anthropic's moat is effectively gone.

Those export controls might have saved the flow of open-weight models from China. There was talk about Qwen moving away from releases... until Xi himself started promoting open weight models!