Happy new year!  I have some history gems in here – not archival material but people that made history, speaking again, now.

• A TI-99 programmer resurfaces.  (via Paul Ivanov, thanks)
• Fall 2024 FreeBSD Summit – The History of the BSD Daemon.  The original artist, Phil Foglio, is still making excellent comics.  (video, via)
• Technical Marvels, Part 9: Program-Controlled Musical Picture Clocks.  Novel to me.  (via)
• Developing a public-interest training commons of books. (via)
• Not BSDTalk, but talk(1) on BSD.  Follow the thread.
• Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository.  I remember reading this but not linking this.  (via this long thread)
• An oral history of AutoDesk.  (via)
• What an Atari workstation might have looked like.
• Apropos for the new year: BSDCan 2025 call for papers.
• MNT laptops are neat, but they also do… earrings?  (via)
• Research of RAM data remanence times.  (via)
• Public Domain Day at the Internet Archive.
• And at the Public Domain Review.
• QEMU Virtualization on BSDs, Jim Brown, in 3 days.  RSVP needed if you are going, which I recommend.