This is a good week for variety; I managed to get historical links, game links, music links, hardware… checking all the boxes except roguelikes, darnit.

• The Design of the Roland Juno oscillators.  Nicely explained.  (via)
• 50 Years of Text Games, a new year each week, and here’s the post schedule, and of course, 1971: The Oregon Trail.  (via)
• Tunguska: Ternary Computer Emulator.  (via)
• How Graphviz thinks the USA is laid out.
• 7-screen laptop, from a year ago.  (via)
• Christmas Cards The Unix Way – with pic and troff.  (video)
• Systems design explains the world: volume 1.
• Our alerts are quiet most of the time (as they should be).  I wish this was more common.
• The 100 Best Albums of 2020.  You will find something unexpected in there.  (via)
• Repairing and bootstrapping an IBM PC/AT 5170, Part 3.
• Embedding an SQL injection into a company name.  (via)
• The Immortal Soul of an Old Machine, 40th anniversary review of The Soul of a New Machine.  (via)
• Now here’s a geek watch.
• ASCII Weather Station.
• ECC RAM and why it’s useful.
• Intellivision returns.  (via)
• Plaintext HTTP in a Modern World.