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Sources for Scots pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century edit / delete

Reverse-engineering C18 Scots pronunciation from English grammarians complaining about it. There's a surprising amount of information there.

to english history language pronunciation scots ... on 29 June 2020

Scandinavian Influence... edit / delete

"This work aims primarily at giving a list of Scandinavian loanwords found in Scottish literature."

to etext history language scandinavia scots ... on 29 June 2020

The Obsessively Complete Infocom Catalog edit / delete

"This site is my attempt to collect every single version of each Infocom game, both source code and compiled game files."

to games history if infocom retrocomputing ... on 29 June 2020

Historical Computers in Japan-Computer Museum edit / delete

"Here is exhibited the development history of computers in Japan over 40 some years since the dawn of the country's computer age in the 1950s."

to history japan retrocomputing ... on 29 June 2020

USS Bear - Wikipedia edit / delete

The Dundee-built ship that features in Michener's "Alaska".

to alaska dundee history ship ... on 22 June 2020

Hit Covers: The UK's budget cover version LPs - Home edit / delete

"This site is an attempt to make a permanent record of the pop cover version LPs which were put out by budget labels such as MFP, Marble Arch, Windmill, Contour and so on." I hadn't realised there were so many different series of these! Subsites for various labels.

to amusements history mfp music top-of-the-pops ... on 21 June 2020

The Development of SCADA and Instrumentation on the GPSS - Tim Whittle, 2013 edit / delete

I was wondering what the odd industrial site with a siding on the railway line to the north of Leuchars is - it's Linkswood GPSS, a fuel depot for Leuchars airfield. History of the system here.

to aviation fuel gpss history retrotech ... on 23 January 2020

MST3k Temple edit / delete

Various stuff about the history of MST3K. (Now a bit out of date given the new series...)

to comedy history mst3k tv ... on 17 July 2019

Washington Tunnels edit / delete

"Washington sits atop an interconnected layer cake of transportation, utility, and pedestrian tunnels extending three dimensionally beneath city streets. Given their importance to daily life in the nation's capital, it's surprising to find that the full picture of Washington's various tunnels remains unpainted. This project aims to complete that picture." I'm reminded of Joseph Brennan's transit site...

to architecture history transport tunnel us ... on 08 January 2019

The Story of Infocom edit / delete

Written for an MIT module. Some details I hadn't seen before.

to games history if infocom mit retrocomputing zork ... on 04 November 2018