#rockwell

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Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me 1983

"Somebody's Watching Me" is a song recorded and written by American singer Rockwell, released by the Motown label in December 1983, as the lead single from his debut studio album of the same name. It features guest vocals by Michael Jackson in the chorus and Jermaine Jackson as additional backing vocals. The song became a major commercial success internationally, topping the charts in Belgium, France, and Spain, and reaching the top 5 in Canada, West Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, and the US. In the UK, it reached number 6 and is Rockwell's only top 40 hit on the UK Singles Chart. Rolling Stone magazine called the song "an international and enduring smash hit that, more than 30 years later, remains the perennial paranoia-rock anthem and Halloween mix go-to song."

Rockwell is a son of Motown CEO Berry Gordy. At the time of the recording, Rockwell was estranged from his father and living with Gordy's ex-wife Ray Singleton. Singleton served as executive producer on the project and would occasionally play demo tracks to Berry Gordy, who was less than enthusiastic about Rockwell's music until he heard the single with Michael Jackson's familiar voice featuring prominently on background vocals.

"Somebody's Watching Me" received a total of 88,3% yes votes!

[somepeople13]

We thought it would be fun to put the camera on the Catio. The cats agreed. They killed the battery in two days. Happy #Caturday!

[nocternalrandomness]

"Bone Afterburner"

[usafphantom2]

B-1 over a F106 Delta Dart

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[humanoidhistory]

Space shuttle concept art from Rockwell International, late 1970s.

[vox-anglosphere]

Classic-Rockwell

[loveboatinsanity]

[emma-smith18]

Sam Rockwell makes me feel things I’m not sure how to comprehend yet😳

[maristelina]

Deep Cover DECO*27/Rockwell Creator Comment: Kotoko’s MV (January, 18 2024)

Good evening, this is DECO*27.

What did you think of Kotoko's "Deep Cover"?

The lyrics are quite something, aren't they?

We delved deep into the world of MILGRAM.

I even thought, "Did I write too much in the lyrics?!" but since it passed Yamanaka-P's check, it should be okay.

We also received a comment from Rockwell, who was in charge of composing and arranging the music!

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I thoroughly explored the cool side of Kotoko that I also wanted to express in S1's "HARROW".

It was a good match for my natural musicality, and I think it was the fastest I've ever composed and arranged a song.

Compared to the university student-like young voice that can be felt in "HARROW", I think you can feel a sense of fleetingness as well as composure.

[techav]

Stepping Backwards a Bit (or 24)

I was looking for a simpler project. My recent 68030 work has been challenging and really pushing the limits of what I can do. I wanted something I could work on, but perhaps where someone else has already worked out the hardest parts.

I find laying out PCBs to be rather relaxing. It's one of those repetitive, almost meditative tasks, like needlepoint or whittling. The kind of hobby where I can turn on some music or a comfortable old TV show, zone out for a few hours, and wake up to this new thing that I created.

Debugging however is very mentally taxing, and the design work required to have a functional schematic to create a PCB for is an active whole-mind prices. So what I really needed was an existing project I could design a board for.

Enter [Grant Searle]. If you're not familiar with [Grant Searle], he has excellent designs for breadboard computers with a very minimal parts count. I studied his minimal Z80 design when I was first starting to build my own computers and learned a lot from it. I highly recommend his work for anyone who is interested in learning how to build their own computer but doesn't know where to start.

I was recently given a Rockwell 6502 CPU pulled from a dead LED marquee. I've never actually worked with 6502, so this seemed like a good time to try building Grant's 8-chip (or 7-chip) 6502 computer.

A few hours later, I had a PCB design completed, gerbers generated, and an order placed. Less than $5 for 5 boards, including shipping. A couple weeks later they arrived in the mail.

I did end up making a few modifications to [Grant]'s design. Instead of a clock circuit made from a discrete crystal and a couple inverter gates, I used a TTL oscillator because I've always found them to be more reliable. I also added support for an FTDI USB Serial adapter chip so that the board can be used with a modern computer as a terminal. And finally, since a PCB is much harder to add new components to relative to a solderless breadboard, I added an expansion header. All of it wrapped up in a compact PCB with lots of helpful silkscreen marking.

I realized after I had ordered the PCBs that the 16kB ROM chips [Grant] used are no longer manufactured or readily available. I have plenty of 8kB EEPROM chips on hand however. Thankfully the OSI BASIC interpreter [Grant] ported to this design fits within 8kB, so I was able to make a few adjustments and re-assemble it to work with the ROM chips I have on hand.

After a small glitch with my EEPROM programmer, it works!

It's quite a change going from my 33MHz+ 68030 to this tiny 6502 running at just under 2MHz. The BASIC text-based Mandelbrot renderer that completes in seconds on my 68030 takes four and a half minutes on the 6502. Not bad at all, considering my bus-impaired 68000 build takes 9 minutes to do the same.

This was a fun little project. It was a nice little break from some of the more difficult projects I've been working on. I have shared the project on GitHub for anyone who might want to take a look.

I hope to have this project with me this weekend, June 14-16, 2024 at Vintage Computer Festival Southwest. I'll be at table 207 in the Tandy Assemble hall, just across the street from the main exhibit hall.

[bayushijackal]

Seemed like a good time to take a swing at animated series Rockwell :3 I know they changed his lore up a bit, but I really can’t help but love this man

[kumquats-are-gay]

*immediately gravitates to the most obvious morally reprehensible character*

Nah but he’s always been a character I found fascinating throughout Ark’s lore. Interesting to see him in the animated series.

Used the Ark TSA character sheet for reference. You can tell the exact part I used lol.

[spibster]

my friend’s oc 🐶 a human man surrounded by draculas and nosferatus, killer of at least one himself, big fan of snowmen

[nocternalrandomness]

Putting the thunder in the Thunder Over Michigan Airshow

[rockwell-light]

Artificial

Choking on my binary halo.

[usafphantom2]

Bone on bone at RF-A. (usaf)

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