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It's been almost 50 years since the first issue of the Byte magazines, and …
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@nina_kali_nina *very quietly* i bet i can use these surplus keyboards
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"I build computers as a hobby" has changed its meaning in the last 50…
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@nina_kali_nina So I have a theory about eras of home computers, based on magaz…
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@mcc don't forget to power-test the surplus keyboard
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@nina_kali_nina From 1994 until the mobile era, all the non-PC and non-Mac plat…
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@jhamby yet all those eras are all still the 4th generation of computers. It is…
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@nina_kali_nina not changed for some of us.
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@nina_kali_nina "assembling your assembler"seen.
Post #AqBqsNHOdDi7CjXQlk by [email protected]
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@neauoire the article about the assembler has timeless wisdoms in it
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@martin_piper most frustratingly, 7400 is now £1.53 apiece, not $0.23 :(
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You know what, I kind of want a wire wrap. Maybe I can afford it...
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@nina_kali_nina I've got a manual, screwdriver format wire wrap tool. It&#…
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@nina_kali_nina - Luxury!My first box (well, there was no box, but): http://exe…
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@mcc I finally found what they MEAN when they say "surplus"
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@nina_kali_nina damn, okay, now I have to dig it out and read the whole thing. …
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@neauoire the article is a bit underwhelming, a very basic parser for 8008 asse…
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@nina_kali_nina I had a terrible time with the push button. They used the class…
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@nina_kali_nina - Jebus. I just looked at that again. They used a pair of 2101s…
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@jmax did you ever upgrade to a decent keyboard?
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@nina_kali_nina - On that thing? No. I got access to minicomputers through scho…
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@jmax I mean, you can get a full-sized keyboard and, let's say, a diode dec…
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@jmax but apparently there was a full sized keyboard add-on and Basic: http://w…
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@nina_kali_nina - Oh yes. Much dreaming, many fantasies.
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@nina_kali_nina - Had I pushed that project much further, the next order of bus…
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@nina_kali_nina right!
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@jmax you could've run a CHIP-8 interpreter and lots of games made for it! …
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@nina_kali_nina - Yup. But my actual addiction was to programming; it's jus…
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@nina_kali_nina I really wish I kept the few issues I had in the early 80s. The…
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@quadrivial indeed! At least archive.org probably has a copy!
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@nina_kali_nina If you ever get a chance to visit the Computer History Museum i…
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@jhamby thanks, I've been there 7 years ago, and was half impressed and hal…
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@nina_kali_nina I think you have to be there during certain times when there&#3…
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@nina_kali_nina Speaking of dead-end technologies, it's too bad "bubbl…
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@jhamby at least FRAM is still very much a thing.By the by, I should get back t…
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@ireneista unfortunately:( to be honest, when I was young and stupid, I (as man…
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@[email protected] @[email protected] my favorite dead memory technolo…
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@puppygirlhornypost2 @jhamby funny how they call it RAID. I had to implement su…
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@[email protected] @[email protected] this is a bit newer but still ol…
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@puppygirlhornypost2 @jhamby T_T I feel old, many of my computers don't hav…
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@puppygirlhornypost2 @nina_kali_nina IBM does the same thing in their mainframe…
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@jhamby it's also incredible how lots of this stuff is still S/360 running …
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@nina_kali_nina Now there's a misconception about that. A lot of people say…
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@[email protected] @[email protected] none of my computers have a nort…
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@puppygirlhornypost2 @jhamby what I meant is for me they don't have a North…
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@jhamby ah, I remember specifically reading about a few upgrade projects, IIRC …
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@ireneista oh, kind of like barcode boy? The Gameboy's barcode reader system
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@nina_kali_nina IBM Z is the only other CISC architecture that isn't Intel …
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@nina_kali_nina IBM Z has something called millicode, which they invented, alon…
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@jhamby fascinating. I have only touched an IBM mainframe once... Haven't h…
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@nina_kali_nina I had a lot of fun learning OpenVMS in the late 1990s in colleg…
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@jhamby Linux on IBM Z slightly rubs wrong way even me though xD
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@nina_kali_nina That's a good point. I've not gone diving into archive.…
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@nina_kali_nina I spent a lot of time benchmarking the free accounts I got via …
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@nina_kali_nina Anyway, based on what I've seen with free accounts, IBM Z i…
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@nina_kali_nina For completeness, I've learned there's at least one sup…
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@nina_kali_nina And also two OS's you can download and try because they are…
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@nina_kali_nina While There's a passable UNIX environment that runs inside …
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@jhamby @nina_kali_nina I could actually see the IRS as an org whose workload w…
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@timjclevenger @nina_kali_nina Tax codes are more complicated than you'd th…
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@jhamby @nina_kali_nina Good point on tax codes. I was thinking more because pr…
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@timjclevenger @nina_kali_nina I've talked to people who work on IBM Z and …
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@timjclevenger @nina_kali_nina I almost forgot to say, if you're not a bank…
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@jhamby @nina_kali_nina Maybe especially if you do already run mainframes and …
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@nina_kali_nina Oh, I miss Byte. By the time I was nine I knew I wanted to be a…
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@jhamby @nina_kali_nina @puppygirlhornypost2 I would really like having that ki…
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@lispi314 @jhamby @puppygirlhornypost2 Perhaps, it is a cultural shift that has…
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@nina_kali_nina Let's ask our computer club members how much memory is in t…
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@nina_kali_nina not really
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