 |
Post AqC7UiEImpCwS0OTLs by [email protected] |
 |
More posts by [email protected] |
|
Post #AqBp7oNLyI27g1Ye3c by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
It's been almost 50 years since the first issue of the Byte magazines, and … |
|
|
|
Post #AqBpGcZzCOYthJfRYG by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina *very quietly* i bet i can use these surplus keyboards |
|
|
|
Post #AqBpToA3RvrPNlpHhQ by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
"I build computers as a hobby" has changed its meaning in the last 50… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBphMNDYnVFFqReq0 by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina So I have a theory about eras of home computers, based on magaz… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBpjiYy1zeUeZ46QC by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@mcc don't forget to power-test the surplus keyboard |
|
|
|
Post #AqBqNdFNDPa3kVvtzs by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina From 1994 until the mobile era, all the non-PC and non-Mac plat… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBqNdTuLNCsTajVeS by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@jhamby yet all those eras are all still the 4th generation of computers. It is… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBqjvFUxsqBx6cW3s by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina not changed for some of us. |
|
|
|
Post #AqBqsN8BBUL0k9E4P2 by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina "assembling your assembler"seen. |
|
|
|
Post #AqBqsNHOdDi7CjXQlk by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@neauoire the article about the assembler has timeless wisdoms in it |
|
|
|
Post #AqBr181YiigQUrIwyG by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@martin_piper most frustratingly, 7400 is now £1.53 apiece, not $0.23 :( |
|
|
|
Post #AqBrI4hML40l6Yw9tw by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
You know what, I kind of want a wire wrap. Maybe I can afford it... |
|
|
|
Post #AqBrddvQYqgcRMnlx2 by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina I've got a manual, screwdriver format wire wrap tool. It&#… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBriYqKsqq67tlVrM by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina - Luxury!My first box (well, there was no box, but): http://exe… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBrsWOipXxJRDbBcO by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@mcc I finally found what they MEAN when they say "surplus" |
|
|
|
Post #AqBrxOlsc3vHEUkwds by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina damn, okay, now I have to dig it out and read the whole thing. … |
|
|
|
Post #AqBrxOuO6QjDesjju4 by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@neauoire the article is a bit underwhelming, a very basic parser for 8008 asse… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBsmE6k1FsYvfkb7w by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina I had a terrible time with the push button. They used the class… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBsmEEBZZplIlEXjM by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina - Jebus. I just looked at that again. They used a pair of 2101s… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBsmEN32cvHkFNcXo by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@jmax did you ever upgrade to a decent keyboard? |
|
|
|
Post #AqBswgDCNq4gzLku9o by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina - On that thing? No. I got access to minicomputers through scho… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBtF5n81BmFXCLD4S by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@jmax I mean, you can get a full-sized keyboard and, let's say, a diode dec… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBtKBLkmNdqDnxoH2 by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@jmax but apparently there was a full sized keyboard add-on and Basic: http://w… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBtNSy3jVtxjORlfE by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina - Oh yes. Much dreaming, many fantasies. |
|
|
|
Post #AqBtYq81xhmCkTXBaK by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina - Had I pushed that project much further, the next order of bus… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBtfaxCmN4ziEgxNo by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina right! |
|
|
|
Post #AqBtgmmSIGRygKEPtw by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@jmax you could've run a CHIP-8 interpreter and lots of games made for it! … |
|
|
|
Post #AqBtwdhTozYH9YSp7Y by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina - Yup. But my actual addiction was to programming; it's jus… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBuAspUMtca860BhA by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina I really wish I kept the few issues I had in the early 80s. The… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBuxAibA35lVjnxcu by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@quadrivial indeed! At least archive.org probably has a copy! |
|
|
|
Post #AqBwtcsOjCHlajpEie by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina If you ever get a chance to visit the Computer History Museum i… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBx5eEpUTtXI33AcC by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@jhamby thanks, I've been there 7 years ago, and was half impressed and hal… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBxLbRReidHFZYi5Q by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina I think you have to be there during certain times when there… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBxOHr2w7kHN2oV2O by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina Speaking of dead-end technologies, it's too bad "bubbl… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBxOI5E5P5W51Rp8i by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@jhamby at least FRAM is still very much a thing.By the by, I should get back t… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBxhZr4EgP8hS1P7I by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@ireneista unfortunately:( to be honest, when I was young and stupid, I (as man… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBxzfaBg9Zhg0klZw by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@[email protected] @[email protected] my favorite dead memory technolo… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBxzfjl6ZEO9hEPUu by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@puppygirlhornypost2 @jhamby funny how they call it RAID. I had to implement su… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBy3i64GzccdHakym by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@[email protected] @[email protected] this is a bit newer but still ol… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBy3iEZlMQZ3fZYEy by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@puppygirlhornypost2 @jhamby T_T I feel old, many of my computers don't hav… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBy9MsO5GEkYUtHt2 by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@puppygirlhornypost2 @nina_kali_nina IBM does the same thing in their mainframe… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBy9N31RikB5TrmSm by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@jhamby it's also incredible how lots of this stuff is still S/360 running … |
|
|
|
Post #AqByQBpcOukpDwcIsK by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina Now there's a misconception about that. A lot of people say… |
|
|
|
Post #AqByaS4qr2q6VMdRuy by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@[email protected] @[email protected] none of my computers have a nort… |
|
|
|
Post #AqByaSDMLPe2vkcFBA by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@puppygirlhornypost2 @jhamby what I meant is for me they don't have a North… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBykarT3AsGe0D8sq by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@jhamby ah, I remember specifically reading about a few upgrade projects, IIRC … |
|
|
|
Post #AqByv8Q78NabcYRX2u by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@ireneista oh, kind of like barcode boy? The Gameboy's barcode reader system |
|
|
|
Post #AqBz10VhSKL8pHr8Hw by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina IBM Z is the only other CISC architecture that isn't Intel … |
|
|
|
Post #AqBz10h2m9PjOTAByC by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina IBM Z has something called millicode, which they invented, alon… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBz10qGDsmpr3TYKu by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@jhamby fascinating. I have only touched an IBM mainframe once... Haven't h… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBzIJIKrwCw0Yr6vY by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina I had a lot of fun learning OpenVMS in the late 1990s in colleg… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBzVN9pomhBkl6l8K by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@jhamby Linux on IBM Z slightly rubs wrong way even me though xD |
|
|
|
Post #AqBzeNm4tUqAGxIBDE by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina That's a good point. I've not gone diving into archive.… |
|
|
|
Post #AqBzp1yIIUlxpy5Fsu by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina I spent a lot of time benchmarking the free accounts I got via … |
|
|
|
Post #AqC61tLMHq0iZFO64W by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina Anyway, based on what I've seen with free accounts, IBM Z i… |
|
|
|
Post #AqC61tYTV4VDDvWZW4 by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina For completeness, I've learned there's at least one sup… |
|
|
|
Post #AqC61tlEjci7rVUlPM by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina And also two OS's you can download and try because they are… |
|
|
|
Post #AqC61tyLwrCcWBdEqu by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina While There's a passable UNIX environment that runs inside … |
|
|
|
Post #AqC61u6VSXiyvTRkYq by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@jhamby @nina_kali_nina I could actually see the IRS as an org whose workload w… |
|
|
|
Post #AqC61uDx0rgBIYvhAG by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@timjclevenger @nina_kali_nina Tax codes are more complicated than you'd th… |
|
|
|
Post #AqC61uLkXruxgkZvJw by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 1 repeats |
|
|
|
@jhamby @nina_kali_nina Good point on tax codes. I was thinking more because pr… |
|
|
|
Post #AqC7UiEImpCwS0OTLs by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@timjclevenger @nina_kali_nina I've talked to people who work on IBM Z and … |
|
|
|
Post #AqC7UiNAFsIStUXYAK by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@timjclevenger @nina_kali_nina I almost forgot to say, if you're not a bank… |
|
|
|
Post #AqC7UiVJlYopImM3sG by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 1 repeats |
|
|
|
@jhamby @nina_kali_nina Maybe especially if you do already run mainframes and … |
|
|
|
Post #AqCOtZkf8wMmcIyIoS by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 1 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina Oh, I miss Byte. By the time I was nine I knew I wanted to be a… |
|
|
|
Post #AqCrhp2bMxe5EQ6toO by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@jhamby @nina_kali_nina @puppygirlhornypost2 I would really like having that ki… |
|
|
|
Post #AqCrhpBooh1Bh0QGB6 by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@lispi314 @jhamby @puppygirlhornypost2 Perhaps, it is a cultural shift that has… |
|
|
|
Post #AqDMfeKDKxgNzqnB8C by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina Let's ask our computer club members how much memory is in t… |
|
|
|
Post #AqDYlg1z6dm8TVuEoS by [email protected] |
|
0 likes, 0 repeats |
|
|
|
@nina_kali_nina not really |
