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Either by making the Human Race totally dependent on computers and interactivity or rendering them incapable of stopping their continued existence.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Dec 8
Subjects: computers, humans, personality

Peruvian?
Posted by: mama winger

Python. Very similar.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Dec 4
Subjects: beer, computers, Obamacare

I spent yesterday writing scripts in a language I barely know for a program that's a decade old.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Dec 4
Subjects: computers, Progressives Playbook, Obamacare

Y'all c'mon down to Billy Jay Ray Bob's Empire of Ammo where we've got a midwinter special
that can't be beat.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Dec 2
Subjects: 3D printing, self-defense

First instance of data recording, not symbolically but in a form to be played back to reproduce the original data. It's a concept that goes well beyond simply recording sound.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Nov 29
Subjects: computers, music, Shroud of Turin

Had to see if I was duplicating Vic with these...

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Nov 18
Subjects: 3D printing, Benghazi, Eric Holder, news, Obamacare, Second Amendment, US Constitution

If a digital clock loses power, when it comes back on it flashes 12:00. So it's still right twice a day.
Posted by: rickl

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Nov 5
Subjects: digital future, timekeeping

Speaking of Pon Raul, ssssorry about prev styleguide faux pas. What's the right term again?

And you know the thing about stopped clocks?

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Nov 5
Subjects: digital future, timekeeping

TRS-100 =/= Mod100 laptop? someone said?

This confusion feels nostalgically familiar...

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Oct 26
Subjects: computers

fully functioning TRS-100.... - Village Idiot's Apprentice

Heh. I could put it here in the museum/mausoleum next to the Mrs's lonely old 100 with the clobbered keyboard.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Oct 26
Subjects: CompuServe, computers

Re 8" floppies
They sounded like this:
Eauunk, click click click, eauunk scree scree scree screeu click clunk, euuunk click click click clunk.
Repeat - Freaked Out!

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Oct 26
Subjects: computers

I still have two Model I's, which could probably be coaxed into one full system, except I doubt I have one working 5" drive left.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Oct 26
Subjects: computers, Radio Shack Model I

??
8" floppy.. motivated worker..
??

I'll bet there's a funny there I'm not getting. Is it me, or is it svenorex?

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Oct 26
Subjects: computers

"Back in the day I had an 8" floppy."

NOT going there!

And didn't in the day, either.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Oct 26
Subjects: computers

The Internet Archive - VisiCalc - my first massive programming effort was a complete bookkeeping system based on VC macros for the Shack Model I.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Oct 26
Subjects: anachronism, computers, Radio Shack Model I

Good morning, good people of Peruvia.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Oct 23
Subjects: cats, computers, patriotism

AllenG: Okay, let's take this apart:

That immediately had me rubbing my hands in glee. Oh good! Someone's tackling it!

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Oct 1
Subjects: HTML, Obamacare, webworker

I'm no wiz, but I program a little. I'm cobbling up a utility program and yesterday got bogged down trying to figure out Unicode characters in an xml feed...

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Sep 26
Subjects: computers

The authors believe this takeover will happen in two stages. First, computers will start replacing people in especially vulnerable fields...

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Sep 14
Subjects: digital future

The abstracted hardware model minimums changed.
Did you bitch similarly when XP wouldn't run on a 286?
Posted by: Manifesto de Purp
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Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Sep 3
Subjects: computers, Radio Shack Model I

Home invaders caught on cam, clear pix, even a name. (Posted by PJ at the end of the Home Invader thread, thought it worth reposting)

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Jun 29
Subjects: digital future
Billboards
Doodles
Of course, those ads will be optional. Right? Right?
Billboards
Doodles
Further cocooning ourselves, or liberating? Discuss.

Because, diversity!

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Jun 1
Subjects: computers

Why can't we all just get along?

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 Jun 1
Subjects: computers, peace

Turned out the blocked pin spot is just superficial and soft plastic and can be drilled out with a 1/16" drill and there's actually a pin socket hiding underneath, so you don't gotta drill far at a

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 May 23
Subjects: computers

Last night and again this morning, various sites loaded very slowly, never seemed to finish. Restarting the browser didn't help.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2013 May 19
Subjects: computers

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