The Apple ][ had a reset button right on the keyboard, in the upper right. It was not rare to accidentally hit it. Eventually (//e? it's been a while . ..) it was modified to only work with control enabled, and there were early mods to do yourself.
Most of the time, an escape (control?) sequence could bring you back from the monitor to BASIC without using your memory contents (and another would wipe for you).
The Compucolor II had a "cpu reset" key on the keyboard, but it was out of the way with other special keys. I want to say there were hard walls on it's side, too, to prevent a slipping finger.
Again, you could get back to where you were with an escape sequence.
I never knew anyone to accidentally hit it, but I did know someone whose cat dozed for half an hour around his neck, then stepped on it after walking down his arm . . . and he didn't know about the sequence!
Alt-ctrl-del was a low level interrupt on the IBM PC, and was to deal with lockups, as they hadn't included the reset button that was normal to have at the time. It *usually* worked, but there were ways (such as putting your entire hand on the keyboard and overwhelming it) that even the three fingered salute was blocked. (When I found this in the QA department at Olivetti prior to release, I was told to check the PC. Since it did it too, it was not a bug but a feature . ..)
This urban legend is constantly repeats (and Jobs is part of the reason).
Apple had mockups for the Lisa interface *before* the PARC visit.
The visit had a very strong influence, but was *NOT* the source of that interface.
For that matter, the Alto had drawn on the Master's Thesis of one Jeff Raskin (little things like bitmapped displays and pointers)--one of the Lisa/Mac engineer's at apple.
Anyway, you can find the mockups of the Lisa interface if you search for them I'm sure. I used to have a link, but my lynx bookmark file is long lost:(
>but, for instance, go out and buy an expensive >multifunction copier/printer/scanner/fax machine, >and you're looking at well over $1500, and there's >no way you're going to be able to write that off as >an expense.
That would be news to the IRS; it's just plain *WRONG* and contradicts the internal revenue code.
There is a specified amount each year that a business can "expense" rather than depreciate. It used to be $10k, I think inflation has brought it to $17k or so today.
>Does it mean I need permission to eat dorritos in a movie?
That's what the "No outside food or drinks" sign means:)
>What about if I'm filming a movie and walk thru a >grocery store or drive thru a town where hundreds of >logos are present? Do I need permission from every >logo that happens to be on screen?
How quaint.
Look at the calendar; it's the 21st century. You don't get *permission* to uses their brands, you *charge* them to appear . . .
4k of DRAM, but 1k of 7 bit SRAM for the display--1 bit for whether it was a character or six pixels. An eighth could be piggybacked to allow lowercase.
The system ran at 1.78 MHz--bizarrely slow for a Z80 at the time, and well below the rated speed, but that was also the rate a which characters went onto the screen on a line.
One might have thought that this was so that the computer and display could alternate cycles on the memory--but, no; control was simply yanked from the video when the CPU accessed this memory, causing an artifact on the screen. (so it was possible, and many cut a trace to do it, to clock the CPU at a higher speed).
The CPU was also used to scan the keyboard, meaning that the thing slowed down significantly when someone hit a lot of keys at once or put a hand down.
Also, there were a couple of aftermarket ways to expand to 48k without the expansion kit. I think one clipped 32k in a pack to the expansion bus (leaving you with 48k and no disk . ..), and I want to say that there was one that installed internally, but it's been a while.
I had one, hated it, and forced them to take it back.
Everything but the DI & DO (Data in & out) lines could be sobered together, to create two bits in that socket. Or, I think some chips at the time may have had a combined data in; it's been a while.
Or, if the chips had tai-state output, all but chip select could have been soldered together.
That's why I'm using the High Sierra beta on this machine.
It works well--although it failed tis morning, autoplaying on the first foxnews page I loaded.
Foxnews.com is also the only place I've found with an option on it's web player to turn autoplay off (at least without logging in). However, it seems to reset itself to "on" every few weeks, which it had done (and then safari failed to block it, even though it was set to "never autoplay")
or the most part, thought, it works (I hadn't used inn's website for years over the inability to block autoplay. I cn, now, although the layout is still "bad", an improvement from "horrible" . ..)
I observed a similar behavior with my cat, which I had had for years, and the new kitten.
He did the head-butt to follow thing, and brought me to the litter box where the kitten had died, and meowed at me.
(and it wasn't because he was smart--he couldn't figure out that there was food in the bowl unless someone stood there for him to start [you could leave once he started], nor that he could pee outside when he escaped [and that was when I lived two blocks from the ocean--I'd come home 12 hours later, an he'd be dancing on the porch, desperate !])
The wonders of supply and demand is such that if you're willing to pay, you can even get driven in a classic Cadillac . . .
A couple of weeks ago, wealthy folks had an Elvis themed wedding, and contacted our club to drive the guests and Elvi (yes, "Elvis" has a plural in Las Vegas, and we need it . ..) from the private terinal to the Casino.
It wasn't cheap; they paid $250/car--and, once we pointed it out, the $50 surcharge on our classic car insurance for commercial use . . .
Interestingly they got the price dead-on to get ten of us. We could have coaxed a couple more out if we had needed to. but we had exactly ten volunteers two days before.
(OK, this was cool enough that we probably would have done it for nothing, or for a donation to the club and/or one of the charities we support, but . ..)
hawk
p.s. Yes, one of the cars was indeed a pink '59, which was the zenith of excessive tailfins . . .
p.p.s. And, yes, that wasn't the original color; the iconic pink was last used on Cadillacs the factory a year or two earlier (although it's always been possible to order a Cadillac with a custom color from the factory)
Some airlines used cookies in the late '90s or 2000, and charged a higher price when you returned. You could be offered the original again by deleting the cookies.
The purpose of taxi regulation in US cities has *always* been about being an entry to barrier to protect the cab companies, and to protect the from competition from one another.
Everything else that it does is a side issue.
Roughly, the extra costs to the taxi company are worthwhile, as the higher costs keep potential entrants out, allowing participation in cartel/oligopoly profits.
On top of that, the incumbents are not subject to the usual cheating by other cartel members overproducing--again because of the government mandate.
There are other examples of this phenomenon, but the taxi model is best known (I'd guess followed by three tier alcohol laws).
hawk, now putting down his economic professor's hat
Standard Oil was accused of "predatory pricing" moving into an area, underpricing until the competition left, and then raising its prices using it's new-found monopoly power.
It was only a couple of decades ago that anyone looked at the data.
Turns out that they did indeed move in with lower prices, and that their competitors fled, but they kept the lower prices. (and why not? unlike their competitors, they were quite profitable at those prices).
I bought this house in a middle class neighborhood about 30 years ago. It has degraded to lower middle class. (Hey, it makes for cheap security: noone in the neighborhood has anything worth stealing, so burglars don't bother us . ..)
I can get highspeed from Cox, may many poxes befall their house.
Centurylink, which used to be the phone company, can't deliver more than 3 mbit service here (but, gee, if I dig the trench to the street, they'll supply 8 conductor rather than 4 conductor phoneline . ..).
Bizarrely, they send an add every week or two for their Prism and high speed, even though it can't be purchased . . .
I'd take it in a heartbeat. Heck, I'd probably buy from russian hackers or the devil to get away from cox . . .
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The Apple ][ had a reset button right on the keyboard, in the upper right. It was not rare to accidentally hit it. Eventually (//e? it's been a while . . .) it was modified to only work with control enabled, and there were early mods to do yourself.
Most of the time, an escape (control?) sequence could bring you back from the monitor to BASIC without using your memory contents (and another would wipe for you).
The Compucolor II had a "cpu reset" key on the keyboard, but it was out of the way with other special keys. I want to say there were hard walls on it's side, too, to prevent a slipping finger.
Again, you could get back to where you were with an escape sequence.
I never knew anyone to accidentally hit it, but I did know someone whose cat dozed for half an hour around his neck, then stepped on it after walking down his arm . . . and he didn't know about the sequence!
Alt-ctrl-del was a low level interrupt on the IBM PC, and was to deal with lockups, as they hadn't included the reset button that was normal to have at the time. It *usually* worked, but there were ways (such as putting your entire hand on the keyboard and overwhelming it) that even the three fingered salute was blocked. (When I found this in the QA department at Olivetti prior to release, I was told to check the PC. Since it did it too, it was not a bug but a feature . . .)
hawk
Because who ever would have guessed the headline,
Something else is more secure than Microsoft
hawk
This urban legend is constantly repeats (and Jobs is part of the reason).
Apple had mockups for the Lisa interface *before* the PARC visit.
The visit had a very strong influence, but was *NOT* the source of that interface.
For that matter, the Alto had drawn on the Master's Thesis of one Jeff Raskin (little things like bitmapped displays and pointers)--one of the Lisa/Mac engineer's at apple.
Anyway, you can find the mockups of the Lisa interface if you search for them I'm sure. I used to have a link, but my lynx bookmark file is long lost :(
>but, for instance, go out and buy an expensive
>multifunction copier/printer/scanner/fax machine,
>and you're looking at well over $1500, and there's
>no way you're going to be able to write that off as
>an expense.
That would be news to the IRS; it's just plain *WRONG* and contradicts the internal revenue code.
There is a specified amount each year that a business can "expense" rather than depreciate. It used to be $10k, I think inflation has brought it to $17k or so today.
It *does* have to be equipment for the business.
hawk
>Does it mean I need permission to eat dorritos in a movie?
That's what the "No outside food or drinks" sign means :)
>What about if I'm filming a movie and walk thru a
>grocery store or drive thru a town where hundreds of
>logos are present? Do I need permission from every
>logo that happens to be on screen?
How quaint.
Look at the calendar; it's the 21st century. You don't get *permission* to uses their brands, you *charge* them to appear . . .
hawk
There were actually almost 5k, not 4k.
4k of DRAM, but 1k of 7 bit SRAM for the display--1 bit for whether it was a character or six pixels. An eighth could be piggybacked to allow lowercase.
The system ran at 1.78 MHz--bizarrely slow for a Z80 at the time, and well below the rated speed, but that was also the rate a which characters went onto the screen on a line.
One might have thought that this was so that the computer and display could alternate cycles on the memory--but, no; control was simply yanked from the video when the CPU accessed this memory, causing an artifact on the screen. (so it was possible, and many cut a trace to do it, to clock the CPU at a higher speed).
The CPU was also used to scan the keyboard, meaning that the thing slowed down significantly when someone hit a lot of keys at once or put a hand down.
Also, there were a couple of aftermarket ways to expand to 48k without the expansion kit. I think one clipped 32k in a pack to the expansion bus (leaving you with 48k and no disk . . .), and I want to say that there was one that installed internally, but it's been a while.
I had one, hated it, and forced them to take it back.
hawk
There are a couple of ways to do it.
Everything but the DI & DO (Data in & out) lines could be sobered together, to create two bits in that socket. Or, I think some chips at the time may have had a combined data in; it's been a while.
Or, if the chips had tai-state output, all but chip select could have been soldered together.
hawk
The times I've had to use windows, it always seemed to turn blue soon enough . . . :)
hawk
That's why I'm using the High Sierra beta on this machine.
It works well--although it failed tis morning, autoplaying on the first foxnews page I loaded.
Foxnews.com is also the only place I've found with an option on it's web player to turn autoplay off (at least without logging in). However, it seems to reset itself to "on" every few weeks, which it had done (and then safari failed to block it, even though it was set to "never autoplay")
or the most part, thought, it works (I hadn't used inn's website for years over the inability to block autoplay. I cn, now, although the layout is still "bad", an improvement from "horrible" . . .)
hawk
I observed a similar behavior with my cat, which I had had for years, and the new kitten.
He did the head-butt to follow thing, and brought me to the litter box where the kitten had died, and meowed at me.
(and it wasn't because he was smart--he couldn't figure out that there was food in the bowl unless someone stood there for him to start [you could leave once he started], nor that he could pee outside when he escaped [and that was when I lived two blocks from the ocean--I'd come home 12 hours later, an he'd be dancing on the porch, desperate !])
hawk
more bluntly, the finding is "Coders not smart enough to configure vim make less than those that do." :)
hawk
And they were rough on the record,too.
Some used a custom type of record . . .
hawk
rather small compared to a decade earlier . . . about half the trunk of a 70s' cadillac . . .
hawk
How does it make you feel that Some idiots will be claiming Eliza is AI in their next funding cycle. :)
hawk
Nice to meet you, Legitimate Yahoo User.
I'm a unicorn, and I'd like to introduce my cousin, Bigfoot . . .
hawk
The wonders of supply and demand is such that if you're willing to pay, you can even get driven in a classic Cadillac . . .
A couple of weeks ago, wealthy folks had an Elvis themed wedding, and contacted our club to drive the guests and Elvi (yes, "Elvis" has a plural in Las Vegas, and we need it . . .) from the private terinal to the Casino.
It wasn't cheap; they paid $250/car--and, once we pointed it out, the $50 surcharge on our classic car insurance for commercial use . . .
Interestingly they got the price dead-on to get ten of us. We could have coaxed a couple more out if we had needed to. but we had exactly ten volunteers two days before.
(OK, this was cool enough that we probably would have done it for nothing, or for a donation to the club and/or one of the charities we support, but . . .)
hawk
p.s. Yes, one of the cars was indeed a pink '59, which was the zenith of excessive tailfins . . .
p.p.s. And, yes, that wasn't the original color; the iconic pink was last used on Cadillacs the factory a year or two earlier (although it's always been possible to order a Cadillac with a custom color from the factory)
It's older than that.
Some airlines used cookies in the late '90s or 2000, and charged a higher price when you returned. You could be offered the original again by deleting the cookies.
hawk
No, you missed the point *entirely*.
The purpose of taxi regulation in US cities has *always* been about being an entry to barrier to protect the cab companies, and to protect the from competition from one another.
Everything else that it does is a side issue.
Roughly, the extra costs to the taxi company are worthwhile, as the higher costs keep potential entrants out, allowing participation in cartel/oligopoly profits.
On top of that, the incumbents are not subject to the usual cheating by other cartel members overproducing--again because of the government mandate.
There are other examples of this phenomenon, but the taxi model is best known (I'd guess followed by three tier alcohol laws).
hawk, now putting down his economic professor's hat
Treat it like a luxury handbag or shoe?
Uhm . . . I'm a guy. Do they have a guy's version of this thing?
Or maybe I can just use one of those shoe-polish sponges?
hawk
So it's a laptop I have to let win every computer game???
hawk
There are plenty of other reasons that many (most?) of us see living in CA as serfdom . . . :)
hawk
Sounds like dumb owners.
In that case, it would make more sense to institute a dress code to get wealthier clients and higher tickets . . .
hawk
Standard Oil was accused of "predatory pricing" moving into an area, underpricing until the competition left, and then raising its prices using it's new-found monopoly power.
It was only a couple of decades ago that anyone looked at the data.
Turns out that they did indeed move in with lower prices, and that their competitors fled, but they kept the lower prices. (and why not? unlike their competitors, they were quite profitable at those prices).
hawk
>It's what Microsoft was doing to keep Linux down.
Actually, the target was DR-DOS, which was up to 10% market share before the "pay on every machine" deals did it in.
hawk
Don't look at me for sympathy :)
I bought this house in a middle class neighborhood about 30 years ago. It has degraded to lower middle class. (Hey, it makes for cheap security: noone in the neighborhood has anything worth stealing, so burglars don't bother us . . .)
I can get highspeed from Cox, may many poxes befall their house.
Centurylink, which used to be the phone company, can't deliver more than 3 mbit service here (but, gee, if I dig the trench to the street, they'll supply 8 conductor rather than 4 conductor phoneline . . .).
Bizarrely, they send an add every week or two for their Prism and high speed, even though it can't be purchased . . .
I'd take it in a heartbeat. Heck, I'd probably buy from russian hackers or the devil to get away from cox . . .
hawk