The C64 was after my time, but I have unpleasant memories of a VIC-20 in a commercial application (it handled sick calls from monitored devices. It replaced a sinclair, iirc, which couldn't keep up with the modem [or was it that it couldn't handle a cartridge with a Basic program???]).
I either sold, or attempted to sell, most of the machines on this list (though I don't remember that Mattel monster, and the Pet and Trash-80 submodels).
The *worst* thing about the TI 99/4 keyboard didn't even make it into the article. The lack of a ; key--or anything else where it belonged--led anyone who *could* touch-type to move their right hand a key to the left--constantly!
The 99/4 is also memorable for the decistion to "save you money" by having a small amount of RAM and relying on ROM cartridges. If memory serves, the Ram wasn't even upgradable without some bizarre contortions in a ROM cartridge . . .
hawk
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Word 6 did this as well. I'd open a mac 5.1/4 format file, and it would replace the older (better) mail-merge with it's new fields--and resave the file without asking!
hawk
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Word should not be used for dissertations . . .
I turned mine in in 99. I used LyX with some hand-coded LaTeX within it.
When I ended up stranded in Omaha for a couple of days, I was able to edit an older version that was on my laptop, then used diff and patch to apply these to the newest version.
When I got it back from the dissertation nazis at the graduate colelge, it took me less than 10 minutes to make their changes (including calllilng them about a mistake they'd made, and undoing what I'd done before calling them), compared to the typical excess of a week.
A friend of mine worked in Sears hardware back in high school, at a long gone Sears store. At one point, a customer wanted to return a battered tool box, and he responded with, "Quite frankly, sir, this looks like you drove over it with a truck."
The customer wanted to take the discussion outside, but his manager wouldn't let him . . .
btw, either Home Depot or Lowes (or both?) will now swap Husky for broken Craftsman.
hawk, who once used a tool chest as a chock for a heavy vehicle on a hill
Err, no. There could be limits, but if the complexity only multiplied by a real number[1] (a little more than "2" appears likely, but it holds if you chose billions), and if this is being done by a modeling system capable of handling infinites.
For the easy version, recall that all the rationals can be mapped to the natural numbers, that n-dimensional sets of reals (x0,x1, . ..xn) can be mapped to the reals, and so forth.
For the harder version, you don't need to go as far as the Axiom of Choice; simple aleph algebra gets you there (Though if you accept that axiom, mapping the entire universe to a subset within the computer becomes a triviality).
hawk, who learned his aleph math directly from Halmos
[1] Actually, i can become infinitely more complicated, so long as the infinite is of the same or lower order)
There is the minor difficulty of duplicating government identification showing that you are the person named in the tickets/records--unlike the dvd booth, it is *highly* probable that the person that paid for the ticket is there at the same time trying to board--with id.
There was also a matter of which machine could run which browser without regular crashes. I tended to use Mosaic on unix and linux, but had to use IE on a mac because netscape and mosaic 3 both crashed far to often.
And now that I think of it, opening too many browser windows too fast could fatally fork-bomb both linux and netbsd . . .
I used lynx fairly late as my primary browser. But somewhere along the way, it developed a bug (about 5 years ago?) that wasn't fixed for a couple of years. It was fairly subtle, but until then, I had . set to open a link withg a command, something to the effect of "xterm -e lynx %", so that I could read newssites in my usual manner (launch a new window for everything interesting, and then close the windows as I read them [yes, this *did* predate the first browsers with tabs]).
Eventually it was fixed; I may have been the only one to support it. I want to say that it actually got fixed after I stumbled across a developer in another context.
Tell me that when you have brownouts. Then I can point you back that to your post that we do not need any more power sources. Nope. He won't have any power to read your message . . .
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It's taken all these years, but this is the first time I've *ever* heard anyone say anything nice about the Adam . . .
The typical reviewer couldn't complete the review due to parts that just plain didn't work . . .
hawk
The C64 was after my time, but I have unpleasant memories of a VIC-20 in a commercial application (it handled sick calls from monitored devices. It replaced a sinclair, iirc, which couldn't keep up with the modem [or was it that it couldn't handle a cartridge with a Basic program???]).
I either sold, or attempted to sell, most of the machines on this list (though I don't remember that Mattel monster, and the Pet and Trash-80 submodels).
The *worst* thing about the TI 99/4 keyboard didn't even make it into the article. The lack of a ; key--or anything else where it belonged--led anyone who *could* touch-type to move their right hand a key to the left--constantly!
The 99/4 is also memorable for the decistion to "save you money" by having a small amount of RAM and relying on ROM cartridges. If memory serves, the Ram wasn't even upgradable without some bizarre contortions in a ROM cartridge . . .
hawk
Sounds like you never used 5.1a on the mac . . .
hawk
Word 6 did this as well. I'd open a mac 5.1/4 format file, and it would replace the older (better) mail-merge with it's new fields--and resave the file without asking!
hawk
Word should not be used for dissertations . . .
I turned mine in in 99. I used LyX with some hand-coded LaTeX within it.
When I ended up stranded in Omaha for a couple of days, I was able to edit an older version that was on my laptop, then used diff and patch to apply these to the newest version.
When I got it back from the dissertation nazis at the graduate colelge, it took me less than 10 minutes to make their changes (including calllilng them about a mistake they'd made, and undoing what I'd done before calling them), compared to the typical excess of a week.
hawk
A friend of mine worked in Sears hardware back in high school, at a long gone Sears store. At one point, a customer wanted to return a battered tool box, and he responded with, "Quite frankly, sir, this looks like you drove over it with a truck."
The customer wanted to take the discussion outside, but his manager wouldn't let him . . .
btw, either Home Depot or Lowes (or both?) will now swap Husky for broken Craftsman.
hawk, who once used a tool chest as a chock for a heavy vehicle on a hill
We'll believe the side with the most evid^h^h^h^hanecdotes! :)
hawk
There are so many easier ways to detect such things . . .
The glass fragments from the monitor thrown across the room . . .
The fist protruding from the back of a flat screen, dripping with a funny liquid . . .
The broken bits of keys . . .
The former pedestrian unconscious on the sidewalk from the remnants of the monitor that went through the window . . .
hawk
Err, no. There could be limits, but if the complexity only multiplied by a real number[1] (a little more than "2" appears likely, but it holds if you chose billions), and if this is being done by a modeling system capable of handling infinites.
.xn) can be mapped to the reals, and so forth.
For the easy version, recall that all the rationals can be mapped to the natural numbers, that n-dimensional sets of reals (x0,x1, . .
For the harder version, you don't need to go as far as the Axiom of Choice; simple aleph algebra gets you there (Though if you accept that axiom, mapping the entire universe to a subset within the computer becomes a triviality).
hawk, who learned his aleph math directly from Halmos
[1] Actually, i can become infinitely more complicated, so long as the infinite is of the same or lower order)
There is the minor difficulty of duplicating government identification showing that you are the person named in the tickets/records--unlike the dvd booth, it is *highly* probable that the person that paid for the ticket is there at the same time trying to board--with id.
hawk
I had a Tandy 102 for taking notes in law school. It actually decremented the year in 1988 . . .
hawk
most couples that take 20,000 pictures on their honeymoon never leave their hotel room, let alone the country . . . :)
hawk
There was also a matter of which machine could run which browser without regular crashes. I tended to use Mosaic on unix and linux, but had to use IE on a mac because netscape and mosaic 3 both crashed far to often.
And now that I think of it, opening too many browser windows too fast could fatally fork-bomb both linux and netbsd . . .
hawk
I used lynx fairly late as my primary browser. But somewhere along the way, it developed a bug (about 5 years ago?) that wasn't fixed for a couple of years. It was fairly subtle, but until then, I had . set to open a link withg a command, something to the effect of "xterm -e lynx %", so that I could read newssites in my usual manner (launch a new window for everything interesting, and then close the windows as I read them [yes, this *did* predate the first browsers with tabs]).
Eventually it was fixed; I may have been the only one to support it. I want to say that it actually got fixed after I stumbled across a developer in another context.
hawk
When does Mosaic 3 finally leave beta???
hawk
Not only that, but the next Debian release will include KDE 3.0! :)
hawk
>Should I also remind anyone that IE8 is under progress,
:)
>including new UI and engine that passes ACID.
As opposed to the prior versions of IE, apparently written by people taking acid.
hawk
>The letter is dated 12/21. Why did it take until 12/27 to make the newswires?
They transmitted it over what was left of their networking stack . . .
hawk
He;ll receive first pick of the remaining shares and all of the IP he can carry . . . :)
hawk
What? We have do do this over secure connections now?
hawk, who insists on libeling over telnet, not sssl connections
Sure enough, the very top comment on a bricking article explained that what happend was not bricking.
hawk, trying not to hurt his arm as he pats his own back
hawk
I *could* tell you--but then I'd have to add a digit to your UID, so . . . :)
hawk
Just keep telling yourself that, sonny.
oops . . .
Like I wrote: those have no chance of surviving by the time the courts are done with it.
hawk