Meanwhile the same Verizon is abandoning copper lines and refuses to run fiber in its place. In many areas this is a ploy to get those folks onto cable internet, who Verizon recently made a deal with to get some wireless spectrum, but some areas don't even have the cable option. Talk about progress. Places in a country that once boasted the most reliable wireline network in the world now have zip outside of an overpriced wireless service.
He likely tunneled IPX-over-IP. I have also seen the opposite in use to connect IPX networks to the internet. Novell called it TCP/IPX. These setups didn't last too long though, eventually Novell gave up and switched to IP.
The head unit was built by GM Delco, at least it was in the 85s. That system was odd in that the speaker grills were co-branded Delco/BOSE. BOSE only made the amplifiers and the speakers in car OEM systems. The head unit was provided by the OEM's supplier of choice with balanced line level outputs (as opposed to amplified speaker terminals) to feed the speaker mounted amps. The speakers themselves were a weird 1ohm design that could only be properly driven with the BOSE amplifiers (which had non-defeatable equalization built in).
While I wasn't really a fan of BOSE's newer products (their WaveRadios have a high failure rate due to shoddy components and the amps in an OEM BOSE car stereo I had failed), the older 70s stuff was fairly decent. I do give them credit for building stuff in the USA long after others have moved overseas. I think the only part in that car with the BOSE stereo that was made in the USA were the speakers and amps!
Years ago I developed a.NET program that connected to a MySQL database using its ADO.NET connector. It was painful, but it worked. Hopefully things have improved since than.
I never did get to visit that park as a kid. Weird NJ has a ton of stories on their site about that place. The slides were dangerous simply because they didn't have past data or computer modeling (that the OP talks about) when designing them, so they winged it and called the park's attractions "extreme". Some of the slides survive in Action Park's successor, Mountain Creek. The looping water slide didn't make the cut though.
NJ has better connections to the rest of NYC than SI does. The SI Express buses to Manhattan all drive through NJ and take the Lincoln Tunnel to midtown since its faster than taking the Gowanus through.....Brooklyn.
24-bit color QuickDraw accelerated video cards were released for NuBus Macs. The lack of graphics acceleration likely wasn't a problem before that when you only had a 512x384 1-bit video "standard". The Amiga's custom chips couldn't handle 640x480x256 colors worth a damn, that mode on a stock AGA machine is slower then a crappy ISA SVGA card with no acceleration.
My Apple Powerbook G4 makes a subtle squealing noise while it is plugged into the A/C adapter, but only when it is powered on. I'm guessing it is due to poor filtering in the audio output circuit.
People here were complaining that everything came with those silly 1366x768 screens. 1920x1080 is at least some progress. I suppose the Retina displays are silly too since you aren't supposed to see the pixels.
Floppy emulators are becoming a popular alternative for use in synths and older computers. I'm finding out that even HD disks aren't reliable in HD drives. Brand new disks with bad sectors are common as media quality took a nosedive. Many disks I have used for sneakernetting to my 486 that were just months old have become unreadable (its not the drives), good thing there wasn't anything important on them! Meanwhile disks from years ago still work fine.
The biggest losses in cultural resources wasn't from the degradation or the inability to play back the media, but from deliberate wiping of the programs off of video tape for reuse. For example, there is no known surviving copy of the entire broadcast of the first Superbowl.
Apple II hardware is still readily available. All the schematics and ROM code for the disk controller is online too (typical minimalist Woz design). The bigger problem is file formats, not so much the physical media. In many cases you can read the disk, but not decode the files into something usable.
Microstation does GIS? Yikes. Based on what I have read, ERSI has a monopoly position in the US and many agencies outside of the US seem to use MapInfo. I don't know if they ever fixed it, but the web interface for ArcGIS used to be the worst web "application" ever written. It was slow, and never quite worked properly in anything but IE6... well when it actually worked. No wonder so many people rely on Google Maps API.
A company went a step further and modified DOSBox to support their USB-to-ISA bridge adapter directly: http://arstech.com/install/cms-display/ste_uniformdos.html That CVS build list is interesting, what is the point of MP3CUE support?
There is a SVN build that includes Epson LQ (ESC/P) color printing support. It isn't perfect, but it works. With some changes, DOSBox could easily intercept data written to LPT1: and send the output to a file.
There is demand for a DOSBox like product that supports legacy productivity apps. I haven't had any problems running things like Wordperfect 5.1. If anything they are easier to get running compared to picky DOS games and demos!
If USB to serial adapters cause communications problems, most motherboards still have RS-232 headers on them (residing at DOS friendly COM1), just need the bracket. Most of them can run DOS as well as long as they have a BIOS boot option as an alternate to EFI mode.
The CS degree track at the mere state school I went to required physics along side of the math courses, so at least someone understands the idea of teaching them side by side. The only physics course I got use of later on in life is electricity and magnetism, comes in handy when working with electronics. What I found more disturbing were the number of CS students who had no clue how to program a computer. They seemed to do well in the math and science courses (both of which I did fairly lousy in, but passed), but were completely lost when presented with a basic C or Java programming assignment.
But the start screen has more color options... and animated backgrounds. Gee whiz, and to think after reading that feature list they are actually going to charge for this update!
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Considering most people are still running Gingerbread and not likely to upgrade right away, its the logical thing to do.
Meanwhile the same Verizon is abandoning copper lines and refuses to run fiber in its place. In many areas this is a ploy to get those folks onto cable internet, who Verizon recently made a deal with to get some wireless spectrum, but some areas don't even have the cable option. Talk about progress. Places in a country that once boasted the most reliable wireline network in the world now have zip outside of an overpriced wireless service.
There are sections of the western US where asbestos occurs naturally in the soil. Here in the east we have Lyme Disease and West Nile causing trouble.
He likely tunneled IPX-over-IP. I have also seen the opposite in use to connect IPX networks to the internet. Novell called it TCP/IPX. These setups didn't last too long though, eventually Novell gave up and switched to IP.
MinGW or Visual Studio? Does VS support autotools/autoconf scripts?
TCP/IP didn't ship with Windows for Workgroups. It was a separate installation.
I own a pair of EPI 250s. While not as well known as some other classic speaker manufacturers (Advent, AR, etc.) they do hold their own.
The head unit was built by GM Delco, at least it was in the 85s. That system was odd in that the speaker grills were co-branded Delco/BOSE. BOSE only made the amplifiers and the speakers in car OEM systems. The head unit was provided by the OEM's supplier of choice with balanced line level outputs (as opposed to amplified speaker terminals) to feed the speaker mounted amps. The speakers themselves were a weird 1ohm design that could only be properly driven with the BOSE amplifiers (which had non-defeatable equalization built in).
A small read from another speaker manufacturer about technology and marketing. It addresses the paper cone myth.: http://www.humanspeakers.com/cgi-bin/page.pl?page=human/oldnews.txt
While I wasn't really a fan of BOSE's newer products (their WaveRadios have a high failure rate due to shoddy components and the amps in an OEM BOSE car stereo I had failed), the older 70s stuff was fairly decent. I do give them credit for building stuff in the USA long after others have moved overseas. I think the only part in that car with the BOSE stereo that was made in the USA were the speakers and amps!
Years ago I developed a .NET program that connected to a MySQL database using its ADO.NET connector. It was painful, but it worked. Hopefully things have improved since than.
I never did get to visit that park as a kid. Weird NJ has a ton of stories on their site about that place. The slides were dangerous simply because they didn't have past data or computer modeling (that the OP talks about) when designing them, so they winged it and called the park's attractions "extreme". Some of the slides survive in Action Park's successor, Mountain Creek. The looping water slide didn't make the cut though.
NJ has better connections to the rest of NYC than SI does. The SI Express buses to Manhattan all drive through NJ and take the Lincoln Tunnel to midtown since its faster than taking the Gowanus through.....Brooklyn.
24-bit color QuickDraw accelerated video cards were released for NuBus Macs. The lack of graphics acceleration likely wasn't a problem before that when you only had a 512x384 1-bit video "standard". The Amiga's custom chips couldn't handle 640x480x256 colors worth a damn, that mode on a stock AGA machine is slower then a crappy ISA SVGA card with no acceleration.
My Apple Powerbook G4 makes a subtle squealing noise while it is plugged into the A/C adapter, but only when it is powered on. I'm guessing it is due to poor filtering in the audio output circuit.
People here were complaining that everything came with those silly 1366x768 screens. 1920x1080 is at least some progress. I suppose the Retina displays are silly too since you aren't supposed to see the pixels.
Floppy emulators are becoming a popular alternative for use in synths and older computers. I'm finding out that even HD disks aren't reliable in HD drives. Brand new disks with bad sectors are common as media quality took a nosedive. Many disks I have used for sneakernetting to my 486 that were just months old have become unreadable (its not the drives), good thing there wasn't anything important on them! Meanwhile disks from years ago still work fine.
The biggest losses in cultural resources wasn't from the degradation or the inability to play back the media, but from deliberate wiping of the programs off of video tape for reuse. For example, there is no known surviving copy of the entire broadcast of the first Superbowl.
Apple II hardware is still readily available. All the schematics and ROM code for the disk controller is online too (typical minimalist Woz design). The bigger problem is file formats, not so much the physical media. In many cases you can read the disk, but not decode the files into something usable.
Microstation does GIS? Yikes. Based on what I have read, ERSI has a monopoly position in the US and many agencies outside of the US seem to use MapInfo. I don't know if they ever fixed it, but the web interface for ArcGIS used to be the worst web "application" ever written. It was slow, and never quite worked properly in anything but IE6... well when it actually worked. No wonder so many people rely on Google Maps API.
A company went a step further and modified DOSBox to support their USB-to-ISA bridge adapter directly: http://arstech.com/install/cms-display/ste_uniformdos.html That CVS build list is interesting, what is the point of MP3CUE support?
There is a SVN build that includes Epson LQ (ESC/P) color printing support. It isn't perfect, but it works. With some changes, DOSBox could easily intercept data written to LPT1: and send the output to a file.
There is demand for a DOSBox like product that supports legacy productivity apps. I haven't had any problems running things like Wordperfect 5.1. If anything they are easier to get running compared to picky DOS games and demos!
If USB to serial adapters cause communications problems, most motherboards still have RS-232 headers on them (residing at DOS friendly COM1), just need the bracket. Most of them can run DOS as well as long as they have a BIOS boot option as an alternate to EFI mode.
The CS degree track at the mere state school I went to required physics along side of the math courses, so at least someone understands the idea of teaching them side by side. The only physics course I got use of later on in life is electricity and magnetism, comes in handy when working with electronics. What I found more disturbing were the number of CS students who had no clue how to program a computer. They seemed to do well in the math and science courses (both of which I did fairly lousy in, but passed), but were completely lost when presented with a basic C or Java programming assignment.
But the start screen has more color options... and animated backgrounds. Gee whiz, and to think after reading that feature list they are actually going to charge for this update!