No! Those were all sixer machines. The real fight back in those days it was the anointed and holy sixers vs the evil eighters. It was the Trash-80/Coco/Kaypro people against the Commodore and Atari (and SWTPC) folks. Von Neumann vs Harvard (how you addressed your I/O ports.) CP/M vs well, whatever we had in the ROM or Uniflex.
If you only knew the things I did to a C-64 (and what I paid for it.)
Much thanks. I'll pick one up and start poking around with the o-scope. $20 is cheap for an eval and it includes a working production version. Damn! I couldn't one-off the caps for that price!
Ya know we have nicer soldering irons than the one you got in your Tandy leather burning kit in 1965.
But yeah, you'd have better luck using the local 2m phone patch. Hell, I still hear an old IMTS mobile phone system still on the air in my area (hacked it back in the 80s with a tube final phone.) Let's see them trace that sucker!
Yeah, I've found it really depends on the individual lamp. I've got one that's been over the stove (in the vent unit) for going on two years now. It never is turned off (kinda the night light for the house.) It took me three lamps to find that one.
It took me forever to find some flood style lamps that would work in the upstairs bathroom (not a nice environment for a electronics anyway.) I've found three good ones but the last socket keeps blowing them. Time to pull it apart and clean the contacts. It's a 45 year old socket right next to the tub so I guess it's about due for an overhaul.
My old 1989 Ranger with a V6 has just shy of 400,000 miles on it. Still gets about 21 MPG. Looks like shit and the manual transmission sounds like a bad opera. It's mostly regulated to dump runs and hauling wood. I don't see how anyone with an actual house can live without a pick-em-up truck. I'm sure I can keep this old dog running for at least another decade. Lots of old Rangers out there.
My other car is a 92 Saturn, gets 32 MPG on the commute. It needs new struts but I'll get around to it.
Never saw why to get a really nice car. I never thought better of a person because they had a nice car so I don't figure that I'm going to impress people that way, or at least impress people that I give a fuck about.
Keep using your old stuff, if it ain't broke so bad that you can't fix it, don't replace it. That's the way to save.
Unlike the rest of the world our houses in the US are designed for separate washer and dryer. To combine them is to make a much more complex machine. I've got 2300 sq ft to work with here (and only two bedrooms.) The nice thing is that the machines are large enough so that we only need to run a load once a week or so.
Where do you live? What is the normal size of a domicile? Really, I'm interested. Mail me if you want.
My wife keeps nagging me to waste (waist?) some energy and get rid of the my beer gut. Actually she would rather I not waste it but use it toward re-landscaping the yard.
I've heard stores of people in Europe and the US filling up their garages and closets with incandescents so they'll have a lifetime supply.
And we have to get off their lawns.
I've gone CF for about 95% of my home. There are a few spots that are waiting for the incandescent lamp to die that I only use about an hour a month. I've got a pile of incandescent bulbs in the closet and I doubt that I'll ever use them other than as a dummy load for my ham radio or maybe to keep some chickens warm in the winter. I see them as big heat giving resistors now.
My GE washer and dryer are damn near robots. The even have a serial link between the two units so the drier knows the what cycle to use from the results that the washer got.
My stove, well it's a bar of metal across the mains. I'd go with gas but it's not available where I live and I really don't feel like retrofitting propane just for the stove.
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The send the ticket to EWU for sending down the snow in the first place.
Good article Alexis. Thanks for helping to bring this to the fore-front.
Ah, Cromemco. All us hobbyist types drooled over their industrial offerings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniFLEX
more c64 vs trs80 vs ti99/4a.
Atari vs. Commodore!
ST vs. Amiga!
No! Those were all sixer machines. The real fight back in those days it was the anointed and holy sixers vs the evil eighters. It was the Trash-80/Coco/Kaypro people against the Commodore and Atari (and SWTPC) folks. Von Neumann vs Harvard (how you addressed your I/O ports.) CP/M vs well, whatever we had in the ROM or Uniflex.
If you only knew the things I did to a C-64 (and what I paid for it.)
Really, email me and I'll tell you stories.
We are computer geeks, we are not English majors. You are on the wrong site.
Now, Mr. six-digit ID, get the fuck off of my lawn.
Yeah, my electric toothbrush has this. Fully sealed and inductive charging.
Good luck there. We fought that fight with email. HTML and Word docs are alive and well there now.
God's an AC. That explains a lot.
Have you ever seen Idiocracy?
Yes, I've driven through Wasilla a few times.
Good point. Case the place carefully.
Much thanks. I'll pick one up and start poking around with the o-scope. $20 is cheap for an eval and it includes a working production version. Damn! I couldn't one-off the caps for that price!
Ya know we have nicer soldering irons than the one you got in your Tandy leather burning kit in 1965.
But yeah, you'd have better luck using the local 2m phone patch. Hell, I still hear an old IMTS mobile phone system still on the air in my area (hacked it back in the 80s with a tube final phone.) Let's see them trace that sucker!
7-11 and all stores have cameras now. It it's that important, they will get an image of you.
Better to buy a hot pre-paid phone off someone and then re-up your minutes at a drive up ATM on a motor cycle with your helmet on.
That's OK. It will give them time to reboot the Windows management system.
Yeah, I've found it really depends on the individual lamp. I've got one that's been over the stove (in the vent unit) for going on two years now. It never is turned off (kinda the night light for the house.) It took me three lamps to find that one.
It took me forever to find some flood style lamps that would work in the upstairs bathroom (not a nice environment for a electronics anyway.) I've found three good ones but the last socket keeps blowing them. Time to pull it apart and clean the contacts. It's a 45 year old socket right next to the tub so I guess it's about due for an overhaul.
My old 1989 Ranger with a V6 has just shy of 400,000 miles on it. Still gets about 21 MPG. Looks like shit and the manual transmission sounds like a bad opera. It's mostly regulated to dump runs and hauling wood. I don't see how anyone with an actual house can live without a pick-em-up truck. I'm sure I can keep this old dog running for at least another decade. Lots of old Rangers out there.
My other car is a 92 Saturn, gets 32 MPG on the commute. It needs new struts but I'll get around to it.
Never saw why to get a really nice car. I never thought better of a person because they had a nice car so I don't figure that I'm going to impress people that way, or at least impress people that I give a fuck about.
Keep using your old stuff, if it ain't broke so bad that you can't fix it, don't replace it. That's the way to save.
Unlike the rest of the world our houses in the US are designed for separate washer and dryer. To combine them is to make a much more complex machine. I've got 2300 sq ft to work with here (and only two bedrooms.) The nice thing is that the machines are large enough so that we only need to run a load once a week or so.
Where do you live? What is the normal size of a domicile? Really, I'm interested. Mail me if you want.
** Lasts 2 years based on 4 hours average usage per day/7 days per week.
Make that "Lasts 1/3 year."
My wife keeps nagging me to waste (waist?) some energy and get rid of the my beer gut. Actually she would rather I not waste it but use it toward re-landscaping the yard.
It all depends on which energy you are wasting.
I've heard stores of people in Europe and the US filling up their garages and closets with incandescents so they'll have a lifetime supply.
And we have to get off their lawns.
I've gone CF for about 95% of my home. There are a few spots that are waiting for the incandescent lamp to die that I only use about an hour a month. I've got a pile of incandescent bulbs in the closet and I doubt that I'll ever use them other than as a dummy load for my ham radio or maybe to keep some chickens warm in the winter. I see them as big heat giving resistors now.
Thank you! That is one trick little chip. I might have to hunt up a sample to play with.
And people say that the US can't innovate green.
My GE washer and dryer are damn near robots. The even have a serial link between the two units so the drier knows the what cycle to use from the results that the washer got.
My stove, well it's a bar of metal across the mains. I'd go with gas but it's not available where I live and I really don't feel like retrofitting propane just for the stove.
I heat the house with this beast.
If you are English that would be Vergeltungswaffen.