And it's well known in the US don't try setting a 09h00 CET meeting time because the French haven't finished coffee yet. I'm in the US and work for a 125 year old French company.
Not four core but back in the mid 80s I was using a CMOS 6502 that would do 4MHz (HC65C02P4) from Hitachi. We were building a product that had internals very closely based on the VIC20 (okay, it would run VIC BASIC) that we built our own boards for. On my development board I had built out the I/O for the 1541 disk drive, the problem was the CPU was too fast to talk to the drive. I put in a clutch and gearbox. The clutch was a push button that would ground the HALT line on the CPU (CMOS, so we could get away with it and all the RAM was static) and the gear box was a switch that threw in a 74LS74 TTL flip-flop that would divide the clock by 4. To use the disk I would engage the clutch, down shift and let off the clutch. Then I could access the disk. Once the code was loaded I would shift back in to high gear and test the code. It was a nice board for the day, 4x 6522 PIA and 88KB of EPROM/SRAM space and would map like a VIC-20/C64.
It would have been news for me in a narrow way back about 10 years ago when I was working IT for Windermere (big Seattle Realtor.) Otherwise, yeah, not really tech news except OMG Seattle!
Anyway, the big tech company in these parts is still Boeing.
Today I had to head from a bit north of Everett to the top of Snoqualmie Pass to meet family to exchange gifts. Instead of going through Seattle or Bellevue to 90 I headed to Monroe to SR203 and south to where 18 meets 90. In the last three years the only reason I've been through Seattle was to get to SeaTac. I can't handle that city anymore and I'm an old hippie that spent years in Fremont/Wallingford, I use to worked in the Westin Building for a decade. Nope, can't handle it anymore. Now I just 'commute' from Tulalip to downtown Everett for my tech job. I get paid a bit less but the extra 2 hours a day is worth it.
I'll have to give FreeDOS a try for the network stuff. I've got an old laptop with MSDOS 6.0 on one partition and and old FreeBSD on the other just to archive codeplugs to the fileserver where I then use a VM to run RSS for editing. If I didn't have to reboot each time it sure would be nice.
My plan is to trench CAT6 from our ISP fiber DMARC..
Do you mean your demarcation point? Please quit trying to make it sound like you know what you are talking about. Oh, it's also Cat. 6, as in category six, not an acronym.
I would have loved to be able to get a diesel Ranger pick-up. Chevy came out with a diesel LUV back in the 80s and I think that was the last small diesel pick-up sold in the US.
I hear that, my Perl 'Camel' book t-shirt signed by Wall, Christiansen and Randal Schwartz from LISA '96 (Chicago) is older than some of the helpdesk folk around here.
We should start a 'You know you're an old geek when...' thread. I'll start.
You know you're an old geek when midway through your career you got Amazon's first block of IP address assigned by ARIN.
Because of the geographic boundaries, it's useless for any of the 'connecting with other enthusiasts of my weird and potentially embarassing hobby/fetish/etc' applications of anonymity, since you can only interact with people in a fairly small area around you;..
So that's why I never heard of it in the ham radio forums.
So now Linux handles Active Directory and DFS shares? I can run Cisco Jabber and connect with my cow-orkers? There is a decent Visio like application I can run? Checkpoint VPN support?
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And it's well known in the US don't try setting a 09h00 CET meeting time because the French haven't finished coffee yet. I'm in the US and work for a 125 year old French company.
Because they are intelligent, and intelligence gives them a situational understanding of the world without all of that technological bunk.
Man, I would sure love to drive in your town because I can tell you that I've never have driven in traffic like that.
Lock the doors and play Nickelback at high volume to induce a non-recoverable coma. Deliver to surgery.
Why are you letting pesky details get in the way of a utopian plan?
Not four core but back in the mid 80s I was using a CMOS 6502 that would do 4MHz (HC65C02P4) from Hitachi. We were building a product that had internals very closely based on the VIC20 (okay, it would run VIC BASIC) that we built our own boards for. On my development board I had built out the I/O for the 1541 disk drive, the problem was the CPU was too fast to talk to the drive. I put in a clutch and gearbox. The clutch was a push button that would ground the HALT line on the CPU (CMOS, so we could get away with it and all the RAM was static) and the gear box was a switch that threw in a 74LS74 TTL flip-flop that would divide the clock by 4. To use the disk I would engage the clutch, down shift and let off the clutch. Then I could access the disk. Once the code was loaded I would shift back in to high gear and test the code. It was a nice board for the day, 4x 6522 PIA and 88KB of EPROM/SRAM space and would map like a VIC-20/C64.
Too bad it was used for telemarketing.
It would have been news for me in a narrow way back about 10 years ago when I was working IT for Windermere (big Seattle Realtor.) Otherwise, yeah, not really tech news except OMG Seattle!
Anyway, the big tech company in these parts is still Boeing.
Today I had to head from a bit north of Everett to the top of Snoqualmie Pass to meet family to exchange gifts. Instead of going through Seattle or Bellevue to 90 I headed to Monroe to SR203 and south to where 18 meets 90. In the last three years the only reason I've been through Seattle was to get to SeaTac. I can't handle that city anymore and I'm an old hippie that spent years in Fremont/Wallingford, I use to worked in the Westin Building for a decade. Nope, can't handle it anymore. Now I just 'commute' from Tulalip to downtown Everett for my tech job. I get paid a bit less but the extra 2 hours a day is worth it.
WhooPPSS! I see what you did there!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Just hand bottles of vodka in front of treadmills and let the citizens generate the power.
Drunken Rage Against the Machine?
I'll have to give FreeDOS a try for the network stuff. I've got an old laptop with MSDOS 6.0 on one partition and and old FreeBSD on the other just to archive codeplugs to the fileserver where I then use a VM to run RSS for editing. If I didn't have to reboot each time it sure would be nice.
My plan is to trench CAT6 from our ISP fiber DMARC..
Do you mean your demarcation point? Please quit trying to make it sound like you know what you are talking about. Oh, it's also Cat. 6, as in category six, not an acronym.
I would have loved to be able to get a diesel Ranger pick-up. Chevy came out with a diesel LUV back in the 80s and I think that was the last small diesel pick-up sold in the US.
Heh heh, I remember thinking that when I bought a 250MB HD. How could I ever fill that?
Or when I got a Commodore 8050 dual IEEE drive that had a whoppin' 2050 blocks of data per disk.
Man, the things I could have done with a $6 Adrino back in the 80s...
I hear that, my Perl 'Camel' book t-shirt signed by Wall, Christiansen and Randal Schwartz from LISA '96 (Chicago) is older than some of the helpdesk folk around here.
We should start a 'You know you're an old geek when...' thread. I'll start.
You know you're an old geek when midway through your career you got Amazon's first block of IP address assigned by ARIN.
Hell, if you're just another old guy like me you could be mistaken for a hipster just by pulling on some clothes from back deep in the closet.
No, I'm not driving/wearing/using that to be cool, I'm doing it because it hasn't worn out yet!
And shame on you for using a stock HP keyboard, still better than Dell crap keyboard, but not that good.
As much as I hate to say it, the best I've found is the Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Desktop
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Because of the geographic boundaries, it's useless for any of the 'connecting with other enthusiasts of my weird and potentially embarassing hobby/fetish/etc' applications of anonymity, since you can only interact with people in a fairly small area around you;..
So that's why I never heard of it in the ham radio forums.
Did they try to make an app out of FRS radios?
But if you live in Seattle you would never actually use an umbrella.
..Mayberry to Petticoat Junction..
hey! you're showing your age there.
There's uncle Joe, he's movin' kinda slow at the junction.
I assume that there is a stop at Green Acres.
doesn't decimate mean loss of 10%
It literally does but feel in to the same misuse as literally.
I saw the Beatles live on a B&W TV Feb. 9th, 1964. By that I should have a negative UID.
So now Linux handles Active Directory and DFS shares? I can run Cisco Jabber and connect with my cow-orkers? There is a decent Visio like application I can run? Checkpoint VPN support?
That would work if congress actually funded the agencies that are charged with policing the law.
And don't even get started on if it has to be part of an enterprise Active Directory domain.
Oh, you got the $20 check too?