All of the hardware requirements exist today. Looking at Handspring, most list prices now are under $200 - and that's for 2-3 old technology. In 2-3 years, an iPaq 38xx could easily be selling in that range. GPS card today is about $200... Sierra card w/ service could be a wildcard...
In quanities of 500,000 8 years from now, this can easily be imagined in a wearable device.
Of course, my one large assumption is that the software will be developed based on an open source OS, avoiding the microsoft tax...
I set mine up over the weekend. Really an impressive box for the money. Ethernet and TOSLink... plays MP3s from Windows shares (or a samba share) and internet radio via stations setup on turtleradio's site...has a okay web interface and the next firmware release offers an API for custom interfaces (PDAs, etc).
We have several PCs with radically different tastes in music. Access to all of it is really handy.. it handles play lists and favorites.
We already have lots of storage on our PCs and CD/RW drives. I can't see spending the additional $$$ for a dedicated appliance drive and burner. I can buy another BIG harddrive for the PC and a TiVo (with a harddrive mod for it) for the price difference
Okay, the audiotron is WinCE based. when I get the Linux based TiVo, I'll get some karma back....
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I'm lucky enough to have one - upgraded to 96MB. Shipped with Win98 and runs NT, Win2K and Linux. Pretty cool with 2 PCMCIA slots
I first saw these at a M$ PDC in '98 or '99 - all the presenters were using them. The Librettos got more attention than the content, IMO:)
The keyboards are an ergonomic nightmare which I think had some role in the limited US marketing. Our corporate ergo folks nixed these for that reason.
jafa's quote on the forum page: It will need an external aerial if you put the cover on - you can buy cards with a socket, cable, and external aerial, or, if you don't mind a little soldering most cards have the pads to add an external aerial socket.
Hmmmm... My audiotron arrived today and I've been thinking of how best to get network to it. We're also thinking about a TiVo. Altho 802.11b is a neat idea, I think the future is having a 4 to 8 port hub/switch at the home entertainment center tied back with 100BaseT.
These products will need decent bandwidth and I just can't quite seeing juryrigging aerials and pringles cans looking something like tin foil on rabbit ears...
Since I got the Dragon+, I haven't had any problems with Linux - in fact. the 2.4.9 kernel is quite helpful:
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Found and enabled local APIC! (from the messages log file)
I'm running all the onboard devices - and a few bus mastering PCI cards without a hitch.
One thing you may want to look into is a utility like 'setpci' which allows you to poke the bios registers with anything you please - even if there isn't a specific BIOS entry for it. For example I'm enabling athlon xp power management with:
setpci -v -s 0:0.0 95=1E
setpci -v -s 0:0.0 92=e9
VIA's website has a lot of info.
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I've been experimenting with different APs and cards - range issues seem to be related to the quality of the card, not the AP. The Cisco 350 for example seems to get a great signal most anywhere inside or out while other cards can't seem to maintain a good signal in the next room - all from the same AP. YMMV.
My business class ISDN is in my company's name (with me as a c/o). Bell-Atlantic/Verizon IS responsive. A co-worker who lives about 5 miles from me had his phone service 'cut' literally with a cable company ditch-witch. Verizon had a temporary line running across his front yard 2 hours after the incident. For myself, Verizon has been up on the pole at 10 at night straightening out shorted pairs.
Never had a problem here with a SLA not being met.
Business class service is typically double the rate of residential. $15 unmetered redidential = $30 business. They will clip ya on long distance charges on peak, tho.
A VPN connection will use LOTS more bandwidth than a regular residentail web surfer.
Bullshit. From experience, 95% of corporate VPN users access email or an occasional document on a file share... mostly on Sunday afternoon or evening because they have meetings on Monday. I don't know anyone IN work that's running a datacenter operation out of their office let alone remotely - hundreds of documents? file servers? Cut me a break.
I telecommute several days a week. I am also on-call. My company reimburses phone/data expenses each month.
As a policy, they will not provide dedicated service (T1's, etc) but will reimburse broadband and ISDN.
I have both! The broadband is cable, which I pick up the fees for - If I was forced to a business class of cable service, my company would pick that up. The ISDN line is business class service which I usually just use for long distance phone calls but have had occasion to use as a backup when the cable was out or the VPN switch was down for maintainence. If the ISDN is out (and this has happened), the telco will have it back up the same day - that's the service level agreement. If the cable internet is out - they may say 'next week' - and I can't say a thing - it's residential. I would expect that if I paid for a business class cable connection there would be a same day SLA in place.
Are you saying your company wouldn't compensate you for the downtime? YOU approached the carrier for reimbursement of wages? HUH? Did they keep a straight face?
Think about it, a disaster recovery plan also applies to off-site operations - if your IT department is too short sighted to make recommendations and reimburse for proper service levels for telecommuters and then tell you to pound sand for wages when you loose service (say because a backhoe in bumfrik egypt cuts a fibre line), I'd seriously recommend them not offering telecommuting as an option or start looking for another job because they have bigger problems.
If you're a contractor, then you have to make redundancy part of the cost of doing business.
I was a @home customer for a few years.. now comcast.
The bit that always baffled me was if @home was operating at a loss, why purchase excite? In retrospect, that was the nail in the coffin - the contracts started to fall apart after.
The excite home page had a ceiling of users - @home subscribers - and the point was... click thru ads? When that revenue stream vanished - and I suspect @home was hit early and hard - the bond issues were floated - the creditors were then in control and the MSOs wanted out
And what did the MSO's have to do? Backbone, email and some web content (comcast dropped news servers). Most started planning when they indicated they would not renew last June - they could have started sooner, but @home had a contractual restriction that prevented the MSOs from developing their own backbone networks.
BTW, In 3 years with Comcast@home, I never had a price increase. That only came when the cutover took place (went up $5 but if you bought your modem, the price would be the same).
What AT&T pulled was a sham and if I read 'it was perfectly legal' again, I think I'll barf.
Personally, I think the 'military interest' is hogwash
The army air corps (now air force) in WWII was testing heated flight suits - didnt use a battery but plugged into the plane itself. Funny thing then was the pilots still prefered the 'bomber jackets' after a few came back with their butts smokin (the suits actually caught fire).
Anyway, 50 years later there's some serious space suits, flight suits, etc that can handle any extreme imagineable - they already HAVE this technology... now why would the government be interested in buying some hyped up ron popeil version from a company that's admitally in trouble financially?
Maybe Sonny's/Mary's inspiration is the movie Groundhog Day (Bill Murray 1993) where the sad bastard has to wake up every morning for what seems like eternity to Sonny's 'I got you, Babe'.
I agree totally... but I think what Mr. Katz is looking for is what the technical community feels is the next 'killer app' or *where* to invest his (or others) $$$s.
How the media looks upon the internet is only from the perspective of making money, therefore the try to create a center or locus for the 5% they CAN understand - making a buck.
In his entire diatribe, he mentions publically traded companies as 'examples' - by the third paragraph, I was expecting to see ticker symbols with links to a stock chart. Let's call it as it is... Mr. Katz, are you re-shuffling your portfolio and looking for tips? Here ya go - sell MSFT buy SUNW, IBM and RHAT
This has to be the most thinly veiled make money fast scheme I've seen in a long time.
Today, I do quite a bit if work on AIX... Perl, Shell stuff, some C... prior to that, M$ technologies - Scripting - VB, Java, Perl.. lots more C... and tracking my programming career of 22 years, I've worked with quite a few languages. In that time, always bring the systems programmer type, there always seems to be one or two neat things I'd like to do from another language in a current project.
One example is using regular expressions... A few years ago, the company delevopment standard was VB so naturally, most of what I wrote is VB Script - with a lot of the real work done in my own C objects. I handle a lot of text so I wanted to use regexs for some maych/replace stuff. VB stunk at this (as well as their broken split function) I didn't know enough Perl at the time so I decided on JavaScript - beautiful - 2 lines of code. I wanted access to the submatches array back in VB... nope! Can't write to a VB style array in javascript and pass it back. Moreover, the nonsense required in C is much crazier - MS C has some BSTR and Varient data handling but it's a royal pain to work with. Today, I would have written the whole thing in Perl - why now and not then? Company Standards (read: programmers can do what they want now to get the job done as quickly as possible).
Many years ago I worked at a Bank. One VP just bought an IBM XT. Another had the idea of offering mortgage borrowers accelerated payoff (they had low rate loans and the going rate was above 11%). They got together and low and behold, the XT could calculate the interest saved by accelerated payoff. So they come down to IT and request a 'blurb' on each statement telling the customers how much they'd save with early payoff. Well, a minor problem was the mainframe - a Burroughs medium system - had only 1 compiler that could handle it... Fortran. In the end I had to write 3 programs to accomplish it all because of data conversion and other limitations.
Sure, one could argue 'why not Java' or why not this or that. The why not is because the vast majority of 'coders' out there code in one maybe two languages. If C# provides the 'glue' to tie things together without worrying about the insane cross compiler/application issues, then by all means... where can I sign up to help
The accomplishments in my career we mostly based on doing things others didn't/couldn't do. I refer to this as 'glue' code - leveraging what's available to come up with a solution. Over the years, I've found enjoyment in coming up with these but the 'getting there' is becoming tiresome. It's always the same problem - this tool will do 75% of what I need but I have to write it in X because ____.
Miguel's letter really inspired me to look at things from a bigger picture. He pointed out what got him excited and how programmers can become movtivated and more productive - which I can always relate to.
M$ had a problem (well, a few) and came up with.NET as a solution... Miguel looked at it and saw application for his current (and future) set of problems and said 'why not'. As for me, I do multiple platforms and anything that will enable me to get a job done quicker the better.
Politics vs. technology. First, I'd like to point out that I'd like to totally get away from dual-booting... total waste of resources, IMO. I think Miguel and the corporate sponsors are hoping the same thing. I believe that Miguel's interest is holding together the intel's, suns and hp's by making concessions to satisfy their interests - maybe he could do a better job of persuasion... maybe RMS could give him some help.
I do quite a bit of cross platform work as a programmer. Frameworks and infrastructures are wonderful things. For those who say that.NET is untested and unproven, well it's been worked on since 1999 and the components have been in beta for the past year (it's at Beta 3 now). All M$ has to do is release it and turn on the marketing machine.
My confusion, I suppose, is how GNU/FSF/RMS have such a problem with all this. The Register articles point out that Miguel's position has remained consistant (they point to a 9/01 interview) and I'm reading currect events as an extension of what he's been saying all along. Anyway, isn't the FSF about bringing tools to the community without the commercial costs?.NET is unproven and spawn of the Beast so it can't be 'the best'? Is that one person's opinion (RMS)... dumb questions maybe that are steeped in confusing control issues, which I really don't care about.
What I do care about is that if Miguel or anyone has a concept and the where with all to bring it fruition, more power to him. If it's a 'bad' idea, it will fail. Integration and interoperability are not only buzzwords but they are key concepts in all sucessful implementations. Projects like this should, IMO, be encouraged and not horsewhipped.
As for RMS, I think his ego is really getting in the way. It may be me, but if someone demanded an explanation for something that I've been working twards for a year, I think I'd be looking to a new licensing model.
Can you say DivX? The abomination created by mpaa lawyers and marketed by Circuit City?
DVD was also new then and some producers and studios (speilberg, fox) threatened never to release anything on DVD - only the pay-per-play model of DivX
The consumer won in the end because the model was STUPID and DOOMED. Heck, I still haven't set foot in a Circuit City since - I'll go out of my way to get what I need at Best Buy
The only thing that's getting stronger are the law firms in LA - who actually bill by the hour to surf the web for images of Homer Simson
My first computer work was as an operator on a Burroughs B-4700... the front panel had 8 (I think) nixies and a keypad to enter machine instructions. Most of the time, it was to enter the instructions to read the bootstrap deck from the card reader for a coldstart. If the mainframe crashed, that was where you could debug, etc. In later models, the bootstrap level was moved to the console, which had a cpu, 8" floppy and a CRT.
Later, I went to work for Burroughs Corp at their large systems manufacturing plant. I was around when Burroughs aquired (read: bet the farm) Sperry Univac under CEO and former Treasury Sect W Michael Bluementhau creating Unisys. As I recall, nixie technology has not been used in any new (B) products since 1980-1981 - they probably kept manufacturing a few years for spares, etc.
I love the clock idea - sounds like a cool project.
We have an in-dash cd player in the car. Besides the obvious theft issues, have you ever looked closely at the back of a cd you changed while driving? It's scratched. Being left out in the heat and cold won't do them much good either, I suspect.
Now is your point I should buy 2 copies of a CD? That indeed would make the recording industry happy but I would be an idiot.
Copies made for personal use are permissable, and the recording industry is preventing that.
For myself, if there's a album I want that's copy protected and someone managed to rip it and post it to a newsgroup... I'm going to d/l it and burn my own cd.
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It's in federal court - IIRC, no teevee camaras permitted.
All of the hardware requirements exist today. Looking at Handspring, most list prices now are under $200 - and that's for 2-3 old technology. In 2-3 years, an iPaq 38xx could easily be selling in that range. GPS card today is about $200... Sierra card w/ service could be a wildcard...
In quanities of 500,000 8 years from now, this can easily be imagined in a wearable device.
Of course, my one large assumption is that the software will be developed based on an open source OS, avoiding the microsoft tax...
$271US at buy.com.
I set mine up over the weekend. Really an impressive box for the money. Ethernet and TOSLink... plays MP3s from Windows shares (or a samba share) and internet radio via stations setup on turtleradio's site...has a okay web interface and the next firmware release offers an API for custom interfaces (PDAs, etc).
We have several PCs with radically different tastes in music. Access to all of it is really handy.. it handles play lists and favorites.
We already have lots of storage on our PCs and CD/RW drives. I can't see spending the additional $$$ for a dedicated appliance drive and burner. I can buy another BIG harddrive for the PC and a TiVo (with a harddrive mod for it) for the price difference
Okay, the audiotron is WinCE based. when I get the Linux based TiVo, I'll get some karma back....
I'm lucky enough to have one - upgraded to 96MB. Shipped with Win98 and runs NT, Win2K and Linux. Pretty cool with 2 PCMCIA slots
I first saw these at a M$ PDC in '98 or '99 - all the presenters were using them. The Librettos got more attention than the content, IMO :)
The keyboards are an ergonomic nightmare which I think had some role in the limited US marketing. Our corporate ergo folks nixed these for that reason.
Hmmmm... My audiotron arrived today and I've been thinking of how best to get network to it. We're also thinking about a TiVo. Altho 802.11b is a neat idea, I think the future is having a 4 to 8 port hub/switch at the home entertainment center tied back with 100BaseT.
These products will need decent bandwidth and I just can't quite seeing juryrigging aerials and pringles cans looking something like tin foil on rabbit ears...
e XP ensive.
Since I got the Dragon+, I haven't had any problems with Linux - in fact. the 2.4.9 kernel is quite helpful:
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
(from the messages log file)
I'm running all the onboard devices - and a few bus mastering PCI cards without a hitch.
One thing you may want to look into is a utility like 'setpci' which allows you to poke the bios registers with anything you please - even if there isn't a specific BIOS entry for it. For example I'm enabling athlon xp power management with:
setpci -v -s 0:0.0 95=1E
setpci -v -s 0:0.0 92=e9
VIA's website has a lot of info.
I've been experimenting with different APs and cards - range issues seem to be related to the quality of the card, not the AP. The Cisco 350 for example seems to get a great signal most anywhere inside or out while other cards can't seem to maintain a good signal in the next room - all from the same AP. YMMV.
My business class ISDN is in my company's name (with me as a c/o). Bell-Atlantic/Verizon IS responsive. A co-worker who lives about 5 miles from me had his phone service 'cut' literally with a cable company ditch-witch. Verizon had a temporary line running across his front yard 2 hours after the incident. For myself, Verizon has been up on the pole at 10 at night straightening out shorted pairs.
Never had a problem here with a SLA not being met.
Thank you.. won't happen again :)
Business class service is typically double the rate of residential. $15 unmetered redidential = $30 business. They will clip ya on long distance charges on peak, tho.
Bullshit. From experience, 95% of corporate VPN users access email or an occasional document on a file share... mostly on Sunday afternoon or evening because they have meetings on Monday. I don't know anyone IN work that's running a datacenter operation out of their office let alone remotely - hundreds of documents? file servers? Cut me a break.
Your employer's disinformation is showing.
I telecommute several days a week. I am also on-call. My company reimburses phone/data expenses each month.
As a policy, they will not provide dedicated service (T1's, etc) but will reimburse broadband and ISDN.
I have both! The broadband is cable, which I pick up the fees for - If I was forced to a business class of cable service, my company would pick that up. The ISDN line is business class service which I usually just use for long distance phone calls but have had occasion to use as a backup when the cable was out or the VPN switch was down for maintainence. If the ISDN is out (and this has happened), the telco will have it back up the same day - that's the service level agreement. If the cable internet is out - they may say 'next week' - and I can't say a thing - it's residential. I would expect that if I paid for a business class cable connection there would be a same day SLA in place.
Are you saying your company wouldn't compensate you for the downtime? YOU approached the carrier for reimbursement of wages? HUH? Did they keep a straight face?
Think about it, a disaster recovery plan also applies to off-site operations - if your IT department is too short sighted to make recommendations and reimburse for proper service levels for telecommuters and then tell you to pound sand for wages when you loose service (say because a backhoe in bumfrik egypt cuts a fibre line), I'd seriously recommend them not offering telecommuting as an option or start looking for another job because they have bigger problems.
If you're a contractor, then you have to make redundancy part of the cost of doing business.
I was a @home customer for a few years.. now comcast.
The bit that always baffled me was if @home was operating at a loss, why purchase excite? In retrospect, that was the nail in the coffin - the contracts started to fall apart after.
The excite home page had a ceiling of users - @home subscribers - and the point was... click thru ads? When that revenue stream vanished - and I suspect @home was hit early and hard - the bond issues were floated - the creditors were then in control and the MSOs wanted out
And what did the MSO's have to do? Backbone, email and some web content (comcast dropped news servers). Most started planning when they indicated they would not renew last June - they could have started sooner, but @home had a contractual restriction that prevented the MSOs from developing their own backbone networks.
BTW, In 3 years with Comcast@home, I never had a price increase. That only came when the cutover took place (went up $5 but if you bought your modem, the price would be the same).
What AT&T pulled was a sham and if I read 'it was perfectly legal' again, I think I'll barf.
Personally, I think the 'military interest' is hogwash
The army air corps (now air force) in WWII was testing heated flight suits - didnt use a battery but plugged into the plane itself. Funny thing then was the pilots still prefered the 'bomber jackets' after a few came back with their butts smokin (the suits actually caught fire).
Anyway, 50 years later there's some serious space suits, flight suits, etc that can handle any extreme imagineable - they already HAVE this technology... now why would the government be interested in buying some hyped up ron popeil version from a company that's admitally in trouble financially?
Mr Furstein trolling for investors?
Maybe Sonny's/Mary's inspiration is the movie Groundhog Day (Bill Murray 1993) where the sad bastard has to wake up every morning for what seems like eternity to Sonny's 'I got you, Babe'.
Just think of the royalities!
I agree totally... but I think what Mr. Katz is looking for is what the technical community feels is the next 'killer app' or *where* to invest his (or others) $$$s.
How the media looks upon the internet is only from the perspective of making money, therefore the try to create a center or locus for the 5% they CAN understand - making a buck.
In his entire diatribe, he mentions publically traded companies as 'examples' - by the third paragraph, I was expecting to see ticker symbols with links to a stock chart. Let's call it as it is... Mr. Katz, are you re-shuffling your portfolio and looking for tips? Here ya go - sell MSFT buy SUNW, IBM and RHAT
This has to be the most thinly veiled make money fast scheme I've seen in a long time.
Today, I do quite a bit if work on AIX... Perl, Shell stuff, some C... prior to that, M$ technologies - Scripting - VB, Java, Perl.. lots more C... and tracking my programming career of 22 years, I've worked with quite a few languages. In that time, always bring the systems programmer type, there always seems to be one or two neat things I'd like to do from another language in a current project.
One example is using regular expressions... A few years ago, the company delevopment standard was VB so naturally, most of what I wrote is VB Script - with a lot of the real work done in my own C objects. I handle a lot of text so I wanted to use regexs for some maych/replace stuff. VB stunk at this (as well as their broken split function) I didn't know enough Perl at the time so I decided on JavaScript - beautiful - 2 lines of code. I wanted access to the submatches array back in VB... nope! Can't write to a VB style array in javascript and pass it back. Moreover, the nonsense required in C is much crazier - MS C has some BSTR and Varient data handling but it's a royal pain to work with. Today, I would have written the whole thing in Perl - why now and not then? Company Standards (read: programmers can do what they want now to get the job done as quickly as possible).
Many years ago I worked at a Bank. One VP just bought an IBM XT. Another had the idea of offering mortgage borrowers accelerated payoff (they had low rate loans and the going rate was above 11%). They got together and low and behold, the XT could calculate the interest saved by accelerated payoff. So they come down to IT and request a 'blurb' on each statement telling the customers how much they'd save with early payoff. Well, a minor problem was the mainframe - a Burroughs medium system - had only 1 compiler that could handle it... Fortran. In the end I had to write 3 programs to accomplish it all because of data conversion and other limitations.
Sure, one could argue 'why not Java' or why not this or that. The why not is because the vast majority of 'coders' out there code in one maybe two languages. If C# provides the 'glue' to tie things together without worrying about the insane cross compiler/application issues, then by all means... where can I sign up to help
The accomplishments in my career we mostly based on doing things others didn't/couldn't do. I refer to this as 'glue' code - leveraging what's available to come up with a solution. Over the years, I've found enjoyment in coming up with these but the 'getting there' is becoming tiresome. It's always the same problem - this tool will do 75% of what I need but I have to write it in X because ____.
Miguel's letter really inspired me to look at things from a bigger picture. He pointed out what got him excited and how programmers can become movtivated and more productive - which I can always relate to.
M$ had a problem (well, a few) and came up with .NET as a solution... Miguel looked at it and saw application for his current (and future) set of problems and said 'why not'. As for me, I do multiple platforms and anything that will enable me to get a job done quicker the better.
Politics vs. technology. First, I'd like to point out that I'd like to totally get away from dual-booting... total waste of resources, IMO. I think Miguel and the corporate sponsors are hoping the same thing. I believe that Miguel's interest is holding together the intel's, suns and hp's by making concessions to satisfy their interests - maybe he could do a better job of persuasion... maybe RMS could give him some help.
I do quite a bit of cross platform work as a programmer. Frameworks and infrastructures are wonderful things. For those who say that .NET is untested and unproven, well it's been worked on since 1999 and the components have been in beta for the past year (it's at Beta 3 now). All M$ has to do is release it and turn on the marketing machine.
My confusion, I suppose, is how GNU/FSF/RMS have such a problem with all this. The Register articles point out that Miguel's position has remained consistant (they point to a 9/01 interview) and I'm reading currect events as an extension of what he's been saying all along. Anyway, isn't the FSF about bringing tools to the community without the commercial costs? .NET is unproven and spawn of the Beast so it can't be 'the best'? Is that one person's opinion (RMS)... dumb questions maybe that are steeped in confusing control issues, which I really don't care about.
What I do care about is that if Miguel or anyone has a concept and the where with all to bring it fruition, more power to him. If it's a 'bad' idea, it will fail. Integration and interoperability are not only buzzwords but they are key concepts in all sucessful implementations. Projects like this should, IMO, be encouraged and not horsewhipped.
As for RMS, I think his ego is really getting in the way. It may be me, but if someone demanded an explanation for something that I've been working twards for a year, I think I'd be looking to a new licensing model.
here's a cuecat... slightly used... oh wait - the keyboard is wireless - nevermind
Can you say DivX? The abomination created by mpaa lawyers and marketed by Circuit City?
DVD was also new then and some producers and studios (speilberg, fox) threatened never to release anything on DVD - only the pay-per-play model of DivX
The consumer won in the end because the model was STUPID and DOOMED. Heck, I still haven't set foot in a Circuit City since - I'll go out of my way to get what I need at Best Buy
The only thing that's getting stronger are the law firms in LA - who actually bill by the hour to surf the web for images of Homer Simson
There's still no excuse for greed...
well, from the PS2/Linux FAQ..
Can I upgrade the RAM on my PlayStation 2 ? No. The RAM is fixed at 32 MB.
With that limitation, I don't see it as much more than web-tv... or a 64-bit thrashing machine
My first computer work was as an operator on a Burroughs B-4700... the front panel had 8 (I think) nixies and a keypad to enter machine instructions. Most of the time, it was to enter the instructions to read the bootstrap deck from the card reader for a coldstart. If the mainframe crashed, that was where you could debug, etc. In later models, the bootstrap level was moved to the console, which had a cpu, 8" floppy and a CRT.
Later, I went to work for Burroughs Corp at their large systems manufacturing plant. I was around when Burroughs aquired (read: bet the farm) Sperry Univac under CEO and former Treasury Sect W Michael Bluementhau creating Unisys. As I recall, nixie technology has not been used in any new (B) products since 1980-1981 - they probably kept manufacturing a few years for spares, etc.
I love the clock idea - sounds like a cool project.
Heh... you must be a riaa lawyer.
We have an in-dash cd player in the car. Besides the obvious theft issues, have you ever looked closely at the back of a cd you changed while driving? It's scratched. Being left out in the heat and cold won't do them much good either, I suspect.
Now is your point I should buy 2 copies of a CD? That indeed would make the recording industry happy but I would be an idiot.
Copies made for personal use are permissable, and the recording industry is preventing that.
For myself, if there's a album I want that's copy protected and someone managed to rip it and post it to a newsgroup... I'm going to d/l it and burn my own cd.
There's no excuse for greed
cat /proc/cpuinfo
stepping 2 is rev A5 which according to the AMD Athlon Processor Model 6 Revision Guide does not have the bug.