Can't think why but they seem to have managed to avoid the pager block when they were all the rage, preferring instead to harass landlines. Of course, when cellphones really took off in the fashion consumer market, pagers died a death. I don't even know if they got the "7" when the DEXes were updated.
a 28AWG wire (nominal diameter you'd find on a motherboard jackplate) would melt if you pumped 100W through it. There's a REASON the USB spec says 1500mA, and that is PRECISELY because the wire is rated for it!
oh, forgot to answer the first question part: the CPU is an NEC V40 at 4.77/8MHz, not quite an x86 - it runs 8080 instructions and is code-compatible with the Intel 80188 (the feature-enhanced version of the 8088).
4-colour CGA. It has two floppy drives and is capable of running DOS 5.1, very possibly a stripped version of FractINT (never tried running FractINT on an XT clone before...), I would be using it for word processing in EDIT but I'm onto my stock of cheap (Verbatim) floppies now and keep chewing through them - need to find a supply of Sonys.
(last time I went to the Science Museum (2013?) they had a computer exhibition up that included a slew of Apples, an IBM PS/1, some consumer machines including a BBC Model B 32 (same model as I have, a Mod. 7, except mine works) and a Spectrum +2 (they wanted my +3 but I ain't letting that go), a Cray X-MP (possibly a mockup since it was out on the open floor and opened to show the five miles of wires and sat next to a sign boasting that "This computer served in later life as a bench. Take a load off."), and a tray of random processors showing the evolution between the Zilog 80 through Intel's Core. I have a stack of photos somewhere).
should they (women) show an interest in STEM, I for one would be happy to give them a shot as long as they can show equal skill as the men they would hopefully be augmenting rather than replacing. Knowing the political scene, though, it'll be more than likely that the female incursion into STEM will displace men, and purely for marks on the radfem scorecard, resulting in a collective detriment of skill. Though that said, we have women to thank for the current state of computer technology: thank Hedy Lamarr for laying the groundwork for spread spectrum, and there are many others who worked behind the scenes, utterly forgotten and totally unrewarded for their contribution, who advanced asymmetric encryption algorithms, the Zen of computer programming,
...and that just threw me completely, what the fuck is that just popped up in my system tray saying "Get Windows 10"!? https://lh5.googleusercontent....
but when you're playing World of Tanks, 50ms is the difference between getting the first shot in and losing.
I would not want anything with comparable or worse lag poking around inside me particularly when the one thing that the whole shebang relies on (POWER) is the one thing that's out of control of any person directly involved in the operation.
I wasn't mixing anything up, that's your addled noggin doing that. I used the NASA call for processors as an example of them knowing what they were after and more importantly WHY.
some people still do code for the Z80 in 16KB of memory.
It is still in widespread use from robotic control systems to hardened consoles to law enforcement (it's the processing unit in portable breathalysers). Some modern mobile phones (some Ericsson models) still use the Z80. Some musical synthesisers use the Z80 in realtime voice processing. The Harvard Zed SBC uses a Z80 core.
(of course, my comment stems from the more likely than not scenario of any intelligence visiting from outside the solar system will be of the noncorporeal nature - a radio signal or less likely, but still more likely than an organic being, a computer program maybe encased in a robot probe).
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funnily enough, that never became an issue.
Can't think why but they seem to have managed to avoid the pager block when they were all the rage, preferring instead to harass landlines. Of course, when cellphones really took off in the fashion consumer market, pagers died a death. I don't even know if they got the "7" when the DEXes were updated.
nice. I used a pager connected to a relay across the reset switch. Dirty but it worked.
uh... video editing?
a 28AWG wire (nominal diameter you'd find on a motherboard jackplate) would melt if you pumped 100W through it. There's a REASON the USB spec says 1500mA, and that is PRECISELY because the wire is rated for it!
"only" since about 2006... the AMD FX64 processors were the first IIRC.
I'm a professional hacker, you insensitive clod!
I don't take my work phone with me when I go hunting.
so which is it? Long weekend, or gathering more information?
You've not only jumped the shark here, you dangled your junk in its mouth while you flew over.
shut up, Wesley.
ah! I forgot about him! :D
haven't we been through this? It's Hedy.
(sourced citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...)
oh, forgot to answer the first question part: the CPU is an NEC V40 at 4.77/8MHz, not quite an x86 - it runs 8080 instructions and is code-compatible with the Intel 80188 (the feature-enhanced version of the 8088).
4-colour CGA. It has two floppy drives and is capable of running DOS 5.1, very possibly a stripped version of FractINT (never tried running FractINT on an XT clone before...), I would be using it for word processing in EDIT but I'm onto my stock of cheap (Verbatim) floppies now and keep chewing through them - need to find a supply of Sonys.
are you writing the Chancellor's Budget, by any chance?
Fuck me. Manufacturing is probably less than 10% the total cost of ANY item.
...or an IMSAI 8080?
(last time I went to the Science Museum (2013?) they had a computer exhibition up that included a slew of Apples, an IBM PS/1, some consumer machines including a BBC Model B 32 (same model as I have, a Mod. 7, except mine works) and a Spectrum +2 (they wanted my +3 but I ain't letting that go), a Cray X-MP (possibly a mockup since it was out on the open floor and opened to show the five miles of wires and sat next to a sign boasting that "This computer served in later life as a bench. Take a load off."), and a tray of random processors showing the evolution between the Zilog 80 through Intel's Core. I have a stack of photos somewhere).
I've got a still-fully-functional Olivetti PC1, had it on last night in fact - what's that worth?
should they (women) show an interest in STEM, I for one would be happy to give them a shot as long as they can show equal skill as the men they would hopefully be augmenting rather than replacing. Knowing the political scene, though, it'll be more than likely that the female incursion into STEM will displace men, and purely for marks on the radfem scorecard, resulting in a collective detriment of skill. Though that said, we have women to thank for the current state of computer technology: thank Hedy Lamarr for laying the groundwork for spread spectrum, and there are many others who worked behind the scenes, utterly forgotten and totally unrewarded for their contribution, who advanced asymmetric encryption algorithms, the Zen of computer programming,
Slashdot: where men are twelve year old boys and women are undercover FBI agents.
but when you're playing World of Tanks, 50ms is the difference between getting the first shot in and losing.
I would not want anything with comparable or worse lag poking around inside me particularly when the one thing that the whole shebang relies on (POWER) is the one thing that's out of control of any person directly involved in the operation.
ok. You threw me right there.
Can't parse.
what, are you pumping raw, unregulated PV through that?
K.
space is not the issue.
Nope, space is definitely the issue...
I saw what you did there.
I wasn't mixing anything up, that's your addled noggin doing that. I used the NASA call for processors as an example of them knowing what they were after and more importantly WHY.
some people still do code for the Z80 in 16KB of memory.
It is still in widespread use from robotic control systems to hardened consoles to law enforcement (it's the processing unit in portable breathalysers). Some modern mobile phones (some Ericsson models) still use the Z80. Some musical synthesisers use the Z80 in realtime voice processing. The Harvard Zed SBC uses a Z80 core.
indeed!
(of course, my comment stems from the more likely than not scenario of any intelligence visiting from outside the solar system will be of the noncorporeal nature - a radio signal or less likely, but still more likely than an organic being, a computer program maybe encased in a robot probe).