I have Office 4.3 on CD-ROM. It was pretty commonly available that way. I know people who had the floppies and called Microsoft and ordered it on CD for a 'media charge' of about $10.
The full schematics for the motherboard, and all issued expansion cards, plus the source code for the BIOS, was also made available for the IBM PC, XT, and AT. And the Compaq clones, and the AT&T clones, and even the Commodore 64. This kind of 'documentation' was commonly made available for computers in the 80's.
It's not something 'special' where Apple wanted people to 'love their computers inside and out.' They had to provide documentation so their product could compete, and programmers could figure out how to write code for it.
No one today does anything innovative, except occasionally Apple
*snort*
(when Apple paid Malda cold cash for the apple.slashdot.org section, did they also get a complimentary three-digit Slashdot UID account for Apple marketing to troll with?)
What does 'mac users' have to do with backspace keys on the Apple 1?
The spirit of 'open hardware and hacking' at Apple that Woz championed was long, long, gone by the time the Mac came out. Along with Woz himself, sadly.
I know a lot of people who collect old Microsoft products the same way.
I personally have a copy of PC-DOS 1.0 on my bookshelf and have been considering selling it to a collector. I also have Microsoft/IBM's Basic Compiler 1.0 which will produce binaries for DOS 1.0 and above. I also have Windows 1.03, Wordstar 2.2 for DOS, and CP/M-86 (all complete original product with box, manuals, registration cards, etc. etc.) All cool old stuff.
You're wrong. Collecting vintage software really has nothing to do with Microsoft or the 'Linux battle with Microsoft' that some people get all riled up about. What Microsoft is doing now has little or nothing to do with the fun of fiddling around with the older stuff.
Also, the commented BIOS source code, in Assembler, for the IBM PC, PC-XT, and PC-AT were published in the Technical Reference Manuals. This is also the case for the Compaq Deskpro 386 and the AT&T 6300. I have most of those manuals.
It sounds like an after-the-fact shakedown. Something he alleges to have created happens to get captured into the background for a game.
Ka-ching. He cashes in on it.
Just an aside: 'Graffiti Artists' may be credentialed, and some may even have permission and/or a commission for their 'work' on the street. They legitimize a lot of graffiti that is not legimate by their actions, however.
Why not call it 'mural art' and let loose of the term 'graffiti' which is closely associated with vandalism?
I don't know why I always reflexively spell it link instead of ling.
'Mae Ling Mak, naked and petrified' was the message on Slashdot long before all the Natalie Portman drivel. I mean, Star Wars is the crap they print on cups at McDonalds, people....
It's a way for the GPL advocates to bray and bray and bray on a daily basis. It's a place for schoolboys to get their first lectures on how the GPL works. It provides a 'dummy' scarecrow for zealots to hurl their fury at.
And apparently it gets ad impression revenue for the people who run this site.
I wouldn't even call Cringely a 'geek'. He's a half-journalst half-geek who is just the one who decided to commercialize the 'Robert X. Cringely' moniker that a number of journalists shared in influencial tech columns of the past. His most accurate label would be 'opportunist' but then, anybody whose column header on a website sandwiches his face between Jobs and Gates (even though his head would be too small to even see if scaled correctly in reference to the other two).... well....
AC current is significantly more dangerous than DC current. Electricity at higher frequencies penetrates the body in different ways than electricity at 'flat' i.e. 0 Hertz, 'frequencies.'
However, there are significant advantages in transport and distribution to using Alternating Current over DC. These were what lead to the defeat of Edison's DC power transmission methods.
2. Created the first GUI? Also not true, the Apple Lisa was the first true GUI.
Depends on your use of the term 'true.' The pioneering GUI development that preceeded the Lisa was significant. The first prototype 'mouse' was developed in the middle of the 1960's, for goodness sake.
And the Lisa was a dismal failure in the market. I remember about 1990 when they sat mute in used computer shops and we could say in wonderment 'ten thousand bucks.'
The IBM 5100 was only about ten grand, and it was a hell of a machine for that money, a half a decade before the Lisa. (not GUI-wise, of course)
Katherine Harris is a registered and active Republican. I don't know why that makes her a shill, any more than all the active and registered Democrats in Hollywood are shills.
The 2000 presidential election was too close to call. That's the way it should be summed up, and then we move on to analysis of how it WAS called. Gore didn't win, there was no 'mandate' for him to rule. It is notable that the Republicans controlled all branches of government within two years after that election, and it's NOT because of any conspiracy.
Well, maybe a conspiracy by the left wing of the Democratic party to nominate 'squeaky-clean-platform' unelectable candidates....
I agree about EE's and soldering. I am an Electronic Tech, for god's sake. However, to extend and clarify what I meant, I am talking about instances like Engine designers at Ford. They need to know about and consider usability factors, but they do NOT need to have extensive experience changing the oil in their card to do competent design work.
I think an EE who can't solder is someone who needs to stay the HELL away from the breadboard prototypes. From direct personal experience.
I was up visiting my folks in Northern Minnesota last month and we drove up to Thunder Bay, Ontario, and I noticed the new AD&D books were there in a mall bookstore. Cover price Fifty Bucks. That's Canadian dollars, I know, but... ummm... gee.
Fair enough, the later redhats have good PnP, but earlier versions were a nightmare.
The first version of Linux I ever ran, and actually the first version of Linux released commercially on CD-ROM was Yggdrasil, which billed itself as 'Plug and Play Linux.'
I booted it up in late 1993 on my 486 computer, which had a Sound Blaster Pro sound card and a 1x CD-ROM drive that plugged into the Sound Blaster pro card.
It played a complex melody (an.au file) at the login prompt, when you booted it to the CD-ROM based system image.
That was plug and play. As 'plug and play' as anything from Microsoft at the time.
Are there USB audio adapters that record at 96 KHz? Because I'm used to higher sampling rates than 44 KHz with my Delta 66 (4 track USB card) but it's not portable by any means.
44KHz is fine for recording sine waves up to maybe 16 KHz but not any high frequency signal with harmonic content.
I'm worried that the laws will change in such a fashion that copyright will be abolished or changed so much that Copyleft and the GPL will no longer be enforcable.
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I have Office 4.3 on CD-ROM. It was pretty commonly available that way. I know people who had the floppies and called Microsoft and ordered it on CD for a 'media charge' of about $10.
The full schematics for the motherboard, and all issued expansion cards, plus the source code for the BIOS, was also made available for the IBM PC, XT, and AT. And the Compaq clones, and the AT&T clones, and even the Commodore 64. This kind of 'documentation' was commonly made available for computers in the 80's.
It's not something 'special' where Apple wanted people to 'love their computers inside and out.' They had to provide documentation so their product could compete, and programmers could figure out how to write code for it.
No one today does anything innovative, except occasionally Apple
*snort*
(when Apple paid Malda cold cash for the apple.slashdot.org section, did they also get a complimentary three-digit Slashdot UID account for Apple marketing to troll with?)
What does 'mac users' have to do with backspace keys on the Apple 1?
The spirit of 'open hardware and hacking' at Apple that Woz championed was long, long, gone by the time the Mac came out. Along with Woz himself, sadly.
I know a lot of people who collect old Microsoft products the same way.
I personally have a copy of PC-DOS 1.0 on my bookshelf and have been considering selling it to a collector. I also have Microsoft/IBM's Basic Compiler 1.0 which will produce binaries for DOS 1.0 and above. I also have Windows 1.03, Wordstar 2.2 for DOS, and CP/M-86 (all complete original product with box, manuals, registration cards, etc. etc.) All cool old stuff.
You're wrong. Collecting vintage software really has nothing to do with Microsoft or the 'Linux battle with Microsoft' that some people get all riled up about. What Microsoft is doing now has little or nothing to do with the fun of fiddling around with the older stuff.
Chill.
Also, the commented BIOS source code, in Assembler, for the IBM PC, PC-XT, and PC-AT were published in the Technical Reference Manuals. This is also the case for the Compaq Deskpro 386 and the AT&T 6300. I have most of those manuals.
It sounds like an after-the-fact shakedown. Something he alleges to have created happens to get captured into the background for a game.
Ka-ching. He cashes in on it.
Just an aside: 'Graffiti Artists' may be credentialed, and some may even have permission and/or a commission for their 'work' on the street. They legitimize a lot of graffiti that is not legimate by their actions, however.
Why not call it 'mural art' and let loose of the term 'graffiti' which is closely associated with vandalism?
Me, I'm looking forward to the artwork on Burger King cups. Or will this one be with McDonalds?
I don't know why I always reflexively spell it link instead of ling.
'Mae Ling Mak, naked and petrified' was the message on Slashdot long before all the Natalie Portman drivel. I mean, Star Wars is the crap they print on cups at McDonalds, people....
Fuck all the 'movie star' drivel. Mae Link Mak is a real person!
'SCO News Update, aka "Punch the monkey" for geeks.'
It's a way for the GPL advocates to bray and bray and bray on a daily basis. It's a place for schoolboys to get their first lectures on how the GPL works. It provides a 'dummy' scarecrow for zealots to hurl their fury at.
And apparently it gets ad impression revenue for the people who run this site.
*shrug*
'Rough boys, come over here. I want to buy your leather.... We can't be seen together. '
(lyrics from a song on Pete Townsend's solo album 'Empty Glass'
Being open minded means not clinging desperately to one dogma or another.
Coward.
I wouldn't even call Cringely a 'geek'. He's a half-journalst half-geek who is just the one who decided to commercialize the 'Robert X. Cringely' moniker that a number of journalists shared in influencial tech columns of the past. His most accurate label would be 'opportunist' but then, anybody whose column header on a website sandwiches his face between Jobs and Gates (even though his head would be too small to even see if scaled correctly in reference to the other two).... well....
He's a hack writer. A slightly more aware Katz.
Nerd point:
AC current is significantly more dangerous than DC current. Electricity at higher frequencies penetrates the body in different ways than electricity at 'flat' i.e. 0 Hertz, 'frequencies.'
However, there are significant advantages in transport and distribution to using Alternating Current over DC. These were what lead to the defeat of Edison's DC power transmission methods.
2. Created the first GUI? Also not true, the Apple Lisa was the first true GUI.
Depends on your use of the term 'true.' The pioneering GUI development that preceeded the Lisa was significant. The first prototype 'mouse' was developed in the middle of the 1960's, for goodness sake.
And the Lisa was a dismal failure in the market. I remember about 1990 when they sat mute in used computer shops and we could say in wonderment 'ten thousand bucks.'
The IBM 5100 was only about ten grand, and it was a hell of a machine for that money, a half a decade before the Lisa. (not GUI-wise, of course)
Katherine Harris is a registered and active Republican. I don't know why that makes her a shill, any more than all the active and registered Democrats in Hollywood are shills.
The 2000 presidential election was too close to call. That's the way it should be summed up, and then we move on to analysis of how it WAS called. Gore didn't win, there was no 'mandate' for him to rule. It is notable that the Republicans controlled all branches of government within two years after that election, and it's NOT because of any conspiracy.
Well, maybe a conspiracy by the left wing of the Democratic party to nominate 'squeaky-clean-platform' unelectable candidates....
I agree about EE's and soldering. I am an Electronic Tech, for god's sake. However, to extend and clarify what I meant, I am talking about instances like Engine designers at Ford. They need to know about and consider usability factors, but they do NOT need to have extensive experience changing the oil in their card to do competent design work.
I think an EE who can't solder is someone who needs to stay the HELL away from the breadboard prototypes. From direct personal experience.
I was up visiting my folks in Northern Minnesota last month and we drove up to Thunder Bay, Ontario, and I noticed the new AD&D books were there in a mall bookstore. Cover price Fifty Bucks . That's Canadian dollars, I know, but... ummm... gee.
Fair enough, the later redhats have good PnP, but earlier versions were a nightmare.
.au file) at the login prompt, when you booted it to the CD-ROM based system image.
The first version of Linux I ever ran, and actually the first version of Linux released commercially on CD-ROM was Yggdrasil, which billed itself as 'Plug and Play Linux.'
I booted it up in late 1993 on my 486 computer, which had a Sound Blaster Pro sound card and a 1x CD-ROM drive that plugged into the Sound Blaster pro card.
It played a complex melody (an
That was plug and play. As 'plug and play' as anything from Microsoft at the time.
The problem is that Microsoft has released soooooo many products over the years
That's an innovative tactic. It might not always be technically innovative, but it's innovative marketing.
Are there USB audio adapters that record at 96 KHz? Because I'm used to higher sampling rates than 44 KHz with my Delta 66 (4 track USB card) but it's not portable by any means.
44KHz is fine for recording sine waves up to maybe 16 KHz but not any high frequency signal with harmonic content.
I'm worried that the laws will change in such a fashion that copyright will be abolished or changed so much that Copyleft and the GPL will no longer be enforcable.
Would that be a special version of fsck that scans for MP3s?