There's no good reason to use an original IBM Model M.
Except that they are built like tanks, will take lots of abuse and still function, and feel better than any keyboard I've used in more than 30 years. My 1987 model M looks like it's brand new and has given many years of trouble-free service.
I have a bit of a computer museum in my office too; got a bunch of SBUS cards from Sun machines, a transputer board, an old M68000 evaluation board from the late 70s...
My very small museum included a plugin card from a Xerox Sigma 9. I wanted the CE to give me the disk drive's busted hydraulic pump that had "Cessna" stamped on it, but he had to send it back for refurbishment.
I no longer believe any assertion that contains the phrase "because of climate change." The planet's environment is too complex to model; any attempt to do so is doomed to failure, with one of the results being that people make all
kinds of goofy predictions based on unreliable results.
Panera has been on my do-not-buy-there list for some time. My favorite bagel is the jalapeno-cheese variety. The local Panera only made them occasionally. The last time I asked when they would be making them again, the snooty
dipstick behind the counter said they were no longer making them. When I asked why, she said something about fat content or some related drivel. When I explained I exercise a lot and I'll eat anything I please and would you make them again, she said no way. I said you'll get no more business from me and adios.
Panera is one of those companies that's gotten too big for its britches. Screw these morons, I'll go elsewhere and be treated better.
Stop making self driving cars that compromise a driver's attention.
The problem is worse than self-driving cars. The idiots who design cars put in all kinds of crap for morons so that the morons can play rather than concentrate on driving. The U.S. government has failed to protect the public by
allowing drivers to be distracted by all the childish crap. Grow up, people. Either pay attention and drive or get out and walk.
For our mainframe (1970's) we used an inertia generator...
We had a device called a "motor generator" that did the same thing. It was made by Swineheart, a name I've always found to be ridiculously funny for some reason.
We had no emergency generator; the motor generator was there to let us ride out brief power outages without taking down both Xerox mainframes. As the poster indicates, "brief" meant outages of about five seconds or less. If the outage were longer, the mainframes would lose power.
20 years ago the frequency of A.C. in the U.S. was regulated to within about one part in 10^7 according to the IEEE. Not sure what mechanism they used to do that. That's an impressive number.
I use a pen and a piece of scratch paper. It works during a loss of power. It doesn't require batteries. Even if exposed to many types of disruptions (including one wash cycle) it can still be read. Updates are simple. When all the to-do items have been executed, it can be easily discarded with little landfill acreage required.
If security is an issue, dispose via a paper shredder.
Use a cross-cut variety for additional security.
Backups are as simple as your nearest xerox machine.
Hosting is via a convenient pocket.
Sheesh,/.ers, for some things you don't need a stinking computer.
I taught a college programming course for freshmen for a number of semesters. This course was typically their first introduction to programming. Most of these children had not been prepared by their schooling to use either math or
logic. To push computer science in high school is just bizarrely stupid. These children need a much better grounding in a number of subjects before attempting to learn programming.
Example: who among you confuses degrees of temperature with degrees of angles? Did you ever try to determine the sine of 37 degrees Celsius? This is the kind of poor preparation I saw among incoming freshmen.
My teaching ended before children became addicted to cell phones, so I can only assume they are much less prepared now than before the cell phone craze.
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There's no good reason to use an original IBM Model M.
Except that they are built like tanks, will take lots of abuse and still function, and feel better than any keyboard I've used in more than 30 years. My 1987 model M looks like it's brand new and has given many years of trouble-free service.
I have a bit of a computer museum in my office too; got a bunch of SBUS cards from Sun machines, a transputer board, an old M68000 evaluation board from the late 70s...
My very small museum included a plugin card from a Xerox Sigma 9. I wanted the CE to give me the disk drive's busted hydraulic pump that had "Cessna" stamped on it, but he had to send it back for refurbishment.
Who could possibly give a rat's ass what the New York Times says about anything???
The UofC initiates yet another race to the bottom.
I have the solution to Chrome's freezing: switch to Opera. I did and have abandoned Chrome completely.
Go to Canada. Don't come back. We don't need you.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
(By Eric Raymond, speaking of open source, and quoting Gandhi.)
I no longer believe any assertion that contains the phrase "because of climate change." The planet's environment is too complex to model; any attempt to do so is doomed to failure, with one of the results being that people make all kinds of goofy predictions based on unreliable results.
Space-X should have called it CRS-114!
Panera has been on my do-not-buy-there list for some time. My favorite bagel is the jalapeno-cheese variety. The local Panera only made them occasionally. The last time I asked when they would be making them again, the snooty dipstick behind the counter said they were no longer making them. When I asked why, she said something about fat content or some related drivel. When I explained I exercise a lot and I'll eat anything I please and would you make them again, she said no way. I said you'll get no more business from me and adios.
Panera is one of those companies that's gotten too big for its britches. Screw these morons, I'll go elsewhere and be treated better.
Stop making self driving cars that compromise a driver's attention.
The problem is worse than self-driving cars. The idiots who design cars put in all kinds of crap for morons so that the morons can play rather than concentrate on driving. The U.S. government has failed to protect the public by allowing drivers to be distracted by all the childish crap. Grow up, people. Either pay attention and drive or get out and walk.
and the lesson is we aren't as smart as we think we are.
Thank Heavens somebody finally figured out a way to kill the wankers! Quick, let's issue every rat a free, high-powered cell phone!
who are obsessed with cell phones and apps. I fear for the future of this country when these lazy, entitled children reach voting age.
Delete facebook. You have been warned from within their ranks.
50 percent of Microsoft employees said they will delete Facebook
100% of people with common sense will delete facebook. The rest of you deserve anything that happens.
For our mainframe (1970's) we used an inertia generator ...
We had a device called a "motor generator" that did the same thing. It was made by Swineheart, a name I've always found to be ridiculously funny for some reason.
We had no emergency generator; the motor generator was there to let us ride out brief power outages without taking down both Xerox mainframes. As the poster indicates, "brief" meant outages of about five seconds or less. If the outage were longer, the mainframes would lose power.
20 years ago the frequency of A.C. in the U.S. was regulated to within about one part in 10^7 according to the IEEE. Not sure what mechanism they used to do that. That's an impressive number.
I use a pen and a piece of scratch paper. It works during a loss of power. It doesn't require batteries. Even if exposed to many types of disruptions (including one wash cycle) it can still be read. Updates are simple. When all the to-do items have been executed, it can be easily discarded with little landfill acreage required.
/.ers, for some things you don't need a stinking computer.
If security is an issue, dispose via a paper shredder. Use a cross-cut variety for additional security.
Backups are as simple as your nearest xerox machine. Hosting is via a convenient pocket.
Sheesh,
I wish I could say this tech-addicted story surprised me.
I taught a college programming course for freshmen for a number of semesters. This course was typically their first introduction to programming. Most of these children had not been prepared by their schooling to use either math or logic. To push computer science in high school is just bizarrely stupid. These children need a much better grounding in a number of subjects before attempting to learn programming.
Example: who among you confuses degrees of temperature with degrees of angles? Did you ever try to determine the sine of 37 degrees Celsius? This is the kind of poor preparation I saw among incoming freshmen.
My teaching ended before children became addicted to cell phones, so I can only assume they are much less prepared now than before the cell phone craze.
soon after pigs fly.
I'll chance it!