I spent a few seasons writing code in a tent on Ross Island, Antarctica. It was in C for a platform that was running an embedded version of a 386. The system was used to monitor and track Adelie penguins. The tent was pitched in the middle of the colony of several hundred thousand birds on top of many hundreds of years of guano. I was writing on an HP omnibook 425 laptop with an early solid state disk powered off a truck battery that was solar charged. It was a fun project.
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I spent a few seasons writing code in a tent on Ross Island, Antarctica. It was in C for a platform that was running an embedded version of a 386. The system was used to monitor and track Adelie penguins. The tent was pitched in the middle of the colony of several hundred thousand birds on top of many hundreds of years of guano. I was writing on an HP omnibook 425 laptop with an early solid state disk powered off a truck battery that was solar charged. It was a fun project.