Yep! The Big Blue Reader could also read files from DOS formatted floppies and copy them out to CBM formatted floppies.....and there are many devices for copying CBM floppies to modern computers (like the ZoomFloppy device)
Suppose some company does take an interest, they'll want to craft a contract that could potentially screw you. If they decide to simply buy you out, you'll need one there too.
The fact is this: If the Palestinians first stopped firing rockets to made peace, the Jews would put away all their rockets and make peace. If, however, the Jews first stopped firing rockets to make peace, the Palestinians would just continue the attacks until Israel is destroyed.
Both sides are guilty of atrocities, but this being Slashdot... I'd rather the side that has an industry of designing CPUs for Intel beat the side that has a bizarre totalitarian religion that routinely generates suicide bombers.
Weird screws are nasty, but not impossible to circumvent with this one weird scientific trick that you will never believe actually works...!
OK ok.... here's what it is:
All you need to do it get a bic biro pen, pull out head and shaft, and then melt the plastic case tip in a flame. Then place the molten plastic bit over the "impossible to open" screw. Hold it there until the plastic becomes solid again. Et voila.... you now have a screwdriver, moulded from the weird screw you need to open. Have fun.
...except that nuclear weapons damaging the hundreds of nuclear power plants around the world and sending them all critical will cause them to meltdown and spew out plutonium everywhere.
That would likely contaminate much of the globe with nuclear fallout.
It really wouldn't be hard to use the in game functions of any military themed shooter game to set up an an attack.
Essentially, in game people are already talking about shooting people and targets, that even unencrypted it would be painfully difficult to filter through all the chats - supposing you had access to them - to figure out which players were talking about playing the game, and who would be planning something in real life.
Computer and console wars only really made sense when your parents could only afford to buy you one, so you were lumped with it and forced to defend what you had even if it wasn't the best. Now that you're a grown adult you can buy pretty much all the consoles if you wanted.
Makes no sense to do that with the OS wars, but then what would we have to talk about on/. ?:)
If they let enough people go from HP and outsource everything else to India because of the merger, sooner or later HP head offices will be able to fit in that two-door garage again.
HP is a Microsoft shop internally, and in the enterprise they'll recommend HPUX before they recommend Linux. Also, there are many paranoid customers who "don't want free software because it is crap"
Also there are a lot of big businesses still running HPUX on it's specific hardware, and all that is going to need support going forward. HPUX is still alive and kicking due to HP putting it in there and is now entrenched in customer businesses and hideously costly to remove. HP will support Linux if they can get paid for it, but I imagine the margins on entrenching HPUX in places instead of Linux wins them lots of money supporting it and the proprietary hardware that it runs on.
I have tons of cartridges and loads and loads of floppies, all lovingly stored away. I have no idea if the floppies could even be read now, but who knows. Sectors were gigantic back then so they might just still be recoverable.
I've found ancient C64 floppies that still work today. If they've been well cared for, or just left in a well protected environment for years, you might still have some success. Do the Atari community a favor and try to preserve some of your software, especially if it's rare and undumped.
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Yep! The Big Blue Reader could also read files from DOS formatted floppies and copy them out to CBM formatted floppies. ....and there are many devices for copying CBM floppies to modern computers (like the ZoomFloppy device)
Yeah, the 1571 was an ace drive.
As the topic says: first get a lawyer.
Suppose some company does take an interest, they'll want to craft a contract that could potentially screw you.
If they decide to simply buy you out, you'll need one there too.
Next the secret 8th CPU core will be DLC, or a game easter egg, the way things are going. Sheesh
Seriously, why was it ever locked?
The fact is this:
If the Palestinians first stopped firing rockets to made peace, the Jews would put away all their rockets and make peace.
If, however, the Jews first stopped firing rockets to make peace, the Palestinians would just continue the attacks until Israel is destroyed.
Both sides are guilty of atrocities, but this being Slashdot... I'd rather the side that has an industry of designing CPUs for Intel beat the side that has a bizarre totalitarian religion that routinely generates suicide bombers.
Title says it all
Weird screws are nasty, but not impossible to circumvent with this one weird scientific trick that you will never believe actually works...!
OK ok.... here's what it is:
All you need to do it get a bic biro pen, pull out head and shaft, and then melt the plastic case tip in a flame.
Then place the molten plastic bit over the "impossible to open" screw. Hold it there until the plastic becomes solid again.
Et voila.... you now have a screwdriver, moulded from the weird screw you need to open. Have fun.
...except that nuclear weapons damaging the hundreds of nuclear power plants around the world and sending them all critical will cause them to meltdown and spew out plutonium everywhere.
That would likely contaminate much of the globe with nuclear fallout.
It really wouldn't be hard to use the in game functions of any military themed shooter game to set up an an attack.
Essentially, in game people are already talking about shooting people and targets, that even unencrypted it would be painfully difficult to filter through all the chats - supposing you had access to them - to figure out which players were talking about playing the game, and who would be planning something in real life.
Quite scary
Will you share it with the Vic20 Denial community?
When upgrading, don't choose "Express Installation"
Choose "Customize" and TURN. EVERYTHING. OFF.
Then go into Privacy of your new install and turn all that off as well.
Wake me up when robots are automating McKinsey reports, then we'll talk.
You annoying kids.
Come back when your platform has 25,000 games for it, like the Commodore 64
Gerroff my lawn.
Computer and console wars only really made sense when your parents could only afford to buy you one, so you were lumped with it and forced to defend what you had even if it wasn't the best.
Now that you're a grown adult you can buy pretty much all the consoles if you wanted.
Makes no sense to do that with the OS wars, but then what would we have to talk about on /. ? :)
That's the scary thing: she was 30 at the time
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I dropped my wallet in Japan once and I did get my wallet back... but the money was stolen.
So I guess I'm in the 1%
Japan is also a country where the ATMs close after hours, and where cash is still used exclusively for most things.
It's also a country where your girlfriend will get upset if you don't take her to KFC on Christmas eve, followed by a love hotel,... but I digress.
Mod parent up. Not trolling this time.
Hard to believe, but yes, there are muppets out there who don't want to run "free software"
If they let enough people go from HP and outsource everything else to India because of the merger, sooner or later HP head offices will be able to fit in that two-door garage again.
HP still sells HPUX and doesn't promote Linux.
HP is a Microsoft shop internally, and in the enterprise they'll recommend HPUX before they recommend Linux.
Also, there are many paranoid customers who "don't want free software because it is crap"
Also there are a lot of big businesses still running HPUX on it's specific hardware, and all that is going to need support going forward.
HPUX is still alive and kicking due to HP putting it in there and is now entrenched in customer businesses and hideously costly to remove.
HP will support Linux if they can get paid for it, but I imagine the margins on entrenching HPUX in places instead of Linux wins them lots of money supporting it and the proprietary hardware that it runs on.
I have tons of cartridges and loads and loads of floppies, all lovingly stored away. I have no idea if the floppies could even be read now, but who knows. Sectors were gigantic back then so they might just still be recoverable.
I've found ancient C64 floppies that still work today. If they've been well cared for, or just left in a well protected environment for years, you might still have some success. Do the Atari community a favor and try to preserve some of your software, especially if it's rare and undumped.
Austria, sorry, not Australia.
yah yah... we all know the lame dad jokes.