When I lived in the US Virgin Islands, the driver's licenses there displayed your original city of birth. Once after renewing my license, the DMV clerk handed me the license and asked me to check it for errors.
"Place of birth: Richmond, Vagina"
I told her everyone is born there, so to speak. She was profusedly embarrassed and promptly corrected her mistake.
We used an HP2000 Time Shared BASIC minicomputer in high school. This computer was decommissioned in 1980. Many hobbyists use SIMH to reinvigorate these legacy OSes.
I was given a binary file copy of the final archive tape by the guy who decommissioned the system and was able to restore and boot up the original operating environment from 1980. I found a couple of programs I had written and some that friends of my brother had done.
Now I can play $BLJACK in a telnet session on my restored Teletype M35...
When we were teenagers, we liked putting things on the railroad tracks. Started with pennies, then GI Joe in his jeep, then a cardboard box, cinder blocks, etc. I can state unequivocally that it really is 'hard to stop a train' - the locomotive always obliterated everything in its path without missing a beat.
There was a junkyard next to the rail line, so one time we dragged a discarded washing machine onto the tracks. The Florida Zephyr was probably doing 50 or 60 MPH when it impacted the washer. I don't really understand the nuances of kinetic energy transfer, but it was truly amazing to see the washer propelled into the sky for about the length of a football field. The train just barreled along down the track...
A XeWater LLC subcontractor was giving a after-closing tour of the secret underwater missile base to his new girlfriend, when he pressed the wrong button and... oops - that volcano in Indonesia just erupted again!
I always think of that book whenever this subject comes up. Maybe we can send all the folks who want less government to the moon and they can lob rocks back at us...
THIS more than anything would be a competition-crusher. Granted there are platform differences, but those could be overcome in the next-gen Mac hardware. Maybe a new form of the touchpad that you can manipulate and rotate like an iPod touch. There are some great, cheap IOS apps and games. I predict when Lion ships you will be able to run IOS apps on it.
Don't forget, Simmons can't sing or write decent music either. I remember when they first hit the scene, never liked Kiss, thought they were sucky-poseurs.
And the famous tongue? Well, if he's fu*ked and gone down on as many girls as he says, that thing must be a garden of HPV, HSV, NGU and other 'earthly' delights...
Difference being, if someone steals your physical property, you no longer have use of it. If someone steals your intellectual property, you no longer have use of the money you would have received when you sold the rights to it...
I have the library of games from our high school's minicomputer (1980), text classics like Golf, Blackjack, 3d Tic Tac Toe, Slots and multiuser Star Trek.
For the record, they ran at 110 baud, 10 characters per second, on a teletype initially, then 30 characters per second on a Lear Siegler ADM3A.
Now they all run in SIMH telnet sessions on my PC and Mac, and I can change the code and cheat at cards.
Still trying to hook up the SIMH HP2000 simulator in my Mac Pro to the Teletype ASR35 someone gave me a while back, but I can't set the serial port speed (add-in card) to 110 baud - it won't go that slow...
Once their boat was well beyond the horizon, Jesus said "You know, I miss the miraculous old days, fire in the sky, loaves and fishes, healing the sick. Things just aren't the same anymore"
Moses replied "I know what you mean. People don't appreciate the miracles we used to do."
Jesus said "My favorite one was when you parted the Red Sea - I'd love to see that again just for old times sake"
"Really?" Moses replied?
"Absolutely - C'mon, please?"
Moses stood in the boat and raised his arms. The sea before them parted for as far as the eye could see. When he lowered them, the sea returned into the gap.
"Amazing!" Jesus cried. "Just... amazing!"
"Well, you were pretty good back in the day too" replied Moses. "My favorite was when you wowed them by walking on water. I'd love to see that again, just for old times sake..."
"Really?" said Jesus.
"Yes, please, it would mean a lot" replied Moses.
Jesus gingerly stepped to the edge of the boat and placed his right foot upon the water. He stepped forward, and immediately plunged to the bottom of the Red Sea.
Moses quickly reached in and pulled him back into the boat.
"I know I can do it - I know I can" said Jesus. "Let me try again."
Once again Jesus stepped to the boat's edge and then onto the water, and once again he sank to the bottom of the Red Sea.
Moses pulled him out again. Sputtering water, Jesus exclaimed "I don't understand! I used to be able to pull that one off without a hitch. I just don't get it..."
Moses replied "I think the last time you did that, you didn't have those holes in your feet...."
We also had the AM radio playing frequency scales as FOR-NEXT loops executed. One guy figured out how to generate music notes and had the computer playing "Daisy" - shades of HAL 9000.
We also figured out how to program interterminal communication between 32 teletypes at once - today it would be called instant messaging or online chat.
Our instructor was amazed when we did it, because the system had no apparent support for this feature; we just "figured it out". Nobody thought of patenting software back then - - too bad....
I'm getting an HP2000 simulator up and running running on my Mac Pro, using open source software called SIMH. The guy who decommissioned our HP2000 in 1980 gave me the last a backup tape as an image file, and I have that image running in Windows. He was on the SIMH listserv and passed the files over to me.
I didn't find the cheating poker program I spent three months writing in 1976 (damn), but I did see my younger brother's friends names as authors in other program comments.
I've used SIMH to play blackjack on my Teletype ASR35, just like I did in high school, and that is retro gaming at its finest.
I recently discovered that SIMH can also run IBM System/370 legacy operating systems; apparently one fellow has MVS, CMS and TSO running under Linux on a Dell server. This is my next goal - to simulate the same mainframe environment that I controlled as a computer operator in 1980.
Kids today, they don't know what they're missing...
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Does anyone want to be taught by someone who feels nothing but contempt for them?
it prepares students for adult life, where their supervisors will feel exactly the same . . .
now has a nice trojan installed in their system...
and charged you for damage to company property
When I lived in the US Virgin Islands, the driver's licenses there displayed your original city of birth. Once after renewing my license, the DMV clerk handed me the license and asked me to check it for errors.
"Place of birth: Richmond, Vagina"
I told her everyone is born there, so to speak. She was profusedly embarrassed and promptly corrected her mistake.
and using Anderson Cooper to insult liberals is conservative code for, "I think Anderson Cooper is really hot but I'm not coming out of the closet."
We used an HP2000 Time Shared BASIC minicomputer in high school. This computer was decommissioned in 1980. Many hobbyists use SIMH to reinvigorate these legacy OSes.
I was given a binary file copy of the final archive tape by the guy who decommissioned the system and was able to restore and boot up the original operating environment from 1980. I found a couple of programs I had written and some that friends of my brother had done.
Now I can play $BLJACK in a telnet session on my restored Teletype M35...
you're posting under the correct name... A.C.
. . . if you lie down with pigs then you may well come up covered in mud...
and if you lie down with pirates you get.... free movies?
When we were teenagers, we liked putting things on the railroad tracks. Started with pennies, then GI Joe in his jeep, then a cardboard box, cinder blocks, etc. I can state unequivocally that it really is 'hard to stop a train' - the locomotive always obliterated everything in its path without missing a beat.
There was a junkyard next to the rail line, so one time we dragged a discarded washing machine onto the tracks. The Florida Zephyr was probably doing 50 or 60 MPH when it impacted the washer. I don't really understand the nuances of kinetic energy transfer, but it was truly amazing to see the washer propelled into the sky for about the length of a football field. The train just barreled along down the track...
A XeWater LLC subcontractor was giving a after-closing tour of the secret underwater missile base to his new girlfriend, when he pressed the wrong button and ... oops - that volcano in Indonesia just erupted again!
I always think of that book whenever this subject comes up. Maybe we can send all the folks who want less government to the moon and they can lob rocks back at us...
THIS more than anything would be a competition-crusher. Granted there are platform differences, but those could be overcome in the next-gen Mac hardware. Maybe a new form of the touchpad that you can manipulate and rotate like an iPod touch. There are some great, cheap IOS apps and games. I predict when Lion ships you will be able to run IOS apps on it.
video played fine for me.
Crappy product.
Don't forget, Simmons can't sing or write decent music either. I remember when they first hit the scene, never liked Kiss, thought they were sucky-poseurs.
And the famous tongue? Well, if he's fu*ked and gone down on as many girls as he says, that thing must be a garden of HPV, HSV, NGU and other 'earthly' delights...
The budget was balanced before GWB got into the Treasury...
Sharepoint's pretty cool, IMHO.
Difference being, if someone steals your physical property, you no longer have use of it. If someone steals your intellectual property, you no longer have use of the money you would have received when you sold the rights to it...
I have the library of games from our high school's minicomputer (1980), text classics like Golf, Blackjack, 3d Tic Tac Toe, Slots and multiuser Star Trek.
For the record, they ran at 110 baud, 10 characters per second, on a teletype initially, then 30 characters per second on a Lear Siegler ADM3A.
Now they all run in SIMH telnet sessions on my PC and Mac, and I can change the code and cheat at cards.
Still trying to hook up the SIMH HP2000 simulator in my Mac Pro to the Teletype ASR35 someone gave me a while back, but I can't set the serial port speed (add-in card) to 110 baud - it won't go that slow...
since he's dead....
This is the only cable you should ever use to cable your ethernet-enabled turntable to your McIntosh amp...
Jesus and Moses went fishing in the Red Sea.
Once their boat was well beyond the horizon, Jesus said "You know, I miss the miraculous old days, fire in the sky, loaves and fishes, healing the sick. Things just aren't the same anymore"
Moses replied "I know what you mean. People don't appreciate the miracles we used to do."
Jesus said "My favorite one was when you parted the Red Sea - I'd love to see that again just for old times sake"
"Really?" Moses replied?
"Absolutely - C'mon, please?"
Moses stood in the boat and raised his arms. The sea before them parted for as far as the eye could see. When he lowered them, the sea returned into the gap.
"Amazing!" Jesus cried. "Just... amazing!"
"Well, you were pretty good back in the day too" replied Moses. "My favorite was when you wowed them by walking on water. I'd love to see that again, just for old times sake..."
"Really?" said Jesus.
"Yes, please, it would mean a lot" replied Moses.
Jesus gingerly stepped to the edge of the boat and placed his right foot upon the water. He stepped forward, and immediately plunged to the bottom of the Red Sea.
Moses quickly reached in and pulled him back into the boat.
"I know I can do it - I know I can" said Jesus. "Let me try again."
Once again Jesus stepped to the boat's edge and then onto the water, and once again he sank to the bottom of the Red Sea.
Moses pulled him out again. Sputtering water, Jesus exclaimed "I don't understand! I used to be able to pull that one off without a hitch. I just don't get it..."
Moses replied "I think the last time you did that, you didn't have those holes in your feet...."
The Arrival
We also had the AM radio playing frequency scales as FOR-NEXT loops executed. One guy figured out how to generate music notes and had the computer playing "Daisy" - shades of HAL 9000.
We also figured out how to program interterminal communication between 32 teletypes at once - today it would be called instant messaging or online chat.
Our instructor was amazed when we did it, because the system had no apparent support for this feature; we just "figured it out". Nobody thought of patenting software back then - - too bad....
I'm getting an HP2000 simulator up and running running on my Mac Pro, using open source software called SIMH. The guy who decommissioned our HP2000 in 1980 gave me the last a backup tape as an image file, and I have that image running in Windows. He was on the SIMH listserv and passed the files over to me.
I didn't find the cheating poker program I spent three months writing in 1976 (damn), but I did see my younger brother's friends names as authors in other program comments.
I've used SIMH to play blackjack on my Teletype ASR35, just like I did in high school, and that is retro gaming at its finest.
I recently discovered that SIMH can also run IBM System/370 legacy operating systems; apparently one fellow has MVS, CMS and TSO running under Linux on a Dell server. This is my next goal - to simulate the same mainframe environment that I controlled as a computer operator in 1980.
Kids today, they don't know what they're missing...
I don't know of any "democrat" party, but I have heard of the "Democratic" party. Get that one right, and maybe civil discourse can ensue.