Yes. Because unlike the original "Battlestar Galactica" and "Star Trek", "Blake's Seven" never went back to battle the Nazis. That's the secret to a long-running sci-fi.;-)
IIRC for most of the series there was only five of them
They counted the two computers too. (Aurac and Zen)
I still love the way they introduced the "ding-dong" teleport bracelets, then strung us along for almost a whole series before using the immortal line "[Ding-Dong] Avon calling". (v.funny British advertising slogan reference...)
If those computers were running Windows 98 they could have 64MB RAM or less.
I'm currently running the Windows 98 SE upgrade on a Windows 95 laptop with 16MB of RAM. So far it's only been upgrading for 11 days, and has already reached 10% completion. (It's a Dell Latitude P133, fyi...)
Did you ever wonder why the full stop was made of brass on an otherwise plastic daisywheel? It's because somebody came up with a program that let you use microspacing mode to dump bitmap graphics on a Brother daisywheel using just the full stop.
Technically, a unihammer was a dot matrix, but it worked by having a spinning ridged drum behind the paper and a single vertical "bar" in the head that could be struck against the drum, making a single dot where the bar and ridges crossed. It ran at the same speed as a 9-pin dot matrix, but had to fire nine times as often in the same length of time in order to achieve this. My downstairs neighbour thought I was using a power saw.
It was one of those printers where there was little point in re-inking the ribbon, as by the time it had gone round once it was see-through.
While I disagree with the specifics, I'm all for the principle of making an example of SPAMmers. Lets try some of these wastes of flesh in death-penalty states and make sure that their crimes are taken seriously enough to make that penalty a credible possibility. SPAMming as a business model should be on the same tariff as murder-for-hire - while the damage to each individual is so much less, there are so many more individuals being harmed. Shock and Awe, people, Shock and Awe.
Fifteen years ago, when I was a computer engineer, I could switch on a laptop with a dead screen and from the noises the hard drive made I could tell if the machine was otherwise healthy, what the OS was and whether or not it had an anti-virus installed. When you can't see the screen it becomes important to know at what point it's safe to power down the machine...
What about the "unihammer" printer, such as the Seikosha GP80-A? It's the only printer I've owned where my downstairs neighbour knocked on the door and asked me to stop printing...
KOK, It was needed on the old Mac because they made a design choice to have no disk access lights anywhere, either for HDD or Floppy, and if you were sitting in a roomful of Macs you needed some way to know which one was "grinding"...
It's reminiscent of the tales of the planet Magrathea from "The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Basically, they ran a custom planet design service and when the economy collapsed and the universe couldn't afford their services they just went to sleep for several million years until the economy had recovered. A period at close to lightspeed would have achieved the same end.
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Yes. Because unlike the original "Battlestar Galactica" and "Star Trek", "Blake's Seven" never went back to battle the Nazis. That's the secret to a long-running sci-fi. ;-)
Yup.
Avon ducked.
They counted the two computers too. (Aurac and Zen)
I still love the way they introduced the "ding-dong" teleport bracelets, then strung us along for almost a whole series before using the immortal line "[Ding-Dong] Avon calling". (v.funny British advertising slogan reference...)
"Yes".
To be more specific, Mathematical rules are discovered, Mathematical techniques are invented; "Mathematics" consists of both.
Like this, you mean...?
http://waxy.org/2008/04/milliways_infocoms_unreleased_sequel_to_hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galax/
...I'd call the project "Let there be Light".
Micro$oft's definition of "New" (as in "New Technology" or "NT") is "Uses a memory model taken from VAX minicomputers back around 1978"...
And don't forget the K6-3 500MHz. Wonderful chip, started my "love affair" with AMD.
I'm currently running the Windows 98 SE upgrade on a Windows 95 laptop with 16MB of RAM. So far it's only been upgrading for 11 days, and has already reached 10% completion. (It's a Dell Latitude P133, fyi...)
But, if they cared about their sexual organs, they wouldn't have a cat loose in the car while driving at 70MPH.
Do you want to know something really scary...?
Did you ever wonder why the full stop was made of brass on an otherwise plastic daisywheel? It's because somebody came up with a program that let you use microspacing mode to dump bitmap graphics on a Brother daisywheel using just the full stop.
Eek.
Technically, a unihammer was a dot matrix, but it worked by having a spinning ridged drum behind the paper and a single vertical "bar" in the head that could be struck against the drum, making a single dot where the bar and ridges crossed. It ran at the same speed as a 9-pin dot matrix, but had to fire nine times as often in the same length of time in order to achieve this. My downstairs neighbour thought I was using a power saw.
It was one of those printers where there was little point in re-inking the ribbon, as by the time it had gone round once it was see-through.
While I disagree with the specifics, I'm all for the principle of making an example of SPAMmers. Lets try some of these wastes of flesh in death-penalty states and make sure that their crimes are taken seriously enough to make that penalty a credible possibility. SPAMming as a business model should be on the same tariff as murder-for-hire - while the damage to each individual is so much less, there are so many more individuals being harmed. Shock and Awe, people, Shock and Awe.
Fifteen years ago, when I was a computer engineer, I could switch on a laptop with a dead screen and from the noises the hard drive made I could tell if the machine was otherwise healthy, what the OS was and whether or not it had an anti-virus installed. When you can't see the screen it becomes important to know at what point it's safe to power down the machine...
IIRC Clive Sinclair (He of the ZX80) was developing "Bubble Memory".
What about the "unihammer" printer, such as the Seikosha GP80-A? It's the only printer I've owned where my downstairs neighbour knocked on the door and asked me to stop printing...
KOK, It was needed on the old Mac because they made a design choice to have no disk access lights anywhere, either for HDD or Floppy, and if you were sitting in a roomful of Macs you needed some way to know which one was "grinding"...
Now if only we could say the same about most Flash animations...
It's reminiscent of the tales of the planet Magrathea from "The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Basically, they ran a custom planet design service and when the economy collapsed and the universe couldn't afford their services they just went to sleep for several million years until the economy had recovered. A period at close to lightspeed would have achieved the same end.
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Happy Birthday dear Universe
Happy Birthday to You
...between the CPU and the outside world, why not just use a Peltier device in reverse to power a conventional electric fan?
...what "G-Rating" they will give to ISPs who filter out Creationist materials...?
What? Not even that Tom Cruise video they pulled from YouTube?
...you need a girlfriend.