Which of course was an adaptation of a play. I happily attended it with my parents as a teen believe it or not. When there was course language my Mother and I tried to cover each others ears. Especially one particular meeting when there a thing called free love and the girl walked in and asked a rather forward question about intimacy. Oh those were the days weren't they?
But I digress. Thanks Scott, you got me wandering again.
I think we got our Apple II+ around 1980 -- one floppy. We also a modem, 1200 baud, and did on-line bill paying with an account at Chemical Bank
Early on the father of a girl I knew from grade school did a deal for distributing Apple computers in schools here in Ohio.
Remember Zeos World under dos? It gave me my first taste of really non-concurrent multi-tasking.
I had a sol terminal computer that ran cp/m and had bank switched ram (128K in two banks of 64K) it was an anachronism when I had it - given to me by a friend. Had two 8 inch floppy drives.. Ran an 8080 MCU on S-100 bus IIRC, I restored it and a couple of years later he needed a machine that could run lisp and apparently the sol could so I gave it back to him..
I had a sol terminal computer that ran cp/m and had bank switched ram (128K in two banks of 64K) it was an anachronism when I had it - given to me by a friend. Had two 8 inch floppy drives.. Ran an 8080 MCU on S-100 bus IIRC, I restored it and a couple of years later he needed a machine that could run lisp and apparently the sol could so I gave it back to him..
Anyone remember DR DOS?
We had several computers at work running it in the early 80s. We ran microshaft programs on it until we started seeing releases of the uS programs that crashed on it. We surmised that uS had figured out that DR DOS was a threat and started detecting it and intentionally crashed the programs.
We had several computers at work running it in the early 80s. We ran microshaft programs on it until we started seeing releases of the uS programs that crashed on it. We surmised that uS had figured out that DR DOS was a threat and started detecting it and intentionally crashed the programs.
Yes I ran a version of DR Dos for a short while in the very late 1980s and started to notice the same thing. I was mostly running shareware in those days, I didn't have any MS software until I switched to windows for workgroups which supported things like ethernet (token ring and 10bt)
How about Trumpet Winsock? My first portal to the internet via a small local ISP in about 1993 - 94. A far cry from the 800mb/s I now enjoy. Last night I downloaded a recording in DXD format (3.6GB) in just a couple of minutes.
How about Trumpet Winsock? My first portal to the internet via a small local ISP in about 1993 - 94. A far cry from the 800mb/s I now enjoy. Last night I downloaded a recording in DXD format (3.6GB) in just a couple of minutes.
I tried OS2 Warp (had a friend in IT who gave me a legal copy) but this was in the same time frame as win95 arrived. The last version Win95 SP3 supported USB and cdroms which was an eye opener for me. Then win 98... I ran XP for a long time - went to Linux and came back for win7. Run win10 pro on several machines at home - works well for me, narry a problem.. (almost.. lol) I'm mostly an appliance operator these days...
I have W10 and dislike much of it. Have setup my firewall to stop it calling home or receiving calls from home to keep it stable - means I have to trust my antivirus s/w and my own common sense (if I have any left). Was really surprised at my own surprise when I discovered the vast number of different web sites that it tries to exchange information with.
Wouldn't be surprised, MS sabotaged the Apple III with their browser, which caused constant crashing,
even when it wasn't running. Woz finally figured out the problem, but the IIIs were already headed
for the landfill.
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Just like the movie Revenge of the Nerds, football players hung out with the cheerleaders in the real world while the nerds hung out with the cheerleaders in their fantasies. Then one day...
Silicon Valley tech firms hiring eye-candy models for holiday parties
Silicon Valley Is Sneaking Models Into This Year’s Holiday Parties - Bloomberg
A news not about Bill Gates, though :
The Smallest-Ever Injectable Chip Hints at a New Cybernetic Medicine
:The Smallest-Ever Injectable Chip Hints at a New Cybernetic Medicine
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WtF is Gates up to now. He owns more US farmland than anybody else.
Gates Ag One: The Recolonisation Of Agriculture - Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News
Now that he's f**ed up computers with his 20 year monopoly he's going to do the same with food! And the prick is using money from his foundation to accomplish this.
Gates Ag One: The Recolonisation Of Agriculture - Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News
Now that he's f**ed up computers with his 20 year monopoly he's going to do the same with food! And the prick is using money from his foundation to accomplish this.
And? Most people think he's spending his foundation money to help the poor, but thats looking like a cover to push his own agenda, so it will take people a lot longer to catch on and by then he hopes it will be to late to stop him.
I don't care who's money he's using to try and monopolize agriculture (world wide) its wrong.
I don't care who's money he's using to try and monopolize agriculture (world wide) its wrong.