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Usbourne have scanned in a load of their 1980s books so you can learn how to old computer
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more kids books should have assembly language listings
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Feb 7, 2016 13:59
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http://www.atariarchives.org/ has a bunch of books on the ol' atari and 6502 programming, also you can get scans of all the ANTIC magazines here: http://www.atarimagazines.com/antic/
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Feb 7, 2016 16:29
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Prenton posted:Usbourne have scanned in a load of their 1980s books so you can learn how to old computer nice! I spent so much time typing programs from these into my Pre-Computer 1000's little 1x20 display e: seriously thanks for this, I just amazon'd Practical Things to Do With A Microcomputer after looking at the PDF and realizing it was the book I had read a hundred times. my partner has been trying to figure out how to actually introduce kids to computers, I figured I'd show him what I got started on. definitely time to dig out the TI-99/4A and he can get frustrated by weird BASIC dialect incompatibilities like we all did when we were kids minivanmegafun fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Feb 8, 2016 |
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Feb 7, 2016 16:58
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treasure bear posted:when a computers left on it gets hot so old computers that have never been off are really hot and old computers that have not been on for a long time are really cold, just something to be aware of for safety this is true, i had to put a heater in my storage unit where i've moved all my old computers to. otherwise it's very slippery and hard to move inside it
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Feb 8, 2016 08:08
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When I moved all my stuff I misplaced the ziploc baggie that had the ten thousand various screws, standoffs, nuts, and bolts I need to reassemble my amiga 2500
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Feb 8, 2016 08:09
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The voltage regulator in my Jaguar literally popped, LOL
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Feb 9, 2016 04:37
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Doc Block posted:The voltage regulator in my Jaguar literally popped, LOL saving you from yourself
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Feb 9, 2016 04:38
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It's normal to still remember the on-campus number for the not-quite-publicized, still-in-testing fast modem bank over twenty years later, right?  (They were 28.8s when the regular modem pool had a mix of 14.4s and 9600s.) #3800 In other news, holy optimism batman. I pity the poor bastard that needs to pay that kind of cash for that kind of ancient crap because of some bullshit they have to keep running on their network. The last time I saw one of those in person it was in the $5 bargain bin at a used computer parts warehouse, and that was over a decade ago.
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Feb 9, 2016 04:46
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volkadav posted:In other news, holy optimism batman. I pity the poor bastard that needs to pay that kind of cash for that kind of ancient crap because of some bullshit they have to keep running on their network. The last time I saw one of those in person it was in the $5 bargain bin at a used computer parts warehouse, and that was over a decade ago. that shits not even surprising for ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-OptiPl...gUAAOSw8-tWU5If thats not even out of the ordinary, theres all sorts of "vintage gaming computer" with a pentium 2 that people are trying to sell for like 300 dollars or more
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Feb 9, 2016 04:52
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I need to see if my dad still has my old pentium III board I think I'll need to get another rage 128 for it
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Feb 9, 2016 05:08
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volkadav posted:It's normal to still remember the on-campus number for the not-quite-publicized, still-in-testing fast modem bank over twenty years later, right? i have a stack of these Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:that shits not even surprising for ebay when it's something with a $ickk voodoo3 or whatever, they often get their $250-350. it's insane
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Feb 9, 2016 05:28
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atomicthumbs posted:i have a stack of these yeah and for some reason theres tons of old computer parts from sellers in bulgaria
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Feb 9, 2016 06:19
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atomicthumbs posted:i have a stack of these do you have any sun ultra 45s, the last of the Sun workstations?
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Feb 9, 2016 08:05
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eschaton posted:do you have any sun ultra 45s, the last of the Sun workstations? i have literally never seen one of these
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Feb 12, 2016 03:08
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i have literally never seen one of these I have never seen one either, but I did look up the manuals for it and do a real estate search on the ZIP code in the manual and now my night is full of comedy. http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/95054/sby-1
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Feb 12, 2016 04:03
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Citizen Tayne posted:I have never seen one either, but I did look up the manuals for it and do a real estate search on the ZIP code in the manual and now my night is full of comedy. yes, sun hq was in silicon valley what's the joke
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Feb 12, 2016 04:38
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:yes, sun hq was in silicon valley A 900 square foot house for $549K, that is next to a strip mall. lmao
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Feb 12, 2016 04:43
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i have literally never seen one of these my school's cs dept labs were largely ultra 45s, with some older SPARC boxes mixed in
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Feb 12, 2016 04:43
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Pham Nuwen posted:my school's cs dept labs were largely ultra 45s, with some older SPARC boxes mixed in get off my lawn also your university was 5+ years behind the times if they were still buying sparc workstations in 2008
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Feb 12, 2016 04:50
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Citizen Tayne posted:A 900 square foot house for $549K, that is next to a strip mall. lmao i still don't get it is the joke "the suburbs"
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Feb 12, 2016 04:51
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i still don't get it You get it, you're just playing a role.
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Feb 12, 2016 04:52
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"It's worth spending <x> to live here" works when what you're living in is actually unique and interesting, like Manhattan. When you live on the side of a four lane highway with a strip mall on the other side of the street and you have to drive an hour and a half to do anything interesting, you might as well be in Springfield, MO. At that point, you're paying a premium for the weather. That's cool, I guess.
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Feb 12, 2016 04:56
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Citizen Tayne posted:"It's worth spending <x> to live here" works when what you're living in is actually unique and interesting, like Manhattan. When you live on the side of a four lane highway with a strip mall on the other side of the street and you have to drive an hour and a half to do anything interesting, you might as well be in Springfield, MO. you're paying a premium to have access to a job market. which is also the point of living in manhattan for 80+% of its residents. the pleasures of cutesy neighborhoods in urban cores are for the idle rich actual workers just want to be close to the jobs. (often in the service industries for those idle rich!)
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Feb 12, 2016 05:07
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Citizen Tayne posted:"It's worth spending <x> to live here" works when what you're living in is actually unique and interesting, like Manhattan. When you live on the side of a four lane highway with a strip mall on the other side of the street and you have to drive an hour and a half to do anything interesting, you might as well be in Springfield, MO. The weather in the south bay is pretty crappy actually. So they're paying to be near Google. Everyone knows it's garbage.
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Feb 12, 2016 05:07
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springfield, mo seems like a perfectly lovely place to live but there's no loving work that's why the housing is cheap. if there were jobs nearby it would cost a loving fortune to live there
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Feb 12, 2016 05:08
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:actual workers just want to be close to the jobs. (often in the service industries for those idle rich!) thats me!!
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Feb 12, 2016 05:10
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:you're paying a premium to have access to a job market. which is also the point of living in manhattan for 80+% of its residents. Are you suggesting that the vast majority of jobs in that zip code are making tech level wages? The median income in NYC, as you have pointed out, is on par with Pittsburgh.
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Citizen Tayne posted:Are you suggesting that the vast majority of jobs in that zip code are making tech level wages? The median income in NYC, as you have pointed out, is on par with Pittsburgh. high wages and bottomless demand for a small fraction of workers create the service industries that attract and retain the bottom 80% pittsburgh keeps a reasonable median income because it loses population every year. the sample count goes down, the average incomes stay the same. http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-02-10/why-some-cities-get-all-the-good-jobs
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Feb 12, 2016 05:13
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Citizen Tayne posted:Are you suggesting that the vast majority of jobs in that zip code are making tech level wages? The median income in NYC, as you have pointed out, is on par with Pittsburgh. jobs in the zip code, no. people who live in the zip code, yes. all the service workers drive from san leandro or someplace, or take bart or caltrain or whatnot.
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Feb 12, 2016 05:13
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who the gently caress would actually choose to live in silicon valley for a reason unconnected to job opportunities? it's a heavily polluted suburban wasteland where no one can afford a house
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:who the gently caress would actually choose to live in silicon valley for a reason unconnected to job opportunities? it's a heavily polluted suburban wasteland where no one can afford a house my grandma lived in sunnyvale until 2005 and now her house is worth like 3 times what it was when she sold it
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Feb 12, 2016 05:14
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we already have a tech bubble thread, this is the old computer thread I popped in to weird stuff today and they actually seemed to have a bunch of sun ultra series towers in their back of house, so they may have ultra 45s never could figure out where most of that stuff gets sold by them though, I always see interesting things in back there and they're neither on the web site nor the eBay page
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:who the gently caress would actually choose to live in silicon valley for a reason unconnected to job opportunities? it's a heavily polluted suburban wasteland where no one can afford a house I have personally known six people in the past two years who came in, interned with me, and said "I'M GOING TO THE VALLEY" and left. lmao as bad as Pittsburgh can be (and it's not losing population, the differential is moving to the suburbs), you can buy a palace and have real, actual cultural amenities next door.
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Feb 12, 2016 05:16
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eschaton posted:we already have a tech bubble thread, this is the old computer thread Yeah, gently caress you.
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Feb 12, 2016 05:17
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I just wouldn't want to be stuck with one of the sun "ultra" workstations (or servers) with an Opteron CPU
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I amazon'd the manual to the Pre-Computer 1000 since mine vanished long, long ago (even back when I hacked bad basic into it on a regular basis) I remembered this quote vividly  computers without writeable storage need to come back as learning tools
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Feb 12, 2016 05:48
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eschaton posted:I just wouldn't want to be stuck with one of the sun "ultra" workstations (or servers) with an Opteron CPU the customer base felt the same way
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http://www.vintagecomputerfederation.org/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-west-xi/ gently caress yeah it's back gonna start up a J-PC table with some friends, get my apple iigs autographed by the woz if he's there
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