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The true curse is that it uses Cherry Red, Cherry White, and Cherry Blue switches accordingly.
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Apr 20, 2024 04:20
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When your computer doesn't control your camcorder 
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Help I need a way to address huge chunks of RAM memory. 
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Apr 20, 2024 08:58
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Dick Trauma posted:Help I need a way to address huge chunks of RAM memory. 640k should be enough for anybody
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Note that no reference to that quote ever surfaced and Bill Gates himself repeatedly denied making such a dumb statement.\ searching for information about the 640K limit I found this long answer: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7817/who-set-the-640k-limit
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXRrINa-Z9g
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Apr 20, 2024 10:03
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 The Z80 first came to market in July 1976.
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Apr 20, 2024 12:13
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Zilog have been limping along as a skeleton of a company for years. They had some very popular products (Z80, Z180, eZ80, Z8) and failed to follow any of them up properly.
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Apr 20, 2024 12:28
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Sweevo posted:Zilog have been limping along as a skeleton of a company for years. They had some very popular products (Z80, Z180, eZ80, Z8) and failed to follow any of them up properly. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory sure was the dominant business strategy of that era.
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Apr 20, 2024 12:31
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Finally, the Zilog Z81
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Finally, the Zilog Z81 It’s only the classic DIP versions though, the ones you can pop in an old MSX or whatever as a replacement. The embedded cores etc are still manufactured.
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Apr 20, 2024 13:39
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How is TI going to make calculators now?
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July 1985
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although I do enjoy techmoan being snarky, sometimes I worry he's reading his comments too much
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Apr 21, 2024 00:40
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Light Gun Man posted:although I do enjoy techmoan being snarky, sometimes I worry he's reading his comments too much What kind of moan did you think it was?
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:July 1985 If I'm going to the electronic mall I will get an electronic malt from eOrange Julius.
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Light Gun Man posted:although I do enjoy techmoan being snarky, sometimes I worry he's reading his comments too much Yeah I’ve felt that before, he doesn’t need to give concessions for insane people.
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Apr 21, 2024 00:59
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:July 1985 I wish there were a way to browse captures of these sorts of things.
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Apr 21, 2024 02:29
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EL BROMANCE posted:Yeah I’ve felt that before, he doesn’t need to give concessions for insane people. yeah, I hope he's doing it for fun and not actually getting stressed by bullshit from dumbasses.
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Apr 21, 2024 03:10
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Radia posted:I wish there were a way to browse captures of these sorts of things.
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Apr 21, 2024 03:20
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Radia posted:I wish there were a way to browse captures of these sorts of things. There was a public archive of CGW and Compute! Gazette, forget where they were, but I pulled them a long time ago and have just been browsing through them. I have the benefit of a decade of looking at them, which is a sort of a mental index.
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Back in those days I worked at a software place so I had access to all the magazines. Between Macuser, PC Magazine and Infoworld I had all the articles and ads I could handle. I passed on PC Shopper and the other sales rags.
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Cojawfee posted:How is TI going to make calculators now?  
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Speaking of TI, this is an interesting bit of history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu3FnasuE2s
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Cojawfee posted:How is TI going to make calculators now?
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Collateral Damage posted:It's just the OG Z80 line being discontinued, the eZ80 and other binary compatible versions are still being made. Plus the Z80 is so commonplace and straightforward that if Zilog gave up the ghost right now there'd be a dozen companies ready to fab up pin-compatible eZ80 SoCs by Monday morning. The ol' gal isn't going anywhere even if its parent kicks the bucket.
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 No need for engineers any more! (Basically testing the android app Imgur upload)
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Now including 4 extra Boomer elipses!
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LimaBiker posted:Now including 4 extra Boomer elipses! I heard the boss is getting one of those computers....
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LimaBiker posted:Now including 4 extra Boomer elipses! And they are not even proper … ellipsis, but dot space dot space dot . . . More on topic, it's fun how exactly that marketing mirrors the more optimistic pitches for AI in the workplace.
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LimaBiker posted:Now including 4 extra Boomer elipses! I work with a guy who is about 35 and uses them constantly…
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Computer viking posted:And they are not even proper … ellipsis, but dot space dot space dot . . . I particularly like the atomic-age IBM logo. We're nuclear somehow! Atoms to the rescue!
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LimaBiker posted:Now including 4 extra Boomer elipses! I never knew they were an actual thing that got used in print until seeing that ad... always thought it was just a consequence of people not having to write anything their entire lives until they have to do email communication... my horse won't eat his multivitamins... then they look at how co-workers in their age group write and copy them.
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Letmebefrank posted:
At least IBM is insinuating that your engineers can be freed up to do more useful tasks than basic calculation. that same ad today would talk up how you can just shitcan everyone and let IBM’s WatsonGPT be the head of every department at your company.
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Beve Stuscemi posted:At least IBM is insinuating that your engineers can be freed up to do more useful tasks than basic calculation. that same ad today would talk up how you can just shitcan everyone and let IBM’s WatsonGPT be the head of every department at your company. I mean they're suggesting you could free them up but what they mean is "this tool lets you drive down the value of skilled labour".
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something something punch cards for genocide to reduce labor cost.
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Dip Viscous posted:I never knew they were an actual thing that got used in print until seeing that ad... always thought it was just a consequence of people not having to write anything their entire lives until they have to do email communication... my horse won't eat his multivitamins... then they look at how co-workers in their age group write and copy them. The true Boomer move is to just start hitting "." or worse "," whenever your brain slips out of gear and don't stop until you figure out the next thing you're going to write. my horse,,,,,,,,,,won't eat his multivitamins,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,do u have any ideas???? Pham Nuwen has a new favorite as of 19:07 on Apr 22, 2024 |
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