sleepydoc
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Move your wheel further out from the column, and for God sakes switch to Fahrenheit!!
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Move your wheel further out from the column, and for God sakes switch to Fahrenheit!!
Nope - we had a 300 baud modem plugged in to the phone line. (Well, first we had to wire an RJ11 jack after AT&T got broken up)Yeah, the first acoustic couplers were 110, then later ones were 300. Modems that directly plugged into the phone line started with the 1200 baud era.
How can I forget that? The first true genius hack I ever saw perpetrated involved one of them: at Hollywood High circa 1973, we had two ASR-33's and they were in use between two classrooms. Each room had two phone jacks, so both terminals could be in either room.
I had an Audi A4 with a black leather interior and swore I’d never get another car with a black interior. Love the white seats in my Y!Dang it just updated my post. It's HW4.
I saw that @sleepydoc posted a HW3 Model Y
I'm also a white interior convert
Well, there’s not much more to say about 12.3.6 - speed control sucks and Alan’s not happy with how it stops. Once the come out with a new version we can actually start discussing again.These past few posts really sound like a group of old buddies shooting the breeze, knowing that doom is right around the corner, but enjoying the moment. Old-time socialization.
Whatever is sent to the terminal to print would simply also get punched onto the paper tape when the punch was turned on.What is the purpose of the reader? Is it used to save a copy of the program code on the tape?
So, as an example: If one had a program listing, one would "print" it to the line printer with the paper tape punch enabled. It wasn't difficult to get a paper tape a couple of hundred feet long.Whatever is sent to the terminal to print would simply also get punched onto the paper tape when the punch was turned on.
When you fed tape to the reader, it was as if you were typing that same information on the keyboard.
I have a few customers that still use punch tape powered CNC machines. Remington Rand or Sperry, something like that. Old iron that still works.What is the purpose of the reader? Is it used to save a copy of the program code on the tape?
Paper tape is impervious to EMP, unlike all those new-fangled nanoscale storage methods.I have a few customers that still use punch tape powered CNC machines. Remington Rand or Sperry, something like that. Old iron that still works.
It's a side effect of the original/current cost of a Tesla, in the $50k range. Most younguns buy beaters, used cars a bunch of years old; it's typically old farts with substantial capital from all those working years that can buy new ones. Of course, once they buy a Tesla, they're not paying nearly as much for fuel to run around the landscape or maintenance, for that matter, which is attractive to the semi-fixed-income set.damn it.....didn't realize everyone here was typing in from their wheelchairs![]()
with the $4k instant credit you can get a used Tesla now below $20k (or at least some people did earlier in the year).It's a side effect of the original/current cost of a Tesla, in the $50k range. Most younguns buy beaters, used cars a bunch of years old; it's typically old farts with substantial capital from all those working years that can buy new ones. Of course, once they buy a Tesla, they're not paying nearly as much for fuel to run around the landscape or maintenance, for that matter, which is attractive to the semi-fixed-income set.
Hey! The other guys were the ones doing the 100 Baud stuff.Paper tape is impervious to EMP, unlike all those new-fangled nanoscale storage methods.
I plan to download the internet to save it before the big blast, but it may take some time.
(You know Elon actually sent me 12.4 a month ago, but my progress bar still only shows 1%. I blame the 110 baud Teletype setup that @lzolman, @LowlyOilBurner and @Tronguy convinced me to to get for my Prepper computing setup...)
Hahaha. I think the reason is not apocalypse survival, but rather the machines still can hold a tolerance, and can be used for simple machining processes. Or, the brand new DMG MORI’s/Mazaks/Okuma’s can be taken out with an EMP strike. Who knows?Paper tape is impervious to EMP, unlike all those new-fangled nanoscale storage methods.
I plan to download the internet to save it before the big blast, but it may take some time.
(You know Elon actually sent me 12.4 a month ago, but my progress bar still only shows 1%. I blame the 110 baud Teletype setup that @lzolman, @LowlyOilBurner and @Tronguy convinced me to to get for my Prepper computing setup...)
Wow, this post brings back memories. But I'm actually working with those for a talk, so I'll resist. Except to boast I scored an 8K RAM card or something (which was serious in those days) from Processor Technology for writing an 8080 machine language version of Conways's Game of Life that ran on nothing but an IMSAI 8080's front panel switches, front panel LEDs, and their VDM-1 video card. Those were such fun days.So, as an example: If one had a program listing, one would "print" it to the line printer with the paper tape punch enabled. It wasn't difficult to get a paper tape a couple of hundred feet long.
One could then feed the punched paper tape through a reader after typing a few commands, along the lines of, "copy everything about to come into this file name" and let it rip.
Paper tape readers and punches were much cheaper than those punch cards; the punch cards were all in EBSIDIC (if memory serves), but at least one could read what was on the cards. Assuming the ink hadn't run out.
My younger brother had an Altair with both a punch and a flying tape reader. It "flew" because a tape went through that thing at several feet per second. Never a whole lot of fun rolling it all up afterwards, but a lot better than typing the OS into the Altair. (The Altair didn't have any floppy interfaces: It was tape, the keyboard, or nothing. And back in the day we just had zeros, no ones, and went to school and back in the snow, uphill both ways!).
The Altair did a fair job at Conway's Game of Life, though.
I remember playing leisure suit Larry on a compaq 286slt, not quite as cool as the 8088 stuff, but I’m younger. Still cool.Wow, this post brings back memories. But I'm actually working with those for a talk, so I'll resist. Except to boast I scored an 8K RAM card or something (which was serious in those days) from Processor Technology for writing an 8080 machine language version of Conways's Game of Life that ran on nothing but an IMSAI 8080's front panel switches, front panel LEDs, and their VDM-1 video card. Those were such fun days.
That was Nikola.Rivian and their run-downhill semi truck was a hoot, but one could see that one coming from a mile away. It was kind of obvious: The CEO was trying to portray himself as some kind of born-again Musk, but he clearly didn't have the technical chops. Fooled a lot of those young sneaker-clad Wall Streeters, though.
I think Model 3 in ‘18 changed the demo. I hardly see any boomers in Tesla around here. Lots of Gen X like me.I'll admit there's fewer of the white-haired set at Superchargers these days. Probably because Musk & Co. keep on dropping the real cost of their cars, making them cheap enough for the middle aged.