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Stories & anecdotes about computers (some true!).
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Next FCUG meeting - Sunday, January 10
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Happy New Year, C= and Amiga aficionados! The Fresno Commodore User Group has its next meeting from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday, January 10, at The Pizza Pit 2701 N. Blackstone Ave. (corner of Blackstone and Princeton) Fresno, California This month we finish looking at various items for the VIC-20 -- the... more »
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Old Technology Museum Exhibit
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A Long Island museum has an exhibit of old technologies, such as hand cranked phonographs, candle stick phones, etc. For full article please see: [link]
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SBC FERGUSON BIGBOARD 1 - Help Request
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Hello, i’m writing from italy. Please excuse me for my english form. Since 2007 it’s grow for me a passion for my SBC in object. During this time I collected many info I reported on my webpage [link] I’d need support to repair my bigboard 1 so the question is: Are there... more »
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Oldest Instruction Set still in daily use?
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Could it be the 16-bit 8086 set, still used in the boot-up of every x86 PC to this day? Or even the 8087 floating point processor. Question stimulated by reading "The 8086 Family User's manual, Numerics Supplement" dated July 1980 - that's nigh on 30 years.
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CAPS Fantasia
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...recent thread from a.f.c on ebcdic & ascii [link] A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing that has a low of URL references ... why 360 became EBCDIC and not ASCII EBCDIC and the P-BIT (The Biggest Computer Goof Ever) [link] other references from the same site:... more »
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IBM 9393 RVAs "Obsolete" for Sure
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...370 had 2kbyte & 4kbyte page sizes (as well as 64k & 1mbyte segment sizes). but, in general there weren't systems changing from one size to another ... it selected one size and stuck with it ... aka dos/vs, vs1 used 2kbyte pages ... and VM & MVS used 4kbyte pages. a possible caveat was VM "shadow" tables ... were whatever the virtual... more »
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Problem with XP scheduler?
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DB> My real complaint with this whole discussion is that DB> multitasking means different things to different people. DB> If you are an old timer like me, there were major DB> screams 30 years ago when Unix claimed to be DB> multitasking. At that time most companies described DB> what we now consider as multitasking as... more »
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Plane mishap
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...Good advice. Boing! If you think you can jerk a judge around with patently bullshit answers that are the equivalent of saying "Prove it!" while giving him the finger, think again. Judges are not stupid. They are cranky, conservative old men, infatuated with their own estimate of their abilities, with a jaundiced... more »
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How long before Microsoft goes the way of DEC (and in part, IBM)?
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The dinosaurs of the world of computing, believing that they have a stranglehold on us, usually go the way of the Dodo. How long before the computists of the world will no longer pay out their shekels to Microsoft in order to buy something that they already have had for years? (ie, No "3dB" (worthwhile) improvement in moving from... more »
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