CrankyCanuck

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by CrankyCanuck 2y ago
I would have loved to know all this back in the day. In the early 90s I could hack together x86 assembly fairly well... interrupts were your friend. Anyhow, one of my buds showed me a diskette with what he called "laser spots".
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by CrankyCanuck 3y ago
There are some (SDRs on the internet) Have look here. https://rx-tx.info/map-sdr-points http://ve3hoa.ddns.net:8073/
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by CrankyCanuck 4y ago
Plug cutters, especially those that cut a tapered plug are an interesting exercise in patent shenanigans. As mentioned in this thread, a tapered plug is almost always superior than a straight sided one...the wedge action as the plug is dri
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by CrankyCanuck 5y ago
I remember learning Smalltalk. Or rather, beating the crap out of the bloody machine it ran on. This was back in 1989...Carleton U in Ottawa. The CompSci faculty was all-in on the glory of Smalltalk. We had to learn it on old (even then
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by CrankyCanuck 5y ago
No, I don't think so. His design respects the inherent latency to accelerate a looooog set of elastics. Instead of stretching a set of elastics over a long distance, he uses a heavy bundle and stretches them over a short distanc
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by CrankyCanuck 8y ago
Good old DT. Dave was a prof of mine in the late 1980's.. CompSci at Carleton in Ottawa, Canada. SmallTalk...my first reaction (95.202 for those that remember...) was WTF?? We had just done Pascal...SmallTalk just blew our minds. I
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by CrankyCanuck 8y ago
Back in the late 80's, when I was in University, we had second year course where we had to do x86 assembly on PC XT or AT clones. Assignment #1 was messing with keyboard interrupts...easy peasy. Assignment #2? Write a video game...