bluedino

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by bluedino 1mo ago
I had Turbo Pascal 2.0, back screen with yellow letters on DOS, didn't get the blue Borland IDE until a few years later, and I also had Microsoft QuickPascal. Wasn't 100% compatible with the games/graphics "tutes" o
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by bluedino 1mo ago
> Back in the day, computers were expensive and games weren't readily available. You could get a PC for a thousand bucks back then, and shareware was a thing in 1990-91. Crystal Caves, Commander Keen, Duke Nukem were huge hits and t
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by bluedino 2mo ago
Reminds me of digging into HTML Canvas scaling, especially when HiDPI Macs came out.
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by bluedino 2mo ago
You'd mail your resume in (it was a 'hack' back then to hand-deliver it), then get a call in a couple days or weeks. Then someone who was home during the day (if you already had a job) would answer the phone and take the mess
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by bluedino 2mo ago
People were refusing the measles vaccine back in 2000
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by bluedino 2mo ago
If it's a trip for work, who cares how much it costs.
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by bluedino 2mo ago
Americans: we used get the Mars bar, but it's basically the Almond Snickers now
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by bluedino 2mo ago
And the Alpha was faster The last line of the parent post makes it sound as if the chips didn't exist at the same time.
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by bluedino 2mo ago
600Mhz Alphas existed when there was 195mhz MIPS
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by bluedino 2mo ago
Borrowed my mothers credit card to buy a modem and sound card from Surplus Software, it was like a miracle when an Airborne Express van showed up the next day with my goods.
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by bluedino 2mo ago
I worked at Best Buy and when the Gateway country store opened up they came in and offered most of our sales floor employees big raises and benefits. Sadly I don't think the store stayed open much more than a year.
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by bluedino 2mo ago
The movie "Snatch" https://youtu.be/_Yvmg4wcfzY?is=paeV1wjPaF2c6WZB
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by bluedino 2mo ago
It was interesting hearing the stories about Bill Gates bridge games and partners. Probably even more so now.
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by bluedino 2mo ago
The breadboard computer from 1997 deserves it's own post.
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by bluedino 2mo ago
> you could tell at a passing glance which system was displaying on the screen even if you didn't know what game it was I always felt the same about the look of PS2 games
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by bluedino 2mo ago
I wonder if most people kept them around just so they don't have to port their apps or migrate to something new. I worked at an HP shop, and Itanium ran HP/UX so they kept running their business on their PickBASIC (and whatever da
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by bluedino 2mo ago
Most people who buy these want to watch free movies, sports streams, etc that aren't on OTA or free services
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by bluedino 2mo ago
I remember VGA and MCGA being loosely synonymous back then I only had the demo of TIE Fighter (TIEDEMO.EXE), but I remember there being a SVGA version (maybe on CD) later one
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by bluedino 2mo ago
I played the DOS version on a 386SX16MHz. Had to use flat shading but it was still fun. Friends 386DX/40 ran it with texturing etc. Both were VGA 320x200
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by bluedino 2mo ago
> You only have to look in any professional kitchen - they don't use non-stick pans. That's definitely not true.
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by bluedino 2mo ago
> Isn't Teflon (PTFE) inert biologically? Either way, it will be 'bad' forever with some people, like MSG and other things
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by bluedino 2mo ago
It's much easier with non-stick and I'm not the only one that cooks in my house.
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by bluedino 2mo ago
Related: https://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html
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by bluedino 2mo ago
The UX has always been my favorite part. It's like some mixup of OS/2 and Classic Mac OS
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by bluedino 2mo ago
Oh, how times have changed. Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced at May's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, Calif., Mac OS X will come with a full implementation of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java 2, Standard Edition. It will be
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by bluedino 2mo ago
We haven't given out an Intel Mac at work (enterprise with 50k users, maybe 1/5th use Macs) in years....I think we might have a handful of people still using one, but it's gotta be 500:1
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by bluedino 2mo ago
That increased at the same rate of lazy/stupid users.
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by bluedino 2mo ago
There used to also be fun, and somewhat interesting questions to answer or discuss. It quickly turned into simple questions and "send me the codes"
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by bluedino 2mo ago
In the earlier Windows days, Borland and a couple other companies did their own buttons etc https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/c5a0e280-a1c3-974a-24c2-90...
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by bluedino 2mo ago
> Counter point - driving down the beach in a convertible with good tunes blasting and the sea breeze in your hair is fun. The annoying thing now is the guys with the full dresser bikes or Polaris Slingshots that have 2500W stereos insta

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