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by krallja 5y ago
Ben Eater kickstarted this whole hobby into my brain! I’m (hopefully) starting a 68010 breadboard computer this summer; already have the parts, just need to find the time. Another fun (soldering) kit-maker is Lee Hart at sunrise-ev.com. His
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by krallja 5y ago
68K’s are still produced by Rochester Electronics; they are still used in some embedded systems (allegedly automotive systems?), which is good news for kit builders!
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by krallja 5y ago
I will occasionally see a (constructed) one of these kits pop up on eBay for $100+. Has anyone here bought or built one? Where did you get the parts?
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by krallja 5y ago
If you have an LED, you have a UART Tx. Why not use it for that instead?
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by krallja 5y ago
That’s the one! I had no idea it had its own Wikipedia page.
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by krallja 5y ago
We had a very early touch tone phone that would silence one of the tone generators if you held down two buttons in the same row/column, so you could get pure-tone music out of it by dialing 3+6, 2+5, 1+4, 2+5, 3+6 3+6 3+6…
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by krallja 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bullion_Deposito... “… currently holds roughly 147 million troy ounces (4,580 metric tons) of gold bullion, over half of the Treasury's stored gold.”
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by krallja 5y ago
Venmo
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by krallja 5y ago
I’m assuming there is an option to turn it into cryptocurrency too? (At least, that’s what Coinstar in the US has become.)
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by krallja 5y ago
It’s a question of temperature difference. Cooling a house from 40° to 20° uses approximately the same energy as heating it from 0° to 20°. But it gets much colder than 0° C in Finland, while it is very rare to have temperatures above 45° C
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by krallja 5y ago
We didn’t have the margins to ship physical servers to customers. User seat licenses were $100 or so, and most customers were SMBs - 5-15 users, so we would have lost money on shipping any customer a Dell with Windows Server on it. We didn’
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by krallja 5y ago
In 2006, the app was already seven years old. We couldn’t go back in time and decide to write it in a different language.
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by krallja 5y ago
Supporting (Windows|Mac|Linux) on (MySql|MS SQL|Access) was a small but meaningful portion of our revenue stream for over a decade. Having our own compiler meant we could migrate easily to a new platform (.NET/Mono, in our case) with t
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by krallja 5y ago
How would you deploy an ASP web application to Linux hosts in 2005? Linux and Mac made up a small but meaningful portion of our revenue for over a decade. Would you have foregone that, all because you didn’t want to write a compiler? It too
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by krallja 5y ago
Man Given Genetically Modified Pig Heart Survives Two Months
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by krallja 5y ago
What about Calca or Soulver? They don’t have keypads at all. They’re more like REPLs for calculation languages.
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by krallja 5y ago
Ah, I see it in Section 3.3: http://www.phatcode.net/res/223/files/html/Chapter_3/CH03-3....
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by krallja 5y ago
Why does it call the processors the 886, 8286, 8386?
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by krallja 5y ago
BTW, the Jupiter Ace and ZX81 both have excellent iOS emulators, written by Kevin Palser.
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by krallja 5y ago
The ZX81 had only two colors: black and white.
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by krallja 5y ago
It also claims that “the Z80 CPU at 3.25 MHz was actually faster than the Apple II processor (1.08 MHz).” This is, pedantically, true, in that the oscillator is ringing faster. However, the 6502 completes more work per clock cycle than the
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by krallja 5y ago
The article talks about the SCSI2SD, which emulates a hard drive with a modern SD card.
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by krallja 5y ago
There was a video earlier this month on Half As Interesting about this railway: https://youtu.be/oP1Oq3JLNbc HAI makes interesting, short, sarcastic videos about obscure topics that HNers will probably enjoy.
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by krallja 5y ago
I put a label “INTERNET HATE MACHINE” on my iPad after a while, because what I really used it for was getting outraged by crap on Twitter instead of going to bed. I deleted Twitter.app and started playing casual games instead, and slept sli
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by krallja 5y ago
Yep, in fact in 2015 Nigel Richards won the French Scrabble World Championship without speaking any French.
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by krallja 5y ago
No, you have licensed your content to Y Combinator. It’s in the TOS: > By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transf
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by krallja 5y ago
We got a second phone line once we kids started doing the same thing to the parents.
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by krallja 5y ago
> what is up with all computers _still_ having 1 gbps ethernet ports? See last week’s discussion on “A disquisition into the sadly slovenly takeup of 10GBASE-T” and note that the article was written TEN years ago. https://news
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by krallja 5y ago
This is pretty cool. I wonder if they are deploying the app container directly to DO from your running Glitch app, or if there’s a build step?
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by krallja 5y ago
There is so much free information out on the airwaves, if you only had the protocol docs available. In addition to the usual pseudo-voyeur stuff (police/fire/EMS/Burger King drive-thru radios), I've seen people download

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