lakkal

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by lakkal 3y ago
I still have all my Coherent manuals and disks. I still referenced the manual for years after I moved on to Linux.
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by lakkal 3y ago
If you're just watching log files, https://fileviewer.com/ is an excellent file viewer. I've been using it for many years.
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by lakkal 3y ago
It came off on a couple of my joysticks, and I found that just using the white plastic underneath felt more precise.
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by lakkal 3y ago
We had some Apollo Domain machines at school which could also run similar programs - I remember 'Crumble' and 'Melt' being two of them. And you could run them on other peoples' display. So we used to melt/cru
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by lakkal 4y ago
Hah, and visiting the page with Javascript disabled gives you an "Enable Javascript to continue" message styled like a Guru Meditation error. Nice touch.
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by lakkal 4y ago
Some still washes up along the shores of the US: https://www.app.com/story/news/local/ocean-county/2018/03/31... No pharaohs have washed up recently, though, as far as I know.
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by lakkal 4y ago
During my time as a Mason (I left for much the same reason as jayofdoom), we followed the same procedure when voting for new members. The couple of times there was a non-unanimous vote, the Master called for another vote, in case anyone ma
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by lakkal 4y ago
The MIT Press Bookstore was always an interesting place to go when I was in the area.
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by lakkal 4y ago
My Atari 800 died in a lightning storm in 1983, but I still have the replacement 800XL downstairs, with floppy drives, cassette drive, thermal printer, and 300 baud modem. An Ape Face paralell port adapeer for the Epson RX-80, which I don&
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by lakkal 4y ago
Oh, long after the system I worked on was replaced. Back in 1997-1999 the images were filenames in a database record, and we just read the image file and printed it on the card. Then at a later stage a camera looked at the printed card an
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by lakkal 4y ago
That's interesting that your card made it to you with the wrong photo on it. There was a visual inspection process that compared what the printed card looked like, to what it's supposed to look like, and cards were supposed to b
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by lakkal 4y ago
If this happens, or they try to raise the price to be ad-free, I'll cancel and wait for the DVD to become available.
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by lakkal 4y ago
I used to DM games sometimes using those random charts from the AD&D DM Guide. It was a lot of fun. The players (who knew what I was doing) always tried to figure out the purpose of the labyrinth based on what what developed.
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by lakkal 5y ago
Neat. I just recently found an old letter pertaining to my great-great-grandfather selling a house in Germany prior to coming to the US in the 1880s or so. The town mentioned is the site of a cluster of his (uncommon) surname.
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by lakkal 5y ago
I'm from the US and in my 50s, and read quite a bit, but never encountered the word 'bespoke' until a couple of years ago. Not sure whether it's rising in popularity or what. I see it fairly often now.
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by lakkal 5y ago
That's what I used to do in my younger days. Now about 1 hour per day, before bed.
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by lakkal 5y ago
In 1988, I started working for a company whose software was written in dBase II and Foxbase. That was pretty cutting edge at the time. But, although they had run coax cable for an Arcnet Novell network, none of the workstations (8086 and
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by lakkal 5y ago
I'm working right this second on an application that originated in the mid-late 1980s in dBase II, then moved to FoxBase, then FoxPro and is currently Visual Foxpro. (and I've been developing/supporting this all along, since
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by lakkal 5y ago
That describes me. I described it once as 'highly advanced hunt-and-peck'. I did learn to tough-type in school, but I didn't touch a computer until the following year and simply forgot it all. That was 40+ years ago. I ge
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by lakkal 5y ago
They sound really interesting. Good luck!
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by lakkal 5y ago
Where did you play it, and on what system? There might be people here who would recognize it. Another good place to ask is https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/
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by lakkal 5y ago
Reminds me of The Unidentified Flying Man of Mammoth Falls from The Mad Scientist' Club by Bertrand R. Brinley.
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by lakkal 5y ago
No, that would be JAPL.
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by lakkal 5y ago
My firs modem was an Atari 835 300 baud modem, but the second was a Zoom 300baud, in a smoked black transparent case. I loved that thing.
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by lakkal 5y ago
I used to say that IE was just the first stage of the Mozilla/Firefox installer.
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by lakkal 5y ago
It is: https://www.2600.com/
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by lakkal 5y ago
Dragon Magazine #78 had some good ideas on how to make AD&D psionics work better.
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by lakkal 5y ago
Just ordered a copy. I love stories of that period, which is just before I was starting to learn about computers.
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by lakkal 5y ago
I used to do that a lot. Lots of small villages and soccer/football players...
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by lakkal 5y ago
Agreed, I've been putting the task bar on the left since 95 or 98. This will make me very unhappy.

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