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by lakkal 7y ago
I still have my CIS userid (76344, 2701) number burned into my brain, 25 years since my last login.
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by lakkal 7y ago
That's my story, too - learned about sine and cosine by playing around with plotting the results in Applesoft Basic. Wasn't until the following year that I learned what they're for in Trigonometry class.
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by lakkal 7y ago
I have a printout of a Pascal Othello/Reversi game I wrote in 1985 for a class, as well as some C and DCL stuff from 1986-1987. The oldest I still have online is some more C stuff from work in 1988.
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Three feet of hail fall in Guadalajara(boston.com)
15 points by lakkal 7y ago|0 comments
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by lakkal 7y ago
Lucky you! I was in Salem, where DEC had some facilities (and in fact, I'm typing this from a building that used to be theirs), and the high school had 3 Apple ][+. They did get a Rainbow from DEC the year after I graduated. I know
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by lakkal 8y ago
And in the opposite direction, when a Russian MiG-25 was landed in Japan by a defecting pilot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mig-25#Western_intelligence_an...
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by lakkal 8y ago
Back in the mid 1980s, I learned Pascal immediately before learning C, and to this day I (internally) pronounce C's -> operator as "up dot".
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by lakkal 8y ago
Someone ( http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/theories/twinkies.htm ) preserved an old Usenet post comparing Lembas to Twinkies: From postings to rec.arts.books.tolkien by BThompson <williamt-aaaaaaat-lamar-dawt-colo
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by lakkal 8y ago
I was listening to REO Speedwagon's 'Golden Country' just recently and thinking about how it's still relevant 46 years later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXseI1LAxbM
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by lakkal 8y ago
It's neat that this manual from 1980 actually has an author prominently attributed and "Personal Note from the Author". I had an RX-80 that, that I loved, until it died in the same lightning storm that killed my Atari 800. I
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by lakkal 8y ago
I use this for file viewing and managing: https://www.fileviewer.com/index.html (the web page describes it as 'an all-purpose File Manager for Windows with a powerful inbuilt text file viewer')
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by lakkal 8y ago
Medications are usually dispensed in amber-colored vials and bottles (my Dad used to work for a company that manufactured them). Also, amber used to be a common color (though maybe not as common as green, from my experience) for monochrome
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Remote Graphic Instruction Set(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by lakkal 8y ago|0 comments
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by lakkal 8y ago
And the space shuttle Enterprise is there now.
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by lakkal 8y ago
One day in Spring of 1983, I was a junior in high school, and the whole school was supposed to be gathered in the gym for some sort of pep rally or something. I and a fellow computer geek had absolutely no interest in this, so we spent the
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by lakkal 8y ago
Same here, I'm typing this on a Model M, and have 4 in storage. That said, Everex keyboards from the early- to mid-90s had a really good feel to them, too. I'm using a Dell mouse (can't tell what model) right now that has a
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by lakkal 8y ago
I never made it to any of the developer conferences, but I remember the mood on the Fox forum on Compu$erve being very grim when the announcement was made. People joked about jumping out of windows... I'm no fan of Access or VB, eithe
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by lakkal 8y ago
Nice. I'm almost 52 and still work on the FoxPro application I started working on in 1987, which was originally in dBase II, then moved to FoxBase+, then to FP DOS and now VFP. Now, 32 years later, it's finally being phased out
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by lakkal 9y ago
I worked for several months in Corbin, KY, the town with the restaurant/museum. I still occasionally wear the t-shirt I got there.
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by lakkal 9y ago
Sadly, I don't know (or remember) any more of the story than that, and she's not around anymore to ask... It doesn't seem likely that they would have gotten huge amounts of coal by doing it.
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by lakkal 9y ago
As a little girl during the Great Depression, my grandmother and her friends used to throw rocks at the engineers on trains, to provoke them into throwing pieces of coal back at them. They'd then take the coal home for warmth.
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by lakkal 9y ago
I'm really hoping they'll choose southern NH, where I live. You get most of the advantages of Boston, somewhat lower cost of living, and an opposite commute from what typically happens now. I'm not interested in working for
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by lakkal 9y ago
I thought it was neat that Esperanto was used in the books. I first learned of it in about 1980 from a book belonging to a friend's father, who was in the military. It was called 'Esperanto: The Aggressor Language", because
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by lakkal 9y ago
In about 1977, we had a TV with a remote control. Very often, sneezing would cause the channel to change. I think jingling a keychain would cause it to happen, too.
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by lakkal 9y ago
Route 128, "America's Technology Highway", is at the edge of the Greater Boston area. It would certainly have qualified as an 'economic center' back in its prime (through the 1980s at least). https://e
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by lakkal 9y ago
This looks great! Is there any chance that it will work with MS SQL Server? Sadly (i.e. over my recommendations) my company uses it rather than PostgreSQL.
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by lakkal 9y ago
I had the lesser model of Mavica that I think could only take pictures in 640x480; at least, it seems like all of my pictures with it are 640x480. Not sure now whether it could do 800x600 or whether that was just the more expensive model.
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by lakkal 9y ago
My Dad's was also from the late 50s or early 60s, and was still in excellent and very usable condition in the mid-90s, when I unfortunately lost it :-(.
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by lakkal 9y ago
SIMH emulates a lot of things, including VAX. You used to be able to get a Hobbyist license for OpenVMS from HP. I'm not sure whether you still can. http://simh.trailing-edge.com/
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by lakkal 9y ago
I agree with all of this. I have very little patience or interest in the 'red tape' aspects of home-buying (and not a lot of practical home ownership knowledge), so having an agent who really knew what she was doing made things a

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