lonelygirl15a

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by lonelygirl15a 5y ago
Signed integers are symmetrical on architectures like the Sperry Univac 1100/2200 and derivatives (still available from Unisys, I believe) which use ones complement, and therefore have both positive and negative zero.
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by lonelygirl15a 5y ago
And that's why the ' character is in ASCII. Print a lowercase e, backspace, and grave accent ', and you have printed é. Underscore, ^, and other characters are there specifically for overstriking. Not many terminals do that a
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by lonelygirl15a 5y ago
Every time I've encountered discussions of pilots and polarized glasses, it's to avoid them. https://www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media... ". Polarized lenses are not recomme
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by lonelygirl15a 5y ago
I found awk for DOS on a BBS, and used it to help my TW play. When getting into a newly generated map, I'd spend the first night or two moving around as much as possible, logging the session in the terminal program (ProComm?). Then I&#
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by lonelygirl15a 5y ago
"Floppy" refers to the media, not the packaging; some (3.5") had harder plastic shells, but inside was the same floppy plastic material. Hard disk platters were/are rigid (metal or glass).
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by lonelygirl15a 6y ago
Well, Woz wired it. There was no software, right?
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by lonelygirl15a 6y ago
I would absolutely love to have a Free terminal that had a feature set similar to SecureCRT. https://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/
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by lonelygirl15a 6y ago
https://kitze.io/posts/zero-or-one If you think that's an oversimplified polarization, click on this blog post at the bottom. "You're either a Zero or a One" "You have either reached your goal,
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by lonelygirl15a 6y ago
I think that archive.org is doing great work in that area as an entity and as an umbrella to other people like Al Kossow at bitsavers.org.
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by lonelygirl15a 6y ago
I had/have dual MDA and CGA compatible video cards in my 8088 PC, and used it extensively for debugging. There were debuggers that would run well on MDA, while the program displayed on the graphics adapter. Additionally, I soldered a
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by lonelygirl15a 7y ago
There's a bunch of people doing bare-metal work on Ben Eater's two projects right now: https://eater.net/
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by lonelygirl15a 7y ago
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/brian-kernighan-hello-world
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by lonelygirl15a 7y ago
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vsciot-v...