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by ralphc 5y ago
I bought one of these, an Indigo, for $100 two weeks ago at the Vintage Computer Festival Southeast. They apparently came with 10GB hard drives but this one had a 20GB in it, big enough with an external firewire drive. It came with OSX 10.
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by ralphc 5y ago
I attended the Vintage Computer Festival Southeast 8 a couple of weeks ago, here's the pictures I took. https://imgur.com/gallery/hi5Yb50
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by ralphc 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak https://techcrunch.com/2006/08/06/aol-proudly-releases-massi...
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by ralphc 5y ago
This starts in iOS 15. What if I never upgrade, or wait for others to upgrade, they make outrage and then Apple issues an update that takes the CSAM feature out?
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by ralphc 5y ago
Retired at 55 from software development. I think it helps when your career (slash passion blah blah) is something that you don't need other people to do. I still write programs and help nonprofits with Salesforce work. Software develop
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by ralphc 5y ago
Previous discussion, March 2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22578824
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by ralphc 5y ago
Say what you will about W95 and W98 but I'm still in awe that an OS that handles your basic productivity and gaming needs for the time could run with 4MB or 16 MB of RAM.
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by ralphc 5y ago
I do most of my collecting by being old and not throwing things away. From experience a good vintage computer to have is a 1999-2000 era Pentium III with Windows 98 on it. It's old enough to recognize 5.25" floppies in the bios, b
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by ralphc 5y ago
Mid-80s there was crobots, you programmed the robots with a subset of C.
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by ralphc 5y ago
I, and the company I was at, switched from C++ to Java in the 1990's, and garbage collection was a major productivity boost. Lately it's been Python and JavaScript. Has C++ come up with ways to help with manual memory management,
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by ralphc 5y ago
I tried this, how do you open doors?
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by ralphc 5y ago
Multiple dispatch is a pretty strong legacy of CLOS as well.
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by ralphc 5y ago
Java everywhere. I'll stretch the timetable into a little into the early 2000s. At my job, Java did run everywhere, from my Sharp SL-5000 Linux handheld to mainframes. We had applets in the server, and J2ME on phones. Sun was on a roll
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by ralphc 5y ago
The 14.4 and earlier has its own UI issues. I regularly show my podcast queue on my phone and take screencaps so I can rebuild my list when I do something in the UI and lose it.
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by ralphc 5y ago
Time to mention miegakure, a 4d puzzle game that will be done "when it's done" https://miegakure.com/
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by ralphc 5y ago
Ever since reading Time-Life books in the library in the 70s I've wanted to visualize the 4th dimension. Has anyone actually achieved this? And if someone claimed to, how would we verify it?
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by ralphc 5y ago
IANAEE (electrical engineer), but I do some antique radio collecting. When you work with computers, memory chips, all that, your instinct is to be grounded. I read that the opposite is true when working on old radios. When you're groun
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by ralphc 5y ago
Has anyone worked with KaiOS? It's an OS for modern feature phones. Just buttons, no touch screen. 2nd most popular phone OS in India.
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by ralphc 5y ago
Is anyone using this, a quick howto would be most appreciated. I went to CP/M sites and mainly found ARK files for the main software. Do I need to uncompress this into a directory and pretend it's a floppy drive? The github just t
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by ralphc 5y ago
That's fine if you're local but I hang out on the vintagecomputing subreddit and about once a week you see a horror story of a collector getting something from ebay and it's delivered essentially destroyed.
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by ralphc 6y ago
As a followup, CoinStar stepped up (or wanted the publicity) and took the pennies and gave him cash. https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/coinstar-helps-out-georgia-ma...
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by ralphc 6y ago
If you're thinking of doing something similar, either in a VM or on compatible hardware, I recommend Windows 98. You get FAT32 which gets you larger hard drives, where pre-OSR2 Windows 95 has FAT, where the max hard drive size is 2GB,
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by ralphc 6y ago
The one to the right of center?
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by ralphc 6y ago
It's ostensibly a book about AI, but when I first read it, summer after high school (or after freshman college year?), it blew my mind as a book that showed me that computer science was science and mathematics and not just typing in pr
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by ralphc 6y ago
I retired in 2017 but I worked for a large company that rented an entire 18-story building and many floors of neighboring buildings. Like many buildings it had a card, candy, snack shop not owned by the company. Also, in the multi-level par
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by ralphc 6y ago
This bothered me so much I made a bookmark to the cookies setting. This is much better, thanks from me.
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by ralphc 6y ago
Here is Gerald Sussman, creator of SICP and the course, explaining exactly what happened with the switch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cblhgNUoX9M&t=3578s
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by ralphc 6y ago
Kiczales also wrote the Common Lisp classic "The Art of the Meta-Object Protocol"
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by ralphc 6y ago
I preferred Eclipse to Intellij because it was free, and free meant that everyone based their software on it, and once you learned it, for example, if you knew Eclipse you knew the Scala IDE, the Salesforce IDE, Mulesoft, Teiid, Red Hat JBo
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by ralphc 6y ago
I'll give a shoutout to the Microsoft Foundation Classes and Visual C++. That, along with the documentation was a VASTLY better way to write Windows apps than the previous C code and WM message loops.

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