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by spoppy 5y ago
Pre-iPhone I used my Symbian phone as the GPS system in my car, using software called Route 66 and a bluetooth based GPS receiver. The map data was all stored on an MMC card so it didn't need any GPRS data. I used both a Nokia 6600 and
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by spoppy 6y ago
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis I believe. It was as also known as 'Yuppy Flu', or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
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by spoppy 6y ago
They only said the demos were running off Apple silicon, not that they were running off a Mac Mini DTK machine. They probably have other systems more akin to Mac Pros that they use internally.
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by spoppy 6y ago
It may be that by the time these things are ready for an actual release they can be USB4, which is USB-C + Thunderbolt technology, but no longer Intel exclusive.
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by spoppy 7y ago
Since last years iOS 13, with the updates to the Files app, it's no longer impossible to connect an off-the-shelf USB drive to an iPhone and dump pictures to it. You will need a lightning to usb adaptor, (and probably the powered light
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by spoppy 7y ago
Do you mean SongSmith? That wasn't 1990s, more like 2009, but made quite a splash at the time with their famous video commercial. http://songsmith.ms/ https://youtu.be/3oGFogwcx-E
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by spoppy 7y ago
It’s usually ‘640kb ought to be enough for anybody’ Which probably wasn’t actually from Bill Gates https://www.computerworld.com/article/2534312/the--640k--quo...
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by spoppy 7y ago
Presumably it was more of a PowerBook than a MacBook, since OSX came out in 2001ish and MacBooks didn't exist till they switched to Intel in 2006. Sorry..
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by spoppy 7y ago
I saw this extra feature on the downloadable special edition of the Hitchhiker's Guide TV series a little while back, which talks about the engine behind the infocom game and the language that it's programmed in. BBC Micro Live -