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571.
by zabzonk 2y ago
> foster connections with friends who live on the other side of the country Could s/he not of made friends locally?
572.
by zabzonk 2y ago
It was a suggestion. Lots of modern kids don't get out enough. And to be frank, I think it is you that is "dampening".
573.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Yes indeed. The best Xmas toy my parents ever bought my little brother (10+ yrs younger than me, so he's early 60s now) was a huge bag of wooden bricks. Me and my 5 yrs younger brother spent all of Xmas building things and not letting
574.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Perhaps going to the playground would be even better?
575.
by zabzonk 2y ago
But as I keep on pointing out the tariff is on PHYSICAL goods. It's probably next to impossible to tax digital stuff.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
But no tariffs on them? And actually I mostly watch home grown stuff - can't stand US TV series. Most of the software I use is open source, and again even if I pay for it, is there a tariff?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
HP oscilloscopes were pretty good too, back when . But I haven't been there for many years, and I guess you can get good, cheap, LCD ones today for much less money. And rotating rusty hard drives, I suppose. But still all gone. And don
578.
by zabzonk 2y ago
I don't think that dang (or the new guy) is going to over-moderate this stuff.
579.
by zabzonk 2y ago
UK citizen. My latest laptop is an Asus, made in Taiwan. The Intel CPU is designed in the USA I will admit, but manufactured elsewhere, I think.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> As an individual you would own consumer goods. Not American ones I don't. Is Trump suggesting tariffs on incredibly over-priced and under-performing military and civil aircraft, when we can buy from Europe, or make our own? To me
581.
by zabzonk 2y ago
> any physical USA goods Do you see the word "physical" in my original comment? And me saying that I don't buy such things? I will admit to buying Intel CPUs, but aren't they manufactured in the Far East?
582.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Congratulations. But not from me - I wouldn't touch an iPhone with a stick.
583.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Well, how are going to charge for them? For example, how to deal with Steam? most of the games I buy there (Baldurs Gate 3 for e.g.) are not made in the USA.
584.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Strange. I, as a UK citizen, don't seem to buy almost any physical USA goods at all.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Allen had to write the loader in machine code, which was toggled in on the Altair console. The BASIC interpreter itself was loaded from paper tape via the loader and a tape reader. The first BASIC program Allen ran on the Altair was apparen
586.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Neither SunOS or Solaris were open source, or based on open source.
587.
by zabzonk 2y ago
And I should of said (and did say) "With a Kingfisher X server installed and configured"
588.
by zabzonk 2y ago
I've written an Intel 8080 emulator that was portable between Dec10/VAX/IBM VM CMS. That was easy - the 8080 can be done quite simply with a 256 value switch - I did mine in FORTRAN77. Writing a BASIC interpreter, with floati
589.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Can we be clear? This is VAX VMS?
590.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Some quite good hardware, I must admit - their servers were good. Workstations less so, and ludicrously expensive for what they were.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Yes, well Scott McNealy will never be my idea of a brilliant man. Or Sun of a particularly good company - where are they now? I remember one investment bank I worked for, starting: IT tech: Would you like a Sun workstation? Me: Nope, I woul
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Gates and Allen wrote and copyrighted the first Microsoft Basic, and the Dec10 8080 emulator needed to run it (I've written one of these - a bit later as it happens). Allen wrote a loader (in machine code) for it on an aircraft flying
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Ask HN: What does the world buy from the USA?
7 points by zabzonk 2y ago|3 comments
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by zabzonk 2y ago
ThinkPads back when were certainly good, sturdy machines, though I could never get along with the nipple. Another great older machine for me was the purple Sony Vaio - magnesium alloy, came with Win2K installed. I bought one, and then immed
595.
by zabzonk 2y ago
I dunno about "rogue", but write something useful (and well documented) that is easy to install and pay for (like PayPal, for example). You might be pleasantly surprised on what you get, enough to pay for some nice toys, but makin
596.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Actually: > if I was 18 in 2016. but I suppose equally (or more?) applicable now.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Well, my experience with an IBM operators console was back in the mid-80s with a twin 4381 setup. It was sometimes more convenient for me to set up a big print job at the main site which had a high performance printer (I actually wrote a mu
598.
by zabzonk 2y ago
Yes, but on modern laptops at least, F3 does something like Volume-Up, unless you switch the sense of the keys - which of course you can do, but I much prefer them doing the media control stuff.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Takes me away from the main keyboard - I much prefer Ctrl-X rather than Fn-X. And as I asked before, do you still use function keys with modern interfaces? And if so, which one(s)? And have you ever seen (or used) one of the insane keyboard
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by zabzonk 2y ago
As a function key hater - hated it. WordStar for me! Does anyone use function keys for word processors on modern interfaces? As far as I can see they are all used for media/screen controls.

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