Tue Jan 19 2016 11:27:13 EST from zooer @ Uncensored Subject: Re: Just a thought

Isn't Tesla using ancient electric car technology?

Yea, first electric car was in the 1940'ies afair?

Wed Jan 20 2016 08:41:31 AM EST from dothebart @ Uncensored Subject: Re: Just a thought

 Yea, first electric car was in the 1940'ies afair?

I was asking "hubertus" a rhetorical question in his question about citadel being old technology.

It would have been interesting if the "MSX" architecture had taken hold globally.  It was popular in Asia but not really much elsewhere.  MSX was an early attempt at an open standard microcomputer architecture, and it was built around the Z-80 processor.  Lots of manufacturers made computers that used the standard.

Yes, Microsoft was involved on the software side, but I would imagine the whole industry would have taken a very different path if IBM had not been involved.

Only for the amateurs.  Those with real computers used UUCP  :)

I was more of a YAPP man myself.  But then, I am just an amateur.

Right ... well ... I didn't have an antenna but I had a phone line.

Having both in the early days of BBS / dial-up Inet was fun.  I remember downloading a picture of someones baby via TCP/IP over packet at 9600 baud when the dial up ISP was not working from our house.  Fun stuff.  Stared the download and went to bed.  By morning, voila, baby picture.

I had also run xclock over a remote X session from a friends house at 9600 baud on packet.  Somehow I thought the second hand would sweep nicely.  I was quite wrong about that :-)  Needs a bit more bandwidth to do a remote X session.  I did find that any curses program would work well though.  The local library had a curses interface that worked quite well (even on 1200 baud packet radio).

Heh.  I did occasionally think about getting into packet because I thought at the time it would be the only way I'd ever be able to tie in to the Internet from home.  Here we are 20 years later and I have fiber optic cable in my house.

Well, you can still have both, ya know, for when the fiber goes dark.

Stop by and ask questions.  You might be able to put up some radiation unit yourself from the back corner of your parcel of land to the tall tower and have a shack yourself.  It is a good way to get away / and or share when the urchins are old enough.  RF can be fun.  Even part 15 devices when put in proper enclosures and up a tower can extend your fun.

I learned most of my ancient computing from those that had learned before me.  It never hurts to ask, even if they turn out to be younger, they might know something you don't, or you could end up elmering them in some knowledge that you have a bit more of.

I had also run xclock over a remote X session from a friends house at 9600 baud on packet.  Somehow I thought the second hand would sweep nicely.  I was quite wrong about that :-)  Needs a bit more bandwidth to do a remote X session.

When I first had access to X, in the early 1990's before the Linux desktop was nice and polished, xclock made me feel nostalgic because it reminded me of a full-screen analog clock program that I had played with on an Apple II years beforehand.  Those 280x192 "hi res" screens were something else  :)

I still like to fire up the "Apple II" X Screensaver.

Just did a search and turned up this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNXbtDJz6f8

Shell using the Apple II screensaver module....  I figure most of you have already found that.

Great fun for short output.  I think it is my new shell for keeping an eye on long running processes.  Uptime was fun.  dmesg was painful.