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Re:Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:15AM (#50352273)
We spent hours at the local one. Picked up lots of parts and gear when I suppose they would have rather us bought their relabeled Realistic stuff. In junior high helped the 5th grade teacher with his network of CoCo 2s that used a CoCo 3 as a "file server" via a rotary dial to download courseware through the cassette interface. I wrote a fraction math trainer in BASIC for him to use with the students. He was still using it when I was in high school.
Palm Pilots! Brad Templeton once sent me his business card that turned out to be "You Have Been Hacked." Very funny.
For those as confused as I was, the BASIC as written will not run on a C64 (two immediate notes: BASIC 2.0 doesn't have labels, and a variable like STATS would be illegal because it clashes with the status word ST). This only works in their custom IDE which "compiles" (read "adds line numbers, alters names and tokenizes") it.
Re:Laptop Based on 6502 CPU on Sunday October 18, 2026 @11:44PM (#50148140)
None of those are 6502-based, though. I think that's why OP referenced the SX-64.
Re:Laptop Based on 6502 CPU on Sunday October 18, 2026 @10:49PM (#50147807)
Beat the heck out of dragging a 1702, a 1541 and a C64 around, though. I have three and they made regular trips to vintage fests because they were easy to set up. They can easily be connected to more drives or a bigger screen. Their only major drawback, and this is a big one, is that you can fry the SID if you plug in the external monitor with the power on. I did that once to my horror, and so have others.
> nor correlate it with their other patients' data.

Halting that would pretty much be the end of public health analysis or real-world work on medication effectiveness/adverse reactions. We do a lot of work with deidenitifed data to find health patterns in populations.

Re:Amiga Unix, Again on Monday September 21, 2026 @09:53AM (#49787310)
Probably the same things you do with NetBSD on a Macintosh IIci. In my case, it handles internal print services, AppleShare, DHCP and DNS.
Re:Claude is no longer available for minors on Friday September 11, 2026 @03:33PM (#49664114)
And one of the rare incidences of the MPAA ratings banner appearing in the middle of a film.
Re:Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one on Sunday September 06, 2026 @04:14PM (#49590418)
Click on the drop down at the top of the Open window (where the name of the current folder is displayed) and you get the whole path to choose from.
Though this article concentrates on the SSRIs, other meds like the SNRIs can have a similar or even worse withdrawal effect. We didn't call it "Side Effexor" for nothing.

People legitimately need these drugs, including in the short term. The problem for acute stressors once they resolve is how to get them back off.

This feels like a baby step towards Arm being able to emulate z/Arch workloads, maybe with a bit of secret sauce for certain specific operations, which doesn't seem very much like IBM.
Re:Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V – By Chester Lam on Monday August 24, 2026 @09:09PM (#49427937)
And Nvidia is big enough that they could impose some order on the ecosystem that the ecosystem so far has either been unable or unwilling to impose on itself. The wild west of one-offs can continue to make their application-specific designs while everyone else will presumably benefit from a reasonably standardized platform.
Re:Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward on Monday August 24, 2026 @08:14PM (#49427564)
The book is a better measure of what allegedly existed, though it was heavily curated, and the editorial choices in it say more about William Chamberlain than they do about the putative Racter itself.

I did try feeding the book into a small LLM to generate more text but it either doesn't follow its unusually stilted prose, which is clearly templated, or it just vomits back the entire corpus which is not very large.

Re:Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full on Monday August 17, 2026 @07:02PM (#49338886)
Man, those CompUSA and Computer City pictures take me back. Spent too much time there (when the 7300 was my regular Mac, the CompUSA "Apple store" was my primary source of software). Probably still have some of those free Computer City floppies in a drawer somewhere.
Re:Introducing Toast 1 on Friday August 14, 2026 @01:21PM (#49301787)
I'm disappointed it doesn't burn CDs.
Re:Ban the Throbber on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @06:52PM (#49190141)
Yes, it tells you nothing. It has no relationship to what's going on at the other end, which may well also be nothing.
Re:NetBSD 11.0 on Saturday August 01, 2026 @04:57PM (#49138413)
I use NetBSD on several systems as a small server platform. I find it easier to understand and customize, and it keeps a lot of this stuff out of the landfill.
Re:The first watch featuring computer functions on Thursday July 30, 2026 @09:17PM (#49117966)
I have a radio around here I bought in Malaysia from "Panesnic."
Re:Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick on Thursday July 30, 2026 @08:21PM (#49117595)
My wife derides my Home Despot special plug-in mower as a Tonka toy, but it's basically just a motor, a blade and a bag, and I don't have a lot of lawn to mow.
Re:The Birth of Prolog (1996) on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @05:50PM (#48998849)
I actually asked Dr Colmerauer once if the original program code had survived, but sadly he did not believe any of it was still around.
No. I do use the term.
"Early" is load-bearing. Even brief delays, just mere minutes, significantly decrease survival or positive outcomes.

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.123.010...

It's important to get people to realize the benefits of early CPR and more people should be trained on how to do it, or else it won't be prompt and the outcomes will be worse. That's what the Red Cross and AHA promulgate to the public, in so many words.

Re:BLISS on Saturday July 11, 2026 @03:14PM (#48874873)
An important language in my younger years, since many Atari System 2 games (using the T-11 "PDP-on-a-chip") were written in it.
Re:Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s on Sunday July 05, 2026 @05:09PM (#48797967)
That's exactly the reason. NetBSD uses its own booter for the same purpose, for example.

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