State of the Game
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Both work well!
"That is what Just recommended to me. I rest my case, your Honour."
The original, mass produced, removable media?
(I know there were things before that but they were very, um, high end.)
Serenity, courage and wisdom...YMMVI really must stop reading certain threads on this here forum...
I get this almost unresistable urge to suggest that removing one's head from an orifice normally used for waste matter disposal might be a great idea prior to posting!
I was joking- although that video shows what the hardly ever used hardware could do booting stuff up. After an EMP strike it might be the next best thing
Couldn't see the video in your post. Seems to be a crap shoot on whether I can see them in general or not.I was joking- although that video shows what the hardly ever used hardware could do booting stuff up. After an EMP strike it might be the next best thing
In many cases, I CAN see the link, but not always.
much too sophisticated - "real" classic external storage is FORTH like - 1kByte BLOCKs of ASCII text with no reordering whatsoever.
So like 1 GB per cubic foot or so?
I think they measured it in football fields
Being an administrator in the 70s and 80s was probably backbreaking work
that is ok as well - whatever suits your fancy. To me that is kind of a hobby as well - I like to design programming languages, virtual machines and create compilers and interpreters for those - like I said, it can be addictive - it started a long time ago with reading the "lambda the ultimate" web-block, where fancy programming languages and unusual solutions for problems were discussed - and I started to really think about strengths and flaws of programming languages and why they are like they are and if those cannot be made better for a specific task at hand like massively parallel computation - commercial programming languages support this extremely poorly.(un)fortunately I have wasted all those years of preparations: my childhood in front of Commodore 64, then teenage years at PC, then years of studying at technical university:
I have been working in IT for ca 6 months, then I moved to Germany, where I noticed demand for some other, easier and stress free services, opened my small firm (with an old laptop, printer and the cheapest office room I could find), then I made a few people work for me so I could finally play "the boss" aka do nothing at work.
All this eventually made computers a post-work fun for me again.
I have absolutely regressed in most of IT skills and I find it... delightful!
Thanks to that my mind had opportunity to fill all this empty space with so much useless nonsense that I love.
So: "fun" for me is something absolutely different then tinkering with VMs
Still is.