Recent content by almarcy

I bought a game, once, for myself. It was dead boring. I bought my first SSD. WOW! I love technology. Games are wonderful, if you enjoy them. The rest is just more politics. Dead dull BS.

It is difficult for a vendor to adjust operator head space. Possibly impossible, but, we just keep trudging. Patching is the only way to justify 80% of our management overhead.

Punch Paper Tape, on metal media, will save all your gibberish FOREVER at 110.5bit/second. Go physical! Go permanent! Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream. It is not dying... a Teletype ASR is waiting for you to do what you know is right. Be humble, we only pose at terrabytes.

Is FUN always so much WORK?

LOOP: I was at Univac when they announced the 1100/8. It came shortly after the 1100/7, due to Intel's delay of announcing their new higher density memory chip. DO: LOOP

I attended an Intel training session that introduced the 8008 and 8080. Their Field Training Engineer told our class that Intel's research had found that every 10 degrees Fahrenheit (!?) the ambient temperature was reduced doubled the useful life of the chip. Some things have changed. Not all. I...

I am 71 and I want this new box. My friend's aunts are all dead. None ever got rich off their laptops. Sigh.

Beautiful looking device. I can't even see my home-brew PC while in my couch/hassock Hyper-Pilot posture. Pity.

In them olden days, I wrote code for Comten for years. When IBM copied it, they even copied my mis-spellings in the comments to the source code. The lawyer's had fun. It is all part of the Big Game for tiny minds.

I have been using my Cooler Master CPU heat pipe, fin stack and fan without failure for nearly seven years. It looks like many rectilinear designs. It works. My HWMonitor tells me my old AMD Phenom II X4 850 stays within 15C of ambient. Close enough for jazz, in my Universe. YMMV. The unit...

I bought "Ori and the Blind Forest". Then, I bought a Samsung 860 EVO SATA. I play my entice PC like a game :)

Just want to brag on my new Samsung 860 EVO SATA 6Gb/S. My old PC is an ATX behemoth dinosaur, but, it now stings like a bee! Slow is relative, but FAST is always FUN, while it lasts. Fun just fades, sometimes...

I am a geezer ATX fan. I am also a low $ user, so, I have not yet installed my new SSD. It is fine that folks want tidy small computers. They sell several/minute. Life goes on, within me and without me. My build is ca, 2012. Happy Tuesday :)

I just checked HWMonitor on my trusty old Phenom II X4 850 3.3MHz (ca. 2012) with Cooler Tower still in system since my build. System only shut down for cleaning or maintenance in six years. Only HW failures in six years: Case fan (blade broken off while HOT cleaning) and Power Supply (Bottom of...

Well, golly! The comments are even better than the article. I used to play code racer against IBM. It was easy to win, because I had better H/W (Comten) and knew how the software worked, from analyzing actual network traffic, not reading the big blue docs. Business is business. Technology is...