This 1970s Time-Share Basic manual KICKS YOUR ASS
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Now that brings back memories.
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i had a recording of one of those line printers for ages i used as white noise.... wish i'd digitized it back when i was going through all my old tapes....
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That's the parallel I was forming.
Yes, it is entertaining.
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That's that argument where, you are driving up the costs of healthcare, and that's unfair to everyone else. So we get to use that as an excuse to control EVERY aspect of your lives.
Love that one.
I mean, its not like the private economy can't solve that one. Do something like, buy an insurance plan that doesn't allow fat people or pre-existing conditions.
But, that means unhealthy people will be without insurance. Well, then setup a single payer as an ALTERNATIVE.
But, then there won't be enough people paying into it for it to survive. Yes, yes, you just realized that life choices that make healthcare expensive, are bad life choices.
But poor people can't help but make bad choices. Ok, I find that slightly insulting, and possibly racist. But you know, the liberal mentality can't be racist when it claims minorities are too stupid to help themselves. Getting past that, you could, you know, stop building a welfare trap and keeping them poor.
But pregnancy!?!?! I didn't say I wasn't for abolishing some forms of pre-existing conditions. Don't false dilemma me.
But, not controlling the population will drive up the costs of medicare/medicaid. Um, then put limitations on those people only? I'm not the one that invented "welfare". You have to convince ME it'll work because I'm the one paying the bills.
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So, when poor people vote for more welfare....
is that also a bad choice?It's a trap!!!
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So, when poor people vote for more welfare....is that also a bad choice?
I don't rely on the welfare system, so I'm not going to pretend to know enough about it to comment with authority.
It's a trap!!!
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For some strange reason, I'm finding this thread less entertaining than I did a couple of hours ago.
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I'm finding this thread less entertaining than I did a couple of hours ago.
So you're saying the thread KICKED YOUR ASS?
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We sell it for spraying bears.
It could probably be used for spaying bears as well...
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Don't say that too loud though, you might attract attention from the NJWs...
Then again, pepperspray would also work on them I guess...
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It could probably be used for spaying bears as well...
Spray that stuff in the right place, and the bear will volunteer for spaying just to make the pain go away…
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Spray that stuff in the right place, and the bear will volunteer for spaying just to make the pain go away…
This is definitely more entertaining than bitching about welfare. Thank you.
I saw a YouTube video somewhat recently — I don't remember if it was posted here or if it was just some random ultimate fail video YouTube recommended — of some woman spraying pepper spray. Who or what she was trying to spray was off-camera, so I have no idea why she was spraying it, and apparently out of range of the spray, because she was running toward whatever she was trying to spray. Yes, right into the cloud of capsaicin she was spraying into the air.
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It seems like you have a lot of lawmakers that want to nerf the world.
You have to remember this is the country where people seriously suggested banning pointy-ended knives and long ones.
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Yes, right into the cloud of capsaicin she was spraying into the air.
That's almost as funny as people who put no-bark collars on themselves.
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people who put no-bark collars on themselves.
That is a thing of which I was previously unaware. People do that? Why?
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You have to remember this is the country where people seriously suggested banning pointy-ended knives and long ones.
Also, all guns and any means a person might use to defend themselves, in a country where even the freaking police only have billy clubs.
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That is a thing of which I was previously unaware.
OMG, really? Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8e1mD3K2C4
I saw one where a guy put one on his groin, much to his friends' amusement.
People do that? Why?
They're not very smart, basically.
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Here's one
Oh, electric shock type. I only thought of the citronella spray type, because that's what I have for my dogs.They're not very smart, basically.
QFT
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Am I the only one who finds this manual charming?
I love with how much enthusiasm they explain every trivial thing they do. For their generation, it must have been pretty amazing typing stuff into a typewriter and seeing it reflected on the screen.
I can definitely see myself getting engrossed and falling in love with computers with this book.
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I haven't read it, yet. I'd probably enjoy it for the nostalgia. My introduction to computers was BASIC around 1972-3, but not time-share. It was on a single-user PDP-8L mini interfaced to an ASR33 like the one pictured above.
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It was obviously written by the kind of people who thought computers were powerful tools that should be useful and fun for everybody.
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It was obviously written by the kind of people who thought computers were powerful tools that should be useful and fun for everybody.
What's wrong with that? That's why I like it.
I haven't read it, yet. I'd probably enjoy it for the nostalgia. My introduction to computers was BASIC around 1972-3, but not time-share. It was on a single-user PDP-8L mini interfaced to an ASR33 like the one pictured above.
I was always a PC user. Sometimes, I imagine how it would be if I was born earlier and had gotten in during the 8-bit era. But then again, I'd be bald and old now, so no thanks, you can keep your ancient crap.
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What's wrong with that?
Nothing's wrong with it. That's exactly what's right with it.
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Don't say that too loud though, you might attract attention from the NJWs...
Then again, pepperspray would also work on them I guess...
I'm thinking of getting a dog so I can pepperspray it and it will love me anyway.
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I do wish that this had been my first exposure to FORTRAN rather than this, even though the former is undoubtedly the spiritual ancestor of this.
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Introduction to Fortran IV
Introduction to Fortran intravenously? :<hjkl>/
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I do wish that this had been my first exposure to FORTRAN rather than this, even though the former is undoubtedly the spiritual ancestor of this.
The content needs to be tailored for the target audience.
For instance, this is not something I would produce for grown-ups:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01l9GNnf22o
... grown-ups, however, were their target audience.
(Ctrl + V broken in post editor or is it just me?)
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...jesus christ. Where did you find that?
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I thought I should catch up on angular and the like and saw a "Learn Angular" link on it's homepage.
It's not a bad tutorial, just condescending as hell.
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For instance, this is not something I would produce for grown-ups:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01l9GNnf22o
... grown-ups, however, were their target audience.
Because "Bronies" are a thing?
Anyway, that video was short and yet to the point so that it stays bearable.
Afterwards this brain-aneurysm-inducing video popped up in the "Recommended videos list":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=s9CA01NKOP8
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Afterwards this brain-aneurysm-inducing video popped up in the "Recommended videos list":
IIJM or is the amount of stupid posturing in the JS community (well, group of communities) nauseating?
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Afterwards this brain-aneurysm-inducing video popped up in the "Recommended videos list":
I'm guessing the answer to the question in the video title is "neither", having not watched the video.
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We have a winner!
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I do wish that this had been my first exposure to FORTRAN rather than this
Why would the author write yet another Fortran IV book in 1982? F77 was a thing by then.
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Why would the author write yet another Fortran IV book in 1982? F77 was a thing by then.
Because those kids and their newfangled F77 compilers wouldn't get of his lawn?
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[i]stupid[/i] posturing
This suggests to me that [i]intelligent[/i] posturing might be a thing that some communities indulge in...
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/me looks studiously innocent…
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Because those kids and their newfangled F77 compilers wouldn't get of his lawn?
Dare I admit that FORTRAN IV was, although not the first language I learned, the first one I formally studied, several years before that book was written?
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yet another Fortran IV book in 1982
That's the third edition, I believe. Mine was whatever they churned out in 1980. And there was no F77 compiler on the college Facom M160F mainframe, just a choice of FORTRAN G (fast compilation) or FORTRAN H (fast execution), both FORTRAN IV compilers.
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It could probably be used for spaying bears as well...
I heard a comedian once wondering why the other playing card suits don't get as much use a on t-shirts. He reckoned there should be...
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i had a recording of one of those line printers for ages i used as white noise.... wish i'd digitized it back when i was going through all my old tapes....
Daisy Wheel?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_X87H8UPvsOr Dot Matrix?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEJYNtI2ul4
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Neither. It was one of those industrial greenbar printers that did the 24 inch wide sheets at 120 lines per minute.
Absolute beast of a machine. Was the mainframe printer at my dad's work back in the early ninety's. It almost never stopped printing and he got several hours of tape recording that at both used as white noise.
I am still angry at myself that I never digitized it. That tape was awesome.
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Neither. It was one of those industrial greenbar printers that did the 24 inch wide sheets at 120 lines per minute.
Is that the version where the print head was all the way across the paper, or a standard dot matrix print head flying back and forth?
Both were amazing for their time.
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As I recall it was the for matrix with the print head that for backwards and forwards across the page.
I can't remember if it did one line at a time or two... Based on how fast I remember the print head moving I think it was one line is at time, but my sense of time in other memories that far back had been proven very faulty before.
It was awesome. I remember it was bolted to the floor because it vibrated so much it would go walkabout otherwise.
You do not want a 1500 pound printer going walkabout. :-D
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I can't remember if it did one line at a time or two... Based on how fast I remember the print head moving I think it was one line is at time, but my sense of time in other memories that far back had been proven very faulty before.
Some of those big ones printed bidirectionally, so you got two lines per head pass.
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Could be. I don't have the model number in front of me.
Heck I am not positive on the print speed either except that I know it was more than 60 lines per minute and the next fastest speed that was common was 120.