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Clifford Nelson wrote: Use to put code on paper tape for programming EEPROMS. and also used computer cards.
Oi, that's a bizarre use of paper tapes. I used paper tapes in 7-9th grade, the school had a PDP-11 with a teletype. I'd programmed a Monopoly game and saved it to punch tape, but some hole somewhere wasn't readable. 
And the community college I went to in 1980 had a CS dept that taught Fortran programming with punch cards. 
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 I still have a tape from that era with my first application - estimating the number of tiles required to cover a roof, always been a LOB developer.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I definitely remember computers (PCs) like that in the College computer lab.
Two 5.25" floppies and nothing else. Boot DOS from A:\, use other for data.
Make sure your autoexec.bat is right.  
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Things I was happy for in my computing life:
My university stopped using card readers the year before I started - empty space where the machines used to be.
The introduction of double sided floppy disks - tons of space!
3 1/2" floppy disks - tons of space in less space!
The introduction of hard drives - tons of space without boxes of disks taking up space!
RAM dropping below $500/MB - tons of memory space!
I now realize I should have worked for NASA - because I seem to appreciate SPACE! 
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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Then you did not get to use card punches, or card sorters. Sort of sad  .
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Clifford Nelson wrote: Sort of sad
Yep - not quite 'winning the lottery' kind of sad, but sad nonetheless!
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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raddevus wrote: That hit me, because doing that in 300 bytes is amazing. Well, it was amazing. It was ingenious and a necessity at the time. But now, it is meaningless.
Exactly. Memory was at a premium, so whatever you could do with only 300 bytes meant that you had more free memory left for whatever purposes. Nowadays, as you put it, if you've got 8 GB of RAM, you want applications to actually put it to use. No matter what decade you're from, unused memory is wasted memory.
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We booted pdp-11s by setting the front panel lever switches to the octal boot address (of something) and then hit load, run if I recall. Then a teletype went bzz bzz and you could run your diags or whatever you were after on a removable platter disc or tape drive.
Not as primitive as punch cards but still.
Those were the good old days when power supplies were linear the size of Volkswagens and the sky was the limit.
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raddevus wrote: Just reading an interesting article about SWEET16
You might want to read about "forth".
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raddevus wrote: If you do something like that now, no one would really care. People would be like "big deal, I've got 8 gigs of ram in my machine."
You might wish to consider checking-out pouet.net for the demo-scene's best productions. Likewise, a stroll around the fairway at StackExchange's Code-Golf is not the worst way to spend time.
Naturally, some would prefer to explore the world of small code in a far more literal way. Here, catch: .kkrieger (96kb openGl game with midi) - Wikipedia
Farbrausch are a bunch of nutcases, look for the demo "Debris". 
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I would make a meat pun, but ... I'd probably butcher it.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That would be the unkindest cut of all.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I'd steak my life on it!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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#meatoo
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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There slaughter ways to get away with that around here, if you grill just give it a little extra thought and not hide from it. My bone of contention is that the meat isn't left where it belongs - on the creature that grew it.
Besides - don't followers of seitan have all the fun?
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He didn't seem to re-veal much.
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At least he spare ribbed us from something worse.
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Heard that beefore. I heard some farmers out west are using marijuana joints to brand their cows. Calling it high steaks poker.
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I have a real beef with this topic
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Binge watched Cobra Kai[^] last night. Hadn't intended to - thought I'd watch the first episode to see how bad it could be but I was nicely surprised that it was bloody good. It was also nice that all of the locations are close by and familiar. Well worth a watch - 10 20 minute episodes with most of the original characters all growed up.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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I find that IMDB ratings very often are quite accurate. And 9.1 certainly is fine.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I've watched them twice now; each of the past 2 weekends. My favorite scene is the first episode at the end when Sirius plays. I like Johnny's character and his lines. Plus, I'm a sucker for a comeback story. Unfortunately, the second season won't be around until 2019.
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