julian55

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by julian55 1y ago
So have I. It`s an attractive tree but I haven`t found a good way of using the fruit.
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by julian55 1y ago
It brings back memories for me too. This compiler was my first introduction to C, before that I'd used Pascal or Fortran. I worked on Z80 but we also had a 68K project which ran Whitesmith's Idris UNIX clone before we got real S
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by julian55 1y ago
We have a similar faceless clock in our village although perhaps not as old. https://leigh-on-mendip.org.uk/church-clock
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by julian55 2y ago
I'm slightly surprised that no one has suggested PDP-11 assembler as a good starting point if you're not going to learn a current instruction set. Perhaps it's because it was the first one I learnt properly but all the early
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by julian55 2y ago
Some of the videos worked for me but I found the generated melodies rather samey.
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by julian55 2y ago
Yes, I agree. I did write some C software for Z80 but mostly I used assembler.
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by julian55 2y ago
In the UK there is usually a fuse in the plug, the fuse value varies according to the appliance up to a max of 13A.
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by julian55 2y ago
Do you need fast charging at home? We just charge our electric car overnight from a normal UK 240V 13A socket in our garage.
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by julian55 2y ago
There is some publicity about Æthelstan this year as it is 1100 years since he became king of England. https://www.athelstan1100.co.uk/
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by julian55 2y ago
Lost Realms by Thomas Williams is another good book about this period. Rather than Wessex, Mercia etc. it focusses on some of the lesser known kingdoms of that era.
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by julian55 2y ago
I have a small collection of programming cards from the 70s & 80s. The most amusing one is the VAX-11, which is actually a booklet with 6 pages of instructions plus another whole page of addressing modes. Thankfully I never had to do
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by julian55 2y ago
I agree with you. I've also found that themore modern a bike is the more difficult it is to maintain Take hydraulic disc brakes for example, when they work they are great but when they fail they don't work at all. You then have
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by julian55 2y ago
The Z80 has lasted a few years longer than me in the computer industry. It came onto the market more or less when I left uni and I retired 2 years ago. For several years in the 1980s I worked on Z80 based terminals and CP/M microcomp
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by julian55 3y ago
I did a lot of work for both Hitachi and Renesas over the years and used SH-1, 2, 3 and 4 with various OSes. I liked the SH architecture, I first learnt assembly programming on PDP-11s and SH felt like an extended RISCified PDP-11.
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by julian55 3y ago
I also want to UKC and I lived in Whitstable for my 2nd year in 1974.
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by julian55 3y ago
Music (guitar, mandolin, synths), photography (film and digital), cycling, running, gardening, archaeology, cooking, church bell ringing. I'm retired so I have plenty of time for hobbies.
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by julian55 3y ago
I liked the 6800, it was the first microprocessor I used, back in 1975. For programming in assembler I preferred it to the later 6502.
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by julian55 3y ago
I do pretty much the same but I also use EXIF data to add place names to the folder name.
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by julian55 3y ago
The first program I wrote was to generate changes for bell ringing. That was over 50 years ago and I'm still writing change ringing software today!
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by julian55 3y ago
Yes, I've rung about 20 peals most of them taking over 3 hours. Physically it's not that difficult but it is a mental challenge as you can't let your mind wander otherwise you will go wrong and the whole sequence of 5000+ ch
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by julian55 4y ago
I remember reading about Matchbox Game-Learning Machines in a book in my school library in the late 1960s. It was partly responsible for getting me interested in computers.
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by julian55 4y ago
The 1906A at Oxford in the early 1970s was one of the first computers I used, I was 16 or 17 years old and at school in Oxford. I'm sure this was partly responsible for my subsequent computing career.
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by julian55 4y ago
As far as I know the UK is the only place that has special varieties of apple for cooking. Cooking apples are usually large, tart and cook to a pulp. There are many varieties but Bramley is by far the most common.
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by julian55 4y ago
At one place I worked at back in the 1970s there was a speaker on the mainframe (it may have just been a transistor radio picking up interference) and you could get some idea of what the machine was doing from the sound.
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by julian55 4y ago
I agree, if it's a man-made apocalypse then "bouncing back" seems like repeating a failed experiment.
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by julian55 4y ago
I like Elektron devices and I own a Digitakt and Model:Cycles but I find this one a bit underwhelming, especially it’s lack of proper polyphony.
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by julian55 4y ago
I also remember when compilers made more of an effort to fix trivial errors. It was worth it when using a batch system and you could only run a few compilations each day.
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by julian55 4y ago
All4 has always worked fine for me, I find Channel 5 the least reliable of UK TV channels for streaming. Having said that, I usually record interesting Channel 4 programmes so I can skip the ads!
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by julian55 5y ago
The electric mandolin tested only has four strings. An eight string electric mandolin would sound much more like the acoustic one.
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by julian55 5y ago
I agree, for me computers mostly became fast enough when SSDs became standard.

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