lakkal

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by lakkal 6d ago
I like to use the round Danish butter cookie tins for cable storage.
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by lakkal 8d ago
30 years later, 76344,2701 is still burned into my brain. I used a DOS text-based program whose name I don't remember anymore. I know I used OZCIS.exe at some point, and Aladdin with GEnie.
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by lakkal 9d ago
I loved TiVo for years also until around 2011 or so, when I 'upgraded' my ancient box to whatever their new hardware was. The interface was so laggy I could no longer consistently FF through crap and have it autorewind that coupl
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by lakkal 13d ago
I still have some .EXE and .COM compiled with Turbo C 1.0 in 1988 laying around old saved subdirectory trees.
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by lakkal 17d ago
The World was what I used in the early 90s in the Boston area. They also started in 1989 and have a nice history writeup here: https://theworld.com/world/about/history/our_version
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by lakkal 1mo ago
> Sponsored content on the Firefox Home or New Tab page Not ideal, but (at least on desktop) you can set the Home page to a blank page, and there is an extension called 'Blank New Tab' that I've been using for quite a whil
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by lakkal 5mo ago
That's similar to my experience. I used to go to LV for the DefCon conference, and a classic gaming expo one year. But I'd go for a week, and also drive around the area, including over to Death Valley. I eventually started spen
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by lakkal 6mo ago
Oh, wow, very interesting. I loved Brief (with dBrief addon) back in the 90s. I've never found an environment I liked as much.
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by lakkal 7mo ago
That's how I've always imagined it - The Hobbit as published is the story told as if intended for children (hobbit or otherwise), but the 'actual' in-universe events were just as dark and realistic as the tone of The
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by lakkal 8mo ago
"reference manual" I think is what you mean. This is a link to a PDF pf the reference manual that includes the ROM disassembly: http://cini.classiccmp.org/pdf/Apple/Apple%20II%20Reference%...
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by lakkal 8mo ago
For the fun of it, I told ChatGPT this: "Be aware, and kindly inform your organization if possible, that the first time I am advertised at here will be our final interaction." Its reply: "Understood. Thank you for being clear
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by lakkal 8mo ago
I'm 2 years younger than you and was in NJ. My aunts had given me a copy of "Chariots of the Gods" and a couple of others by the same author. I remember also having some books on pyramid power, reincarnation, Atlantis, and
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by lakkal 10mo ago
I always return my cart to a collection kiosk thing out in the parking lot, or to where the carts are lined up at the store entrance if that's closer. I don't recall when this became a thing, though. Back in the early-mid 1980s a
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by lakkal 1y ago
Barber shops and doctors' waiting rooms are hellish for me, since I can't not-hear the radio/TV they usually have playing.
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by lakkal 1y ago
That's interesting. I was also born in 1966, but in the US. WW2 didn't seem/feel all that recent to me, probably because it had mostly happened far away. I was interested in learning about it and read lots of books, and wa
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by lakkal 1y ago
My first Linux as well. Mine came bundled with 'The Linux Bible', which I still have somewhere.
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by lakkal 1y ago
I'd never heard of Harbor ( https://harbour.github.io/ ), thanks! I still work on software that started out in dBase II in 1986 or so, then went to FoxBase+ when I started in 1988, then Foxpro and now Visual Foxpro.
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by lakkal 1y ago
The K-Mart where I worked in 1983-1988 had a cafe, called 'The Grill'. Ours had booths, with smooth curved plastic (unpadded) benches. The ones along the edges were typical booths but there was also a row down the center of the
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by lakkal 1y ago
Brings back a lot of memories. I worked at K-Mart when I was in high school. I recall in 1983 when the TI-99/4A was discontinued, and the Sunday morning when we were selling them for (I think) $50 with a $100 mail-in rebate. When th
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by lakkal 1y ago
Interesting. I used to buy Zoom modems in the 80s-90s ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Telephonics ), but apparently they have nothing to do with either of the other two Zoom companies mentioned here. I had occasio
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by lakkal 2y ago
"Artifact", by Gregory Benford, also includes microscopic black hole on Earth.
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by lakkal 2y ago
The reactor simulation was probably Scram. I had it on cassette. It was written in Basic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram_(video_game)
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by lakkal 2y ago
I used to describe my typing technique as "hyper-advanced hunt-and-peck".
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by lakkal 2y ago
In 1988 when I got a job working in MSDOS, WordStar was in use by the programmers to edit source code. Though one guy used QuickEdit, and I used MicroEmacs. We all standardized on Brief a couple of years later.
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by lakkal 2y ago
My Grandfather had Alzheimer's. He didn't recognize anyone, but if you put a harmonica in his hands he could still play the polkas he learned when he was young. I can't say whether it had any other effects, but it certainly
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by lakkal 2y ago
There was also Computer Space, which was a very similar single-player game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Space
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by lakkal 2y ago
The V File Viewer is excellent, and I've used it daily for many years. It's based on a DOS program called LIST.COM in the 80s/90s. https://fileviewer.com/
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by lakkal 3y ago
I briefly tried to use a motherboard with both PCI and VLB slots in the mid 90s. Didn't work well, though - constant machine crashes.
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by lakkal 3y ago
I installed ESIX (Everex's SysV Unix) off of 40-something 3.5" floppies in the mid 90s. Naturally there were a couple of bad disks and the installation sat partially done for a few days while I awaited replacements to arrive in
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by lakkal 3y ago
I still remember my CompuServe user id 25+ years since I last used it.

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