oliviersca

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   by oliviersca 8mo ago

   Very interesting ! As a newbie in astro-computation, do you have any books or paper to recommend ? Thanks
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   by oliviersca 10mo ago

   For those who enjoy burning cpu cycles ! m1277 = 2 ^ 1277 - 1 is not prime. It easy to check it with the Lucas-Lehmer test. But we don't know any of its divisors, which is quite fascinating.
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   by oliviersca 1y ago

   Nantucket ... Nantucket ... Ooooch, back to 1990s ... clipper ... xBase compiler ... Nostalgia ... Sorry, excuse me ! ;-)
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   by oliviersca 2y ago

   I wrote my first line of BASIC in 1976, if I remember correctly! I was 15 years old, and my dad and I went to a trade fair. There was an IBM booth there. A man invited me to try a moon-landing game. It was on an IBM 5100. I asked my dad wha
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   by oliviersca 2y ago

   You are not alone! I ordered 5 cpus from RS yesterday. ;-) For what ? I do not know exactly. Rebuilding my first TRS-80 perhaps when I will be retired ? I spent so many years programming on this machine. As I didn't have enough money t
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   by oliviersca 4y ago

   Or better: 10 PRINT "TRS-80! "; To get a very nice scrolling effect ! ;-)
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   by oliviersca 7y ago

   I found this project: https://opensourceventilator.ie/
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   Shortage of Respirators Covid-19

   1 points by oliviersca 7y ago|1 comments