test-drb January 2012

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by driley＠mantaro.com

Hopefully another nail in the coffin for lead-free solder: http://www.edn.com/article/520531-Toyota_accelerations_revisited_hanging_by… It's a very brief summary, but it links to the entire NASA presentation. - Dave

12 years, 7 months

Speaking of programming languages for teaching

by legalize＠xmission.com

This paper might be interesting: "Snobol4: A Computer Programming Language for the Humanities" <http://www.robertgaskins.com/files/gaskins-gould-cal-snobol4-1972.pdf> -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 version available for download <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/the-direct3d-graphics-pipeline/> Legalize Adulthood! <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>

12 years, 7 months

for the Prolog and Forth nerds

by spectre＠floodgap.com

For people such as myself who are inordinately fascinated by Prolog, and terribly intimidated by things like the Warren Abstract Machine, here is a practical subset of Prolog written in the much easier to implement Forth along with various companion articles (including one on SKI combinators). http://soton.mpeforth.com/flag/jfar/vol4.html -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- A penny saved is stupid. ---------------------------------------------------

12 years, 7 months

Dr Dobb's Journal

by fpersen2000＠yahoo.com

Greetings; Like many of you here I am an old time home computer guy who got his start in 1976 when I built my first computer, an Altair 8800. I am writing to get some information on a number of Dr Dobb's Journals that I wish to sell. I would like some input on what an honest price would be. I am also trying to determine if I should sell these one by one or in volume sets. I have the following: Volume number? Issue # 1??? ??? ???????????????? 1,3,6, 10 2????????????????????????? 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 3????????????????????????? 2,5,6,7,8,9,10 4?????????????????????????? 1,3,4,6,7,8,9,10 5?????????????????????????? 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 6?????????????????????????? 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 7??????????????????????????? 2 Your input would be appreciated. Frank Relotto

12 years, 7 months

Fortran integers (was: Re: Right toolf for the job...)

by mtapley＠swri.edu

At 1:01 -0600 1/5/12, Mouse wrote: > > [In FORTRAN, a]ny variable whose name starts with the letters I J K L >> M or N (alphabetic letters between I and N (which is the start of >> "INteger")) is assumed to be an int, unless you tell it otherwise. > >...and others are assumed to be real. But is the first two letters of >"integer" where that came from? I'd always assumed it came from >mathematical convention, which uses letters i through n (often modified >with subscripts and the like) for things such as summation indices that >are most appropriately translated into programming languages as >integral types. "Perrier". (H to O, exclusive) Sorry for long-delayed response, and bad pun. -- - Mark 210-379-4635 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Large Asteroids headed toward planets inhabited by beings that don't have technology adequate to stop them: Think of it as Evolution in Fast-Forward.

12 years, 7 months

Acorn luggable

by aek＠bitsavers.org

forgot to mention this while the auction was going http://www.ebay.com/itm/120837824705

12 years, 7 months

about the Apollo disks

by chrism3667＠yahoo.com

I'm not on the net everyday, I'm working my way through the dialog. What's most important is that someone who w/o doubt can image them. I don't care about the physical disks so much. Just that they're in the hands of someone who can make the most of them (and yes I would like to partake in the digital booty). All I have thus far is an Apollo m/b. Don't even know if it works, but maybe someday...

12 years, 7 months

Commodore 64 question

by dm561＠torfree.net

----- Original Message: > Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:36:03 -0800 (PST) > From: Gene Buckle <geneb at deltasoft.com> <snippage> > For those interested: http://www.pagetable.com/?p=46 - there is a zip file > linked there that will allow you to create byte-exact versions of the > following versions of BASIC (using the cc65 assembler): > Commodore BASIC 1 > OSI BASIC > AppleSoft I > KIM-1 BASIC > Commodore BASIC 2 (PET) > Intellivision Keyboard Component BASIC > MicroTAN BASIC What, no 8K AIM65 version? Hrmph! BTW, thanks to Dwight and another AIM65'er the ROMs and manual for the little-known AIM65 Pascal have been (re)discovered and the original author is even still around, so as soon as we get past the memory map issues hopefully there will be *four* languages for the AIM65: BASIC, Forth, PL/65 and Pascal (plus the assembler of course). mike

12 years, 7 months

Connect Shugart SA850 to PC

by shadoooo＠gmail.com

No problem at all to build up the cable. The problem is that I don't know how to set the jumpers on the drive. Andrea

12 years, 7 months

"Modern" e-mail clients suck! (Was: QUOTING (Was: Truce, compromise reached? - Re: teaching programming to kids - Re: Looking for 8080/Z80 BASIC

by dm561＠torfree.net

-------- Original Message: > Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:18:12 -0500 > From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> > Subject: Re: "Modern" e-mail clients suck! (Was: QUOTING (Was: Truce, > compromise reached? - Re: teaching programming to kids - Re: Looking > for 8080/Z80 BASIC > Is this where we get to compare resumes? Oh goodies! Add another digit > to the quoted number of machines in your current datacenter and then > you'll be in the right order of magnitude to compare to datacenters that > I've managed nearly single-handedly. ... > I'm a professional... --- You wouldn't know it from reading your "mine's bigger than yours" posts like the above and your customary "I'm right and you're an a**hole", not to mention the amount of time you seem to have for these tired same-old same-old MS/Win-bashing threads every couple of months; they really don't do much for your professional image. Just imagine how much more work you could get done if you practiced a little restraint...

12 years, 7 months

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