3 Mar
2013
3 Mar
'13
12:37 p.m.
Would this thread please die? What we've learned from this interminable,
er, "discussion":
Tony doesn't like RPi. Not surprising, it seems Tony doesn't like much
That is rather unfari. Note that I have no moaned about it being a single
chip, or the use of USB, or... Just that I can't see what the real point
of it is.
beyond early HP calculators, and only if misspelled.
(Note: what's
That is totally incorrect. On-topic things that I like include old HP
calculators, old HP computers, PDP8s, PDP11s, PERQs, BBC Micros (and
related machines like the ACW), Philips P800 machines, etc, etc, etc.
Off-topic things inlcude Nikon F and F2 cameras, MPP cameras, old
telephones, glassfets, Myford lathes and cats.
generally considered the first "real" spell
checker was created in 1971,
on the PDP-10 at SAIL. Early work goes back to the late 1950s/early
1960s. Is that sufficiently vintage?)
Now all I have to do is find soembody who will give me a PDP10.
-tony