26 Jul
2015
26 Jul
'15
8:26 p.m.
I don't remember the exact date, but I was in high school which places it
in the mid-1970s: there was a storefront called "The Retail Computer Store"
that sold Altairs, IMSAIs, Chromemco and SWTPC. I really wanted the little
SWTP 680 - now, of course, they're sky high if you can find one.
Interestingly, my first programming job was just a few years later,
programming the 6800 in assembly for what we'd now call embedded systems.
-- Ian
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:38 AM, <COURYHOUSE at aol.com> wrote:
I find USB useful and with USB 3 pretty darn
quick!
only downside it does not like to run 45.5 baud to run our 60 wpm UPI
Teletype machine
in the Journalism Display. Hey anyone have a AP Teletype we need one
in AP dress too!
Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)
In a message dated 7/26/2015 6:14:58 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk writes:
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
University of Washington
There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
Remember when USB was referred to as the Useless Serial Bus after it was
introduced? I think it was a solid 1-2
years after it was introduced that I began to
notice peripherals
designed for it.
I still call it 'Useless Serial Botch' most of the time. It's not a bus,
after all.
-tony
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