Floating point routines for the 6809

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Tue Mar 28 13:21:32 CDT 2017


On Tue, 28 Mar 2017, Systems Glitch via cctalk wrote:
>> Then it's a regional thing.
> "Scrounge up," or to "scrounge around," is certainly commonly used to 
> mean, "find something in a pile of mess" in the southeastern US. Mostly 
> equivalent to "scare up."

California:  "Scrounge the keyboards, memory, and drives from the machines 
being discarded."
"Scrounge up a parallel port for the printer server"
(forage, salvage, scavenge, etc.)

But, the "pilferage" meaning does give some context to the administration 
attempts to fire a colleague for scrounging stuff from the dumpsters!
(PDP, 5170s, VT100s, Northstar Horizon, Processor Technology Sol, Lisa, etc.)




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