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blazoron Actor Hal Holbrook, Who Embodied Mark Twain for over 60 Years, Is Dead at 95

For me he'll always be Lt Briggs in "Magnum Force". "You're a good man, Briggs; a man's got to know his limitations!"

Happy Birthday! What a superbly useful, solid piece of technology. Don't forget when this came out, the only option to watch video on Windows was to pay money, or try Windows Media Player, which I don't recall ever successfully playing any video I ever threw at it !

blazoron New six-film series from Adam Curtis

Thanks for the info. The guy is not an oracle but I enjoy his docs like Power of Nightmares, etc., as much as Pilger's docs. True quality in a sea of crap.

blazoron My ISP Is Killing My Idle SSH Sessions

My wireless hub is doing that not my ISP.

blazoron DOJ fines Boeing over $2.5B, charges it with fraud conspiracy

that was lying to the FBI actually

blazoron Black Screen After MacBook Pro Update to macOS Big Sur

Wonder if that will be enough to make them consider switching away from Apple? Silly question!

blazoron Aerial view of a cruise ship graveyard

I can't imagine anything worse than being a passenger on one of those (other than begin a low paid crew member who's been forced to remain aboard for the past 8 months)

blazoron Why are Amnesty International monitors not able to observe the Assange hearing?

because it's a massive stitch up and everyone knows what the outcome will be ?

blazoron The Amstrad CPC 472, an unusual case

LOL I used Norsk ADA on Sintran back in the day

blazoron Getting Color Output out of a TI-99/4A

additional: His name was Billy Boyd. And he pronounced it: "TWOO descenders"

blazoron Getting Color Output out of a TI-99/4A

The TI 990/10 DX 10 minicomputer was exactly the same. The teacher at my old school actually picked the TI990/10 over the PDP/11 because the PDP11 did not have "true descenders". The 990 didn't either but avoided the problem by having miniature capitals for lowercase.

He was a strange guy. Long since departed.

blazoron Getting Color Output out of a TI-99/4A

the TI99/4A is a beautiful machine.

The first computer I ever used back in 1982 was Texas Instruments 990/10 minicomputer (384K) running an operating system called DX10, based on the same instruction set as the 99/4A.

That system was originally built for a US Motel operator reservation system. Back in the days when you would quote for developing not only the software but the hardware too!

Today if you are interested you can download a 990 emulator and experiment with DX10/DNOS for yourself