The only time I’ve done something like that, I had a friend paint my 3B2 with leopard spots. Looks great.
Artist / hacker from Providence, USA.
The only time I’ve done something like that, I had a friend paint my 3B2 with leopard spots. Looks great.
Heh. Presumably there’s some very old FORTRAN in there somewhere?
Booting from tape to do a clean install.
To play with fractals or cellular automata in the 80s, you read a description in Scientific American, and then wrote your own version at home. Good times.
No, except for software that represented data in virtual punched cards under the covers, for communicating with remote systems. (None of which used punched cards anymore.)
Old. Just caught the tail end of the era of big machines.
Learnt Unix on a VAX 11/750. Used text terminals for a long time.
Once you get into serious quantity, getting a “plain” (Read-only) CD or DVD manufactured is much cheaper than rewritable. AOL was junkmail-bombing the entire country.
There’s one little twist in this story that isn’t mentioned, and I’ve never quite understood. When the NSFnet started to upgrade from the T1 backbone to the T3 backbone in 1990, they formed a company called ANS (Advanced Network and Services) to run it.
When the T3 backbone got shut down in 1995, (most of) ANS was sold to… AOL.
Weird.
A lot of things that we assume can only be made by giant complexes of high-tech equipment were first prototyped by hand on a workbench. This sounds like a great project.
(I don’t know anything about the details of bubble memory. It’s entirely possible this is impossible. Certainly worth looking into though.)