My first computer was an eight-bit system running the CP/M operating system on an Intel 8080 processor, in about 1980. The system was some $900. I bought a Whitesmiths C compiler for it for about $300, and it came with the Wordstar text editor.
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sfbing@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Men guilty of felling much-loved British 'Sycamore Gap' treeEnglish20·2 months agoYou’re right, but that’s not reason not to prosecute these lowlifes.
That’s reminiscent of the Prosciutto e Melone that my Italian wife has taught me to enjoy!
sfbing@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•The world reacts to Trump's sweeping tariffs: 'No basis in logic'English10·3 months agoSounds like you had better open a diaper factory in your house. Then you wouldn’t have to pay the tariff that you are charging yourself.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Top Social Security official steps down after disagreement with DOGE over sensitive data81·5 months agoI assume, albeit with no proof, that they are being threatened, e.g. “w e know where your kids go to school.”
sfbing@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•D.C. plane crash revives concerns about aviation safety and air traffic controller shortage1·5 months agoRonald Reagan did that first for this particular line of work.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•60 Minutes sparks right-wing backlash over brutal takedown of Trump’s cabinet picks36·8 months agoWhen Trump held a campaign event at Arlington Cemetery, and a soldier tried to stop cameras etc from going in, Steven Cheung is the one who shoved her aside, and later said that she was obviously suffering from some sort of mental episode.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Two women removed from BA flight ‘after altercation over Maga cap’English4·8 months agoI agree. But nobody cares. You must be as old as I am.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Just Stop Oil activists throw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers after fellow protesters jailedEnglish103·9 months agoCool. But the goals are almost beside the point. This action makes people associate goals that I agree with, with being an asshole.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Judge approves $600 million settlement for residents near fiery Ohio derailment6·10 months ago÷ 2 = ~$5,000
… after the layers get their half.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Trump-Zelenskyy feud escalates as Republicans demand envoy’s removal7·10 months ago“Perfect phone call.”
sfbing@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Elon Musk may have to sell billions in Tesla stock to rescue X1·11 months ago“Going forward” is actually “not quite yet” for most non-Te sla manufacturers, unfortunately.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•JPMorgan Chase warns 86 million customers they might have to start paying for their bank accounts3·1 year agoNot for me, either. BECU in Washington state. In fact, they reimburse my fees from out-of-network ATMs, so more flexible than a bank – I can use the crummy ATMs in the corner in the 7-11.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•New Colorado law will ban sales of dental floss, clothes, & other household products containing toxic "forever chemicals"1·1 year agoIs that the “woven” one? It’s my favorite.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•The Biden administration is actually doing something about ludicrously expensive concert tickets51·1 year agoLet’s have all three. They are not conflicting goals.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why does the aurora borealis appear to be white in the sky but in pictures it has nice coloration?5·1 year agoFrom reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well – alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Pizza Hut franchises in California lay off all delivery drivers ahead of $20 minimum wage increase9·2 years agoNot since about 25 years ago. It was spun off from PepsiCo in 1997. And in fact it was not called Yum until sometime later than that – it was never Yum under PepsiCo.
Edit to add: I still don’t go there, of course.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•EVs have 79% more reliability problems than gas cars, says Consumer ReportsEnglish61·2 years agoI wonder how much money it takes to rebuild a blown engine in a new BMW 3-Series nowadays?
Edit: so I went and had a brief look in Google. It looks like they run between $6000 and $12000 depending on how powerful the engine is. So for a base model it would indeed be somewhat cheaper.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police7·2 years agoThat’s an analogy that might appeal to the LE types.
Meh. I am in my late sixties, and that was never proper usage. These people were merely always illiterate.