Notices by Hugo Mills (darkling@mstdn.social)

@foone "One 16-bit half of a 20-bit address".

Did anyone actually *tell* Intel that that's not how halves work?

@foone A few years ago, the company I worked for wrote an internal currency (customers buy credits, get charged credits for accessing data).

I argued for accounting in 1/840 ths of a full credit, because it's 2³·3·5·7.

But no, we went with milli-credits (1/1000) instead. :(

@foone Lost opportunity: Ohailand!

@foone I'm reminded of a recruitment round in my first post-BA job, 30 years ago, where we got a couple of CVs on floppies, as executable code.

@foone Sounds like an opportunity to be the first person to write erotica about being gently unscrewed...

@foone Do you get combat pay for that?

@foone I think I met something like this back in 1989 or 1990. A friend's dad was doing this with his own designs. He found that photocopies or laser prints on acetate weren't dense enough to block the UV properly, so you had to run it through the printer several times to get the ink density to make it work.

@foone He also had problems with drilling the holes in the board, so he was building an X-Y rig for a drill.

We spent a long night with an Acorn A440, me on the front end with the keyboard, him on the back end with the printer port and an oscilloscope, working out how to write a driver for this thing that ran off the !Draw files he'd use for the board designs, and would put the holes in the right place.

@foone So what do I do with the sexy hacks and the geeky computer nudes?

@foone Is that with or without the CM-10 coprocessor?

@foone Got to be better than the OS/2 Warp installation manual, which I think was written by Steve Jackson.

"If you are installing from floppies, turn to page 92. If you have a VGA graphics card, turn to page 5. If you want to charge down the corridor and attack the orc with your PC/AT keyboard, turn to page 169."

@foone Is there a Turing-complete subset of D&D magic items?

@aral @tamewhale Oh, you sweet summer child...

@foone Did you get this picture from @NanoRaptor?

@foone I'm assuming that's a single-sided 8" floppy.

@foone I <3 Bluet£%)(*& NO CARRIER

@foone Why, yes, all my keyboards and mice *are* connected to their computers by wires. Why do you ask?