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I would have loved to know all this back in the day. In the early 90s I could hack together x86 assembly fairly well... interrupts were your friend. Anyhow, one of my buds showed m…

There are some (SDRs on the internet) Have look here. https://rx-tx.info/map-sdr-points http://ve3hoa.ddns.net:8073/

Plug cutters, especially those that cut a tapered plug are an interesting exercise in patent shenanigans. As mentioned in this thread, a tapered plug is almost always superior than…

I remember learning Smalltalk. Or rather, beating the crap out of the bloody machine it ran on. This was back in 1989...Carleton U in Ottawa. The CompSci faculty was all-in on the …

No, I don't think so. His design respects the inherent latency to accelerate a looooog set of elastics. Instead of stretching a set of elastics over a long distance, he uses a heav…

Good old DT. Dave was a prof of mine in the late 1980's.. CompSci at Carleton in Ottawa, Canada. SmallTalk...my first reaction (95.202 for those that remember...) was WTF?? We had …

Back in the late 80's, when I was in University, we had second year course where we had to do x86 assembly on PC XT or AT clones. Assignment #1 was messing with keyboard interrupts…