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"The 6809 saw some success, especially in arcade machines, but it did not steamroll the world the way the 6502 and Z80 did." Could have mentioned the use of the 6809 in the Radio S…

Location: St. Louis, MO USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, REST, Scala, Typescript, SQL, Python Resume/CV: https://daltontf.github.io/Resume.p…

Old one. Coleco known for the ColecoVision home video game system and the Coleco Adam home computer started out as the "Connecticut Leather Company" in 1932. The business supplied …

An exercise in simulating sports fandom on a map. To do things like simulate expansion and relocation of franchises. The idea of turning this into a simulation game is a possibilit…

A idea like this has been on the back of my mind but more like forming a taxonomy of embellishments and dramatic license. Figure out which ones are somewhat necessary and which one…

Paging Steve Austin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puvc-FodxV4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTWJc72p2pE

Otherwise it is just a Strawman argument

Saturn V rocket

I've internally thought of a similar metaphor. Previous generations didn't have to conscientious of food intake. Food options were more limited, there wasn't as much processed/calo…

I was just thinking about something where I could design web based workflows that could use online services to perform transformations on items dragged into a dropped and perhaps t…

I did a tiny bit in the late '90s at Mastercard. Wrote my share of TACL macros before that. When I first saw the "99 Bottles of Beer" site, I was working for a company the was usin…

I guess the original TAL is not making a comeback: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_Application_Langua...

Was it run by Andy Griffith? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078681/

"- The world isn't getting worse" Bad stuff has always happened, but when something bad happens now, more people are made aware of it. For example, when I was in high school in the…

Sounds similar to a case where I am from: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/02/25/turns-out-it-was-actuall... The "hacking" was decrypting social security numbers from BASE64.

The ironic thing with increase in GDP is that life becomes almost too easy. In the past the difficulty of life didn't require a person to have use as much willpower. Easier life wi…

It would be just be cool just to have a HD footage of satellite orbiting Mars or Venus.

"cats have been dominating the airwaves from the beginning of broadcast video." Maybe the Kzinti will think we are long lost relatives after receiving them. ( https://en.wikipedia.…

https://github.com/daltontf/clipzoomfx I wrote it to be able to extract exceptional plays from footage of my daughter's volleyball teams and be able to zoom in on each clip. Pretty…

Williams Electronics used the 6809 in Defender, Robotron, Joust and Sinistar. It was more expensive. Tandy chose it for the TRS-80 Color Computer and sacrificed dedicated sound gen…

The book "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", is handy is you are Bugs Bunny and your are cornered by pack a dogs in New York. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XFFqbr27Vc&t=148s )

The imagery of the football players at the buffet brings back memories of my team going to the breakfast buffets at Shoney's the morning of Saturday games at noon. We didn't need l…

The idea of silicon based life reminds of this old B-movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMPLzowjKQc

Inko would be interesting ( https://inko-lang.org/ )