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Same! Also built external peripherals for my ZX81.

Like it! After drinking the ale, the FORTH person says "bye".

Then a FORTH person walks into the same bar... "cold temperature ale drink" to which the bartender replies "go you here". The janitor smiles as no sweeping required on a clean stac…

It's interesting that today Radio China International is everywhere on shortwave.

Totally agree. Thought about this myself, as a way of having true community radio. A simple hobby broadcast license of low cost might be pooled to cover copyright music only to pre…

You covered all the points I was going to make. As part of the pre-internet generation that grew up with radio and a ham radio operator since my school years this is second nature …

Is not the height that gets me, it is the edges!

I do some personal work in MacOS 9 on a MacBook Pismo and use the standard Platinum sounds at a low sound level. I personally find the little click and chirp soundtrack quite usefu…

I find Bertrand Meyer's Effiel System very compelling. The design by contract methodology is baked into the language. I did try a DBC library [1] for Python but eventually gave up …

I am old. And fashioned. "a b * c +" rules! :-)

Have you heard of PickOS [0]? Maybe similar to what you are describing. I admit I just read the first couple of paragraphs of the article and thought, yeah - PickOS vibes. [0] http…

For you maybe, otherwise a very broad sweeping statement.

I spent a fair bit of my career in that sort of environment writing embedded software on MSDOS. Have fond memories of that but I wonder if I re-created that today would I be able t…

To be fair I think MacOS classic (i.e. MacOS 9 et.al) was well thought out and usable IMHO.

There can only be one OS/2 :-)

Would really like to have a dedicated DuckDB version of this please. Also, add in a few simple tools for analytics - basic chart, pivot table tool, ETL etc. Nothing fancy, just eno…

In the US more than likely. In the UK I'm not so sure (can't speak to Switzerland) as there is a healthy community radio scene who may have some democratic influence. There are mut…

Maybe, when most regions follow suit. Hate the idea of FM broadcasting turning off. Still, would love some ham radio wideband spectrum. Then people driving to work can listen to th…

I am a fan of Joe Editor and the jstar "mode". Works well for me in SSH/Terminal sessions and where I need a bit more than nano. Also puts me left field of the vim vs emacs debate.…

Thank you for this. It lives! I will try these forks out. Don't you just love open source!

They did yes, after quite a few funding campaigns targeted at their users. I felt quite bitter about that and I fell for the hype myself.

I used, and liked, the predecessor called Revolution which was closer to the original HyperCard ethos. They are now stuffing so much into LiveCode it feels lost in itself. As a com…

Ah, yes. I see that now. Thank you.

I have not heard that before. My somewhat litteral spectrum disorder brain implies the bridge is burnt before it is crossed. Common ones I hear are "I'll cross that bridge when I c…

I have been waiting for someone to re-invent PickOS [1] but with a PG heart and a multiuser shell with PL/pgSQL as first class CLI language or some modern form of Pick/BASIC :-) [1…