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Before I worked at TSS doing in-home PC repair, I did a short stint at Radio Shack and got the Compaq experience you described. I remember going to the introduction event for the C…

These old ads are great, really takes me back to that era. In the mid to late 1990's I was a pimply faced youth in community college and picked up a part time job doing "PC repair"…

I skimmed over half way through and they were still talking about gourds.

It's cute to see folks who have completely drunk the in-house koolaid try to communicate to outsiders, and we're better off for it. I really struggled to understand OS/400 coming i…

Yes. I could not fathom why anyone would want to run anything besides AIX on them though. You can run all the other OS's on cheap commodity hardware, the draw for me was having an …

I was familiar with both the "laptop AS400" and the PowerPC thinkpad - these were different hardware unrelated to each other. I believe the sales demo machine was a CISC architectu…

As a youth a few decades ago I had an opportunity to play with one of these systems at home (and I actually still have it boxed up somewhere). I managed to acquire a 9401 Model 150…

Anyone running ripgrep on a an HPC cluster against a large cluster filesystem needs to stop and redesign their workflow. This generates high amounts of small I/O which is the Achil…

Anyone remember the predecessor, Today With A Techie (Twatech Radio): https://twatech.org

TL;DR: I believe the Datamaster should be considered part of the lineage of the ATX standard today. The interesting thing I recently noticed about the Datamaster is that I believe …

AI is the industrial revolution finally arriving at the land of information and software development, full stop. Read Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope if you want to understand w…

Those that can, do - and those that can't, teach. Teaching is rewarding which is why people do it, but you're asking them to take less pay for what is often a harder job - convinci…

#loadbearing

Robotic sputnik tool, it is very slick. Something that's not obvious is that these work best on ABUS or other locks that have one solid driver pin and spools in every remaining pin…

It's not an accident that its so hard to get this stuff right, I've heard countless stories like this from friends who are parents. If the market wanted parents to be able to figur…

I miss Notacon and Jason Scott's Demoscene parties.

Man, this brings back memories of playing with Festival back in the day. I wrote a bunch of scripts to generate dynamic Festival text2speech audio for a Part15 AM radio station, a …

Ohm lordy, we're blaming the student for not having years of homebrew experience before he entered school? Sure any hobbiest knows what a 555 is, but when the lab assistant doesn't…

Regardless of what the real story is on this van, lookup the Bernie S. case if you want an easy case with proof of government surveillance incompetence. Under cover Secret Service …

Heh, reminds me of the days I kept Win95 and Win98 DOS boot disks for emergency booting Windows machines.

Man, this takes me back.

That's certain to spread joy.

Ah yes, memories of my laptop, an Orinoco card, and Netstumbler cruising down the highway during my day-job. Shortly after that I added an X-10 video receiver and a USB Hauppauge W…

I think this was the plot of an episode of CSI (don't recall which sub-series, maby Miami?) in the 2000's. Eventually they determine a guy dies of lead poisoning and they figure ou…

"So.. what will the world do with this knowledge?" "Something something, rule 34."