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So have I. It`s an attractive tree but I haven`t found a good way of using the fruit.

It brings back memories for me too. This compiler was my first introduction to C, before that I'd used Pascal or Fortran. I worked on Z80 but we also had a 68K project which ran Wh…

We have a similar faceless clock in our village although perhaps not as old. https://leigh-on-mendip.org.uk/church-clock

I'm slightly surprised that no one has suggested PDP-11 assembler as a good starting point if you're not going to learn a current instruction set. Perhaps it's because it was the f…

Some of the videos worked for me but I found the generated melodies rather samey.

Yes, I agree. I did write some C software for Z80 but mostly I used assembler.

In the UK there is usually a fuse in the plug, the fuse value varies according to the appliance up to a max of 13A.

Do you need fast charging at home? We just charge our electric car overnight from a normal UK 240V 13A socket in our garage.

There is some publicity about Æthelstan this year as it is 1100 years since he became king of England. https://www.athelstan1100.co.uk/

Lost Realms by Thomas Williams is another good book about this period. Rather than Wessex, Mercia etc. it focusses on some of the lesser known kingdoms of that era.

I have a small collection of programming cards from the 70s & 80s. The most amusing one is the VAX-11, which is actually a booklet with 6 pages of instructions plus another whole p…

I agree with you. I've also found that themore modern a bike is the more difficult it is to maintain Take hydraulic disc brakes for example, when they work they are great but when …

The Z80 has lasted a few years longer than me in the computer industry. It came onto the market more or less when I left uni and I retired 2 years ago. For several years in the 198…

I did a lot of work for both Hitachi and Renesas over the years and used SH-1, 2, 3 and 4 with various OSes. I liked the SH architecture, I first learnt assembly programming on PDP…

I also want to UKC and I lived in Whitstable for my 2nd year in 1974.

Music (guitar, mandolin, synths), photography (film and digital), cycling, running, gardening, archaeology, cooking, church bell ringing. I'm retired so I have plenty of time for h…

I liked the 6800, it was the first microprocessor I used, back in 1975. For programming in assembler I preferred it to the later 6502.

I do pretty much the same but I also use EXIF data to add place names to the folder name.

The first program I wrote was to generate changes for bell ringing. That was over 50 years ago and I'm still writing change ringing software today!

Yes, I've rung about 20 peals most of them taking over 3 hours. Physically it's not that difficult but it is a mental challenge as you can't let your mind wander otherwise you will…

I remember reading about Matchbox Game-Learning Machines in a book in my school library in the late 1960s. It was partly responsible for getting me interested in computers.

The 1906A at Oxford in the early 1970s was one of the first computers I used, I was 16 or 17 years old and at school in Oxford. I'm sure this was partly responsible for my subseque…

As far as I know the UK is the only place that has special varieties of apple for cooking. Cooking apples are usually large, tart and cook to a pulp. There are many varieties but B…

At one place I worked at back in the 1970s there was a speaker on the mainframe (it may have just been a transistor radio picking up interference) and you could get some idea of wh…

I agree, if it's a man-made apocalypse then "bouncing back" seems like repeating a failed experiment.