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You most certainly will get a kick out of that Atmos if you get it booted up and functioning. The Oric world didn't get much love in 1982/83/84, before the company fell apart compl…

I think in this case, it was inevitable that the shop was going to be inundated with rich schoolkids from the neighborhood, and the sales guy as I remember him seemed to understand…

Yeah, I guess they sold quite a few VERY expensive machines in that neighborhood, and there were raging arcade game controversies going along at the same time, so seeing kids do 'p…

It was 1981, and the first "Computer Age" shop had opened up in my town, a place called Claremont - more of a suburb, really, of Perth, Australia. A lucky place, for it meant there…

I am a retro-computing fanboy and recently have been reliving the world of text adventure games on one of my most favoured "failed" computers of the 80's, the Oric-1/Atmos range of…

All well and good, but the EU (and especially now the UK) is in no position to be dictating moral platitudes from some position of authority, that is for sure - especially on the i…

How about, don't be so eager to rush to judgement of other nations, when your nation (UK/USA) clearly has extant history with the same kinds of issues.

>First of all, I do not see any indication that Russia or Belarus tries to get closer to the EU, rather the opposite. Putin has stated multiple times that he intends to have better…

More like a tit-for-tat show of support for Belarus on the part of the Russians. I saw a televised meeting between Putin and Lukashenko yesterday that ended with Lukashenko making …

Get into Zynthian: http://zynthian.org/ Tons of great code to read and projects to understand .. Also, the Basic Synth book is a dream: http://basicsynth.com/

>how do you find out whether your soil quality is still good enough? The plants will tell you. But the answer always, always is: how good is your compost? Until you get composting …

How's your compost? I've reached the point where thats my first question for every gardener I meet.

Gardening is one of those subjects that brings me as much joy and satisfaction as developing and shipping productive software to real customers. There is no greater feeling than to…

I think the DevTerm is more supposed to be hung around your neck like a hipster. ;) Or, duct-taped to the datacenter wall for when its time to minicom the hell out of things.

He's imprisoned for violating state law. Why else? Same as Julian Assange.

So the US is the one that stands to gain the most from this assassination attempt, then. How ironic.

.. which seems to have inspired a few like-minded souls: https://www.clockworkpi.com/devterm

I often see the 'crow lady' at our local park come to the fields and call out to 'her crows', and they immediately come to her, rest on her shoulders, coo and craw, and generally s…

ITT: folks whose livelihood depends on that Facebook Ads campaign manager payout, vs. those of us who would rather live in a world free from this sort of manipulation. DAE miss AOL…

It amazes me that we don't charge third parties to use our network resources to retrieve their assets for displaying as ads. We should be charging vendors for traffic that is only …

I think its very clear that the auto-hatred of Islam is driven by bigotry and fear. Anyone who does even a cursory examination of the subject can see it does not, in fact, promote …

This would only be an appropriate and accurate response if indeed Islam promoted corruption in its teachings. It does not. It only takes a bigot to assume it does, however.

Expressions of religious bigotry are not conducive to HN's guidelines. Bigotry on the basis of religious grounds is repugnant wherever you see it, and should be called out wherever…

This has nothing to do with the Islamic world and everything to do with poverty and income disparity. The fact that you associate this with Islam is repugnant. The West is equally …