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Very interesting ! As a newbie in astro-computation, do you have any books or paper to recommend ? Thanks

For those who enjoy burning cpu cycles ! m1277 = 2 ^ 1277 - 1 is not prime. It easy to check it with the Lucas-Lehmer test. But we don't know any of its divisors, which is quite fa…

Nantucket ... Nantucket ... Ooooch, back to 1990s ... clipper ... xBase compiler ... Nostalgia ... Sorry, excuse me ! ;-)

I wrote my first line of BASIC in 1976, if I remember correctly! I was 15 years old, and my dad and I went to a trade fair. There was an IBM booth there. A man invited me to try a …

You are not alone! I ordered 5 cpus from RS yesterday. ;-) For what ? I do not know exactly. Rebuilding my first TRS-80 perhaps when I will be retired ? I spent so many years progr…

Or better: 10 PRINT "TRS-80! "; To get a very nice scrolling effect ! ;-)

I found this project: https://opensourceventilator.ie/

Hello, I have been a Hacker News reader for years, but I have never posted before. I am regularly amazed by the high level of discussions and exchanges. It is great. That is why I …