Notices by Bill Ricker (n1vux@mastodon.radio)

@killyourfm Fwiw, power port is not in 1st view. From the left, there's a Kensignton standard lock-cable lock point, an RJ11 telephony jack for fax-modem, & a single RJ45 for 10baseT Ethernet.

@skinnylatte
What a lovely building, what was it before the Hubbardites?

@futurebird

I trust you used the old joke about why CS folks exchange gifts on Halloween 🎃 🎁.

Because Oct 31 = Dec 25 😄

@HopelessDemigod
(Also, ferrite chokes on your power cords.)

My old original Elmer, Chet the original W1NR/sk, got WAA, Worked All Appliances. (Our houses shared a 2-phase pole transformer, so no isolation.) Luckily for my Dad who had Army-related Morse-code PTSD and the rest of us, Chet was an A.M. rag-chewer, not an original-digital dah-di-dah or single-side-duck contester. (As a former Navy radioman, Chet referred to SSB as Air Force modulation.)
( He knew we heard his neighbors-gossip.

@cstross @mattblaze
right, those inside CS understand that for 50 years, AI has been code for "our heuristic algorithm doesn't quite work on the general case yet but it's fun to keep trying, and and the rigged demos / simple cases impresses the peasants so grants are renewed."

@mattl I'm sorry, i misremembered while typing ... we ported to OS/2 PM, which was a precursor to WinNT, in 1988-89.

Whether StepStone and thence OpenStep used our patches shared with them in the WinNT port i haven't a clue (without looking for Wang Labs comment lines i guess).

@mattl huh. I wonder if they evolved that from our work or if they redeveloped it eventually from a latter branch point .

@mattl back when there was a Wang Labs, we were licensed by Stepstone to port Objective C to WinNT/PM, with eventual goal of a visual programming environment. Alas a recession killed the project, and contributed to corporate demise. 33MHz sounds about right.

@mattl
^where's the button for reporting ageism?^

(^Sarcasm thus.^)