#Computers

it's time for some random old computer magazine postingToday we're going to Byte, from March 1992.https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1992-03 Pinacle is advertising their rewritable optical drive, which is a 3.5" disc. It
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I'm kind of tempted to upgrade my RAM to GLAM. When I first started building computers I was so sad that most aftermarket PC cases/parts were either industrial-boring or impersonating
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My Mom loved video games (at home, not at arcades). Sometimes, when my brothers and I played Atari, he'd shoo us out, "Go outside, it's nice out!", and when we
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9)..county sheriffs. Lind has suggested these sheriff/militia combos could combat local insurgency & terrorism (a bit ironic given the story at hand). Anyway, here's that monster of a story:https://4thgenwar.wordpress.com/2016/07/03
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I am going to tell you the most common things I write in response to pitches and follow-on correspondence. I'm doing this to help prospective authors, not to mock anyone.
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jon anderson fashion disaster appreciation thread starting things off right this time with a sweet little fit, some very tasteful embroidery on his very tasteful legs8/10 is this a
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So I'm standing in the Post Office queue, concentrating on keeping the gap between myself and the people in front and behind me at the right distance. The lady serving
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Today in pulp... I get serious about the history of word processing!Really, really serious. Moustache level 4 serious. Serious... #amwritingfiction Writing even the simplest document is complex: composing, editing, spell-checking,
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It's worth looking at @AmartyaLahiri's IE article in more detail. By focusing on **per capita** GDP growth rates, he is able to completely recast the India Growth Story narrative...I've added
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how to get My Oh My to be a Top 10 Hit on Billboard 100 ~ a thread i’m re-doing this thread because last time i messed it up and
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Navigation : the way we need to learn to pass a test, but which nobody in real life would ever do. A thread.First we draw on our way points and
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As we get ready for the new modelling data on COVID-19, let's take a look at how we've done compared to the last model, and reasons what actually happened was
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Some young people feel that anyone who is 50 years & above was served full chicken & milk while at university and didn’t even leave chicken bones and kunu for
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- chemotherapy - Dr Jane Cooke Wright- computer programmes - Ada Lovelace- wireless transmission - Hedy Lamarr- DNA structure - Dr Rosalind Franklin- sex chromosomes - Dr Nettie Maria Stevens-
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ok but the actual story is much more interesting imoit appears this was "produced" by an AI, but it also exists verbatim elsewhere as written by a human, so it
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A Russian hacker admitted to stealing Clinton's emails and hacking the DNC under Putin's ordershttps://www.newsweek.com/russian-hacker-stealing-clintons-emailshacking-dnc-putinsfsb-745555 This was in 2017. The Republicans know this. They are
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