Re: Link Rot

2021-05-22 Thread Justin Goldberg via cctalk
I've always thought that robots.txt would the be interesting stuff that should be archived, perhaps it could be behind a paywall. There's no law against archiving it other then subnets being blocked, which is easily bypassed as matt cutts wrote a blog post on silently spidering content. Also you

Re: Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu

2020-06-17 Thread Justin Goldberg via cctalk
Kind of OT: I recall reading on some health forum that in a certain Japanese paint factory, workers would put dried paint flakes under their tongues and then spit them out, a-la homeopathically, to make them impervious to the chemicals. It is believed to work by sending a signal to the gut "to

Re: Apple 1

2020-06-15 Thread Justin Goldberg via cctalk
Robert Cray always bragged that the newest Apple was designed with a Cray, whereas the newest Cray was designed with an Apple. A superlative example of the KISS principle, if it's true. On Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 10:16 PM Ethan O'Toole via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > He didn't know

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

2020-05-22 Thread Justin Goldberg via cctalk
Interesting. I wonder if this is similar to the qbasic code in the dos 5 (6?) source leak that's floating around. Or if Gates wrote any of it. On Fri, May 22, 2020, 1:43 AM jim stephens via cctalk wrote: > > Seems of interest. Will be interesting to play with. > >