Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - Getting Started with IPv6

2014-04-11 Thread Jerry Feldman
When: April 16, 2014 7PM (6:30PM for QA) Topic: Getting Started with IPv6 Moderator:Walter Horowitz Location: MIT Building E-51, Room 315 NOTE: The location has changed since last month! ### Please note that Wadsworth St. is still closed. ### Proceed West on Memorial Drive to Ames St. Ames will

Re: Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50 -- David Brooks

2014-04-11 Thread Tom Buskey
I think I had that book too. I was lucky enough to grow up near Dartmouth. They gave free accounts to local high school students and I was also lucky enough to have a father with a TI Silent 700 teletype terminal. He had it to do HVAC calculations with an air conditioner company. I ended up

Re: Max Wi-Fi connections question

2014-04-11 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ed lawson writes: I'm sure someone in the group has a real world answer to this question. My local school is seeking to have Wi-Fi in every classroom with each classroom having up to 30 devices using the network simultaneously. I questioned this and was told the appropriate commercial

Re: Attention, graying geeks: Send me your BASIC memories, as the language turns 50 -- David Brooks

2014-04-11 Thread Michael ODonnell
I worked at Data Precision (Analogic) and one of our guys wrote a BASIC interpreter (in 68000 assembler!) for incorporation into a product (D6000 Waveform Analyzer) as embedded code. I can't remember whether it was Kemeny or Kurtz but one of them visited circa 1982 to give it a test drive and