On Fri, 2 Aug 2019, James Knott via talk wrote:
Remember. You only get what you pay for
That's something a lot of people have never learned.
Because much of the time it isn't true.
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On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 23:09:32 -0400 (EDT)
"D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" wrote:
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> - petroglyphs: long long time
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> - clay tablets: millennia
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> - paper (pre-wood-pulp): five hundred years
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> - paper made from wood pulp: 75 years
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> - punch cards and paper tape: 100 years
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> - 9-track
I assume this is what we're talking about:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop
It looks like a good idea and it's relatively inexpensive - essentially a
computer on a card with the form factor of a PCMCIA card (for people who
remember those). They're currently claiming a ship date
It certainly sounds like it has an image problem:
https://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture/EOMA68
They never did ship, did they?
Stewart
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On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 09:33:21AM -0400, Warren McPherson via talk wrote:
> Is anybody here familiar with the EOMA68 project.
A little. It's been so long ago that I ordered it that I only think of it once
in a great while now.
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Is anybody here familiar with the EOMA68 project.
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Hi Alvin,
On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 09:35:47 -0400
Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> On 8/1/19 7:14 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 11:15:43AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via
> > talk wrote:
> >> We bought two Asus ux305ca notebooks about three years ago. The
> >> Microsoft
On 2019-08-02 09:35 AM, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> The lesson should be don't buy the least expensive product if you want
> reliability.
Yep. That's why I bought a Lenovo ThinkPad, rather than a plain Lenovo
notebook.
> Remember. You only get what you pay for
That's something a lot of
On 8/1/19 7:14 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 11:15:43AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
We bought two Asus ux305ca notebooks about three years ago. The Microsoft
Store had a remarkably good deal on them. I'm not the only GTALUGger to
buy this notebook.
On 2019-08-02 08:03 AM, Russell Reiter via talk wrote:
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> > - 9-track mag tape: 10 years
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> Would this form factor be sized like commercial 8 track audio tape
> with an extra track squeezed in for sync?
No, it was 1/2" tape on an open reel. And it was 9 or 7 actual tracks,
with one
On 2019-08-02 07:23 AM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
> On 2019-08-01 11:09 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
>> - punch cards and paper tape: 100 years
>>
>> - 9-track mag tape: 10 years
> Good luck getting a reader for any of these now. At least the paper
> media is scannable.
I
On Fri, Aug 2, 2019, 7:23 AM Stewart C. Russell via talk
wrote:
> On 2019-08-01 11:09 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> >
> > - punch cards and paper tape: 100 years
> >
> > - 9-track mag tape: 10 years
>
Would this form factor be sized like commercial 8 track audio tape with an
extra
On 2019-08-01 11:09 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
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> - punch cards and paper tape: 100 years
>
> - 9-track mag tape: 10 years
Good luck getting a reader for any of these now. At least the paper
media is scannable.
Stewart
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