Re: [GTALUG] Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator

2019-03-17 Thread James Knott via talk
On 03/17/2019 04:46 PM, Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > I can confirm that Baudot is alive and (maybe not quite) well in RTTY > for amateur radio. It's one of the few digital radio modes that's > amenable to massive amplification, so 2 kW+ QRO RTTY rigs are not > uncommon. Listen in around 14.1 M

Re: [GTALUG] Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator

2019-03-17 Thread Stewart Russell via talk
On Sun., Mar. 17, 2019, 12:47 James Knott via talk, wrote: > > Figs = Figures Shift, a function necessary with the 5 bit code to handle > both alphabet and numbers/punctuation. > I can confirm that Baudot is alive and (maybe not quite) well in RTTY for amateur radio. It's one of the few digital

Re: [GTALUG] Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator

2019-03-17 Thread James Knott via talk
On 03/17/2019 12:32 PM, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote: > We also had some Decwriter IVs way back then, and a genuine ASR33 with > the ^G bell being an actual bell with an electromagnetic hammer, and some > early glass TTYs at least one of which dated back to before the ASCII > standard was finaliz

Re: [GTALUG] Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator

2019-03-17 Thread Anthony de Boer via talk
James Knott via talk wrote: > I've only come across one editor that was worse than EDLIN.  It was the > line editor on Pr1me computers.  We had a few of those systems at work.  > As I recall, you could only jump to the top or bottom of the file or use > relative jumps.  You couldn't jump directly t

Re: [GTALUG] Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator

2019-03-14 Thread James Knott via talk
On 03/11/2019 11:59 AM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > On 2019-03-10 12:19 p.m., James Knott via talk wrote: >> Forgot to mention, the first editor I used was SCELBI's "ED", a simple >> line editor, which was better than that Pr1me editor.  I used ED on my >> IMSAI 8080. >> >> https://en.wikipedia

Re: [GTALUG] Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator

2019-03-11 Thread Kevin Cozens via talk
On 2019-03-10 12:19 p.m., James Knott via talk wrote: Forgot to mention, the first editor I used was SCELBI's "ED", a simple line editor, which was better than that Pr1me editor.  I used ED on my IMSAI 8080. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCELBI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSAI_8080 Very ni

Re: [GTALUG] Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator

2019-03-10 Thread Stewart C. Russell via talk
On 2019-03-10 8:10 a.m., James Knott via talk wrote: > On 03/09/2019 05:18 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: >> Surely next will be MS Office! > > I'm still waiting on EDLIN.  ;-) Wait no more, then - MS-DOS/EDLIN.ASM at master · Microsoft/MS-DOS https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/mas

Re: [GTALUG] Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator

2019-03-10 Thread Alvin Starr via talk
On 3/10/19 11:29 AM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: On 2019-03-09 5:18 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Surely next will be MS Office! Curious choice of program to open source. Does

Re: [GTALUG] Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator

2019-03-10 Thread James Knott via talk
On 03/10/2019 12:11 PM, James Knott wrote: > I've only come across one editor that was worse than EDLIN.  It was the > line editor on Pr1me computers.  We had a few of those systems at work.  > As I recall, you could only jump to the top or bottom of the file or use > relative jumps.  You couldn't

Re: [GTALUG] Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator

2019-03-10 Thread James Knott via talk
On 03/10/2019 12:00 PM, Christopher Browne via talk wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 8:10 AM James Knott via talk > wrote: > > On 03/09/2019 05:18 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > Surely next will be MS Office! > > I'm still waiting on EDLIN.  ;-) >

Re: [GTALUG] Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator

2019-03-10 Thread Christopher Browne via talk
On Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 8:10 AM James Knott via talk wrote: > On 03/09/2019 05:18 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > Surely next will be MS Office! > > I'm still waiting on EDLIN. ;-) > Oh indeed!!! It would be interesting to compare code and functionality to ed... Has anyone else notic

Re: [GTALUG] Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator

2019-03-10 Thread Kevin Cozens via talk
On 2019-03-09 5:18 p.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Surely next will be MS Office! Curious choice of program to open source. Does anyone really care? -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.v

Re: [GTALUG] Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator

2019-03-10 Thread James Knott via talk
On 03/09/2019 05:18 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > Surely next will be MS Office! I'm still waiting on EDLIN.  ;-) --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

[GTALUG] Microsoft open sources Windows Calculator

2019-03-09 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
Surely next will be MS Office! --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk