My first computer was an eight-bit system running the CP/M operating system on an Intel 8080 processor, in about 1980. The system was some $900. I bought a Whitesmiths C compiler for it for about $300, and it came with the Wordstar text editor.
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sfbing@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Men guilty of felling much-loved British 'Sycamore Gap' treeEnglish20·3 months agoYou’re right, but that’s not reason not to prosecute these lowlifes.
“You know, darling, it’s so much more important to look good than to be weird.”
sfbing@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Donald Trump demands investigations into negative approval rating polls6·3 months agoThe answer is “convicted by the Senate” but I like your answer better.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Gen Z is very underwhelmed by congressional Democrats94·4 months agoEvery poll I have seen recently shows Boomers being more progressive than the next younger groups.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•The world reacts to Trump's sweeping tariffs: 'No basis in logic'English10·4 months agoSounds like you had better open a diaper factory in your house. Then you wouldn’t have to pay the tariff that you are charging yourself.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•"They basically want to kill me": GOP efforts to turn Musk into a MAGA martyr are backfiring5·5 months agoClarence Darrow wrote: “All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
sfbing@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Top Social Security official steps down after disagreement with DOGE over sensitive data81·6 months agoI assume, albeit with no proof, that they are being threatened, e.g. “w e know where your kids go to school.”
sfbing@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Elizabeth May suggests Cali, Oregon, Washington State join Canada or join British Columbia to form 'Cascadia'10·6 months agoI’ll guess that you have never been to California. There was pumpjack one block away from my house when I was growing up.
But in fact, the biggest thing keeping us from moving away from fossil fuels is the political pressure from people who make money from it. And if California went into Canada or Cascadia, those people would come with it, kicking and screaming all the way.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day3·6 months agoI’ll have you know that I am an official paper CNE.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•D.C. plane crash revives concerns about aviation safety and air traffic controller shortage1·6 months agoRonald Reagan did that first for this particular line of work.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•60 Minutes sparks right-wing backlash over brutal takedown of Trump’s cabinet picks36·9 months agoWhen Trump held a campaign event at Arlington Cemetery, and a soldier tried to stop cameras etc from going in, Steven Cheung is the one who shoved her aside, and later said that she was obviously suffering from some sort of mental episode.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Giuliani turns over Mercedes, watches to Georgia poll workers he defamed1·9 months agoI think Trump will fix it if Trump decides Giuliani has something new of significant value to offer, come January.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Two women removed from BA flight ‘after altercation over Maga cap’English4·9 months agoI agree. But nobody cares. You must be as old as I am.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Kentucky state Sen. Johnnie Turner dies after plunging into empty swimming pool on lawn mower1·10 months agoEven more amazing: weeding. Some people go into the zone out there pulling weeds. To me it was always torture – mental and physical.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•'Easy money': Trump backer Elon Musk claims PAC will pay $47 for swing state voter information33·10 months agoIf I lived in one of those states, is there anything to keep me from signing in, collecting the money, and vote Dems anyway?
sfbing@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Just Stop Oil activists throw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers after fellow protesters jailedEnglish103·10 months agoCool. But the goals are almost beside the point. This action makes people associate goals that I agree with, with being an asshole.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Judge approves $600 million settlement for residents near fiery Ohio derailment6·11 months ago÷ 2 = ~$5,000
… after the layers get their half.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Trump-Zelenskyy feud escalates as Republicans demand envoy’s removal7·11 months ago“Perfect phone call.”
You shouldn’t say that to your Grandma or Grandpa. :)