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Today, 12:18 PM

whartung replied to a thread COSTCO - Let hear it for the good guys! in General Off Topic

I'd just rather drag an Apple TV back to the store if it's broken than my drive-in-theater size TV. Just seems to me that the "smart" features of the...

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Yesterday, 10:38 AM

whartung replied to a thread Need a new email provider Googles site is made by junkies in General Off Topic

I have Firefox dedicated to google. It's (typically) the only browser I use to log in to Google. I also have it logged in to Yahoo, where my email...

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March 30th, 2021, 06:33 AM

whartung replied to a thread Best and worst vintage computer brands in your opinion? in General Vintage Computer Discussions

Yes, he would have. And he did. It was called the "iPhone". The first model was an absolute magic trick with a very stymied 3rd party development...

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March 29th, 2021, 10:40 AM

whartung replied to a thread Best and worst vintage computer brands in your opinion? in General Vintage Computer Discussions

The 128K Mac was severely memory starved, but the 512K expansion remedied that (I had my 128K Mac expanded in some dark office in Pasadena). Most...

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March 28th, 2021, 08:19 AM

whartung replied to a thread VGA graphics for the TRS-80 and others. in Tandy/Radio Shack

Speaking of the Gigi thread. This was a machine with a 3MHz 8085, 768x240 with 8 color graphics. And it ran with 16k of video RAM. I posit...

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March 24th, 2021, 12:35 PM

whartung replied to a thread VGA graphics for the TRS-80 and others. in Tandy/Radio Shack

Yea, that's the real question. Is a large, raw bit map the most effective way to empower something like a TRS-80 with a capability such as this. ...

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March 23rd, 2021, 12:26 PM

whartung replied to a thread BIT Test ????? in Commodore

Yes. Acc AND B. If you want to test bit 2 of $360, then LDA #02 BIT $360 BNE BIT_IS_SET In the status register. No, you want BNE. When A...

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March 19th, 2021, 06:57 AM

whartung replied to a thread Awesome tape I've never heard of before. in General Off Topic

The band name tickles a glimmer of recognition, but the song I hit on YouTube doesn't sound at all familiar. It sounds like these folks were...

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March 19th, 2021, 06:52 AM

whartung replied to a thread AS/400 - RPG III - Unix in Minis and Mainframes

No, there's no reason RPG can't run in other platform. It's not a systems programming language for IBM architectures, it's a report writing...

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March 18th, 2021, 07:49 PM

whartung replied to a thread AS/400 - RPG III - Unix in Minis and Mainframes

Unix is an operating system, the AS/400 is a computer system identified more so by it's operating system (which is almost, but not quite, completely...

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March 16th, 2021, 06:31 AM

whartung replied to a thread Public Service Announcement: Beware of scammers, they work here too ... in Vintage Computer Items Wanted

I'm not really in tune with modern exchange methods. But we've been paying vendors and sending money to relatives via a utility called "Zelle". These...

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March 14th, 2021, 02:01 PM

whartung replied to a thread CoVid-19 Heath & Welfare in General Off Topic

I haven't go mine yet, but something to consider. When I do get it, I plan on making sure my wife and I get it a couple days apart. It would just be...

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March 14th, 2021, 01:59 PM

whartung replied to a thread CP/M Bios and Bootdisk for rare Z80 based vintage computer in CP/M and MP/M

This seems to be the meaty part, honestly. This means you have the means to assemble a program, put it on a disk, and have the computer read that...

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March 14th, 2021, 07:46 AM

whartung replied to a thread When does BASIC not become BASIC? in Vintage Computer Programming

This is the issue. The key point is what did other languages learn from BASIC. In the end, "not much". Once on the BASIC branch of the tree,...

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