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Worse than that: other than Apple and the clones, there were hardly any PPC OEMs at all, and Old World Power Mac hardware wasn't PReP (which is why it couldn't run it). Largely only IBM's hardware could, like the rare as hen's teeth Power Series ThinkPads, or the unobtainium Power Series workstations, and some of Motorola's equally rare stuff. Those landed with a thud in the market and were extremely expensive, and it made sense for Microsoft to jettison it.

Apple was going to get NT on at least the Apple Network Server (Ellen Hancock once claimed there would be upgrade ROMs that could boot it), but that never happened.

Alpha, at least, had vendors, and existed in some numbers. My AlphaPC 164LX [0] was made by Samsung.

[0] http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/03/refurb-weekend-dec-alphap...

It's not at all clear why he produced such high quality antibodies, but one theory was the sheer quantity of transfusions he had to receive after a lung operation (something on the order of 7.4L of blood). They have no idea why he continued to produce them after, however.

No, he's got it in there (2nd and 3rd images from the bottom). The power button peeps out through the RAM door.

Isn't that basically what the article is?

Still have a 15" 1.25GHz iMac G4 on my desk, still works, runs Tiger. I mostly use it as a terminal and for Classic apps, but it does very well at both. Occasionally it plays DVDs or music CDs for the kitchen with a set of Pro Speakers.

I despise Prop 65 warnings in principle, but the damnable thing about them is they may actually have some effectiveness, if this study is to be believed ( https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11651356/ ): "Levels of certain chemicals listed under California’s law have declined in biosamples from people across the nation. ... Although the law did not require changes to product formulations or processes, interviews with representatives of affected companies have indicated that many businesses did alter formulations to avoid having to post warnings or manufacture special products just for California."

The study has a lot of limitations, and NHANES is not really designed for this kind of analysis, but it sounds like the warnings do well as a cudgel to beat manufacturers with even if regular individuals ignore them. Even more interesting is the knock-on effects Prop 65 has on people outside of California. Overall it seems like an argument to keep them around, sort of.

I moved from 6502 assembly to PowerPC assembly. I found 6502 assembly easy to understand because of the limited number of registers, instructions and addressing modes. You didn't have to learn very many.

And as it turned out, I didn't have any problems adapting to the expanded PPC ISA. Being on the 6502 already taught me how to chop problems down into tiny bits and now the bits didn't have to be so tiny. I certainly wasn't trying to do 8-bit chained adds for bigger quantities anymore; it didn't make sense to when I had 32-bit registers and an FPU.

6502 was my first assembly, though we didn't have an assembler - we entered raw opcodes into the Epyx FastLoad monitor on the C64. You kids with your symbol tables and your fancy mnemonics.

a9 01 8d 20 d0 a9 93 20 d2 ff ...

When we got a KIM-1, we were able to write meaningful programs on it in a weekend, since we already had memorized all the hex.

It's down to either the KIM-1 or the JOLT. The JOLT was advertised in December 1975 ( http://retro.hansotten.nl/6502-sbc/jolt-and-super-jolt/jolt/ ), compared with the 6502 which was being sampled around June or July. The KIM-1 was variously noted as early as winter 1975 but some sources say it wasn't available until 1976, but then the JOLT probably didn't get into people's hands until then either. I think it's logical that MOS would have been the first one to use their own chip but that's not a given. I have a ROR-less KIM-1, though, so there are systems dating from that early.

Computer magazines, too. I still have my personal library of COMPUTE!, COMPUTE!'s Gazette, Family Computing and Creative Computing, and various scattered issues of BYTE, Ahoy!, RUN and Micro 6502. They're a window into a different era, there's something about leafing through the well-worn pages that a PDF copy doesn't recreate, and they don't link rot. (They just rot if stored improperly.)

Quantiferon is the test you're thinking of, and is now preferred for most individuals, even those who haven't had BCG.

- TB physician since 2006

Funny enough, my late father was a veterinarian and we had a pigeon that we raised from a chick (we weren't sure what this thoroughly ugly bird was and it turned out it was a pigeon). It was very tame and lived in a hutch on the back porch, and would watch for us to come back from the electric pole out the front. Unfortunately its knowledge of cats was limited to our extremely lazy ones and one day it disappeared; we suspect it got eaten.

We "met" a king penguin at Singapore Bird Paradise that would follow people around at the edge of the tank (an acrylic sheet separated you from their enclosure) and try to interact. It swam up to my wife and followed her around, then went to another bunch of people and did the same. It seemed to enjoy watching people watching it and waving to it. Not every animal does, but this one did.

Hopefully the cassette drive still works. That would be a rare bird - the three I have, even one minimally used one with the film still on the LCD, the tape drive is already dead. It seems to be a mechanical problem, not (just?) caps.

Thanks, John! It was one of my favourite posts he made. It deserved a second life, and usefully, too.

It's certainly made me buy less UK Dr Pepper in Australia (I find artificial sweeteners generally unpleasant). Many places down under that sell it are now stocking US Dr Pepper instead, which suggests it sells rather better.

TI BASIC has some unique implementational own goals, however, particularly with respect to system architecture and the middle-level interpreted language TI BASIC is written in. It really makes the 9900 CPU look unfairly bad.

Not uncommon, at least on the A2 and C64, to have a BASIC scaffold acting like a script that runs various machine language subroutines and/or the main game loop.

This is generally true of most 6502 Microsoft BASIC derivatives, Apple and Commodore included.

Atari BASIC used BCD for numbers. It is notably not a Microsoft BASIC descendant. Cromemco BASIC is another example.

RFK Jr. is the nominee for HHS secretary.

Many user group newsletters came out of The Newsroom. It was my first experience with newsletters too.

I learned Perl 4.036 for a university course (computational linguistics, appropriately enough) in 1996. That's ... more than half my life away.

Though at least part of the slowness was TI's decision to write BASIC in GPL (an interpreted middle-level language, for those unfamiliar) instead of directly in 9900 assembly, which made it even worse.

IBM did lay an egg with Power10, though. They cut corners and used proprietary IP and as a result there are few (are there any?) non-IBM Power10 systems because the other vendors stayed away. Raptor workstations and servers are a small-ish part of the market but they're comparatively highly visible - and they're still on POWER9 (no S1 yet).

They did realize the tactical error, so I'm hoping Power11 will reverse the damage.

After I bought out our panels, I found the Enphase modem and disconnected it. It was a USB box connected to the monitoring unit, the monitoring unit has other networking options, and it's mine anyway.

I've seen reports of success with the ST, but that's a 640x400 display at most (the lower resolutions run at lower rates anyway, which the OSSC seems to handle well). But what about higher resolutions or refresh rates? The issue with the HP was resampling a 1024x768 70/75Hz signal to 60Hz.

I don't think it can scandouble - my A4000T with a Picasso RTG card uses the onboard doubler. But if the video mode is at least 60Hz, odds are this thing would probably support it.

(author) Hey, thanks. I'm still sceptical about the OSSC for this application. It doesn't seem to downsample from higher refresh rates, which is specifically what I picked up the Hall converter for (at least as far as I could tell from the wiki at https://junkerhq.net/xrgb/index.php?title=OSSC_Pro ). https://stoneagegamer.com/ossc-pro-open-source-scan-converte... just says "Common PC resolutions up to 1600×1200". The cost of a OSSC Pro unit makes me hesitant to try this out. If you're sure it can do it, though, I'll get my pennies together to give it a shot.

Quite possibly the worst glass of milk I've ever consumed was in Mexican Hat, Utah, where the cows had apparently gotten into an onion patch. This went unmentioned until I asked why the milk tasted so strange.