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Bell 202 lives on as well: https://www.windytan.com/2014/02/mystery-signal-from-helicop...

In this case, continuous GPS coordinates are sent on one audio channel while the other channel is voice.

It is useful for finding out who owns an IP address, but that's about it.

In an alternate universe, DEC could have owned personal computing outright and caught IBM flat-footed. But they were deathly afraid of cannibalizing their minicomputer business, so the only home -11s that made it out the door without being hobbled were the Heathkits (H11 and H11A), and even those were sort-of hobbled in that they could only use 16-bit Q-bus cards unless you were willing to do some hardware hacking, even to the point of cutting a hole in the case. Otherwise, they were legit Q-bus LSI-11s that could run standard DEC operating systems, and V7 Unix as well (but not 2BSD due to memory constraints).

If you want to play around with an emulated Pro/350, there's an emulator and images here: https://xhomer.isani.org/xhomer/xhomer.html

There are images for P/OS, Venix, 2.9BSD, and RT-11 5.3.

Sports drinks. Maybe not 1/4, but 1/3-1/2 is certainly doable. The one in front of me is 150 calories per 28 oz, versus similar levels per 12-oz. serving for typical soft drinks.

That's glycol, not glycerol. Ethylene glycol is especially toxic, while propylene glycol may be used as a food additive (E1520, or E490 for pharmaceuticals).

Different brands of chips have very different amounts of salt as well. A brand that I like, El Milagro, doesn't actually tout low sodium, yet their chips have less than half the salt (49 mg per 28 g serving) than regular Tostitos (115 mg per 28 g serving).

There was a vector-based cabinet predating Space Invaders: Cinematronics' Space Wars (1977), which used custom hardware to re-implement the original PDP-1 Spacewar! game. It was strictly a two-player game; you couldn't play against the computer. Cinematronics would use the platform for later games like Star Castle and Tail Gunner, also vector-based.

The key is that the general-purpose SDR mode is an originally-undocumented test/debug mode. Different drivers are used to access it; the standard DVB-T drivers don't provide access to it.

I've played around with Gnu Radio, and even though I've been able to do some very sophisticated things with GRC, I also realize just how little I really know. Part of that is that the math makes my head spin. I'd be lost without those blocks doing a lot of the work for me.

Maybe not German, but certainly French, as in Citroën's ID19, the lower-cost version of the classic DS19. In that case, "ID" is pronounced the same as idée.

I see a parallel with the breakup of Yugoslavia as well. In spite of his authoritarianism, Tito was a popular, legitimate war hero, and Yugoslavia had notably more personal freedom than the typical communist regime. But there wasn't anyone who could truly replace him; once he was gone, the old nationalist tensions that had always bubbled under the surface boiled over, and everything flew apart.

There might still be credit card terminals using 300 bps Bell 103 (which has a short set-up time due to its lack of training sequences).

1200 bps V.23 and Bell 202 are still in use in radio telemetry applications.

Back in my school days, I found that TI's calculators had crap keyboards that inevitably failed at the worst moment. I decided to try an HP instead (HP-11C in my case), and I still have that calculator. It still works beautifully, but these days I just fire up Free42 on my phone.

The easter egg carried over to the PDP-11 as well. I remember it being present in RSTS/E 7.0's TECO back in my high school days, and I just fired up SIMH and found it's definitely there.

On the other hand, I never really tried to do anything with TECO other than run VTEDIT.

I went through a similar thing with a sprained knee (due to pandemic-related inactivity and resulting obesity). I had squatted down to pick something up, and when I got back up my knee, dodgy for years, finally said FU. I was still able to walk, but just barely, and I had to help myself get up out of chairs.

I started walking as much as I could stand, and after a long while, the knee improved dramatically. Then I noticed I was also losing weight even though my diet hadn't really changed. After a long enough time of this, I was able to once again put bike rides into the mix, weather permitting.

Daily walks (or equivalent/better exercise like bike rides or snow shoveling) have become part of my routine. I'm down 60 pounds from 2022, and at my best weight in over 20 years.

If by "toy" you mean R/C aircraft, that's usually not even gasoline, but a mix of methanol and nitromethane, no lead in sight (and these days you'll find a lot more R/C stuff that's battery-powered instead). But when you move over to the general aviation world, yes, leaded gas is still the rule rather than the exception. While 100 LL has less lead than the older 100/130, it still has far more than even now-phased-out leaded auto gas. There are some aviation diesels that run on jet fuel, but they're few and far between (and sometimes vaporware), and aviation engines certified for auto fuel aren't very common, either.

So far, since their 1990s era Hollywood buy-in, I've bought one and only one Sony product, a pair of noise-cancelling headphones. I've been very happy with them, but only because they sound fine without any fiddling, which would require installing the app. I took a look at the app's T&C's and ran away screaming.

The batteries have held up fine over the five years I've had the pair, but I dread the day that they go.

See also, Winston Churchill.

https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/

It's especially instructive to call up the list of fakes from that page (it isn't directly linkable due to JS stupidity).

I actually wanted to reply to the downstream comment, but it didn't give me a Reply link for some reason.

In any case, I've absolutely noticed how even a Raspberry Pi Zero, taken back 40 years, would be a supercomputer beyond anything that money could buy back then.

A GPU that we'd consider obsolescent today would be truly insane in 1985.

I never even got into ebooks in the first place, precisely because of the DRM and "your so-called purchases can still get yoinked" problems.

Aha. I noticed that the /s/ link hits the login wall even if I use old.reddit.com.

Looks like Reddit is diving further down the enshittification rat hole. Link is behind a login wall, at least for me.

Not just the Romans, but anyone over 50, particularly in urban areas, got dosed with plenty of lead as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead

ComEd, the main electrical provider in northern Illinois, actively encourages homes and businesses to install solar power and offers net metering to solar-equipped customers.

https://www.comed.com/smart-energy/my-green-power-connection...

Speaking only for myself, I had a loving, trusting relationship with my parents. It was my peers who taught me not to trust (edit: also school administrators).

Last time I tried it (quite long ago), I recall having some audio issues. Maybe I should try again... that was back when my old audio interface (that only ever worked on XP, since they never released production-grade drivers for Win7) finally died.

I really miss Foobar2000 on Linux (I've tried it a few times with Wine, and was never impressed vs. running it natively on Windows), so this looks like it might be just up my alley - especially since it has custom tag support.

There are a number of northern Illinois cities that have their own utility grids. Off the top of my head I can think of Naperville, Princeton, Rochelle, and Peru, with the last three having their own power plants.

Rochelle's municipal utility system also provides water and sewer, and fiber-optic internet. https://www.rmu.net/

Very old US light switches often had both AC and DC current ratings, and the DC rating was noticeably lower due to the arcing problem, even with fast-acting snap action.

My grandfather worked in a Chicago office building that had 110V DC service even into the 1960s. He had to be careful to buy fans, radios, etc. that could run on DC.

Chicago, too, particularly on Metra (the commuter rail network). The longest line is the UP Northwest line, about 63 mi/102 km to the far rural town of Harvard, Illinois.

Or, if you're heading to Indiana, the NICTD South Shore Line can take you all the way from Chicago to South Bend.