Aye! Somewhere around 1981, I had to write a quick conversion program to read in magnetic tapes from an obsolete VLSI/CAD file format and output in a new format. I started in FORTRAN on a VAX 11/780. Then I found a compiler for this nifty new "C" language. I finished without punch cards or worrying about column position. (Fast forward to the 2020's, and I cringe worrying about white space in Python!)
I write a lot of checks. Never sign up for auto pay. Sooner or later it gets F'd up and it's a real PITA to get it fixed. All on line accounts go through a credit card No one has access to my bank account (except Social Security).
I have this album (on vinyl) and it still has the rolling paper
You remember McDonalds having ash trays on the tables.
How about the coke spoon/coffee stirrer at MickyD's?
I just saw this on FB the other day
I think this is a story I need to hear!
I was expecting something a little more light hearted! Wow…
It was very grim. Sad that people were drawn into that cult.
Best that could happen. Give them all Darwin awards! If they want to join a cult, let them as long as they do it of their own free will.
Unfortunately, Tom, there were children involved.
The cult leaders also murdered a US Congressman and his team beforehand, that is why they went though the Koolaid event
The kit version of the ZX80 was sold by a company called "Micro Ace", it was $149 for the 1K kit. Not having any money at the time, of course I bought the kit, and proceeded to add some hacks to it, including another 1K. All of the Basic keywords were entered using one-key tokens... it was actually kind of a pain in the butt if you actually knew how to type, but I can see how it allowed them to take the parser out of their ROM (which probably saved a few hundred bytes).
I mentioned that above. It's even more obscure than rotary phone!
Using the headlight dimmer switch, floor mounted or column mounted, seems to be a lost art. Most drivers around here just leave them on high permanently.
