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I'd like to see NZ and Australia but I'd have to be heavily sedated to spend that much time in a flying sardine can. Without my support hamster even.

As far as people, neither Houston or Dallas rank high in my estimation. The only part of Texas I like is so close to New Mexico that you might as well just cross the border and get it over with.

They would agree...

Yup, If I ever decide to dive back into the hardware/software arena, it will be with small pics. I am trying to decide which way to go tho, Raspberry, Arduino or whatever. Right now I still use CMOS and SSRs to do things around the house but I am getting more interested in data acquisition.

When I was dabbling in code, I was writing PIOCS assembler because I was writing a diagnostic program to test hardware on DOS systems without having to install anything. It ran as a batch program.

The Mk13 time of flight computer in the Mk26 fire control system was a spring wound cam and gear machine. You had a key that you wound it up with like an old alarm clock.

It is best to break the trip up into segments and lay over. We went there pretty much straight through, coming back we laid over at LAX long enough for a shower and a nap. It made it a whole lot better. You are still on the overseas flight 12 hours. Buy a better seat than coach. We went premium economy with a little cubby for yourself, not just a seat. It lays down enough that you can really sleep and you can stretch your legs all the way out. (Air New Zealand) You are already close to LAX so that layover probably doesn't make sense but with the LAX/ATL/RSW thing it was worth a hotel room. You can also lay over in Hawaii or Tahiti and break up the overseas flight. I just did not want to give them another chance to lose my luggage or another flight I might miss.

I did a little inventory control project but it wasn't really my thing. The company I worked for bought a shiny new IBM 5120 and I was elected to figure out what to do with it. It was the only computer I ever saw that had a keyboard set up for APL. It came with BRADS, which was a bastard stepchild of Rexx. Shudder...

The one thing I learned was data entry people NEVER look at the screen. You could put up a flashing message that said 'Your pantyhose are on fire' and they'd just keep typing along in the pattern they memorized.

One of the drawbacks of Missoula is that it takes all day to get anyplace. All roads lead to SLC.

I flew back to Albany NY about ten years ago, and reserved a Hertz car. The plane got in at 1130 PM so I called Hertz to confirm they would be there. I got in, went to the counter, and it was vacant. I asked the guy at the National desk where they were and he said "Oh, they go home at

1. But I've got a nice Monte Carlo.' Sold American. I never used Hertz again.

Did they use this magnetic memory stuff? I came across one of these in a store cupboard once and we used it for teaching kids the history of computing:

To me it's just an excuse to get paid a higher hourly rate.

ROFL!

The Irish are not human, they're even thicker than the Americans. I have no idea why anyone ever wanted to join the two countries.

The Hussein part?

Don't Raspberrys have a decent amount of memory? Memory is cheap.

Or it overheated.

This guy noticed:

I've never understood why people have a problem driving on the other side. I went to France a few years after I passed my test and it seemed perfectly natural. It's no harder than shaving in a mirror.

Yeah, that's why it's called core. They were hand knit by little old ladies in Fishkill.