Where can I buy a large analogue meter?

Surely reading glasses don't just magnify, they change the focusing distance. Someone who needs reading glasses is usually long sighted, so it needs to look to their eye as though the book etc is several feet away. Not necessary with a magnifying glass.

On a sunny day (Tue, 19 Apr 2022 17:56:08 +0100) it happened "Commander Kinsey" snipped-for-privacy@nospam.com wrote in snipped-for-privacy@ryzen.lan:

Well, what's a lot? about 35 USD

Lots of loss in voltage over USB cables. google: 'USB maximum cable length'

No need for that,

I can tyoe 'widgetENTER' faster than you can find the icon, even without looking. On top of that I use zsh as shell, so usually if I did use a command before it is just cursor up a few times and ENTER, or the first character of the command, cursur up ENTER

You can make it as English (or any other language) you want by writing scripts for more complex stuff I have many of such scripts.

Bye

Ever fired a gun this small?

That's not a lot. I didn't think Sony made them that cheap. But what resolution?

Obviously I don't power the camera from this end! The USB cable is for the data.

Yes here is, it means I can see everything at once. And by the way I only paid £50 for one and the other 4 were free.

You have to open the command prompt first or make it in focus.

And actually, I can just press the windows key, then enter widget (or even wid would do) then press ENTER.

To open VLC media player, I only have to press WINDOWS V L ENTER.

Why does linux have such weird names? Some of the disk programs I'm sure they deliberately made them almost the word f*ck.

So exactly like windows and DOS have always done. You had to get a special shell to have command history?

Writing programs to make a computer work ROTFPMSL!

Ooooh you got the last word in, how childish.

I laugh at Americans killing each other. At least it keeps your numbers down to the same level as your intelligence.

Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. If you read about a mass shooting event with many wounded and few, if any, fatalities, the shooter(s) were black. If there were many fatalities usually the shooter(s) were white.

Mine are in the two short planks league. They are easily fooled into coming on by the very low winter sun or passing under a short underpass.

To be fair in automatic mode they are almost always on when I think they should be but are sometimes on because of their bad design and my high latitude. Very rarely they fail to come on when poor local visibility is the reason for switching them on rather than absolute light levels.

The question is what colour are the dead?

Think they were only fitted to the BBC Type B valve desks. In TV. Under the TX monitor so thought to be easier to keep an eye on. But don't think they ever made a stereo version.

Usually some shade of brown... The other clue is if the news articles are very vague in describing the alleged shooter and don't run a mug shot. If the perp was white that's in the lede.

If the name appears to have been created by an illiterate trying to phonetically spell something you have another clue.

NEC V20

And it ran them surprisingly well for the time. I had one. The 16 bit V30 version was almost as fast as a 286 and had bit twiddling instructions. V20 was certainly faster than the 8088 by ~10%.

ISTR there was a bun fight over reverse engineered/stolen microcode too.

The most impressive of the alternative chips was the Cyrix FasMath FPU which was done by formal methods and found multiple bugs in the Intel

Right, National was mostly analog. I was surprised to find TI bought National. I hadn't thought about either in a long time. I worked on a project that used the TMS9900. It's claim to fame was availability in a rad hard version. NEC seems to be rolling along.

Quirks of fate. IBM didn't believe in the PC market and the 8088 was the cheapest way to go. And here we are...

National did have its not quite a VAX on a chip NS32k series. Dec had its MicroVax 78032 (ISTR slightly later but better).

Zilog had its Z8000. I had the tricky job of unpicking a way out of that particular blind alley as one of my first jobs in industry. Olivetti M20 and certain of the dedicated word processors used it.

I worked on several using its smaller 9995 and bigger brother the 99k.

I didn't appreciate at the time just how good at interrupt handling and context switching it was until later when we tried to do the same real time tasks on a notionally faster Motorola 68k series CPU.

That is silly. They even did the PCJr later and tried to corner the home PC market with that and failed spectacularly with that one.

Same with the PS2 for the business market and that failed too.

But was quite adequate to see the PC take off spectacularly.

The main competitor at the time, the Apple II, had a similar horsepower cpu and the same plug in card approach.

And the AT was a more viable design.

I liked the Z8000 and still have a Captain Zilog t-shirt from a Zilog seminar. The story was Exxon owned Zilog and was in a pissing contest with IBM so the processor was never considered.

I had a 68000 development board and also thought that was a good prospect but 68008 parts weren't readily available. I was gun shy about Motorola anyway. Design one of their processors in and they would get an order for a billion pieces from the automotive industry and hang you out to dry. The early '80s were a preview of today with suppliers quoting one year lead times.

Then there was the iAPX 432 fiasco... I never had my hands on one of those; I don't think many did.

At least we don't have to compile with tiny, small, compact, medium, large, and huge libraries anymore.

As long as you have memorized those hieroglyphs. Eclipse comes with 50 icons. It takes a a month to memorize these and an hour a day to refresh. Then comes Blender, and imp and ... Strange fact about English is that the meaning of words change much. OTOH there seems not be a general accepted hieroglyphs for HELP!

There is not difficult to show commands in a list and to accept a first letter. No need to use the mouse.

You are forced to use the mouse past insane sequences of random characters, that are used in the url's. <SNIP>

The Chinese are literate, the USAians are not. We will see who wins.

Groetjes Albert