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Comment 1972: TI Silent 700 to GE in-house mainfraim (Score 1) 523

The first computer I ever used was an house brand mainframe housed at General Electric's Nuclear plant in San Jose, California, accessed via acoustic coupler and a TI Silent 700 terminal. It had rack after rack of core memory with forced air cooling from the raised floor.

My first personal computer was an IMSAI 8080 with 12k of ram. I toggled in the bootstrap then loaded BASIC from paper tape on an ASR 33 teletype. Not really missing those days.

Comment Filing is no big deal, collecting is the problem (Score 2) 105

I filed against my former landlord for keeping my deposit without a walk through, violating both the lease and local rental law. I was awarded the value of the deposit, plus 200% by the judge. Since this scofflaw has decided to ignore the court's judgement, I have to serve him again before I can get any discovery of his bank accounts or place a lien on his property. He's had a fence built so process servers can't get to his front door without trespassing. Next step, the servers want to charge me $125/hour to stake out his place. He's now moved out and appears to be living with relatives, so I can't track him down. The burden on the victor can be too high for justice to actually be served.

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