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Comment Re: Reads Like An Ad (Score 1) 431

Like NYC ? You can stand across the valley from this thing and listen to it spin up on a hot summer afternoon when all the air conditioners in the city kick on : https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26amp;source=web&rct=j&url=https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.m.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBlenheim-Gilboa_Hydroelectric_Power_Station

Comment how about an emulated Wang 2200 on SCO Unix ? (Score 3, Informative) 620

I almost want to post anon but I can't resist. When I took over my current job ten years ago, the company used a green-screen accounting system based on an emulated Wang 2200 running on SCO Open Server. That puts the actual technology in use back around 1973. This used the Niakwa Basic2c system. The system was lovingly maintained (!) by some dedicated guys in Auburndale.

Before we migrated it off it we got it running on Linux and I still have a KVM image running this system over Centos 5. The last time I booted it was in 2014, or 41 years after the Wang 2200 came out. I actually used one at Ashland (MA) High School - the second interactive computer I ever used. (The first was a PDP-8 accessed via a teletype at 110 baud from Wayland Junior High School).

Comment On the other hand... (Score 1) 135

I recently had my first experience with a form of pair-coding, with another engineer looking over my shoulder while I explained an API he would be working with. It was unnerving at first but after a while I almost found a flow. I gained something by using my left brain to verbalize what I was doing with the very right-brain task of visualizing algorithms and data structures. I will probably be repeating this.

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