The Apple Lisa was released 39 years ago today. While it was a market failure it was crazy innovative. If you think about it, the computer you use today doesn’t REALLY do anything more than this computer did.
This group in my collection contains some really fantastic articles. April 1977 was one of my favorite issues of the whole BYTE magazine run. Never mind that I was 2 years old when it was printed ;)
Well the fix was to reflow the solder joints around the connector. Must have had a cracked or marginal one. #commodore
Hmm, getting a fault on my MiniPET 40/80 on the IEEE port. Anyone know if this needs a loopback to pass or is this really a fault? #commodore
When picking up a new language (Julia this time), I like to solve new problems to get used to it or solve a problem I’ve solved in another language. Monty Hall will do nicely . Since Julia on an i7 is slightly faster than a 6502, I let the 64 do 1000 and Julia did 2^29 #commodore
This 1977 game on the KIM-1 is surprisingly playable and really fun. A whopping 196 bytes. The number of things I’ve learned from Jim Butterfield is staggering. Something to think about as I write and try to contribute even a small thing here and there. #commodore
Always wanted to add a python example the 100 Door problem article I did with the 8 Bit machines last year. Stumbled onthe fun Asciimatics library and then it was a snap. https://imapenguin.com/a-visual-100-door-problem-in-python/
I’ve collected something like 30 calculators over the years. Most at least 30 years old. In the “modern” category I have 4 graphing calculators. In theory I should like the HP the most, but in practice the order of most to least used left to right is this. Even I’m surprised.
Got the offending RAM off no problem but I just realized I don’t have a socket that will fit here. Off to mouser…
In case you were just sitting there asking yourself “what DOES the inside of an HP-58c calculator from 1977 look like”
Michael Doornbos 