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Yes, I was thinking of the same precedent. IBM got out of memory at about the same time, I believe, and for the same reason: Too low margins to make continuing to fight against the tough competition w…

>Thanks for the interesting summary; what was the last year that you think Commodore was a viable competitor to Apple? 1985-1986, the period of about 18 months after the Amiga came out. You read B…

Thank you for pointing that out; I had read the Creative Computing article with the (I think CDC) BASIC source code for Oregon Trail , but didn't realize that this is the issue. This is exactl…

>Apparently you could buy this for $9.95 Sorry, I should have clarified that I was referring to software development. Radio Shack, as a store chain prominently selling kits and Forrest Mims's …

>Isn't it ... terrible that her producer performed this public shaming ritual where they denounced their former coworker and friend and labeled them a racist? Imagine seeing your friends, fami…

A more apt, and more modern, analogy is the struggle session ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session ).…

>Most computer game companies were probably tiny in the early 1980s. I also wonder what would have happened if Commodore, Radio Shack and other companies had managed to keep up with Apple. You are …

I was not aware of that. But that's not contradictory with what I described. Tandy released a lot of business software; basically, its counterparts to the prepackaged turnkey systems for accounti…

It's well known that the Apple II was one of the first three prepackaged, preassembled personal computers on the market. It, the TRS-80 Model I, and the Commodore PET all appeared in late 1977. I…

I use rclone, which has built-in encryption (and is optional; I don't bother with encrypting copies of my Time Machine backup, because it's already encrypted), including even file and direct…

>i do not like American products at all. Why? No doubt you'd be the first to howl should an American say "I do not like European (tech) products at all". (Well, if there were any to …

What's your take on Facebook and Twitter censoring the New York Post article on Hunter Biden, including disabling the Post 's Twitter account and prohibiting the article's URL from b…

>NYP is pretty obviously smearing for a major civil event here What makes this "obviously smearing"?

>One thing that always surprises me about gymnastics is how inherently sexist it is. For nearly all sports, the male version of the sport is identical to the female version. Maybe women don't …

San Diego County (not city) also has more than three times the population of San Francisco, so all the more dilution of the homeless. But there's no way that you can tell me that the homeless pro…

California is not likely to vote for Trump, but he's going to do much better than the 31.6% he won in 2016. Nationally, he's going to do much better than the 28% of Hispanics he won in 2016.

I wish more people would understand this. Those (both American leftists, and Europeans who listen to them) who say that "Democrats in the US would be right wing in Europe/Canada" have t…

>Then you have the worse neighborhoods, the problem there is a lack of interest or time of the parents rather than money on schools (they get more than the affluent neighborhood ones, take the nort…

>You've missed the fundamental flaw in the logic - as you spend lavishly to 'house' (actually pay to put in a flophouse) one person another shows up, having heard through the grapevi…

Would raising the minimum age for Olympics and other high-level competition for women to 18 or 20 help?

Yet again I'm glad to have unlimited Google Drive storage on my university alumni account. (You might too; check and see!)

This is not unusual regardless of circumstances. Most landlords nowadays use software that generates prices based on lease terms. A lease for six months is less desirable than for 12 months because th…

>To extend your thought, cloud gaming would be the answer. Heat, noise, and size is on datacenter. Microsoft is going all in on Game Pass as the future. I'd be surprised if the company doesn&#…

It makes sense that the first iteration of a new product is going to be easy to disassemble, because large products are easier to design and manufacture. It's the later models (PS3 slim, PS4 slim…

>When it comes to cooling considerations, the limitations are: fast, quiet, compact - pick two. Xbox Series X may have beaten this dilemma. The recent talk about it running "hot" misses…

The post well describes my own concerns about that comic. Facebook/Twitter/Google censoring one's viewpoint at some point effectively become the equivalent of government censorship in i…

>I'm confused as to why the US government would break up large tech now. Surely tech has reached the status of being a national interest, especially in relation to information and communicatio…

I have used GeForce NOW and Xcloud. I've not used Stadia, but I hear that its streaming technology is excellent, including 4K graphics. That said, /r/stadia seems to be panicking; a lot…

Related: The Euro symbol always goes before the amount (like the dollar symbol) in English, no matter what country, as per the European Commission and leading publications. https://en.wikip…

>4 years later, I'm still not blown away at the sensor technology on Apple Watch. (disc. I have one) Sleep tracking wasn't added till the latest release!!?? I didn't buy an Apple Wat…