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That book looks interesting. Have you watched the YouTube channel CuriousMarc? In the last year or two they restored an Apollo Guidance Computer. In the process of that they even got to talk to Don Eyles one of the programmers for the lunar module software. Right now they are checking out the command module S-band transceiver and have it working - didn't even need restoring, it just worked.
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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Thanks for the link, watching them now.
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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I resemble that. 
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Magnesium and rust.
One day, I will put a Raspberry Pi in orbit. It won't have Wifi that distance.. so maybe a cable?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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LED and Morse code, plus a photoreceptor of course.
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Would work, in theory.
So. Now I has to try. Those LED's better not blind a commercial flight!
..maybe a need a permit for a hobby like that? Ehr, never gave that any thought.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: ..maybe a need a permit for a hobby like that? Ehr, never gave that any thought.
Don't worry. If you do, they will let you know!
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As much as I'd enjoy reading that, I'd better not. The last time I got mad  about the manned space program, things got ugly... The restraining order keeping me 1000 yards away from William Proxmire's grave is still in effect.
Software Zen: delete this;
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this is a great gift!
diligent hands rule....
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The Minecraft community is all freaking out about this as it affects the game and can be easily exploited through in game chat.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Trust the wrong code, you pay for it 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Expanse S06 E01: and now ... I have to wait a week for the next episode. 
The weird thing is that that was how I grew up: terrestrial TV was always episodic - one episode per show per week to fit all shows into a schedule. So why would it bother me now that a streaming service artificially replicates that when it's completely unnecessary? I dunno - but it does! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
modified 10-Dec-21 7:26am.
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It could be worse - I tried watching Star Trek Discovery S4 on PlutoTV, which is free with ads. It's not available on demand; you have to watch it at the prescribed time. If you miss it, tough.
What is this, the early 80s, before we had VCRs?
(In the end, I gave up and bought the series from Amazon.)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: the early 80s, before we had VCRs?
Isn't that "when we had VCRs"?
I haven't as much as seen any dusty old VCR for at least ten years. I haven't watched a movie on VCR tape for about 20 years. Most of my friends have ditched even their BluRay collections (and obviously DVD and CD as well) and rely exclusively on streaming services.
Every now and then I watch (on my PC, digitized versions of) either old family movies or analog born commercial movies. The image quality is so bad, by today's standards, that it is a pain. I watch them for one of two reasons: Either, they show my family, or the soundtrack has some great music.
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So, sometimes it takes me a while to get around to things ....
Lockdown struck and I decided it was now the ideal time to watch those videos that I still haven't even seen, after 30 years!
So picked a home video I really wanted to keep and put that in to watch before the unused stuff. Machine immediately mangled the tape and semi-digested it to the extent I doubted I could ever get it out, let alone save it.
So, half an hour later, VRC and entire tape collection in the rubbish pile.
I just looked online and I can watch Eric Clapton's 24 Nights in HD on YouTube with better sound but I miss OWNING it, even on video!
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trønderen wrote: Isn't that "when we had VCRs"?
Not in the early 80s, unless your household was particularly rich.
My comparison was deliberately to a time before you could record a program to watch it later. If the program was broadcast at 9PM, you had to sit and watch it at 9PM. You couldn't record it and watch it the next day.
That's almost unheard-of with streaming services, at least outside of live events. But that's precisely what Pluto have done with Discovery.
trønderen wrote: Most of my friends ... rely exclusively on streaming services.
Which is fine, if you can guarantee that the streaming service will never go out of business; will never remove the film from their collection; will never try to charge you extra to see the film; etc.
Sure, physical DVDs and BluRays won't last forever. But nobody can (legally) come into your home and take them away from you just because the store you bought them from has gone bust.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Not in the early 80s, unless your household was particularly rich
I guess that I am biased. Norway had one single TV channel far into the 80s. That explains why we, at the start of the 1980s had the highest density of VCRs in the world, and probably the highest density of VHS rental shops as well. Our school replaced 16mm educational movies with video movies during the second half of the 1970s.
Another factor pushing VCRs into Norwegian homes starting in the late 1970s: We had extremely tight socalled "moral" restrictions on what could be broadcast. Movies with adults posing in their underwear was off limits. To see movies of that kind, you had to go to a rental shop. So that's what we did. From a moral point of view, the single broadcast channel was like going to church service every Sunday morning and not giving a d*** the rest of the week.
So VHS made us accustomed to both double and triple X. The authorities realized facts, and movie censorship has gone from being one of the most conservative countries in the Western world to one of the most liberal ones. We went from "Life of Brian" going from totally banned to approved for all audiences ...
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By the ‘90s, VCRs were so cheap they were being given away free in Silicon Valley if you bought a laptop.
When my brother bought a laptop at a Fry’s store in San Jose, we were given the free VCR. We told the salesman that we had no use for it and the store could keep it. He argued that if we didn’t take the VCR, it would screw up their inventory system and forced it on us.
We took the VCR and left it in the trash bin just outside the door. The bin wasn’t wide enough for the VCR, carton and all, to drop through and so we just set it on top and walked away!
Thinking back, we should have dropped it in a Goodwill Store or Salvation Army dumpster.
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trønderen wrote: I haven't as much as seen any dusty old VCR for at least ten years
I gave away the VCR I still had just last weekend - a relative of mine still had old tapes from when her kid was a toddler, and she thought it was a crying shame she couldn't now show them to her grandkids when her VCR died I don't know how long ago.
Mine was working fine the last time I used it, but it had been sitting on a shelf, disconnected from any power outlet, for, I'm sure, at least 10 years.
I know I still have tapes somewhere. Had I bothered to try to find them, I'd have given them to her as well, although I don't have anything that would be of any interest to 4-year olds (and younger).
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