My first computer was an eight-bit system running the CP/M operating system on an Intel 8080 processor, in about 1980. The system was some $900. I bought a Whitesmiths C compiler for it for about $300, and it came with the Wordstar text editor.
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sfbing@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Men guilty of felling much-loved British 'Sycamore Gap' treeEnglish20·2 months agoYou’re right, but that’s not reason not to prosecute these lowlifes.
“You know, darling, it’s so much more important to look good than to be weird.”
sfbing@lemmy.worldto Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related@lemmy.world•RFK Jr. to end 'godsend' Narcan program that helped reduce overdose deaths despite his past heroin addictionEnglish5·2 months agoBefore that even – Joe making big bucks on WWII.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Donald Trump demands investigations into negative approval rating polls6·2 months agoThe answer is “convicted by the Senate” but I like your answer better.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Gen Z is very underwhelmed by congressional Democrats94·2 months agoEvery poll I have seen recently shows Boomers being more progressive than the next younger groups.
That’s reminiscent of the Prosciutto e Melone that my Italian wife has taught me to enjoy!
In addition to the comments here about the lyrics, IMHO it is a one-chord song and boring. Most of Burton Cummings’ songs are much more interesting musically, e.g. “Undun.”
sfbing@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•The world reacts to Trump's sweeping tariffs: 'No basis in logic'English10·3 months agoSounds like you had better open a diaper factory in your house. Then you wouldn’t have to pay the tariff that you are charging yourself.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•"They basically want to kill me": GOP efforts to turn Musk into a MAGA martyr are backfiring12·4 months agoClarence Darrow wrote: “All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
sfbing@lemmy.worldto Enough Musk Spam@lemmy.world•Why 150 years olds are still getting social security benefits2·4 months agoSUBTRACT DATE FROM YEAR GIVING AGE.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Top Social Security official steps down after disagreement with DOGE over sensitive data81·5 months agoI assume, albeit with no proof, that they are being threatened, e.g. “w e know where your kids go to school.”
sfbing@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Elizabeth May suggests Cali, Oregon, Washington State join Canada or join British Columbia to form 'Cascadia'10·5 months agoI’ll guess that you have never been to California. There was pumpjack one block away from my house when I was growing up.
But in fact, the biggest thing keeping us from moving away from fossil fuels is the political pressure from people who make money from it. And if California went into Canada or Cascadia, those people would come with it, kicking and screaming all the way.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day3·5 months agoI’ll have you know that I am an official paper CNE.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•D.C. plane crash revives concerns about aviation safety and air traffic controller shortage1·5 months agoRonald Reagan did that first for this particular line of work.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto science@lemmy.world•Researchers are terrified of Trump’s freeze on science. The rest of us should be, too.English74·5 months agoI find myself less concerned about the Palestinians than I was before the election. Their supporters’ insane decision to support Trump is one of the things that put him into office.
I agree, but this wouldn’t be about awkward – it would be vengeance. Just rewards. Assholes getting their due.
You should not have nodded.
sfbing@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•60 Minutes sparks right-wing backlash over brutal takedown of Trump’s cabinet picks36·8 months agoWhen Trump held a campaign event at Arlington Cemetery, and a soldier tried to stop cameras etc from going in, Steven Cheung is the one who shoved her aside, and later said that she was obviously suffering from some sort of mental episode.
Meh. I am in my late sixties, and that was never proper usage. These people were merely always illiterate.