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Any comment on the battery life? My TRS-80 model 100 could get about 2 full work days on two AA batteries.


A Pi on a 3.7v, with touchscreen and keyboard... In my experience that is in the range of 4-6 hours.

Though, considering all the model 100s I keep staring at are in the range of $600-1000, tradeoff seems acceptable.


They are sub-200 on eBay

If you want parts, sure. If you want a working one, not so much.

I want to post you to twostopbits.com. I saw in the index 1942 and 1043. Are these commercial? I am wondering if these tricked the AI.


Not sure what you mean with commercial. Those are/were C64 games. Commercially sold games yes, then, now they aren't.

The site has been indexed since 2004. It's not the only abandonware site.

Sure, post all you like :)


Fantastic.

I shared your post on twostopbits.com. A site dedicated to retro gaming and computing. Would love to have you share your story over there.


The link in the post didn’t turn into a clickable url. : https://freetoolsuite.com/


Hey, thanks for adding the link.


I had a lot of fun playing this as a kid:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scram_(video_game)


The challenge now is to do enough to prevent Alberta and Saskatchewan from separating from Canada.


The land on which those provinces sit are based on treaties signed between the First Nations and the government of Canada, not with the provinces, so that settles that.


This. Exactly. Alberta and Saskatchewan did not exist as independent colonies. Treaties were with the federal government. This is a non-starter and will never happen as WEXIT separatists dream it could.


Danielle Smith’s hands will be full with a healthcare contracts scandal that looks like it may be really bad, and also the embarrassment of aligning herself with a foreign dictator who wants to take Canada over.


People always say this, but how would they replace the federal funds?


Carney did grow up in Edmonton, AB. Maybe that has some pull back West.


It was a sort of way to learn code. What does this asm opcode do or this basic function do. As you typed it in. In a way it was like long form watching gif images stream in during the early internet.

Modems we expensive and compuserve or the source charged an hourly rate. If you lived in a city with a node it wasn’t horrible but with long distance it was obscene.

I remember when analog computing came up with a checksum program to check the listing. Game changer. You could be assured your work wasn’t in vein. Pretty soon all the magazines had one and typing in the code was a way to get a cheap game compared to $30-40 for a rom game or disk. All it cost was some time at night playing with your computer. Typing in code to see your machine do something you’d never seen before. A technique or trick. A magical time.


Typing in machine code via MLX wasn't educational though.


I have an Intel NUC from 2018. It has tpm 2.0, 16gb of ram but a cpu deemed too old. It’s faster than my sisters surface 2 laptop that I just upgraded for her that was released in the same year. I guess some cpus are more equal than others. The amount of e-waste from this blockage is going to be incredible.


You can still bypass the checks.


Because surface looks out for its own :)


His homepage is also a wealth of information: https://sites.google.com/view/ernietech/home


Bill Gates once said that to emulate Steve Jobs you need to be part genius and part asshole. “So many of the people who want to be like Steve have the asshole side down. What they are missing is the genius part”.


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