NotesSend a tweet with a short BASIC program to @PCBASICBot and your program will run on an emulated DOS PC. The bot will tweet you back with a video your programâs output!FeedEmbedUnfurl
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NotesBoth software developers and users should demand more. Developers should look for ways to reach their users unimpeded, through still-open platforms, or through pressure on the terms imposed by the closed ones. And users should be ready to try "off-roading" with the platforms that still allow itâhewing to the original spirit of the PC, perhaps amplified by systems that let apps have a trial run on a device without being given the keys to the kingdom. If we allow ourselves to be lulled into satisfaction with walled gardens, we'll miss out on innovations to which the gardeners object, and we'll set ourselves up for censorship of code and content that was previously impossible. We need some angry nerds.Unfurl
Notes"The manual for Mental Blocks claims that, for both C64 and IBM, you put the diskette in label-side up. I thought that had to be a typo, since every single mixed C64/IBM or Apple/IBM diskette I have ever seen is a âflippyâ disk where one side is IBM and the other side is C64 or Apple â until I looked at the FAT12 for the disk and saw that tons of sectors in an interleaved pattern were marked as BAD â very strange usage."Unfurl
Notes"This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the power supply voltages have drifted out of tolerance."
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Notes"This is an indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the power supply voltages have drifted out of tolerance."Unfurl
Notes"in the last few years I've been asking computer scientists and programmers whether they've ever typed E-N-G-E-L-B-A-R-T into Google-and none of them have."Unfurl
Notes"If you're willing to spend just a bit more for some more memory, you end up with a highly capable light duty office system for less than buying Microsoft Windows and Office."Unfurl
Notes"Many PC owners are simply replacing embattled machines rather than fixing them." Wow, this seems insane. How can the new machines be possibly any better off than the old ones?Unfurl
Notes"What you are looking at is a case made of case fans, Dexian (there's probably a trademark in there somewhere) shelving, nylon cable ties, terminal blocks, nylon motherboard mounts, backplane blanks, screws and wire. Oh, and PC hardware."Unfurl
Notes'An over-zealous editor followed the newspaper style-book's recommendation, and changed "pro-life'' to "anti-abortion'', giving the opera a whole new theme.'Unfurl
Notes"When I showed my friend, who happens to love Apple, he looked sick. He did not say anything to me. He just put his hands on his head and was in shock. I wish I had a picture of that." Oh God. Uhh. What an expensive PC case. What nice parents. What aUnfurl
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