That was my first computer. No power supply, no keyboard, no case, 64 kB RAM. A cassette recorder served as storage and a television as a screen. The operating system was a variant of a Russian DOS adapted in the GDR.
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Passings...
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wulf
God-Emperor
I prefer 'experienced'.This 'Passings' thread is getting to seem like an old folks' home! Come on dears, time for your Horlicks ...
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Passings are very common in an old folks home!
Mikerytel
Senator
marvel writer Stan Lee passed away 6 years ago on this day
Charles Dumont
Composer, and singer, wrote great songs for many fine artists, but the one for which he'll be remembered is simply one of the greatest of the last century (Eul's personal anthem!)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/a...ne-regrette-rien-dies-aged-95_6733176_30.html
Composer, and singer, wrote great songs for many fine artists, but the one for which he'll be remembered is simply one of the greatest of the last century (Eul's personal anthem!)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/a...ne-regrette-rien-dies-aged-95_6733176_30.html
Mikerytel
Senator
Song worthy of a Highlander as yourself
captivecuties
Senator
The lyrics celebrate the singer’s journey and have an especially powerful meaning to her partner in the last bit, something that should not be lost on anyone hearing it.
Mikerytel
Senator
Damn that looks very thrown together,
ducon007
Consul
How I understand you! One of the greatest songs of all time (French, let's be modest...), which I'd put next to Jacques Brel's "Quand on a que l'amour" (When all you have is love).
Yes, the circuit board was available in the hobby electronics store, I also had a lot of trouble buying the circuits and sockets in various electronics stores, the rest, transistors, diodes and resistors were available. Then you just had to assemble and solder the whole thing yourself. But it was possible, I even got a kind of Basic to work on this
computer.
captivecuties
Senator
While on the French thing….a personal favorite scene from a classic movie as well as ( unarguably, IMHO) one of the greatest National Anthems!
And Claud Reins was my favorite character.
Round up the usual suspects!
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
I was never good at electronics myself. Do you still pay around? Raspberry Pi?
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
Yes, an excellent scene. I like the movie too, but I am too much of a realist to believe that an American-themed bar with American food and drinks (east coast, we are excluding chili and such) could survive in a French colony, and under wartime supply constraints. Of course the US was nominally neutral from the fall of Paris in 1940 until Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, but I doubt there was a lot of shipping going to Morocco.
No, not later. At most with the Siemens Logo!, freely programmable PLC.
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
Early on in my job I had occasion to have to install network cards and such--they weren't part of an integrated circuit. You had to use tweezers to insert rings around connectors to short them out. I had to install Netware from floppies (remember those? Modern PC's don't even have a drive.). You'd have to insert a series of discs, sometimes the same one at different points in the sequence ("designed by a freshman computer science major"). But you felt closer to the hardware, and not like a back pew worshiper in awe at a church service. It is amazing how far things have come in so short a time. I used to like to program in assembly languages. Now people look at you funny. And "C" is now frowned upon (justifiably)) because of all the security holes that let people overwrite memory.
captivecuties
Senator
Is fantasy to be sure.
An interesting line in the film is when Rick asks same what time it is over in the U.S. and it is December 1941…I take it as a foreshadowing of what was to come with even a reference that they are probably asleep over there at this time.
Also, the film was sort of hap hazzerdly put together with some last minute additions and such.
But, as with any film, no matter how hard they try to be accurate, it is, in the end, manufactured entertainment.
But, even saying this as a Yank…My French cousins have one hell of an anthem.
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
Yes, it was in many ways a propaganda film (a very good one). There is a book called Five Days In December about Hitler's path to declaring war on the United States with the Russian war still undecided (which the Roosevelt administration actually wanted to avoid public pressure to cut Britain loose and concentrate on Japan). There is also a Japanese work called "Who Was Responsible?" which points out that all the objective analysis of the Japanese government affirmed that the United States and its economy could overwhelm Japan. But the Japanese relied on psychological factors to make the US tire of war before that happened. It is interesting to think like people of the time who did not know how it would come out.
Round up the usual suspects!
"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"
(Croupier) "Your winnings, sir."
"Oh, thank you very much."
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
The biggest historical inaccuracy of the scene is, that, in WW2, Morocco, like the other French colonies, had no German occupation forces stationed at all (that was a condition bargained by France in the 1940 armistice), leave that German officers would be in authority to order the closing of the bar!
But I wonder, if the makers have intended a historically irony, the German officers singing "Die Wacht am Rhein", a song intended to make the German people vigilant against French imperialism and invasion. The "Mareillaise", meanwhile has originally been composed as "The Song of the Rhine Army", which was the French army that actually had crossed the river Rhine and invaded German territory at the end of the 18th century, to spread the ideas of the French Revolution.