Hi
I saw this over the weekend. Nice article on the attraction of retro
machines:
http://m.spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/amiga-the-computer-that-wouldnt-die
Fern
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hi all
little reminiscence
last week while we had rather more seasonal temperatures (ie it was warm),
one of the most annoying aspects of computing in the 80s rapidly
re-asserted itself:
1) QL would last about 15 minutes and then crash badly.
2) quickly check all the chips were seated properly.
thanks dilwyn
no zx80, but i did have a zx81, i remember my and my sisters had
competitions as to whom could keep their hands on it the longest.
i had the microdrive problem, not consitently, but enough to break the
flow. it was great when i finally saved enough to plug in some disks, i
was
oh! that would be depressing if it happened now, i'm wfh and i've just
kicked off a full build.
i totally forgot about power surges and brown outs, we lived in a converted
maisonette back then with wiring going back to the fifties so even the
neighbour's fan heater would freeze the computer.
hi tony
when running apt* the application checks /etc/apt/sources.list
this file contains software repositories from which apt will pull down
packages. off the shelf the configuration only points to repositories
containing software which complies to the various debian licenses.
so when apt
