Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Good morning, and merry Ostara.

Palmdle 1.1 274 (6/6)

Palmdle 272 (3/6)

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Palmdle 271 (4/6)
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Why the Apple II didn't support lowercase letters: https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/2833/why-the-apple-ii-didnt-support-lowercase-letters #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

Reminder to USA folks: If your vintage computer keeps time and has time zone rules, it's going to tell the wrong time (an hour slow) for the next three weeks: today through April 3.

One of the things I don't miss about magazine type-in programs is that, if they published a bug in their code, you usually had to wait 2 or 3 issues for them to publish a fix.

Today, that means finding & reading the 5 issues following a program before you start typing it in.

Good morning and merry Imbolc. Already the nights are shorter and the days longer. Though the world is cold and may get colder, may your home be blessed as your beacon of hope and refuge of warmth.

I know enough #Commodore #GEOS programming now that I can throw together a quick test program from scratch in less than an hour, with only stupid spelling mistakes.

TIL geoAssembler can't take a data file arg via GetFile, which means throwing together a quick test program is still 15-30 minutes of clicking & waiting, even with an (emulated) REU.

I'm sorely tempted to make my first serious program a dangerously ambitious IDE. Maybe like geoCOPE, but with CBM SEQ source files.

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I've been suffering from Microsoft Store error 0x80D02017 on Windows 10 2004 for months, preventing me from upgrading any metro apps, and it followed me to 20H2. I tried every single straw-grasping solution but one with no success at all.

The only one I haven't tried? The closest thing Windows 10 has to a nuke-and-pave: System Reset with the DFE option.

World class software engineering, folks!

Cryptocurrencies in general & NFTs in particular have all the signatures of a scam, but I struggled to put my finger on how. This 2 1/2 hour video articulates it, & it book-ends it with the '08 mortgage bubble: https://youtu.be/YQ_xWvX1n9g

Fruit-free because the last Apples I obsessed over were the Mac SE/30, Mac Classic, IIgs, and IIplus.

Even though I fix PCs for a living, my perspective is rather uniquely that of a (fruit-free) Unix user who constantly wonders how Windows is considered an OS ready for desktop use.