Mostly computer thought's and stuff I've done!
Regarding the previous problem. I got a reply saying to try entering Took me a minute to figure out how to do the above. You first press J, which shows up as LOAD on the screen. Then you press Ctrl-P twice for the 2 double quotes. Finally you press Enter. The ending L is flashing …
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Sinclair made other computers but the ZX Spectrum was their most successful in the UK, selling over 5 million machines. Timex sold a version in the US. Being I live in the US, I often tend to ignore this UK computer. But it was there in the beginning (early 80s) of the PC Computer revolution. …
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I really like vintage retro (is that redundant?) computing. It’s fun, to a point, to relive past experiences. However IMHO, only MVS 3.8J on IBM S/370, on up is still actually useful today apart from nostalgia. And that would be TK4- or TK5 running on the Hercules emulator. TK5 is probably the road forward. Because …
I wrote some about this here. But I didn’t give any details. So here I am again ridiculously trying to review what I did before because my notes, if you can call them that, are slim to none. Anywho I saw something about the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer, and I thought I did something with …
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I want to open a ticket about my BigNum problem, but getting an error trying to login. So I sent them an email. Silly me. I just needed to do a password reset.
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My Python program uploaded 3/26/2009, use to work. It produced numerical output of very large numbers… like this 952976583213159511560285536351556930590673943446666449132596280969464863863225773757590117823675375102926658163587326013745331203785511643981407619201067110103592819597539248458758385353952769810214919990039030950311258942897169655934761402829460310108279952464599403923795496051281894569987921943753or…952 octononagintillion976 septnonagintillion583 sexnonagintillion213 quinnonagintillion159 quattuornonagintillion511 trenonagintillion560 duononagintillion285 unnonagintillion536 nonagintillion351 novemoctogintillion556 octooctogintillion930 septoctogintillion590 sexoctogintillion673 quinoctogintillion943 quattuoroctogintillion446 treoctogintillion666 duooctogintillion449 unoctogintillion132 octogintillion596 novemseptuagintillion280 octoseptuagintillion969 septseptuagintillion464 sexseptuagintillion863 quinseptuagintillion863 quattuorseptuagintillion225 treseptuagintillion773 duoseptuagintillion757 unseptuagintillion590 septuagintillion117 novemsexagintillion823 octosexagintillion675 septsexagintillion375 sexsexagintillion102 quinsexagintillion926 quattuorsexagintillion658 tresexagintillion163 …
Using simh. Found here. The previous one here.
Using simh. Although these steps (make) needed to be done before simh. Created gendate, but 3 others failed as seen below.
Just to note that the computer in the 2016 movie, is a IBM 7090. I read here that computer sounds, (and other interesting facts) from the movie were recorded in the 1401 Demo Lab at the Computer History Museum.