
Perhaps somebody will shed a tear and download: https://usborne.com/browse-books/featur ... ing-books/

All these languages have now largely converged, apart from idiosyncrasies. Even Fortran (or, as you write to prove you're an old hand: FORTRAN) is now quite slick.Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Wed Oct 10, 2018 12:06 am FORTRAN in technical school. No nostalgia there for me.
A bit of self taught BASIC. Fun at the time but now meh.
But when I finally went to a real college ... Pascal![]()
From 2013:Abdul Alhazred wrote: ↑Wed Oct 10, 2018 12:06 am But when I finally went to a real college ... Pascal![]()
https://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/new ... -released/Photoshop 1.0 source code released
The Computer History Museum is offering the source code to the original version of Adobe Photoshop for download
Version 1.0.1 dates from 1990, and is written in a combination of Pascal and 68000 assembler language, the museum said in a blog post. It's identical to what originally went on sale at the time, with the exception of the MacApp applications library, which was licensed from Apple for the retail version.
The ubiquitous image editing software began life as "Display" in 1987. It was the brainchild of University of Michigan grad student Thomas Knoll, whose brother, John, worked at well-known special effects company Industrial Light and Magic. John and Thomas eventually developed "Display" into its eventual commercial "Photoshop" form. Adobe bought a distribution license in April 1989, though the first company to distribute the software was actually Barneyscan, a maker of slide scanners, the museum says.
Too late, I already have more ebooks that I want to read than I will ever have time for.
https://www.cnet.com/news/iss-astronaut ... -in-space/ISS astronaut finds NASA floppy disks in space
The International Space Station just celebrated its 20th anniversary, and European Space Agency astronaut and current ISS resident Alexander Gerst discovered one small reminder of that long history: a folder full of old floppy disks.
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Gerst says he found a locker on the ISS that probably hadn't been opened for some time. One of the floppies is labeled as containing Norton Utilities for Windows 95/98. Some have NASA symbols on the labels.
A couple of the disks are titled "Crew Personal Support Data Disk" with the names Shep and Sergei on them. These were likely for NASA astronaut William Shepherd and Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who were both part of the Expedition 1 crew in 2000.
I remember having to decollate two-foot stacks of multicopy continuous-feed paper as punishment for being late to work in the navy. After the first 5000 sheets it became more Zen than punishment.
Was it from the paper dust, or did you smoke it?Rob Lister wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 11:21 amAfter the first 5000 sheets it became more Zen than punishment.
https://arstechnica.com/information-tec ... ol-system/Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system
"Solid state storage" replaces IBM Series/1's floppy drive.
Five years ago, a CBS 60 Minutes report publicized a bit of technology trivia many in the defense community were aware of: the fact that eight-inch floppy disks were still used to store data critical to operating the Air Force's intercontinental ballistic missile command, control, and communications network. The system, once called the Strategic Air Command Digital Network (SACDIN), relied on IBM Series/1 computers installed by the Air Force at Minuteman II missile sites in the 1960s and 1970s.
Those floppy disks have now been retired. Despite the contention by the Air Force at the time of the 60 Minutes report that the archaic hardware offered a cybersecurity advantage, the service has completed an upgrade to what is now known as the Strategic Automated Command and Control System (SACCS), as Defense News reports. SAACS is an upgrade that swaps the floppy disk system for what Lt. Col. Jason Rossi, commander of the Air Force’s 595th Strategic Communications Squadron, described as a “highly secure solid state digital storage solution.” The floppy drives were fully retired in June.
But the IBM Series/1 computers remain, in part because of their reliability and security. And it's not clear whether other upgrades to "modernize" the system have been completed. Air Force officials have acknowledged network upgrades that have enhanced the speed and capacity of SACCS' communications systems, and a Government Accountability Office report in 2016 noted that the Air Force planned to "update its data storage solutions, port expansion processors, portable terminals, and desktop terminals by the end of fiscal year 2017." But it's not clear how much of that has been completed.
While SACCS is reliable, it is obviously expensive and difficult to maintain when it fails. There are no replacement parts available, so all components must be repaired—a task that may require hours manipulating parts under a microscope. Civilian Air Force employees with years of experience in electronics repairs handle the majority of the work. But the code that runs the system is still written by enlisted Air Force programmers.