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Not yet but will be soon
Nope and don't want one
Interested but need to do more research
Already have one
lol we ordered $900 worth of them for work the other day. When they came in, the cleaning people at night threw the box away. Have them on camera doing it. So I haven't gotten to play with one yet.
Raspberry Pi, Did you get a Slice?
Lmao that SUCKS!Originally Posted by cfortune
Sent from my Otterbox Defended Tactical iPhone using High Capacity "Clips".
Got three several months ago. One to just use as a Linux host, one to connect to my weather station and one to [hopefully not] fry with a breadboard.
FYI, out of the three cases I've bought for the Pis, I like these two the best so far: http://www.adafruit.com/products/1067 and http://www.adafruit.com/products/975 (just about indestructible and available in other colors).
O2
YOU are the first responder. Police, fire and medical are SECOND responders.
When seconds count, the police are mere minutes away...
Gun registration is gun confiscation in slow motion.
My feedback: https://www.ar-15.co/threads/53226-O2HeN2
I'm about to jump into the pie with the new Pi-4.
Any suggestions on documentation for newbies?
Nerd stuff:
In the late 1970s Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) introduced the VAX 11/780, probably the best "mainframe" at the time. Being the first of its line, its speed established the VAX Unit of Processing, or "VUP" of one.
In 1980 I started working for DEC here in the 'springs. We had a bunch of 11/780s - they and their peripherals were monstrosities, about four or five refrigerators side-by-side in size. The 11/780 consumed huge amounts of power, with thick power cables hanging down from 100+ amp bus bars running overhead.
Remember, 1 VUP.
In 2015 the Raspberry Pi foundation released the Raspberry PI Zero - a tiny Pi about the size of two or three postage stamps.
Someone took a VAX instruction set emulator and put it on a Pi Zero, booted up VMS (the VAX operating system) and stuffed the Pi Zero inside a tiny VAX 11/780 MODEL (given out as a promotional item at DECUS, I believe).
Mind you, this thing can run on a 5 volt battery.
Its speed? Four VUP! Four VUP while EMULATING another computer's instruction set! My what a difference 39 years makes.
Info on this project can be found here.
O2
Ps. Ok, for the nerds that are still with me, this jogged my memory on another piece of trivia...
The setup: In "2001 A Space Odyssey" the main protagonist was the "HAL 9000" computer. What three letter acronym do you get if you take the NEXT letter in the alphabet for each of the letters H-A-L?
The trivia: What many people don't know is one of the major designers of DEC's VMS operating system, Dave Cutler, left DEC to join Microsoft to work on a new operating system called "Windows New Technology" or "WNT" (the grandfather of what we call "Windows" today). Well, what acronym do you get if you take the PREVIOUS letter in the alphabet for each of the letters W-N-T?
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YOU are the first responder. Police, fire and medical are SECOND responders.
When seconds count, the police are mere minutes away...
Gun registration is gun confiscation in slow motion.
My feedback: https://www.ar-15.co/threads/53226-O2HeN2
I wrote a lot of lines of BASIC on a DEC PDP11/34...still have the paper tape saves somewhere...
Light a fire for a man, and he'll be warm for a day, light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life...
Discussion is an exchange of intelligence. Argument is an exchange of
ignorance. Ever found a liberal that you can have a discussion with?
I was just researching a Retropi last night
I am special and can't geek out to that link above.
bradbn4, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:
I have a few raspberry Pi - the first one I setup to be a print server (worked well) and tried the SAMBA to turn a drive into a network drive (worked, but to slow to use).
I started with the PDP 11/70, got a PDP 8 for school for free......I have poked at one of the VAX super computers once.
I have one of each of the RB Pi 4.0 in each memory configuration.
Bradbn4 - Having fun in Colorado
It's probably heat because that link is seven years old.
That's a great post, O2. I'm too young for VMS (and I am not young, lol) but do remember it, and certainly remember Windows NT. My first real experience with DEC was the DEC Alpha CPU, which was the first/only RISC CPU to run Windows NT (and VMS). I actually had two servers, Barney and Showboat, which were both DEC Alpha based NT Servers, for Exchange and Directory Services.
I grew up in the personal computer era, and every time someone came into my shop and started to show off with VAX/VMS, etc., I just smiled and nodded and, yeah, you go with your big iron.
-John
ps. I actually still have Barney (or at least part of it...)
...\Documents\From JohnAMD\JohnAMD-Documents\work\barney\dl\intel
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