Re: With This and America Today...
I remember hearing about possible ozone layer damage as well.
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I had a HP6L printer that I finally had to replace after 25 years. Toner is no longer available.
Replaced it with a HP M404dw.
As mentioned elsewhere, automatic firmware updates have been turned off, it works fine and doesn't need any "improvements" from HP.
Same here. Many years ago I had to install a Finnish version of PageMaker. I was used to installing the English version and muscle memory saved the day. Our customer was impressed that I knew his language. We had a good laugh about it later when I told him I didn't have clue what the Finnish instructions were telling me to do.
I worked in a computer store mid 80's to mid 90's when Wordperfect sold for about $500 CAD, but for that price you got free support.
We'd get people coming in that had pirated copies of WP asking us how to do "stuff". I'd tell them to buy a legit copy and call WP's free spport line. They usually got mad and went somewhere else.
Wow, talk about ancient history.
Supporting/programming those old Olivetti machines was the first job I had after finishing college.
Luckily BAL was on the way when I got there. I hated working in Assembly.
The new 8K machines with basic were much nicer. Do you remember only being able to have one operand per instruction?
If you wanted to add A,B & C together and store the result in D you needed to do it like this:
D=A+B
D=D+C
Variable names were limited to 2 characters, 1 character and 1 digit.
The other quirky thing was how it handled fractions of a penny. It always truncated the value rather than rounding up to the nearest penny. Which caused a lot grief when I had to write a daily interest savings account program for a financial institution.
I ended up learning enough Italian to be able to understand the tech manuals.
Ahhhh... the good days.
Not quite.
It's a leap year when the year is divisible by 4, unless the year is divisible by 100 and not divisible by 1000. I think I said that properly.
2024 is a leap year.
2000 was a leap year.
1900 was not a leap year.
Plus, years that are divisible by 25000 are not leap years.
I did a lot programming with TurboBasic. Borland eventually sold it back to the original developer Bob (forgot the last name). Bob renamed it to PowerBasic and it's still available. I wrote a mutli-user point of sale system in the early 90's using PB with Novell Btrieve as the file manager.
A friend of mine still uses Pb/Win to write custom DLL's.