Nascom 2
This report about the death of the Z80 brought back happy memories of my self-assembly Nascom 2, and I followed a career as "the techie guy" in business as a result of what I learned about machine code and programming.
Posts by dunbankin
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The chip that changed my world – and yours
NASA solar sail to be Siriusly visible in orbit from Earth
Saturday 20th April 2024 16:41 GMT 
Going back 60 years...
I remember watching Echo 1 and Echo 2 with my dad's binoculars in the '60s. Not solar sails, but similar. They were huge shiny balloons in low earth orbit, designed as passive telecom satellites. - no on-board electronics. You bounced a signal off them. They were as bright as Sirius, and quite fast moving. Didn't last long in LEO - there never was a Echo 3...
It is 20 years since the last commercial flight of Concorde
Wednesday 25th October 2023 08:47 GMT
Watched the last three over London
I remember watching those last three commercial flights into LHR from the tower block I was working in, in the City of London. Three Concordes quite low separated by a couple of minutes. Beautifully choreographed. A magnificent sight. You knew it was the passing of an era. (Dabs eyes).
Windows 11 update breaks PCs that dare sport a custom UI
China's Zhurong rover may be dead: NASA images show no sign of life
Everyday doings of a metropolitan techie: Stob's software diary
Wednesday 23rd January 2019 11:29 GMT 
Still useless...?
Thoroughly agree with the Verity's report on the quality of the Samsung disk cloning s/w. I stuck a Samsung SSD in my PC a couple of years ago, and, forewarned by on-line comments about the utility's uselessness, installed a copy of Macrium Reflect as back-up. I tried Samsung's s/w first - it spent 45 mins saying "Cloning...", before eventually saying " Oh. Actually it appears I wasn't cloning after all..." (or something like that). Reflect took 75 minutes not saying anything, until finally saying "Finished", leaving a perfectly cloned SSD. Aghast that Samsung haven't fixed such a fundamental bug after 2 years. The Samsung SSD hardware, however, is brilliant.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
