Posts by G_Axelsson

BOFH: Here he comes, all wide-eyed with the boundless optimism of youth. He is me, 30 years ago... what to do?

Re: Museum items

I know I'm a youngster, but at least I got my first soldering iron the same year the computer in my hallway was built. It's a 1972 64 kbyte core memory NORD-1. My goal is to have it running before it turns 50. No ROM or anything, but it got boot logic (TTL circuits) to load a paper tape from a Teletype.

At the moment it can only run one instruction but does it well... NOP. All I see is zero in the instruction register and the program counter looping around. I highly suspect that the memory read isn't working. :-D

Hell hath no fury like a radar engineer scorned

How about arcing?

HF waves directed into a mixture of bundled up metal wires in a pure oxygen atmosphere... I would not be surprised if there were a spark between two wires or a standing wave in a suitable formed wire segment. If you only get one small spark then it might be enough for the fire to start and then it's all downhill from there.

Let's talk about April Fools' Day jokes. Are they ever really harmless?

Re: Error Messages

Found when dumping a game rom cartridge from the 80:ies (Vectrex)

"This space available, what the hell are you looking at!"

Alleged dark web drug baron cuffed – after he flew to US for World Beard Championships

Re: There's no law against carrying large amounts of money.

Look up John Oliver's video on youtube on Civil Forfeiture, it's both hilarious and frightening.

Particle accelerator hacked: Boffins' hashed passwords beamed up

I like that promotional video...

Especially the part at 8.45 where they talked about "We loose the race for innovation" while the guy writes "screnn -x" and the computer answers "command not found".

Was that the best illustration they could find? :-)

Physicists have built the world's fastest quantum simulator

No need for paywall

The article can be downloaded from arxive.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.03635

NASA discovers mysterious super-fast electrons whizzing above Earth

No need for paywalls

Full article can be downloaded from arxiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02183