Monthly Archives: September 2018

Ancient Hardware I Have Hacked: Back to Basics!

My return to the IBM mainframe was delayed by my high school’s acquisition of a a teletype connected via a 110-baud serial line to a timesharing system featuring the BASIC language. I was quite impressed with this teletype because it … Continue reading

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Ancient Hardware I Have Hacked: My First Computer

For the first couple of decades of my life, computers as we know them today were exotic beasts that filled rooms, each requiring the care of a cadre of what were then called systems programmers. Therefore, in my single-digit years … Continue reading

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