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I first become aware of John C. Dvorak in Byte magazine, ( back in the 80s?) to me he was a respected insigtful interesting content wrighter.

The post link above says he was 74, THe wikipedia page says 80. I gues one will be corrected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak

RIP

RE "...my 70-year-old bowling equipment...."

This equipment was probably ..state of the art ... when it was installed ... back in 1950s ?

A woman has given birth to identical quadruplet daughters in what doctors have described as one of the rarest births in the world.

The four babies were delivered by caesarean at 28 weeks and four days gestation last week

RE "......what is currently by far the cheapest form of electricity (solar)....."

this is misleading and wrong. At best it is a half true statement.

My total power bill has not decreased.

Solar electrity may be cheap to produce.

However if only generates for 4-5 houra day, generates non at night or bad weather. May generate non for several days in bad (cloudy weather ) So the supply of reneables (solar ) is un reliable. To make renewables (solar ) reliable , we need big (grid size) batterys. For the grid we need new transmission lines. Predicted to be 10,ooo KM for Austrlia. Cost of new transmission network, last estimate i saw was $40 Billion AU

The government mandated smart meters will allow peoples power supply to be turned off when the likely power shortages occur.

The story is even bigger than ......

In some locations overseas can even just plug the invertor into the power point to start sending electrity back to the grid.

No complicated approvals to connect up inverter like currently in Australia....

RE "....assembling programs by hand and punching hexcodes into a board......"

You translated you assembly language to machine language. ( Machine language is the only language a CPU can understand. )

Id check for transient suppress on the charger. I had a expensive powerbank that was charging be damaged ( as in no longer worked) by a power transient.

It actually alludes to a significant problem.

Solar generation is realitely cheap, much more storage is needed. Storage (overnight and also for several days) is challenging - one reason being its more expensive. Then there is the new transmission lines needed.

From Australlian ABC news...

The cost of the Snowy 2.0 pumped-hydro project is estimated to range from \(\$12\) billion to as high as \(\$42\) billion depending on the scope of costs included (such as direct construction, interest, and broader transmission). Originally announced in 2017 with a $2 billion price tag, the project has faced massive scale and logistical blowouts. The cost of the Snowy 2.0 pumped-hydro project is estimated to range from $12 billion to as high as $42 billion depending on the scope of costs included (such as direct construction, interest, and broader transmission).

That said , hydro systems have a LONG LIFESPAN - 100 YEARS ?

Batteries need to be replaced every X years.

So the ecomiomics of the comparisoan would need to be calculated ...

Its because they have NO economical way to store it to sell for night time usage.

WE need to learn to use computing resources more efficently. Use RAM more efficently.Todays software just squanders computing resources.- like RAM

Could also be incorrect materials used. than specified? Fake parts? or construction , used that not obvious

They would be , in their own way, competing against "each other"? , with different models to get the product to customer .

Side Note - VLF ( Very Low Frequency ) signals (3-30 kHz) propagate via surface wave or skywave, offering stable communication for submarines through saltwater.

This articale made me have recoolection of the EDUC 8 from about 1974 built with just TTL chips

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDUC-8

The EDUC-8 is an 8-bit bit-serial design with 32 to 256 bytes of RAM. The internal clock speed is 500 kHz, with an instruction speed of approximately 10 kHz,

First published in Electronics Australia in August 1974, the EDUC-8 was designed specifically for home construction by electronics hobbyists.

A look inside Turing’s notebooks shows his DIY approach

The co-founder 3D Realms, George Broussard, is reporting that Microsoft has started swinging the axe at Zenimax, the umbrella company that includes Bethesda (Fallout), ID (Quake), Arkane (Dishonored), Machine Games (Wolfenstein) and Zenimax Online (Elder Scrolls Online).

Seems to be the origianl collector of equipment ...?

https://de-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Walter_Ameling_...

Seems he was owner of computer muesuem that closed in 2009 .

The next link has MUCH MORE DETAIL about the closure ...

https://de-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Computermuseum_...

https://web-archive-org.translate.goog/web/20230601221853/ht...

2 pages of links on Google for the name "Prof. Dr.-Ing. Walter Ameling" - However do not know if actually same person mentioned in articale.. Some of them seem to match up .

The people from computer history muesuem would know moew. They would have asked this info witht hte person that reported the trove too them ...

  Maybe the professor ( or his legal representitive) instigated the donation to CHM???

WHy is US denying this?

The photo shows a cable ( with insulation ) that looks at least 4 inches thick ... (from a distance )

Very lucky not to have been killed by the high voltages or intense RF energy and or suffer severe burns / blindness ....

A runway change led to two 'terrifying' near misses at this Australian airport. Incredibaly lucky not to be a majoe accident

Having worked as a software configuration manager for several years ...

Yes who ever allowed it to be installed ....

Should have - before it was deployed ...

Should have got independent review of the code and documentation and available support. How maintanable to code was ? Document the dev environment , tools linkers ete etc

.... as a start

RE "...A few years ago there was a story where the single Amiga that ran an entire US school district's HVAC....."

https://web.archive.org/web/20150616052358/http://www.geek.c...

From cira ..2018 ...

Im not complaining, just observing its happening.

I have a paid account, and it went from 1TB to 200 GB included storage. I checked mine and just using 20GB for a several decades old account.

Free acounts went from 1TB to 20GB

I always did think the offered storage for the paid account, ... how it finacially worked for them...

This post - the title made me remember ... ( as a credit card is about the same size as a business card )

A Linux Business Card CD is a miniature, credit-card-sized optical disc containing a stripped-down, bootable Linux operating system. They hold around 50MB to 100MB of data and were highly popular in the early-to-mid 2000s

More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootable_business_card

RE"... title editorializes...." I agree. It seems I can not edit the title now.

Academic historians, collectors, gamers, and homebrew computer makers have all heightened interest in so-called retrocomputing, which we're going to broadly define as focused on creating a practical encounter with older systems, whether it be through emulators, replicas, original hardware, or hybrid approaches that combine the old and new.

Im shocked that in some cases there have been survivors of these attackes and then their has been another attack where these survivors have died .