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Al Fasoldt
Personal blog · technofileonline.com/textshardwarewriting
Al Fasoldt's personal blog at technofileonline.com covers hardware and writing. Since 2014, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Al Fasoldt's pages on Windows 95 and Stiletto for Win31, cassette tape transfers, the2steves, and a 1987 modem article. None of the comments judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
Modems have been around for a very long time. By the time the mid-80's rolled around, a 300-baud cuff modem was well within the range of a young kid who had some paper-route money, because that's what I did. And my family was not wealthy at all. [edit]- I found an article from 1987 talking about how amazingly fast (and cheap) the new 2400 baud modems were. I had to chuckle, as I still remember going from 300 (slow e…
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on “Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?”Submitted THOR-CD is a breakthrough even if it never makes it to the market (1988) as a story · 21 points
HN discussionWith the hotdog stand theme, no less! The only crack in the spell is the program launcher. Apparently, it's a left-click on the desktop to get a menu, like in the old Stiletto program for WIN31: http://www.technofileonline.com/texts/tec092098.html
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on “Make Linux look like Windows 95”Submitted Never Twice the Same Color: Time to Get Rid of NTSC (1989) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt's code like this that ends in a terminal choco-banana shake hang: http://www.technofileonline.com/texts/chocobanana.gif
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on “API design note: Beware of adding an "Other" enum value”"...which have no redeeming value outside of camp and irony" NO! Wrong! Sound quality: Cassettes can certainly sound amazing! Here's how to do a proper transfer: http://www.technofileonline.com/texts/howtotape.htm Further, the highs and lows get certain artefacts introduced through the format (tape compression, saturation) which can actually enhance the mix (smoothing out the highs, for instance). But even more impo…
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on “Vinyl record sales hit 18-year high”The blatant copying of the successful ideas of others to the maximum extent legally allowable under one's prevailing legal jurisdiction is an activity pursued profitably by people of many ethnic groups and nationalities. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/08/how-app-store-grifters-... http://mashable.com/2012/07/02/zynga-games-similar-to-others... http://www.technofileonline.com/texts/the2steves92.html http://en.wiki…
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on “Another Xiaomi Shocker”
