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Mick
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Thirty years systems programming in Assembler and C. Now noodling around with Ruby on Rails and 3D printing.

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What computer system is this from 1984 Doctor Who?
Mar 4, 2017
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History behind the text column restriction
Jun 28, 2018
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What BBC Microcomputer features were requested specifically by BBC engineers?
Mar 4, 2017
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How did people use ed?
Jan 4, 2018
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Adjusting focus for old CRT monitors
Mar 25, 2017
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What operating systems allowed arbitrarily-sized disk blocks?
Mar 16, 2017
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How did dusty deck Fortran handle overflow?
Jun 29, 2020
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Does UNIX V7 have a built-in file editor?
Apr 21, 2017
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Bakelite as data storage
Sep 28, 2020
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Did computer games for Commodore 64 really take "25 minutes" to load "if everything went alright"?
Oct 29, 2020

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Is log(n!) = Θ(n·log(n))?
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Proper term for hiring fewer people than required
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What is Tom Bombadil's importance in The Lord of the Rings?
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Unusual meaning of "wet"
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Word to describe an absorbing activity which causes one to fail to notice the passage of large amounts of time