Reverie and the ignorance of youth
-
Just wrote out a cheque for £8088 Looked up wistfully and sighed. The whiskerless youth enquired what was up and I told him the value of the cheque and how I used to use 8088's and what a great little chip it was for the time. Unimpressed, he shrugged and said "Never 'eard of it". O Tempora O Mores
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
Haven't written a cheque in decades. No wonder he's never heard of it! ;P
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
-
Just wrote out a cheque for £8088 Looked up wistfully and sighed. The whiskerless youth enquired what was up and I told him the value of the cheque and how I used to use 8088's and what a great little chip it was for the time. Unimpressed, he shrugged and said "Never 'eard of it". O Tempora O Mores
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
You should have given them a check for p2, and told them to be grateful for the upgrade.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
-
Just wrote out a cheque for £8088 Looked up wistfully and sighed. The whiskerless youth enquired what was up and I told him the value of the cheque and how I used to use 8088's and what a great little chip it was for the time. Unimpressed, he shrugged and said "Never 'eard of it". O Tempora O Mores
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
Stew. Them's with salt. Them's without. :(
-
Steeling a line from Maurice Chevalier, "ah yes I remember it well!"
VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension Relax...We're all crazy it's not a competition!
-
Gizz wrote:
6502, 6809, all the way baby
Now you are talking *real* money here :cool: -- RP
-
Stew. Them's with salt. Them's without. :(
I had an 8088 machine too, but something else sticks in my mind. Many ... many years ago, our office was putting together a group purchase of 486 motherboards. I was waffling on spending the money. That Sunday, the opening hymn was on page 486. That made up my mind! I was on a mission from GOD!!! :laugh: And besides $486 is cheaper unless you get pick and demand $80486 !!! Footnote: There was a reason the boards were cheap... flaky DMA made the floppy drive useless. After putting up with non-sense for years I gave the POS away with the provision that it never be sold... which it was :confused: !!! The cows came home when the buyer complained to me about the board and I filled him in on the truth!!!
-
:thumbsup:
VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension Relax...We're all crazy it's not a competition!
-
Just wrote out a cheque for £8088 Looked up wistfully and sighed. The whiskerless youth enquired what was up and I told him the value of the cheque and how I used to use 8088's and what a great little chip it was for the time. Unimpressed, he shrugged and said "Never 'eard of it". O Tempora O Mores
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
youth is wasted on the young
-
Dalek Dave wrote:
Unimpressed, he shrugged and said "Never 'eard of it".
Maybe you need to write him a cheque for £68000... [update: s/check/cheque/]
Never moon a werewolf. - Harvey
:D $$$ "Hello Moto" $$$
-
Just wrote out a cheque for £8088 Looked up wistfully and sighed. The whiskerless youth enquired what was up and I told him the value of the cheque and how I used to use 8088's and what a great little chip it was for the time. Unimpressed, he shrugged and said "Never 'eard of it". O Tempora O Mores
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
Actually 8087 and the following x87 is what changed the computer world.
-
Dalek Dave wrote:
Unimpressed, he shrugged and said "Never 'eard of it".
Maybe you need to write him a cheque for £68000... [update: s/check/cheque/]
Never moon a werewolf. - Harvey
And you'll get 32 bits change.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
-
I had an 8088 machine too, but something else sticks in my mind. Many ... many years ago, our office was putting together a group purchase of 486 motherboards. I was waffling on spending the money. That Sunday, the opening hymn was on page 486. That made up my mind! I was on a mission from GOD!!! :laugh: And besides $486 is cheaper unless you get pick and demand $80486 !!! Footnote: There was a reason the boards were cheap... flaky DMA made the floppy drive useless. After putting up with non-sense for years I gave the POS away with the provision that it never be sold... which it was :confused: !!! The cows came home when the buyer complained to me about the board and I filled him in on the truth!!!
I was talking about the BBC production of 1984 (the 1954 version). It's available if you take a bit of a scout. Don't think that they ever made an 8084 chip, or even an ICL 1984. Could be wrong.
-
Just wrote out a cheque for £8088 Looked up wistfully and sighed. The whiskerless youth enquired what was up and I told him the value of the cheque and how I used to use 8088's and what a great little chip it was for the time. Unimpressed, he shrugged and said "Never 'eard of it". O Tempora O Mores
--------------------------------- Obscurum per obscurius. Ad astra per alas porci. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.