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FLUB
... Anyone remember IBM OS2 Warp? Arguably a much better operating system than Windows but unfotunately unable to break the Microsoft grip. ...
Proper pre-emptive multitasking!
My first real programming job was for a small company that did industrial control type stuff. One thing I programmed was a pump controller for a rural water supply scheme. Sat on a water tank on a hill, and told the pumps down at the river how hard to work. There was a radio link back to the regional council so they could monitor it all.
486's were still very expensive then so they couldn't dedicate a PC, they wanted to still run Word and Excel * or whatever on it. "Well, you need OS/2 Warp" we said.
A few weeks after go-live they ring to complain it's stopped logging. "What did you change?" we ask. "Nothing!" they said.
Of course, "nothing" actually meant they didn't like OS/2 so had "only" installed Win 3.11 on the PC instead!
(* that was the damned if you do, damned if you don't part of OS/2 Warp. It could run "normal" Windows software. So few wrote anything that made you want OS/2.)
My old computer fun at the moment is messing with Commodore 64 stuff.
Anyone know the specs of the choke on the 9 VAC input? (One of my C-64's has a dodgy power circuit, and that's the one part I can't find on any schematic.)
Measure once, cut twice. Practice makes perfect.
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