On Tuesday 10 January 2017 08:10:29 Alan Corey wrote: > On 1/10/17, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.debian-...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: > > On 09/01/17 22:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Monday 09 January 2017 10:52:46 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > >>> Logitech should have stuck to selling compilers. > > And Microsoft should have stuck to selling GWBASIC > > Actually I never had a lot of trouble with Logitech stuff, most of my > mice are Logitech. I still use one of the "Mouse Man" wedge-shaped > ergonomic mice from the late 90s, PS/2. I had 2 or 3 parallel port > webcams, maybe by them, their software was terrible. I didn't know > they had compilers. > > The > xset s noblank s off -dpms > that was posted here has kept my monitor on for a couple days, maybe > I'll resurrect xscreensaver. I wanted the monitor to turn off, > including the backlight though. > > >> Thats a different company I believe. > > > > Same company, I was their de-facto UK tech support for a while. Long > > predated Linux of course (in a nod to the fact that we're wandering > > way OT). > > > >>> I want an APL keyboard. One of those controlling CAM kit would be > >>> decidedly cool :-) > >> > >> APL? Not fam with that acronym.
But now nearly 40 yo memories are floating up. The IBM 5150 spoke APL, where you could backspace over a command typed, and by pressing a special key, you could over print the character and make it a different command as it then showed the 2 characters over the top of each other in one character space. It had IIRC a 5" electrostaticly deflected oscilloscope tube for a display. Even farther off-topic, I wonder what a working one of those is worth today... > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:APL-keybd2.svg > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_%28programming_language%29#Syntax > > > > Weird by today's standards, but has its uses and there's > > implementations that run on Debian ARM etc. > > > > -- > > Mark Morgan Lloyd > > markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk > > > > [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or > > colleagues] Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
