Re: Cambridge Workstation woes - VMS 2691 PSU smoke

2017-07-30 Thread Guy Dawson via cctalk
The PSUs in the Acorn BBC Micros are we'll know for blowing caps. Replacing caps is a standard thing when bring any BBC Micro back to life. The StarDot forum is a good place to ask specifics about a Cambridge Workstation - http://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/ On 30 July 2017 at 17:28, Tony Duell v

Re: C, STL, primitive languages that live on and on ... Re: Does anyone here know Siemens STL?

2017-04-17 Thread Guy Dawson via cctalk
I think timing had a lot to do with C's success. It's a decent language and at the time powerful and flexible compared to other languages. Universities picked up UNIX and C and taught a lot of students. The went forth taking their skills with them. On 16 April 2017 at 01:56, Charles Dickman via c

Re: Scrounging - was Floating point routines for the 6809

2017-03-30 Thread Guy Dawson via cctalk
That time in an open lab at IBM Austin when a newly arrived fellow Brit announced that he had to go out and have a fag. On 30 March 2017 at 13:18, Peter Coghlan via cctalk wrote: > > > > Or the time an English co-worker related the story surrounding her > > initial job interval in the US. She d