[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

2025-04-04 Thread ben via cctalk
On 2025-04-02 6:10 p.m., Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: Except that no one ever wrote code like it offered me cause it was just plain wrong and wouldn't work. I write code like that all the time:) bill Have the tools really improved all that much to write better code or debug it since t

[cctalk] Re: FD-55B head loose

2025-04-04 Thread Tony Duell via cctalk
On Sun, Mar 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > Were all of the FG (and even the G) dual speed, or did some rely on a > controller supporting a 300K bps transfer? I thought GF meant it combined the capabilities of G and F drives and thus could handle 'normal' and 'high' density. W

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

2025-04-04 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 4/4/25 12:55, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: As for PAs, my regular doctor was out of town, I had a rash on my side and went to an urgent care place, the PA there totally misdiagnosed it, and it got worse.  Then, I went to a dermatologist, he took a sample of scrapings off the rash, diagnose

[cctalk] DCK11 doc

2025-04-04 Thread dstalkowski--- via cctalk
I have a scan of the following: LSI-11 BUS INTERFAE CHIPKIT/PROGRAM CONTROL DCK11-AA,-AC October, 1977 Phil Champaigne Logic Products MR2-2/X6645 If someone is interested in a copy, preferably someone who can host it, please contact me. don

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

2025-04-04 Thread Michael Huff via cctalk
I've played with using ChatGPT to write code for older things (quickbasic, 1990's C++, stuff like that). In my experience it gets confused and gives you snippets that has features from later, modern languages. I'm far from an expert but it feels to me like it gets confused during processing about w

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

2025-04-04 Thread ben via cctalk
On 2025-04-04 8:37 p.m., Michael Huff via cctalk wrote: I've played with using ChatGPT to write code for older things (quickbasic, 1990's C++, stuff like that). In my experience it gets confused and gives you snippets that has features from later, modern languages. I'm far from an expert but it f

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

2025-04-04 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 4/4/25 20:15, ben via cctalk wrote: > I thought FORTRAN IV was the portable programing language. > They have talked about having smarter high level programing languages > for years. Has that gotten anywhere? Back in the heyday of FORTRAN, the universe of architectures was a lot more diverse an

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

2025-04-04 Thread John Foust via cctalk
At 09:29 PM 4/3/2025, Doc Shipley via cctalk wrote: >The short version is that ChatGPT works well for writing functions and >snippets - small, mostly linear pieces - but not complex processes. And more >importantly, you have to be able to write what you're asking for, AND VALIDATE >the output.

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

2025-04-04 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 4/1/2025 11:59 PM, b...@tds.net wrote: I did some programming on the TRS-80 Model 4 back in the 80's so it has been a long time. I did add some functionality using machine code. I had a screen that displayed options to the user but took a long time to print it. So the first time it prin

[cctalk] Westhead acosiates

2025-04-04 Thread Adrian Stoness via cctalk
Curious if there's anything in the community on them They made a cpm based system that was used in HMI control room settings in the 80's I've got the manuals for their pdm 800 series along with backup of the software on 8in floppy from the mclelan mine in Lynn lake mb. Love to find a system the on

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

2025-04-04 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> As for PAs, my regular doctor was out of town, I had a rash on my side and > went > to an urgent care place, the PA there totally misdiagnosed it, and it got > worse.  Then, I went to a dermatologist, he took a sample of scrapings off the > rash, diagnosed it correctly, and the prescription so

[cctalk] Re: Altair BASIC Source Code released

2025-04-04 Thread Alan Frisbie via cctalk
Bob Grabau write: > As my memory serves, there was a class given by the Southern > California Computer Society (SCCS) in which the disassembled the > Altair Basic (not sure if it was the 4k or 8k version) and used the > output of that disassembly for the class. There was a guy who had the > comp

[cctalk] Re: Altair BASIC Source Code released

2025-04-04 Thread Bob Grabau via cctalk
As my memory serves, there was a class given by the Southern California Computer Society (SCCS) in which the disassembled the Altair Basic (not sure if it was the 4k or 8k version) and used the output of that disassembly for the class. There was a guy who had the complete annotated (by the clas

[cctalk] Re: Altair BASIC Source Code released

2025-04-04 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
On 4/4/2025 2:00 PM, Alan Frisbie via cctalk wrote: Bob Grabau write: > As my memory serves, there was a class given by the Southern > California Computer Society (SCCS) in which the disassembled the > Altair Basic (not sure if it was the 4k or 8k version) and used the > output of that d

[cctalk] Re: Why I am not worried about AI taking over the world!

2025-04-04 Thread Yeechang Lee via cctalk
Tony Duell says: > The CoCo 3 manual does not say TRS-80 on it through By then the computers decided that "TRS-80"/"Radio Shack" was a liability, so called new computers "Tandy". Thus Tandy 1000, Tandy 6000 (succeeding the TRS-80 Model 16B and Model 12), and Tandy Color Computer 3. -- geo:37.78

[cctalk] Food Truck at VCF East 2025

2025-04-04 Thread Jeffrey Brace via cctalk
VCF East has a food truck this year! Boardwalk Bites agreed to have a truck there. Besides the long lines at Consignment, on-campus food had the biggest complaints from last year's survey. We hope that this solves this problem. MENU: BREAKFAST (Served from 7:30 am) Pork, Egg and Cheese Roll Egg