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When are we going to get back to SciFi history?
I have very little interest in reliving the career from which I just retired. |
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Given the way this thread has drifted, perhaps if you started a thread called "Computer Nostalgia" that would mutate into a discussion of science fiction history.
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I'm a vi and vim fan. A couple years back I switched over to a Dvorak keyboard layout and, man, did that cause problems for me with vi. It seems that in my head, I had linked the commands to specific keys, not the letters. So when the letters all moved around the keyboard, taking the commands with them, my brain didn't make the swap.
Some changes were tragic. For instance, the Dvorak "D" is on the Qwerty "H". So I'm looking to go back, or left, a couple of characters and my fingers automatically go to the Qwerty "H" key. Which, of course, is now "D". If you know vi, then you know what happens instead of going backwards a few characters. |
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![]() "Asked IT for another 1024K of online-storage" Inserted her disk. CRT (as a computer terminal) Sort of reminds me of, Scotty and the Mouse" in one S.T. movie ![]() Other books have the same basic, future functions, but use vague terms and avoid tottally Dating the date written. Storage cube VDU, Terminal Flimsy (Avoids a specific type of hard copy) Then there are "Waldow's", where SF named a future product ![]() |
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Thank you for those links - I think... I know i will spend many hours browsing all that. Ah, well, that's what retirement is for, I guess. You get all the Karma I can give.
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Why, thank you!
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True History or True Story the first sf story ?
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Well, for my part, I was taught WATFIV FORTRAN.
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