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philip964 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 05, 2019 5:48 pm https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... trial.html

36 people die in a fire from substandard unpermitted construction in a firetrap called the ghost ship.

The two people in charge of the mess, are found not guilty of manslaughter after pleading guilty. Guilty plea was thrown out by judge after relatives objected to 6 and 9 year sentences.

Jurors must have liked the face tattoos.

philip964 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 9:03 pm

WildBill wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:58 pm

Bitter Clinger wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2018 6:05 pm

Soccerdad1995 wrote:

RogueUSMC wrote:My first Computer had no hard drive...lol. The 5.25 inch floppies would hold 144kb of data unless you splurged on the high density ones that would hold 1.2 Mb...lol. I have web resolution images that won't fit on one of those...lol...

My very first computer was a Commador Vic 20. I bought an optional cassette drive that plugged into the computer so I could save the programs I wrote (in Basic). It used standard audio cassettes. That was sometime in the early to mid 1980's.

I had a Commodore 64. It was less useful than my TI programmable calculator that used the little tape strip memory cards for your applications routines.

I remember when the TI calculator came out. I think they sold for about $35. We bought several at work for our lab and they saved me a lot of work.
We used a lot of different solvents in the lab and I remember a couple times the plastic keys would melt and the card reader got stuck. At $35 each it wasn't
a big deal. That was when the HP-35 calculator cost around $300.

The first battery powered calculator that was moderately priced that I remember was a TI. It was $150. But it did square root. The HP-35 was a dream. I still have mine. Batteries are gone. But what a marvel it was.

My first computer was a Sinclair. 36x48 graphics I think, people would actually write games for it.
I think the price dropped to $150 and I snapped it up. Saving programs on the cassette was hit or miss. If it missed you had to type it line by line all over again. But it was a real computer!!!

Bitter Clinger wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2018 6:05 pm

Soccerdad1995 wrote:

RogueUSMC wrote:My first Computer had no hard drive...lol. The 5.25 inch floppies would hold 144kb of data unless you splurged on the high density ones that would hold 1.2 Mb...lol. I have web resolution images that won't fit on one of those...lol...

My very first computer was a Commador Vic 20. I bought an optional cassette drive that plugged into the computer so I could save the programs I wrote (in Basic). It used standard audio cassettes. That was sometime in the early to mid 1980's.

I had a Commodore 64. It was less useful than my TI programmable calculator that used the little tape strip memory cards for your applications routines.