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Juha Autero (jautero@climatejustice.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 18:40:44 UTC Juha Autero
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@Canageek @clacke @lpwaterhouse So, anyone who has studied in university?

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Juha Autero (jautero@climatejustice.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 14:03:28 UTC Juha Autero
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- Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
@clacke I recently learned from Hackaday that Paderborn has former Nixdorf Computers headquarters that currently house world's largest computer museum. https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/visit-the-worlds-largest-computer-museum-the-heinz-nixdorf/
My first IT job was at Siemens-Nixdorf.
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1. Visit the World’s Largest Computer Museum: The Heinz Nixdorf
  
  from Robin Kearey
  
  Most stories in the history of computing took place in one of a small number of places. The wartime code-breaking effort in Bletchley Park led to Colossus, the first programmable electronic compute…
Juha Autero (jautero@climatejustice.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Mar-2022 13:43:33 UTC Juha Autero
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@ajroach42 Googling tells SupraDrive for Amiga was a HDD (and memory extension).

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Juha Autero (jautero@climatejustice.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Mar-2022 13:43:33 UTC Juha Autero
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@ajroach42 There were floptical drives and then there was SuperDisk LS-120. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDisk
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1. SuperDisk
  
  The SuperDisk LS-120 is a high-speed, high-capacity alternative to the 90 mm (3.5 in), 1.44 MB floppy disk. The SuperDisk hardware was created by 3M's storage products group Imation in 1997, with manufacturing chiefly by Matsushita. The SuperDisk had little success in North America; with Compaq, Gateway and Dell being three of only a few OEMs who supported it. It was more successful in Asia and Australia, where the second-generation SuperDisk LS-240 drive and disk was released. SuperDisk worldwide ceased manufacturing in 2003. History The design of the SuperDisk system came from an early 1990s project at Iomega. It is one of the last examples of floptical technology, where lasers are used to guide a magnetic head which is much smaller than those used in traditional floppy disk drives. Iomega orphaned the project around the time they decided to release the Zip drive in 1994. The idea eventually ended up at 3M, where the concept was refined and the design was licensed to established floppy drive makers Matsushita and Mitsubishi. Other companies involved in the development of SuperDisk...
Juha Autero (jautero@climatejustice.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Feb-2022 06:04:43 UTC Juha Autero
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@ajroach42 I blame Bill Gates. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
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1. Open Letter to Hobbyists
  
  The Open Letter to Hobbyists is a 1976 open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the rampant software piracy taking place in the hobbyist community, particularly with regard to his company's software. In the letter, Gates expressed frustration with most computer hobbyists who were using his company's Altair BASIC software without having paid for it. He asserted that such widespread unauthorized copying in effect discouraged developers from investing time and money in creating high-quality software. He cited the unfairness of gaining the benefits of software authors' time, effort, and capital without paying them as a rationale for refusing to publish the machine code for his company's flagship product, thereby making it available to lower-income hobbyists who could have borrowed such program listings from their local library and entered the program into their hobby computer by data entry. Altair BASIC In December 1974, Gates, a student at Harvard University, alongside Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who worked at Honeywell...
Juha Autero (jautero@climatejustice.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 12:58:14 UTC Juha Autero
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- Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
@clacke YouTube shows you a clip containing a phrase you googled previously. I wonder how that is possible? 🤔

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Juha Autero (jautero@climatejustice.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jan-2022 06:13:32 UTC Juha Autero
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- Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
@clacke I found about it from Star Trek Encyclopedia. There are many references to it. For example USS Excelsior from Star Trek IV: The Undiscovered Country has motto:"No matter where you go, there you are". Since I had no other way to see it, I ended up getting it on DVD.

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