Re: Cloud computing (was Re: [Snorkack] Help with finding a Fic
I just got an A2000 that I'm upgrading and restoring - my first Amiga ever. I've been looking for some accessories and upgraded chips...I'd be interested in seeing what you've got that you might be
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danyetman@...
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#38599
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Re: Cloud computing (was Re: [Snorkack] Help with finding a Fic
The problem is that the decision makers in management don't understand the part about the "how much of your stuff" you are willing to give up, but do understand "can cut the IT department down to
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SlickRCBD
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Re: Cloud computing (was Re: [Snorkack] Help with finding a Fic
Where your data lives is a big dangerous thing. In higher ed and my state work, which data center in which country counts. Military research could only live on servers in the United States and it had
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fcewen00
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Re: Cloud computing (was Re: [Snorkack] Help with finding a Fic
Busy setting up my own piece of cloud (Devon Fog) here.
Bugger letting them bastidz get their sticky mitts on my database .... or
my writings.
*Alysson Rowan*
LinkedIn:
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AlyssonR
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Re: Cloud computing (was Re: [Snorkack] Help with finding a Fic
Mainframe and cloud are similar yet different in my mind. Cloud is more the bastard red headed of mainframe. The two things that mainframes need are space and people to keep an eye on it. Cloud is
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fcewen00
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Re: Cloud computing (was Re: [Snorkack] Help with finding a Fic
And today you now have the companies that promote their cloud devices.
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jj
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Re: Cloud computing (was Re: [Snorkack] Help with finding a Fic
Financial drones can't get their heads around the concept of
decentralisation of resources.
Hardly surprising, they're just beancounters, after all.
*Alysson Rowan*
LinkedIn:
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AlyssonR
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#38593
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Re: Cloud computing (was Re: [Snorkack] Help with finding a Fic
Seems like every University I have worked at had mainframe. University of Kentucky had a prime, a vax, a cray, and ibm. When I left the University of Georgia, they still had a mainframe for the
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fcewen00
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Re: Cloud computing (was Re: [Snorkack] Help with finding a Fic
Prime systems have ALL gone that way - they were just universally hated.
ICL mainframes were4 usually cannibalised to keep the peripherals going on
other sites.
IBM mainframes are just upgraded to
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AlyssonR
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Re: Cloud computing (was Re: [Snorkack] Help with finding a Fic
A dozen years ago or more, we got ahold of the Campus' Prime mainframe.
Rather than keeping it, we beat it to death with sledgehammers because we
hated it so much.
[email protected]> wrote:
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fcewen00
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Re: Cloud computing (was Re: [Snorkack] Help with finding a Fic
I still have an 80 column Hollerith card lying around. Ex:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Used_Punchcard_(5151286161).jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card
I had a chance to pick up an
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joey zoot <joeyzoot@...>
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Re: Book 4, The Dragons Return
Thank you. I enjoyed the series very much.
Vickie
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Victoria Wordeman
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Re: Book 4, The Dragons Return
I added a fourth book after I finished off the last chapter of Bobmin356's trilogy. In order to truly appreciate the full scope of the story, it's probably best to start with the first book:
The
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Spock
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Re: Cloud computing (was Re: [Snorkack] Help with finding a Fic
My oldies include a Dragon 32 and a PDP-11/23
*Alysson Rowan*
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alysson-rowan-68521692
Academia:
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AlyssonR
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Re: Cloud computing (was Re: [Snorkack] Help with finding a Fic
Walgreens used to scrap computers and let us take any components if we wanted them. Hard drives were the only stickler, but it could be managed if you DoD wiped them. However, I was able to get some
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SlickRCBD
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Re: Cloud computing (was Re: [Snorkack] Help with finding a Fic
While nowhere near as old as some of you folks, my collections contain (somewhere in our storage) is my 1984 Mac, a NeXT machine, and a B-box that I ¡. Purloined from Lexmark a lifetime ago. The
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fcewen00
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Re: Cloud computing (was Re: [Snorkack] Help with finding a Fic
I almost got to build an original Altair for my senior project in electronics. It didn't quite work out, and I ended up designing and building circuitry using discrete logic for a small vehicle that
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Steve Wheeler
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Re: Cloud computing (was Re: [Snorkack] Help with finding a Fic
I still have my SOL-20, which I built in 1974. S-100 buss & CP/M operating system. Had to write my own BIOS in assembler. Started with dual cassettes for storage, a monochrome monitor and 8K of RAM,
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Trefor Thomas
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#38582
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Re: Looking For A Ranma Fic
That pretty much sums it up for me as well. Nice to see I'm not the only
one!
Riothamus
wrote:
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Riothamus Pendragon
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#38581
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Re: Looking For A Ranma Fic
It's also quite good.
Also one of the rare stories to come back from a multi-year hiatus and actually be completed. I think it was on hiatus for about five years.
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SlickRCBD
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