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advanced since I last really paid attention
Thursday, November 30 2017
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The first season of Halt and Catch Fire continues to impress me with its overall quality (at least in relation to how it has been reviewed and how I remembered it). But there are still annoyances galore. Why, for example, do all the characters move the phone from one ear to another once they realize who they're talking to? Nobody who actually uses a phone does that! Pay attention to how you use a phone. Which ear do you hold it to? Would you ever think of using the other one?
The nostalgia from that show continues to feed the nostalgia for primitive calculator technologies reawakened by that fortuitous Tibetan Center thrift store find. The focus has been on how calculator technology has advanced since I last really paid attention (circa 1982, when a calculator was the best I could do for having something programmable). It's been a special joy to see vintage Z-80 processors getting such heavy use in calculators built well into the 2000s, though I think I'd like Texas Instruments graphing calculators even more if in their hearts they had 65C02 microprocessors. I've also been exploring some related topics that have come up as I've been wading through, such as the distinction between non-structured and structured programming.
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