| cmaloney | Two of my presentations were accepted for Penguicon | 01:14 |
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| cmaloney | Woo woo! | 01:14 |
| cmaloney | And the release party is also on for Penguicon | 01:15 |
| Zimdale | \o/ | 01:17 |
| gamerchick02 | nice!! | 01:24 |
| gamerchick02 | congrats on the presentations | 01:24 |
| cmaloney | THank you. :) | 01:24 |
| Zimdale | What presentations are you doing? | 01:25 |
| cmaloney | INtroduction to debugging in Python | 01:26 |
| cmaloney | and The Rise and Sudden Fall of the Jupiter ACE Computer | 01:26 |
| Zimdale | ah cool | 01:28 |
| cmaloney | Yeah, wanted to do something a little more technical this year. | 01:29 |
| cmaloney | Plus the Intro to Debugging in Python could also be presented at PyOhio | 01:29 |
| rick_h | nice cmaloney! | 03:01 |
| cmaloney | rick_h: Thank you | 03:04 |
| jrwren | wtf is teh jupiter ace? | 03:19 |
| rick_h | heh, more a shooting star I guess | 03:20 |
| cmaloney | jrwren: It's a micro computer that ran Forth natively | 03:25 |
| cmaloney | done by two ex Sinclair employees | 03:25 |
| cmaloney | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace | 03:27 |
| jrwren | ah! i wiki'd it. i was going to say, looks like a sinclair | 03:27 |
| cmaloney | It's exceptionally rare. They made 8,000 units of the ACE and around 500 of the follow-up 4000 | 03:27 |
| cmaloney | sorry, 800 units of the 4000 | 03:28 |
| cmaloney | I remember seeng adverts for it in magazines and it fascinated me | 03:29 |
| cmaloney | but of course I never picked one up | 03:29 |
| jrwren | my old man came home with a sinclair from a garage sale... must have been '86, so I played with it a bit, but it was weak compared to the 800XL with which I was accustomed and with no docs... i was pretty stuck. | 03:39 |
| jrwren | sometime in '87 got the Amiga 1000 used, and that ended my time with 8bit ;) | 03:40 |
| cmaloney | heh | 03:43 |
| cmaloney | Yeah, the Sinclair was definitely underpowered | 03:43 |
| cmaloney | especially the ZX 80 / 81 | 03:43 |
| cmaloney | the Spectrum is a little better, but still quirky | 03:43 |
| cmaloney | And yeah, the Amiga was the true successor to the Atari 800 | 03:44 |
| cmaloney | Jay Miner / Joe Decuir are two of my heroes for what they eeked out of silicon | 03:45 |
| cmaloney | But sadly Chris Crawford's prediction that the Macintosh would do to Amiga what the Apple II did to the Atari 8-bit came true | 03:48 |
| cmaloney | It didn't help that Commodore couldn't find a CEO quite like Jack Tramiel. It also didn't help that they hired a charlatan in Mehdi Ali | 03:50 |
| jrwren | yeah, commodore really messed it up. | 04:18 |
| cmaloney | Good day | 15:27 |
| gamerchick02 | it's not bad. :) | 19:31 |
| gamerchick02 | some jerk's left their crap in the washing machine so i can't get my stuff started. >_< | 19:32 |
| jrwren | take it out and throw it on teh floor. :) | 19:47 |
| gamerchick02 | i'm about ready to | 20:03 |
| gamerchick02 | the people in this building are a bunch of jerks | 20:03 |
| gamerchick02 | at least Chelsea won and the wings are ahead 1-0. | 20:04 |
| rick_h | oh crap | 23:07 |
| rick_h | a | 23:07 |
| rick_h | band has moved into the garage across the street | 23:07 |
| rick_h | lol, drums, guitar, and some poorly played green day | 23:07 |
| jrwren | \m/ | 23:16 |
| jrwren | now you gotta join, with your guitar. | 23:16 |
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