[01:14] <cmaloney> Two of my presentations were accepted for Penguicon
[01:14] <cmaloney> Woo woo!
[01:15] <cmaloney> And the release party is also on for Penguicon
[01:17] <Zimdale> \o/
[01:24] <gamerchick02> nice!!
[01:24] <gamerchick02> congrats on the presentations
[01:24] <cmaloney> THank you. :)
[01:25] <Zimdale> What presentations are you doing?
[01:26] <cmaloney> INtroduction to debugging in Python
[01:26] <cmaloney> and The Rise and Sudden Fall of the Jupiter ACE Computer
[01:28] <Zimdale> ah cool
[01:29] <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
[03:01] <rick_h> nice cmaloney!
[03:04] <cmaloney> rick_h: Thank you
[03:19] <jrwren> wtf is teh jupiter ace?
[03:20] <rick_h> heh, more a shooting star I guess
[03:25] <cmaloney> jrwren: It's a micro computer that ran Forth natively
[03:25] <cmaloney> done by two ex Sinclair employees
[03:27] <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
[03:28] <cmaloney> sorry, 800 units of the 4000
[03:29] <cmaloney> I remember seeng adverts for it in magazines and it fascinated me
[03:29] <cmaloney> but of course I never picked one up
[03:39] <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.
[03:40] <jrwren> sometime in '87 got the Amiga 1000 used, and that ended my time with 8bit ;)
[03:43] <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
[03:44] <cmaloney> And yeah, the Amiga was the true successor to the Atari 800
[03:45] <cmaloney> Jay Miner / Joe Decuir are two of my heroes for what they eeked out of silicon
[03:48] <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
[03:50] <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
[04:18] <jrwren> yeah, commodore really messed it up.
[15:27] <cmaloney> Good day
[19:31] <gamerchick02> it's not bad. :)
[19:32] <gamerchick02> some jerk's left their crap in the washing machine so i can't get my stuff started. >_<
[19:47] <jrwren> take it out and throw it on teh floor. :)
[20:03] <gamerchick02> i'm about ready to
[20:03] <gamerchick02> the people in this building are a bunch of jerks
[20:04] <gamerchick02> at least Chelsea won and the wings are ahead 1-0.
[23:07] <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
[23:16] <jrwren> \m/
[23:16] <jrwren> now you gotta join, with your guitar.