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robarr commented on The Apple II color hack - How Wozniak created color from monochrome   ntsc-color-hack.lovable.a... · Posted by u/robarr
robarr · 4 months ago
How Steve Wozniak exploited TV timing to bring color to the Apple II
robarr commented on Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died    · Posted by u/AaronFriel
robarr · a year ago
I want to comment on something that seems important to me. In the third world, in countries where the internet arrived much later and where money was much scarcer, the effect of qmodem was quite long lasting and profitable for the tech savvy community. A PC and a modem were the support for many of the adventures and beginnings in computer science and in general to satisfy that insatiable curiosity for the computer revolution. Engineers working in big companies and using the resources of these and local volunteers installed BBS with Walnut Creek cds and other shareware CDs and gave access for the first time to that universe that we now take as evident and accessible from our phones. Without qmodem I would still be waiting for my copy of unarc!.

In my personal case, I want to also thank your father for pointing us thru it's company name to the book and movie "the forbin project" :-). In our present of promises of supercomputing AIs, maybe we should all read the book or watch the movie.

robarr commented on A Little History of the Anchovy   engelsbergideas.com/revie... · Posted by u/samclemens
robarr · a year ago
Peruvian anchovy, the anchoveta, had and still has aprofound impact on peruvian economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruvian_anchoveta

By the way of Wikipedia:

"The anchoveta has been characterized as "the most heavily exploited fish in world history"

https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/183775/102904317

robarr commented on Why is Chile so long?   unchartedterritories.toma... · Posted by u/trevin
hinkley · a year ago
I’m told that prior to industrialization there were areas along the Andes (in Peru for sure, presumably Chile as well) where you rarely if ever met the tribes living uphill or downhill from you. It was way easier to travel north and south.
robarr · a year ago
Quite the contrary, the management of the different ecological floors was the specialty of the inhabitants of the Andes, even now. The same community owns and uses land at different altitudes, which can range from 1000 to 4000 meters above sea level. This generated an economy based on the exchange of goods along vertical lines.

https://haubooks.org/reciprocity-and-redistribution/

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/obituaries/24murra.html

robarr commented on Apple Vision Pro review   wsj.com/tech/apple-vision... · Posted by u/fortran77
khazhoux · 2 years ago
If anyone does not understand the reference, "Slashdot" is a link-sharing site oriented at tech news, that was popular many years ago as HN is today.

https://slashdot.org

robarr · 2 years ago
Was it not a mailing list before a site?

I let the next guy explain what a mailing list was.

u/robarr

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