Re: New WiFi adapter

On 2025-06-06 06:24, c186282 wrote:

On 6/5/25 7:08 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-06-05 01:06, c186282 wrote:

On 6/4/25 4:37 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:

On 2025-06-04 22:21, rbowman wrote:
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The 'write an editor' think could be traced to the programming books of
the day. They tended to use string handling in their examples and it
followed 'Oh, I can write an editor'.

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Borland Pascal (and Borland C I suppose) at some point came with a set of libraries that allowed to create menu based text applications, and one of the included objects was an editor, for at least 65K of text.
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I remember another set of libraries, that came with a thick book, that included the libraries to create an editor. I don't remember the name.

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   No Borland stuff yet when we got our PCs ... and
   we couldn't afford anything but the MS/IBM FORTRAN
   compiler for the stats people. So, I opened the
   Tek Ref manual and wrote my EdLin-killer in MASM.
   It was fun too :-)
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   No real internet back in '82 ... so you couldn't
   download other people's solutions. The few BBS
   systems were mostly Commodore/Atari stuff.

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I did not have a phone in the 80's, so neither a modem. But I lived at a student residence at Uni, so exchanging software via floppy was trivial ;-)

    Awwww ... you missed 300-baud comms !
    Think "slow enough to actually read as it comes in"  :-)

I think that on one visit home, the bank manager, learning what I was studying, gifted us with a modem for accessing an information system being promoted by the authorities, and one of the services it had was accessing the bank. It was called "Infovía".
It had a small speed uplink, and a faster speed downlink. I don't remember the figures, but could be 300/1200. Maybe less than 300?
<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfoV%C3%ADa>
Hum, it says created on 1995. Then maybe I'm remembering some earlier thing. Maybe Ibertex?
<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotex#En_Espa%C3%B1a>
It talks of the standard "CCITT V23 (1200/75)". Yeah, that speed could be it.

    I remember even slower standards. Hey "state of the art"
   way back then !
    LONG back, I used to log into CompuServe (still exists)
   for its own version of usenet (and it was good) using a
   dumb terminal hooked to a 300/1200 baud modem. "ATTD ...".
    I think the Compuserve Forums no longer exist. Too bad.
    The Compuserve Forums were GREAT. Then the corp was
   absorbed by AOL, then by Verizon ...... crap.
    Another one that is badly missed are the BYTE-mag
   forums. Extra-good for light to super-heavy tech.
   Want a video terminal starting with chips and
   resistors and solder ... that was where to go.

I remember typing ASM programs that came with perhaps PC-Magazine (ted.asm → ted.com). There were instructions for downloading it with a modem, but that would be an international phone call, even if I had a modem and a phone of my own.
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Cheers, Carlos.