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I started young. Did you ever hear about those teenage hackers recruited by Defense Contractors? That was me. $34/hour back during the Cold War days! I wish I knew just how awesome that was back then like I do now...

Yep! Xerox is where the mouse came from and I was the only person I knew who had their companion invention which was not adopted: The idea was to have one hand on the mouse and one hand on the keyboard. You played chords to make all the different keys and numbers. Once you get used to it, everyone ends up typing about 40 wpm regardless of whether you were a 10 wpm or 80 wpm typer to begin with. Here's part of the cheat sheet.

Kids these days... ? I meant go further back! (BTW - I started on mainframes before UNIX was "official" in 1970.) Gary (Kildall) borrowed heavily on UNIX's shells, pipes and command formats when he made Computer Program/Monitor (which became CP/M, then DOS, etc.). Most of the exact same syntax is still there today when you bring up the command prompt. At least we never had to use VI on Windows! (Though you could get a version of it if you really wanted to.) Side note: I helped port Advent to the HP-2000 in '76 and I should still have the source printed out in storage! A hollow voice says "Plugh!" ?

A Flock of Seagulls have always been my guilty pleasure band.

I had a nasty arm break in 1984 only a week after playing in my best gig to that date (opening for Blue Oyster Cult). It took months just to get my arm to straighten out and even more for the nerve to grow from the upper arm all the way down to my fingers. But, they DO grow back! Just slowly. Fortunately for you, it doesn't have to go too far so, with some physical therapy, you'll be moving your hand and fingers normally in the not-so-distant future. ?

Keep going. (And you probably shouldn't use wikipedia as a reference source! LOL!)

I'm shocked this thread hasn't been locked! All those Hertz, but where's the love??? ?

They all evolved from Unix.

Just a tip... Don't look up!

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I thought Dave was retired... ? (That's Dave a.k.a., "Bitflipper" for those of you are a bit slower on the uptake.)

Um, so what are Linux and Windows both based on again? ?

I used Linux servers to run game servers in the late 90's (Quake, Half-Life and Counter Strike). I had the second-most popular servers on the West Coast at one time (and was rated in the top-25 for Quake 1 players on a database of over 340,000 players - thank you low ping! ?). Other than that, I've been pretty much strictly DOS/Windows for decades. That said, .NET Core is now becoming stronger where the code you create can run on Windows, Apple or Linux so I'm guessing more stuff will be coming out soon.

Yep! Here's the back in both horizontal and vertical mode (you'll see that I kept the stand on for stability which flips to the side and I rest the bottom edge on a wrist rest in vertical mode). Hi-res back horizontal Hi-res back vertical I should have taken a picture of the front (maybe tomorrow?). Heck, an entire Emperor penguin will fit on the screen in life size! (And most of Kenny's dream girl Meredith - LOL!)

Who is only 14" taller!

Because I have a 40" 4k monitor that's set up to rotate into portrait mode? (I will try Reason for just that, well, reason!?)

I wonder if Meredith owns a pizza parlor with beer...

What I thought was funniest was him missing the fact that calling a key "A" was completely arbitrary too. None of the human organs resonate at 432 Hz. either (the heart, for example, is at 289 Hz., give or take a radiation period of a cesium atom). ?

Answer: Yep.

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. They both got down and played around and now they have a daughter?

Maybe this goes back to your confusion between penguins and midget nuns? ?

I've read a lot of interesting and borderline woo-woo reasons (hey, when your PhD work is in hypnotherapy, you run into tons of woo-woo!). Some were based on science like how plants (or animals) react to the same music played based on A equal to 432 vs. 440 and others referring to how everything is in vibration and, therefore, some things are more harmonic using 432 for A. That said, any equal temperament scale is going to have issues with some parts. I do find the whole area interesting.

He does look happy though, doesn't he? ?

Being able to play like David would be worth a lot more...