@0xabad1dea it is delightful “That was so long ago that RISC was still a distant dream.” Made my eye twitch like an old man who realises that his youth has become sufficiently history that the details have flattened out

@GossiTheDog “the Fediverse is just like Usenet and email” they say as though those ended well

@benno “everything will be equally late” or “possible is such an interesting word”

@zebratale @davemosk from scratch, I don’t know. But the major AuNZ banks all have COBOL code under heavy ongoing development

@digitalraven this came up in the first aid course when the instructor said “if they aren’t breathing and don’t have a pulse, what are they? Dead. Can anything you do make it worse than being dead? No, so you might as well try.”

@davemosk if only I’d known to short IBM on the strength of a blog post!

@dshan @davidgerard i regret to inform you that was around a quarter entry ago.

@voltagex @jpm @oscarjiminy I think that ProCam from Tinkerworks covers what you want. The manual focus may be handy for circuit boards as well.