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New comment by bitsavers in "20000 Gates and 20 MIPS [pdf]"

bitsavers — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:42:06 +0000

this was part of some research I did when i turned up the reference manual from mascor, ca. 1970, which is the missing link between IBM ACS and the ACS engineers that went to Amdahl.

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mascor

it was one of several large computer startups that failed in the 1970 recession

New comment by bitsavers in "IBM 3270 Information Display System: Color and Programmed Symbols (1979) [pdf]"

bitsavers — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:33:06 +0000

if you mean you couldn't find them on bitsavers, look under ibm/370/CICS

New comment by bitsavers in "IBM 3270 Information Display System: Color and Programmed Symbols (1979) [pdf]"

bitsavers — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:29:49 +0000

There are packages available that screen scrape 3270 streams and reformat them to export as html.

New comment by bitsavers in "CP/M 2.2, CP/M 3.0, CP/M-86, Concurrent CP/M-86 listings by Digital Research"

bitsavers — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:36:12 +0000

https://oldbytes.space/@bitsavers/114661628149581952

Curtis Yarvin's Plot Against America

bitsavers — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:04:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-profile

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44184305

Points: 289

# Comments: 424

New comment by bitsavers in "Convex Architecture Handbook 1984 [pdf]"

bitsavers — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 19:42:14 +0000

bitsavers hasn't auto-redirected in years, but it is random where the search engines will pull from a mirror.

New comment by bitsavers in "Bitsavers Software Archive (2022)"

bitsavers — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 23:23:40 +0000

Make documents and software available that no one else had. Some people like to fly under the Wikipedia self-promotion radar.

New comment by bitsavers in "The ChatGPT-fueled battle for search is bigger than Microsoft or Google"

bitsavers — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 18:12:10 +0000

"The company wants to reinvent community-based repositories of information, such as Quora or Wikipedia, using a chatbot to generate the entries instead of humans. "

DO NOT WANT!

New comment by bitsavers in "Elon Musk says his workload has reached 120 hours per week"

bitsavers — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 21:14:44 +0000

"His tenacity has led to superhuman-like accomplishments"

Was this written by ChatGPT? No human could possibly be that stupid.

New comment by bitsavers in "Google Layoffs: Why [laid off employees] are being called 'Golden 12K'"

bitsavers — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 23:48:07 +0000

The headline reads "Why employees FIRED by Sundar Pichai" Why the editing?

New comment by bitsavers in "Ask HN: Could layoffs be companies firing deadweight?"

bitsavers — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 16:56:38 +0000

"some of the higher ups at Salesforce told me they were pretty ticked off about how the employees seemed to have declined in engagement and productivity. "

I wonder, could it be that people are at their emotional wits end over what has happened to their lives since 2019?

New comment by bitsavers in "Ask HN: Could layoffs be companies firing deadweight?"

bitsavers — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 13:55:36 +0000

"I think companies need to fire deadweight "

I think companies, especially Google, should have thought about the implications of massive hiring associated with things like X, then shutting them down en mass creating a situation where you have staff playing musical chairs trying to find a place to land.

New comment by bitsavers in "Ask HN: Could layoffs be companies firing deadweight?"

bitsavers — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 13:12:23 +0000

"it is a great excuse to lay off the low performers"

It is a great excuse to get rid anyone who disagreed with corporate changes or mangage to anger anyone in the management chain. Most big companies just put you on 'special' projects, then if you don't get the hint to leave, bundle you into the layoff pool.

New comment by bitsavers in "Why we don't play the Emergency Alert System tone on TV"

bitsavers — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 01:16:27 +0000

EAS radio announcements go out in the Bay Area for flooding (at least they are supposed to) I know we were careful to do it for Santa Clara county at KFJC

New comment by bitsavers in "Why we don't play the Emergency Alert System tone on TV"

bitsavers — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 22:27:06 +0000

"The use of the sound is prohibited to prevent people becoming desensitized to something you should only hear in the most dire circumstances."

and then the "protect the children" people created Amber Alerts, which have done exactly that

New comment by bitsavers in "Encounter with the Woz (2006)"

bitsavers — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:28:29 +0000

He is known as "Woz" not "the Woz".

Today, his wife manages autographs and there is a charge for them.

New comment by bitsavers in "Apple beefs up smartphone services in ‘silent war’ against Google"

bitsavers — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 06:58:37 +0000

Controlled by Google

New comment by bitsavers in "Disassembly of the Asteroids arcade game firmware"

bitsavers — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 06:49:39 +0000

The actual source code is on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/asteroids-src

New comment by bitsavers in "Apple beefs up smartphone services in ‘silent war’ against Google"

bitsavers — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 02:52:23 +0000

Having a dualopoly in the smartphone space is not helpful or healthy

New comment by bitsavers in "Man worth $7.48B says Google should cut 28,000 more people after layoffs"

bitsavers — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 15:52:12 +0000

Sure, blame those nasty communists any time things appear in HN left of what is best for Fortune and the WSJ.