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New comment by gstrike in "AOL to discontinue dial-up internet"

gstrike — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:54:53 +0000

And before they started sending the free CDs they would send 3.5" floppies! Need a another floppy disk? It was just a phone call and format away! Shipped!

New comment by gstrike in "Show HN: A tool for creating chord charts on the go"

gstrike — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 14:44:59 +0000

Seems like NFC may be a nice way to share since musicians would most likely be physically close to each other. Congrats on shipping!

New comment by gstrike in "40 years later, a game for the ZX Spectrum will be again broadcast over FM radio"

gstrike — Wed, 08 May 2024 12:51:54 +0000

This is AWESOME! But, I absolutely love this time period of computing history.

It was around this time (late 70s), before storage was accessible to computer nerds, that the Kansas City Standard was developed. It provided a cheap and easy way to store "large" amounts of data on standard audio cassettes which were cheap and easy to come by!

It really opened up a lot of things! People no longer needed to retype their programs in to the computer every time they turned it on, it was now easy to share & copy data with friends, and it ALSO gave us the ability to broadcast programs over the radio (like this article is doing!).

The original Kansas City Standard was pretty slow (300 baud), but other standards were developed shortly after (CUTS [Bob Marsh] is one) which provided more speed (1200 baud) and even backward compatibility with KCS.

If anyone is interested in a the dirty details of how KCS all works, I did a series on it (https://youtu.be/6m7vDhscGzU). And am working on covering CUTS in the near future!

New comment by gstrike in "What made Apollo a success? (1971) [pdf]"

gstrike — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 18:00:55 +0000

*Destin

Running a Computer from a Heart Beat [video]

gstrike — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 13:40:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUT16_h7xBE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36654373

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New comment by gstrike in "Byte Magazine 1975-1995"

gstrike — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:43:11 +0000

I finally made an account to post this comment. But, I love BYTE magazine! It was such an amazing resource during it's time. I first dug into them for a project I've been working on (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m7vDhscGzU), and then I found myself looking at more. It truly captured something special. I wonder if there's anything that comes close these days.

If you spend the time to read through these older ones, you'll see they were doing something special. They'd often share programs and circuits in the magazine that others could recreate at home. I wonder how difficult it was to learn about computers, we have so many resources these days.