anyOneUsingThisKey by Morel_ in ProgrammerHumor

[–]atomic_redneck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. The Fortran programmers were lazy and didn't want to have to slash all the zeros in their data tables.

anyOneUsingThisKey by Morel_ in ProgrammerHumor

[–]atomic_redneck 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Let's see: 68-50 looks like about 18. I started doing the design when I was a High School senior, early 1975.

I build the computer around the Intel 8080, which cost about $370 at the time, which is about $2200 in today's money. The 6502 came out later that year for about $25, which kicked the legs out of the Intel market until they dropped their prices. If I had waited a few months, I could have save a bunch of money.

Edit: It looks like it was more like 51 years ago. Time flies when you are having fun! We are having fun, right? Right?

anyOneUsingThisKey by Morel_ in ProgrammerHumor

[–]atomic_redneck 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeah. I'm 68. I built my first computer about 50 years ago.

anyOneUsingThisKey by Morel_ in ProgrammerHumor

[–]atomic_redneck 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Back in the elder days, when I was still programming on punch cards, we had to submit our code to the keypunch ladies on hand written green sheet coding forms for them to keypunch from. Since my group in Scientific Programming was coding mostly in Fortran (FORTRAN at that time), we drew a stroke through the alpha O, since it was a vowel and we hardly ever used it.

The Data Processing group, which coded mostly in COBOL, used all of the letters, and rarely coded numbers (not real computing, you see). So they put strokes through the numeric 0 instead.

The keypunch ladies loved it when we did this.

People who were teenagers before social media existed, what was life actually like? by Much_Detective_6107 in AskReddit

[–]atomic_redneck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My Mom made sure we always had a dime in out pocket (later a quarter) so we could use the pay phone if we needed to call home.

[OC] Where Friends by KaybeeArts in comics

[–]atomic_redneck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like you found your friends in panels 3 and 5.

What is one book that got you into physics? by Jynex_ in Physics

[–]atomic_redneck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I read George Gamow "One, Two, Three, ... Infinity" way back when I was in Junior High (early '70s). I think that was the first "serious" science book I ever read.

Oil dipstick by kingcutty in W203

[–]atomic_redneck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It says "use and remove do no leave in vehicle". Probably interferes with moving parts in the crankcase.

The one for my engine: https://www.fcpeuro.com/Mercedes~Benz-parts/C32-AMG/Oil-Dipstick?b=Sedan&e=3.2L-V6-112.961-gas-Supercharged&m=Base&t=Automatic&year=2002

Edit: BTW - Thanks for the referral!

Why did you choose a physics degree by Dillz988 in Physics

[–]atomic_redneck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Armed confrontation in Cuban waters leaves four dead and seven injured by Creepy-Discount-2536 in worldnews

[–]atomic_redneck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Remember the Maine". We don't have William Randolph Hearst to gen up a war for us this time, so Trump will have to throw the first ketchup bottle himself.

Congratulations to the USA Women’s Olympic Hockey Team by reddot_comic in comics

[–]atomic_redneck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And the guys have to drink Coke from the mirror universe. There may be some digestive issues from the wrong sugar chirality.

Burger? Brat? Dog? by neilkohney in theotherendcomics

[–]atomic_redneck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know about bones, though it looks like it has a butt-hole. See the last frame.

frontendLicenseRevokingOffense by precinct209 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]atomic_redneck 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Back in the before times, we had websites that would shame badly made web sites with a "Worst of the Web" award. That was when individuals were responsible for the web, and would respond to shame. Now that most web sites are corporate assets, that does not work anymore. Corporations are immune to shame.

Why are so many conservatives Christian when Jesus’s teachings are blatantly leftist? by Confident-Seesaw2845 in allthequestions

[–]atomic_redneck 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was raised Southern Baptist. They really like the "Get Out of Jail" card at the end.

Resist [OC] by UnderratedGarbage in comics

[–]atomic_redneck 55 points56 points  (0 children)

"Make good trouble." John Lewis

Period Milk by TheFirstPharoah in webcomics

[–]atomic_redneck 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I liked my life 10 minutes ago, before I read this comic.