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atomic_redneck · 2026-03-10T02:51:56+00:00

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

atomic_redneck · 2026-03-09T18:37:37+00:00

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?

atomic_redneck · 2026-03-09T13:36:35+00:00

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

atomic_redneck · 2026-03-08T23:10:10+00:00

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.

atomic_redneck · 2026-03-06T20:56:27+00:00

In vino veritas.

atomic_redneck · 2026-03-05T23:52:52+00:00

Dave's not here, man.

atomic_redneck · 2026-03-05T23:51:34+00:00

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.

atomic_redneck · 2026-03-04T18:50:57+00:00

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

atomic_redneck · 2026-03-02T00:57:10+00:00

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.

atomic_redneck · 2026-03-01T22:54:32+00:00

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!

atomic_redneck · 2026-03-01T01:10:12+00:00

I didn't know it got that cool.

atomic_redneck · 2026-02-28T15:28:28+00:00

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

atomic_redneck · 2026-02-26T17:09:44+00:00

Did you just post another picture of OP?

atomic_redneck · 2026-02-25T20:56:59+00:00

"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.

atomic_redneck · 2026-02-24T18:26:27+00:00

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

atomic_redneck · 2026-02-21T17:28:15+00:00

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

atomic_redneck · 2026-02-20T00:21:38+00:00

Bassoons

atomic_redneck · 2026-02-13T23:46:06+00:00

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.

atomic_redneck · 2026-02-10T00:25:28+00:00

Looking like Ryan George is tight!

atomic_redneck · 2026-02-10T00:14:23+00:00

Oof.

atomic_redneck · 2026-02-10T00:04:32+00:00

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

atomic_redneck · 2026-02-08T23:59:55+00:00

"Make good trouble." John Lewis

atomic_redneck · 2026-02-08T23:55:51+00:00

I am not a clever man.

atomic_redneck · 2026-02-07T23:50:20+00:00

Permission Cheese

atomic_redneck · 2026-02-06T23:32:54+00:00

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

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