August 2005

A (Pre) Microsoft Story

August 20, 2005

Back in the days BM (Before Microsoft), I worked for a small company in Seattle called International Entry Systems, Inc, or IESI. They manufactured Z-80 based data entry terminals that were, basically, a single line display, a keyboard and a data cassette recorder. All software was loaded from tape. (This was 1980, after all.) One [...]

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Finished: Crossroads of Twilight (Wheel of Time, Book 10)

August 19, 2005

The Amazon reviews are scathing. I can understand. I started the series when I expected only 10 installments. There’s going to be more? Yikes. But I do think I need to see how the story ends. Sigh. Finishing 10 implies that I finished this one earlier: (Aside: rather than try to keep this previous post [...]

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The Questions You Didn’t See

August 10, 2005

A sampling of some of the funny, odd or not-so-technical questions I’ve received in the last year on Ask Leo!. All questions are complete and unedited – this is exactly the way I get ‘em, folks. The “answers” here are what I wish I could reply with. (I typically do not respond to these types [...]

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