[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

Thanks for pointing out the AVG for Linux. That's a good find.

Be advised that you have to add the Dazuko module to the kernel to get the resident scanner to work.

My only computer course was back in 1972. We had an old DEC PDP-8 mainframe. Still had punch card readers, and that yellow punchtape to enter programmes. The teletypes didn't even have monitors. Output was typed to tractor fed paper.

Because of line voltage fluxuations, the system would crash all of the time. Very frustrating.

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

i miss DEC. You could always tell when bad economic times were coming by watching what their execs were doing.

If the band Boston came out with a new album (those guys WERE execs at DEC), the economy was headed for trouble.

i guess that they’re getting a little too old for that foolishness, or they’re too rich to care these days.

[Myrddin]

I still recall the joys of entering bootstrap code in octal on an HP2100 computer. I was getting fair proficient at getting 3 fingers to drop in the "bits" in 7 groups of 3 bits for each word. That computer was an early Magnavox satellite navigation system on a tuna boat. That was 1977. A year later, they put out a BIG improvement based on an 8080 microprocessor. The boards were priced around $30k. I was one of two field service engineers in southern CA for those systems. Today's GPS systems run circles around those early attempts. The high end box included 150 MHz, 400 Mhz for satellite and an Omega receiver. Satellite passes occurred about every 20 minutes.