They'll pay for it for their private collections, though.

https://www.artsy.net/feature/the-algorithm-auction

I took the city bus to kindergarten, alone, in the U.S. Things have changed here since, and we have given a name to this specific issue: "Stranger Danger". Neighbors discuss vans cruising town, looking to abduct their children. I've not seen any actual arrests and trials, though.

This event is not mythical. That is why the log entry says "First /actual/ case of a bug being found".

It's a humorous pointing out of "We've called them bugs for a long time, but this time it actually was a real, physical bug, and here it is - ha ha."

The myth is that people for some reason started thinking that was the first use of the word "bug" in this context.

I remember running live and then installing from Yggdrasil in the early 90s on 486 with 8MB RAM and 250MB hard disk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X

Really liked Knoppix for a lot of things, though. Used to take it to the county used-sales office and boot the PCs they were selling to test for functionality and Linux compatibility.

I was fortunate to go to a high school that got a single Apple ][+ in the science department for physics, and a grant to pay a student programmer to develop educational physics software. I was further fortunate to be the student programmer, which was amazing after spending the past few years punching FORTRAN IV and COBOL on cards using an IBM 029 and batching them to the school district's IBM 360 overnight.

From what I've seen, it's the other way around - computers are still fun for the old nerds.

I go to events like vintage computer festivals, and old folks are having a party with computers.

I look at younger people with computers, and for the most part they are just commodity tools for hosting apps and watching media. Even younger people describing what they are doing for fun with computers are building "home labs" of application hosting systems.

Yes, and the order is important.

Sending a carriage return and linefeed to a TTY 33 and then printing works fine. Doing them in the opposite order, if the carriage is to the right of the page, will result in a linefeed (platen rotation) happening quickly, then the carriage starting to move left to the beginning of the next line, and then the next printed character will print wherever the carriage happens to be at the time - not yet to the left. So you will be missing a character at the beginning of the line because it's in between the two lines in an unexpected column-ish.

I have run into (in my mind, "hipster") code where the programmer for some reason reversed the order of CR and LF.

How the world has changed, repeatedly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremvax

There was at least one non-identical ISA slot:

https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT_Syst... https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/understanding-pcxt-slot-8/

I used to have a couple of IBM EduQuest machines. The majority of the ISA slots were wrong-handed.

IBM was always special. :-) Aren't they the ones who invented the MCA bus abomination that required a floppy disk to configure each card?

You may want to read up on the history of dip switches, jumpers, and plug and play a little bit more.

That's exactly what happened in Ashburn. Loudoun County VA is currently meeting pretty much its entire operating budget with data center tax revenue, and property tax rates have been going down for years. More importantly, Loudoun went from being the fastest growing county in the US, borrowing money and building roads, schools, fire stations, etc. at a fierce clip, to a much more maintainable population growth curve (= more compatible with residential sprawl).