Posts made by Tyche

@Misadventure
If I only had an AN/FSQ-7 emulator... nothing had more dials, lights and switches.
Plus it could run a time tunnel.

@Chime said in What Do You Collect?:

Really I collect a lot of other sorts of old code, and I'm fond of emulation software as a means of describing obsolete hardware. Primarily for me that means computer emulators, and ideally of antique mainframe and minicomputer type things. I had a blast (hey @Thenomain there's another one) setting up SIMH for PDP-10 and going through the old MIT-ITS tape archives from their evacuation off the 36bit platform. Cultural relevance here: PDP-10 and its quirky assembly language (with MIDAS assembler) was the original home of MUDDLE and Colossal Cave adventure and so on. Infocom wrote all their text adventures on a company PDP-10 with MUDDLE and related technologies; the Z-Machine VM target they made was to ease porting off that to home systems...

I didn't think about it as collecting, but have a ton of similar stuff from IBM mainframes that I can run on the Hercules 370/390 emulator. I have several ancient operating systems that it can run TOS, DOS/VSE, VM/370, MVT, OS/360, MVS SP. I ran OS/390 on it when I was an IBM partner for free, but at the $14K license fee today it's a might out of reach.

The most useful OS is MVS SP 3.8 which has the entire source code available and a bunch of now public domain compilers... ALGOL 68, COBOL, Watcom Fortran IV, RPG, XPL, PL/1, Stonybrook Pascal, Stanford BASIC. Now that I think of it, I probably collect compilers for everything. I also have got a library of CBT tapes (which was how mainframe systems programmers shared software) which have been transferred to disk. There are a handful of games on them, but one of them contains a version of Colossal Caverns that was written in Fortran for TSO/WYLBUR.

Someone had also developed a TCP stack for MVS SP 3.8 and one of these days I'm determined to write a mainframe mud in PL/1 or ALGOL for it.

@ThatGuyThere said in RL Anger:

Yes it would. Unless you are a member of law enforcement it is not your job to enforce laws.

While it's not your responsibility to enforce laws, one certainly can under many circumstances.
I made a citizens arrest at a WalMart, effectively by detaining a pair of shoplifters.
Usually under State law a citizen can only make a warrant-less arrest for a felony, but in some States that also includes misdemeanors. Someone in Virginia made a citizens arrest for a seat belt violation.

Mud code
Metal miniatures
Board wargames (english)
Downvotes
Dust

@Cupcake said in RL Anger:

Today, out of nowhere, a woman I have never seen before walks up to me in the middle of the store while he's with me on leash and goes into this lengthy explanation about how she's extremely allergic to dogs and so the only places she can go are restaurants and stores, and could I please stop bringing my dog to the store?

If you run into her again, tell her your dog has been certified as allergen free, gluten free, and peanut free.
If that doesn't deter her, start pointing at her and yell "Communist! communist!"
I'm also often at a loss for words when confronted and that usually works for me.
Most people will immediately turn tail and run from crazy.

@Insomnia said in RL Anger:

Hi doctor, it was sure nice to talk to you for the minute of attention you gave me, including the 3 times you tried to leave and I had to call you back. Also thanks for calling me a liar. I appreciate it.

Clearly I'm a drug seeker. Give me ALL the antibiotics!

And this is why drugs should be unregulated and legalized. I don't need to pay $300 to the gatekeeper so I can get antibiotics.

I think I learned two new terms today..."ship" and "shipper".
I get that it's not about FedEx.
A few years ago when the last LoTR movie came out someone was babbling about how they thought Samwise and Frodo should have gotten together. I asked, "What the hell are you talking about, they were together in most of the movie?" Then when it was explained they wanted to see them kissing and going at it, I went "Ackk!" Now if Peter Jackson did have Frodo and Samwise doing the nasty, I think I would have been "entitled" to a refund or at least a free bottle of eye bleach or a memory wipe.

Mad magazine cartoonist Jack Davis dies aged 91

@Arkandel said in RL things I love:

Not quite anger but... so this woman came into the men's locker room this morning. No one happened to be naked at the time but she just strolled in without saying a word, entered the bathroom, left the door half-open, peed (it was audible) then she walked out again.

We were kinda exchanging looks after, like... what just happened here? I guess maybe the girls' bathroom was occupied but still - and she never said a word, either.

This is illegal in North Carolina... well actually most everywhere, but especially in North Carolina.
I wouldn't get too worked up about it though, maybe she/he self identified as a guy that day.

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

@Tyche

Yes, but I never said I was fond of Ohio.

Well if Trump wins I hope he deports you to some third world hell hole... no not Canada, but some other country like Pittsburgh, Detroit or Quebec.

@Arkandel

My daughter took me to a concert yesterday.
We saw Cheap Trick, Joan Jett and Heart.
It was a good time.

@Usekh said in RL Anger:

I believe that there is a Wanker's Corner somewhere in the states as well.

I looked it up and it's in all the states. The address resolves to 4chan.org

@Ganymede said in RL Anger:

Any state that has to name its villages, towns, and cities with sexual terminology has nothing to truly offer.

Well Ohio does have a Ballville, Blue Ball, Cockland, Cocksgag, Morehead, Pee Pee and Gaysport.

@Arkandel I see your dick pic and raise it...

There was a trigglypuff in my shed!

@Ganymede said in Do you believe in paranormal things?:

So, your name is Luca?

No, Luca was Vega's bass player and actually lived on the first floor.
He kept everyone up all night with the noise, until he started "running into doors".
The incidents were totally twisted around into something else.

OMG, there's a charmander in my back yard!

@Kanye-Qwest said in Are MU* videogames:

No, there's no video component. Are you still drunk, this morning?

There is usually a video component today, but it's not required.
You can still play them on a teletype terminal.

A long time ago, sometime before the birth of Taylor Swift, I lived in a small apartment on the second floor. In the living room there was a large picture window, about four by six feet. One day a thunder storm had passed through and the sun was just coming out. I was sitting on the couch holding hands with an angel when all of a sudden we heard a pop and saw a bright blue ball of light appear in the room smack in the middle of the picture window. The ball was about the size of my fist. It flew about four feet outward in the air, and falling, bounced once on the floor. The second time it landed, it skittered around the floor hissing and changing directions multiple times. It got smaller and suddenly just vanished, leaving the smell of ozone in the air. This took all of two maybe three seconds. I asked the angel if she had done that, and she said yes. It was much later when I discovered that she was, not only not an angel, but a vicious lying demon. I later put the event down to a warning from a real angel. Either that, or some ridiculous thing called ball lightning.