Is the Daz website running on an Amiga?
Peter Wade
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I just had an error trying to update a post and the error message it gave me was a Guru Meditation!
The last time I saw Guru mediations on a computer was when my Amiga crashed. Have Daz taken their old Amiga out of a cupboard somewhere and decided to run their website on it?
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I'm fairly sure the forum software is running on a cluster of VIC-20s wth a Timex Sinclair as the master node and a TRS-80 handling networking tasks...
OMG... I understood all that.
We called them Sinclair ZX-80 and -81s ... but yeah ;)
Daz is running the forum on none of those...
But that does answer the question of what Cloudflare is using in its server farms.
That was my feeling. How ancient am I?
Do you really want an answer...if you can remember watching the moon landing on TV, live...then no you don't want that answered.
We still have a TRS-80... Somewhere...
I'm sorry to hear!
Point taken!
My first coding job for pay was on a DEC PDP-8e, in FORTRAN. Then we moved to DIBOL.. pity meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..
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I recall seeing it in a more modern context a few years ago, but don't recall where. Actually it may have been the DAZ site, but I'm not sure.
No, DAZ's website is running on a collection of Razzberry Pis connected with Legos. That really works - http://www.zdnet.com/article/build-your-own-supercomputer-out-of-raspberry-pi-boards/
Unfortunately, DAZ tried to extend the idea and their programmers are running entirely on razzberry jam and Eggos, so they tend to run around frantically for a few hours and then collapse in sugar comas for prolonged periods.
And I've still got a Vic-20. Now if we can just find a Sinclair (aka the only computer you can see though if you hold it up to a light) we can start a rival forum!
Why isn't this working??
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Nice.
I so wanted a Vic-20, but then the C64 came along, and the 1000 and... Eventually I ended up with and old Apple... Not the computer, just a wormy fruit.
Over the years many companies have traded and sold the old dry bones of Commodore, but somehow it's still around in one form or another... http://www.wired.com/2015/07/commodore-smartphone/
Chicken lips logo and all...
Watch it on TV? Yep, I watched it launch from out my college dorm room window and a few days later several of us gathered to watch the landing on a portable b/w TV that barely got reception any better than the images from the moon. But it's one of those moments in life where you know where you were when...
Sitting in grandpa's recliner...with my cousins and siblings...watching on the only color TV in the family, not that it mattered much.
Yeah, I still have my old Comodore 64, plus a spare, as well. An amazing machine and probably still the best value ever on a dollar for feature basis when compared to everything else that was on the market at the same time. 5 1/4 floppy discs and all. :)
Yeah, I still have my old Comodore 64, plus a spare, as well. An amazing machine and probably still the best value ever on a dollar for feature basis when compared to everything else that was on the market at the same time. 5 1/4 floppy discs and all. :)
Ah, ye Olde Computer. Yes, there was a time when monochrome LCD displays and pebbled gray plastic actually looked futuristic kids...
I still have an old Kaypro 2000. Solid steel case. Will stop a .38 round.......
http://www.oldcomputers.net/kaypro2000.html
....also have a SparcStation 2+, A SparcStation 5, an Indigo 2, and Indy 5000, and an O2.
I had s Sinclair, it was seriously modded with external 16k ram packs piggybacked. I coded games saved to to tape. In Boston area we even had Sinclair events in convention centers where a fleamarket of equipment would be for sale and software traded. The unit got tossed in the 90's I dont think I have any digital photos but maybe a slide exists in one of the family albums ;D
Any mainframe coders here from the 80's remember VAX Dungeon?
It's great to hear about all these old computers again. I had a ZX81 and a Spectrum, I'm in the UK so Timex had nothing to do with it, and a Commodore 64 and an Atari 400 (I was and still am a bit of a computer enthusiast). And then there was the Amiga, a computer with style. I haven't got a real Amiga anymore but I have got Amiga Forever which is a great emulator.
And I watched the first Moon Landing on live TV. I watched some of it at school, they thought it was a big enough event to interrupt lessons for a bit.
Commodore 64 was the mainstay of my childhood. We had stuff before and since, but that one has the most warm fuzzies. I remember going to a local computer store with my dad and renting games.
Some of the most creative games, too.
My brother was still using our old C64 to get online in the ... mid 90s? Which was nuts.
Boing!
No wonder iray will not work for you Anne