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| rdl:
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| MK14:
Some of the contents, on that website is amazing though, a working PDP11/70 (and at least one other model, PDP11/45). Not only is it fully working, with big, flashing Leds/Bulbs and switches, which are movable and work. But it can load real life software, such as the Basic, and you can then run Basic programs (I believe, because it is a bit tricky to know how to use it). See here: https://skn.noip.me/pdp11/pdp11.html EDIT: To get Basic running: At boot prompt, type in ... boot rp2 31-OCT-86 ... Takes time to respond 11:12 ... Time ? yes ... <YES> ? yes ... <YES> ? <Return Key, after it stops displaying more stuff> 11,70 .... USER switch basic .... $ prompt should be showing, then after next <Return> Should now say "Ready" 10 print "Hello World!" 20 goto 10 run control + C .... To stop |
| VK3DRB:
Go use Microsoft's Sharepoint and Teams and you will never complain again. Nicknamed Scarepoint and Screams. Not overly busy, just woefully unintuitive. Screams works OK under the hood and is great for project teams chatting in place of email, but the usability and intuitiveness of Scarepoint is not much better than Steven Job's idiotic iTunes. iTunes has gone to the grave along with Jobs, both never to be resurrected and soon will be forgotten. Unless Microsoft overhauls Scarepoint, it will go the same way, probably before Gates has kicked the bucket. Microsoft's One Drive is also a piece of crap. This "Where Do You Want to Go Today?" mentality usually ends up in failure. |
| VK3DRB:
Digikey's website is cluttered and busy, but it works a treat. Only thing missing is hierarchical sorting such as availability and then price. That would be wonderful. But overall, they got it right. Mouser is OK, but a bit of a poor cousin to Digikey with their website. RS Components website is shocker and to a less extent Element 14. A respected electronics company named Altronics in Australia suffers because their website search is soooo slowwwwww. They must be hosting it from the Simpson Desert with a 300 baud fax modem tied to a CB radio operating on lower side band. Their competitor Jaycar is a much faster, but since they ripped off the inventor of the Arduino Experimenter's Kit, I avoid them like the plague; preferring Rockby or Altronics as local suppliers of choice despite their website shortcomings. Most of the Japanese component websites are poorly maintained and are missing data. Some of their datasheets lack critical information. There are exceptions of course. Almost all Chinese websites are pretty much a waste of time, except maybe PCB Way. Most of these manufacturers have no idea that a well designed and informative website that provides value-add will help their marketing enormously. China has a long way to go. Texas Instruments has one of the best websites around, especially with their Webench.... 10/10 for them. TI Direct is a big bonus! |
| VK3DRB:
--- Quote from: Zeyneb on September 04, 2020, 10:53:22 am ---Yeah sure that website looks terrible. In contrast but just as terrible are those large corporate websites. Examples: https://global.abb/group/en https://www.henkel.com/ They don't suck in appearance but in content. I've tried to use those websites to find some info on one of their products. 9 out of 10 cases when you enter their product number you don't get any results. The content that is there is all those awful vague marketing bla bla. --- End quote --- You forgot www.ibm.com. Full of marketing verbal diarrhoea, severely lacking in content. |
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