Gregory's Server
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@dgar One of the great things about computers like that was all you had to do when a system locked up was power down, remove the disk and startup from the backup. One of the bad things about that was all file data was usuallly lost in that process, and very often the disk. In this cae, that's not a bad thing, though π   @dgar @PensiveTM There are more modern Wifi modems too (from a technical perspective I think they're more like text-based wifi terminals).   @dgar at least that computer is immune to Spectre and Meltdown! (I made this same hack as an ATINIT file for ProDOS for the Apple II. ;o)  @dgar it's the "waiting for blockchain" part of the message, that worries me most, given the raw power of the 6502 ... π β  @Wintermute_BBS @dgar Someone has written a bitcoin miner for the C64 https://github.com/ytmytm/c64-bitcoin-miner Video I saw this running on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGNaeLMS1ZI  @Wintermute_BBS @peter @dgar longer. It'll likely never find a block (and "likely" here means near certainty). Even if you joined a mining pool, the C64 contribution would be effectively 0% of hashes.   @dgar Jeepers! crypto chaining on a single thread 1MHz sub-scalar 8/16-bit CPU... What a carnival! |
@dgar Atari 2600 for security die-hards