@phoneboy It puts me in mind of the dashboard to my grandfather's first car. He kept in in his workshop. It was a large switch and an ampere meter. That's it (1929 Ford)
// @japchap @hybotics
@phoneboy I'm sure they'll get there eventually. In the meantime, when the BMW dies, I'm replacing it with an older Mercedes diesel. Something I can work on without needing a degree in astrophysics.
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@matigo …That Access application. Dear God. It had to be repaired constantly. There was a line of icons in a folder. All to the application. With a date and (Don't Use Anymore). There was one, current, good one.
"WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?"
This is what she (the gal that wrote it) said to do.
I sat down at my new desk, fired up my new computer and broke the champagne bottle on Visual Studio by writing it's replacement.
Then the Linux stuff happened, 16 years passed and now I am a grumpy old guy chatting on the Internet instead of working.
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@matigo I cultivated a lot of folks at Symbol and that eventually bought me Linux binaries and, eventually, the source code to their barcode driver. Also scored a build of the Resource Editor that actually worked on systems with more RAM than a typical Windows 3.1 machine.
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@matigo Same year this place was incorporated. Holy crapbuckets, do we have a branch I was unaware of?!
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@matigo Oh god. That's like the Access "application" that was in use here for the shipping department. When they finally twisted my arm to work here full time, I took one look at that thing and said, "It goes. Now."
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@matigo What sucks is the Palm developer community, even at the corporate level, was a devoted and involved bunch of folks. Best community I ever worked with.
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@phoneboy Once they come out with one that will do 300 miles at highway speed before charging is needed, I'll grab one. Not for environmental reasons. I like virtually flat torque curves and enjoy quiet. :)
// @japchap @hybotics
@matigo Yep. It's the crazed eyes. Great album though. Was crushed when their original singer left to pursue her opera career.
@matigo What's even more fun is being awake for three days straight, remembering, "Hey, I have some Palm code that did just this thing.It compiles! I can go home! I'll pick this up tommorrow" and come back in to find catastrophe because, "It's big endian, you idiot! Stop working for three day straight!"
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