<wpwrak>
(envy) i wouldn't mind having a high-res 30" screen on my desk :) and tiltable 22" screens would also be sweet
<pcercuei>
nice
<kristianpaul>
i wouldn't either :)
<larsc>
way to much hassel if you ask me, you need to move your head to be able to switch from one screen to the other
<wpwrak>
if your vision is good enough, you can just move the eyes ;-)
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<larsc>
maybe use a fisheye lense ;)
<kristianpaul>
lol
<kristianpaul>
i'll be okay with one wide screen 1920x1080
<larsc>
I always wonder how we managed with 640x480
<wpwrak>
poorly :)
<kristianpaul>
well at my age 640x480 was big until i got teenage :p
<wpwrak>
started hacking right in the crib, eh ?
<wpwrak>
then, while the first word of other kids is "mama", yours must have been "make" :)
<kristianpaul>
well it was at the school (640x480)
<DocScrutinizer05>
sudo make me a sandwich
<kristianpaul>
no that much wpwrak
<kristianpaul>
i got my first home computer at the age of 15 i think
<larsc>
mother toungue: C
<larsc>
or if you grew up bilingual C and asm ;)
<kristianpaul>
i think it was a time i knew all pic16 asm instructions by memory
<DocScrutinizer05>
schematics
<kristianpaul>
i had to write the code in paper hehe
<DocScrutinizer05>
picWHAT? z80
<DocScrutinizer05>
well, yeah. pancil and eraser been the ultimate editing tools
<DocScrutinizer05>
pencil
<kristianpaul>
pic12c508 was first :)
<kristianpaul>
then 16f84
<kristianpaul>
afaik i just learnt some C back i university, i was caught by visual tools at first (good that i sold all those books already)
<kristianpaul>
but i have to learn some gnu when needed to compile the privative drive for my conexant modem back in corelinux :)
<larsc>
it was kind of a revelation when somebody handed me a CD with a C compiler on it
<pcercuei>
you guys are nerds :)
<kristianpaul>
we're humans sr :)
* lekernel
remembers his first turbo pascal on floppy disks. that was, oh, so much better than qbasic
<lekernel>
and a bit later st20 microcontroller programming with parallel port, UV eraser, DOS command-line assembler, no IDE, etc.
<wpwrak>
(turbo pascal, better) or Pascal/Z, on CP/M :)
<DocScrutinizer05>
CP/M \o/
<DocScrutinizer05>
with its 16 distibuished users aka fs on each disk
<DocScrutinizer05>
distinguished even
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<wpwrak>
DocScrutinizer05: that was great fun in the computer lab. you went to a newbie's machine, typed USER 2 (or whatever), then cleared the screen. when they came back, all their files were gone ;-)
<DocScrutinizer05>
and it had a really great editor: wordmaster
<wpwrak>
not "ed" ? b#t to display your text :)
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<DocScrutinizer05>
nah, wordmaster was already almost WYSIWYG
<viric>
I never programmed on CP/M :)
<DocScrutinizer05>
at least a fullscreen editor, with a command line with one letter commands that were really powerful
<DocScrutinizer05>
forth
<DocScrutinizer05>
is what I programmed there. A stripped/augmentted forth dialect for controlling video processor in realtime
<DocScrutinizer05>
which been quite awesome in the mid 80s
<DocScrutinizer05>
> >The videowall unit ranges from nin eto 256 26-inch monitors, which allow sconstruction of almost every possibl econfiguration. Its maximum visua lscreen area, combined with its minimu mdepth, permit the system to b eaccommodated in even the smalles tof display areas .Visual sources for the Delcom 25 6VideoWall can consist of playbac kfrom videotape or disk recorders, liv ecamera, off-air transmissions, cabl esatellite, or
<DocScrutinizer05>
computer graphic outputs .Delcom’s videowall has been used successfull yby retailers in Europe sinc e1984.<<
<DocScrutinizer05>
I contributed a little in development of that system
<DocScrutinizer05>
actually the lower limit not been nine but one screen, everything else would be nonsense
<DocScrutinizer05>
the maximum zoom-in factor however was 8*8 + overscan
<DocScrutinizer05>
and the forth snippets got triggered on video frame granularity by video timecode
<DocScrutinizer05>
err, maybe the max zoom factor been 16 or even 64, sorry
<DocScrutinizer05>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyapuKlBxAs 4:44 in the background. at 5:00 you can guess it been kinda fake since that wall actually only been 8*8, with "static" blue monitors around that all came from same videocard #65, iirc
<DocScrutinizer05>
ooh, maybe not, 5:40 shows proof for the opposite
<kanzure>
welcome to youtube.. use #t=284s instead of saying 4:44