Huh? Resold, perhaps, but CP/M was a product of Digital Research.

In fact, the PCPI Applicard did the same basic job, but did it with a far superior architecture, and far superior product specifications. Pretty much typical of the average Microsoft product.

I actually overclocked my Applicard. I upgraded it to a 10 MHz Z-80H part, upgraded the RAM to faster parts and replaced the crystal and oscillator chip. The result was a system that ran Turbo Pascal programs faster than the Compaq PCs in the school computer lab at the time.

The really nice part about the Applicard was that the host system was still running. It buffered keystrokes and print jobs and stuff in the background. It also assured you that you could abort/reset the Z-80 if it ever ran amok. The Softcard, by contrast, raised the INH line, freezing the 6502 while the Z-80 was running.

Meanwhile, the best a Softcard could do was 2 MHz because they tied it to the 6502 system timing.

I posit that it doesn't take nearly as much heat to keep the lenses frost/snow free as the old incandescent bulbs were generating. The LEDs may be consuming 10-15 watts, but they're outputting that energy as visible light, not waste heat. I suspect a 5 watt resistor dissipating 5 watts of pure heat would raise the temperature much more than the circuitry alone.

Who ever did?

It's easier than that - just add a 32 degree F thermistor and a 5 watt resistor in series.

Frost accumulates on the lights too.

Well, besides, you're not going to even lose that much energy efficiency with the heating coils - you only turn those on when it's cold out. So that's half the year right there where they won't be on.

I would actually leave it on under those circumstances as a preventative measure. Plus, just having it work off temperature is going to make the fix a lot cheaper.

The latter. Specifically, you've not considered frost build-up on the lens.

Um, you can't look for evidence of Taco being retarded here. Rather, in this instance, he's more clever than you. He's made a pun on "green" meaning energy efficient as opposed to literal color. The inefficient lights had a side effect of melting snow/frost build-up. That side effect was not considered when they were replaced with efficient ones. Thus the reason we grown-ups are here talking about it instead of, at least in your case, contemplating gay oral sex.

Because the context was that someone couldn't tell the difference between a green arrow and a green ball. Both would be in the same position, and could conceivably look the same when frosted over (enough).

Come on, a thermister set for 32 degrees F and a 5 watt resistor would probably do the trick. How much could that really cost extra?

The California high-speed rail situation is different. There's no problem using existing ROW through the central valley, nor between southern LA and San Diego. The big problem will be creating an entirely grade separated system through Los Angeles and between Merced and San Francisco. The freeways that you might use as you suggest don't have wide enough medians, nor are they straight and flat enough to be of use.

Exactly. We're in violent agreement. I was just pointing out why they don't bother to screen passengers boarding Amtrak. If you wanted to attack a train, boarding it with a bomb isn't the easy way to do it.

I think maybe you left one out, that changes things a bit.

I remember AMPS. I remember the tail end of those days and having my phone get cloned. Repeatedly. Gigantic hassle to deal with, even when the cell companies had figured out what was happening to them and had procedures in place for folks who got hit.

I haven't read TFA, but if the risk merely is disclosure of the communication, then fine, what you say is accurate. But if part of the risk includes the ability for an attacker to duplicate the complete credentials of someone's phone, then we're back to the cloning problem, with all of the billing hijinks that implies. Ugh.