[Xastir] Viewing real-time Aircraft and Ships w/Xastir

[Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate]

I think I still have all 11 5-1/4 in floppies holding my first attempt to
install Linux.

On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 9:15 PM Ken Koster <n7ipb at wetnet.net> wrote:

> On Friday, September 21, 2018 2:13:37 PM PDT Tom Russo wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 02:11:37PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2018, Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate wrote:
> > > > Some old and really bad nightmares still begin with, "It's just
> Perl".
> > > > I'll
> > > > see about loading it up, and adding a dongle. Should be
> straightforward
> > > > at
> > > > home.
> > >
> > > There _may_ be others on the Xastir list that know a little Perl and
> can
> > > help...
> > >
> > > Perl: The first write-only language?
> >
> > Hah, as if.  You must never have written a program in APL.  And you
> should
> > have been there in the days of TECO (TECO macros didn't look like
> programs,
> > they looked like line noise).
>
> Some of us were and the infamous TECO VT100 macro comes to mind.
>
> And then there was the TECO macro I did that allowed other lab denizens to
> select
> from a menu and program proms on the serially connected Data I/O
> programmer.
>
> Topped off by the control menu that purported to restrict access to
> various games
> on the system so management had the illusion that engineers couldn't play
> during
> business ours.
>
> Those were the days...I think I even have a copy for Linux somewhere
> around here.
> If I distract myself enough I think I can resist installing it again.
>
> --
> Ken - N7IPB
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> and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”
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And little whorls have lesser whorls,
And so on to viscosity.”
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