The scope of ancient and antqiue computers was broader than what I owned back in the early 1980s. If you want to relive the past, then you’ll have to explore options other than the Radio Shack and IBM computers I used.
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Want to relive digital life when a 180KB floppy disk was the most storage you’d ever need? Why, eBay stands ready and willing to sate your 1980 computer desires.
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A byte was once a straightforward thing. A KB was 1,024 bytes and the world continued to spin on its access. Not so anymore.
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The joke goes that 2 + 2 = 5 for sufficiently large values of 2. It’s not really a joke, though; you’re computer can prove it for you.
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Are most of the people who use Facebook really that gullible, or is it just my little clutch of Facebook friends?
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A lot of hay was made that Apple’s new iPad doesn’t support Adobe Flash in its web browser. Steve Jobs commented off-hand that the reason for the lack of support was all the bugs in Flash. I think he’s on to something.
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A Facebook friend recently posed this question:

Need advice: Is it worth the $200 and the pain in rear to switch from Vista to 7 when you have dial up? Comments please.

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Google makes a ton of money, basically owning all of the Internet’s advertising. Still, we get a lot of free stuff for that money.
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Here I go! Off the deep end! Prepare to flee in terror from this blog post, because I’m going to be talking about how programs work on a computer. Not how to work a program, but what happens when the operating system takes a program from the computer’s mass storage system and tosses that code into computer memory.
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It appears that I’ve plugged the leak that was causing this blog to be hacked. I hope.
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