Only the best for my PET!

Amber PET 2001, 2031, 8250, and the holy grail D9090!

It was the best compliment I ever got.  It was about 1995, and I was at Microsoft cranking out WindowsNT 3.51 features plus writing Task Manager and maintaining ZipFolders, and my boss’ boss, LeifP, took note.  

At the beginning of NT, he’d come over from AT&T and was one of…

A question about atheism:

Let's presume for a moment that the universe lacks an external creator and that it formed at the Big Bang and rolled forward until you have what we have today.

Since we are close to being able to fully simulate a consciousness (maybe 10 years?), even…

Thought you might enjoy a look at the source to Windows Task Manager (winmain)...

Before you freak out about the use of goto, it's a try-except pattern without the overhead of enabling exception handling... prove me wrong!

Code is 30 years old, so any bugs you find are…

Meanwhile, in Taormina... Not a big fan of crowds... so at 6' 2', I've learned a trick: stare blankly forward about 1 foot over people's heads and 98% of people will move out of your way 🙂.

I worked on MS-DOS, but not this one! Microsoft has open-sourced MS-DOS 4.00 on Github, but it might not be what you think it is.

MS-DOS 4.00 was an attempt at a multitasking MS-DOS, but OEMs weren't really interested, and it was only ever in limited release. So it's almost…

If you're tired of the YouTube screensaver coming up on AppleTV, set your AppleTV screensaver to 2 minutes. It will trigger first and 'be' the main screensaver.

Look ma, no beard!

Don't feel bad, not everyone can get into the U of R :-)

1969 Pontiac 2+2 Dash at Night

My 1969 Pontiac 2+2

Remember the Starbucks rules: Silver Macbook for screenplays, Black Macbook for coding.

My new book on the spectrum is done; just proofing! Now I need cool, famous people on the spectrum to read it and give me awesome cover comments :-)

Elon Musk perhaps?

If the cover image speaks to you, let me know if you'd review a copy. Here's the blurb:

'Whether you’ve…

Does the order trigger you?

Ironic that it's the only circular thing in the cabin. Stands out like a prom night pimple!

On the bright side, I understand it's temporary, but it allows them to resume deliveries.

The story of how adding ZIP support to Windows almost got me fired...

youtu.be/4j0yI41e0j4