decimation: asciilifeform: I carried that thing over many moves, finally decided lcds were good enough to replace it

decimation: I actually worked in a library in my youth, I quite enjoyed the spring keyboard and the 'peripheral' laser scanner

decimation: asciilifeform: makes me sad I ditched my 21 inch trinitron a few years ago, but it was a heavy bitch

decimation: asciilifeform: yeah I see it supports RS-422, that's neat. Would be useful for a home serial-terminal server

decimation: I would agree that finding one that spoke rs-422 would be neat

decimation: awhile ago I was looking for modern dumb-terminal, found here: http://geoffg.net/terminal.html

decimation: mircea_popescu: I guess I'm talking more about 'thrashing' - allocating and deallocating memory without care

decimation: I wish the hardware had garbage collection built-in like your dream, but the problem is that the von neumann world is going the other direction

decimation: asciilifeform: I find that they are useful for picking the 'low hanging fruit'

decimation: asciilifeform: I think with the new 'dwarf frames' & libunwind things have gotten better on linux

decimation: asciilifeform I suspect such hardware would not be cheap

decimation: chalbersma: denver would be logical. my point is that I suspect that usg employees are paid $$$ to write fantasy

decimation: I was thinking to myself this evening: what if Washington DC were washed into the sea tomorrow? usg's contingency plans would probably be to move the government west, in the middle of the kulaks they have been harassing for decades. I don't think that 'contingency usg' would survive as an entity that we would recognize.