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Then they trip balls, see their life flash before their eyes, and become a space baby. Could be worse.

Correct. We’ve replaced all our incandescent bulbs except for two 60w contractor bulbs in the a hallway that were installed when the house was built 18 years ago. All of the original higher wattage incandescents died within the first couple of years.

The C64 had a notoriously garbage power supply that would eventually cook the machine regardless of how clean your line power is.

UUCP. Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.

A large green pushbutton with a Molly guard labeled “OK” I found in a scrap pile behind the physics building.

Nonfiction oldies that still hold up: The Cuckoo’s Egg by Clifford Stoll and The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder.

Thinkpad intensifies

Clbuttic.