| What has been your most arcane technical skill? |
by run.dll |
2004-12-12 16:22:03 |
For instance, I was a lab TA for a third year digital circuits lab years ago, much of which involved low level programming of 8080 family microprocessors. (For you kiddies out there, this was followed (roughly speaking) by the 8086, 80286 80386, 80486, pentium ... - you can take it from there, you are probably using a successor right now). After two years of this, I could programme one of those little buggers right off a hex pad from the top of my head if the algorithm wasn't too complex.
Programming in hex ... assembler is for the weak |
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I'm still pretty good at DOS batch files | by SnappingTurtle | 2004-12-12 16:26:17 |
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Batch files aren't going anywhere. | by IronPIP | 2004-12-12 18:30:36 |
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Deliberately choosing | by phezult | 2004-12-12 16:29:27 |
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ooh - i did that with Outlook! | by spiffikins | 2004-12-12 17:57:38 |
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I worked with a guy who had a similar skill. | by AndyA | 2004-12-12 16:37:50 |
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and the 386sx, various math coprocessors, | by run.dll | 2004-12-12 16:47:43 |
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heh. | by voxwoman | 2004-12-12 17:56:14 |
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I can change my wallpaper in win95 | by funky_monkey | 2004-12-12 18:04:08 |
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Calculators? My old (ahem) slide rule | by run.dll | 2004-12-12 19:14:40 |
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I've never even *seen* a slide rule (n/t) | by funky_monkey | 2004-12-12 19:33:18 |
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For your edification: | by run.dll | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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that is an odd device. | by funky_monkey | 2004-12-12 22:31:40 |
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Batteries ? Batteries? Never seen a slide rule | by jedidiahstott | 2004-12-12 19:57:00 |
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Just a joke, although | by run.dll | 2004-12-12 20:07:01 |
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is there an echo in here? (n/t) | by run.dll | 2004-12-12 20:08:13 |
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is there an echo in here? (n/t) | by funky_monkey | 2004-12-12 22:47:00 |
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Just a joke, although | by run.dll | 2004-12-12 20:07:37 |
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In college, I read all the RFCs. | by IronPIP | 2004-12-12 18:25:16 |
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All ~3000 of them? Yikes. (n/t) | by nix | 2004-12-12 19:00:08 |
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Memorizing technical schematics | by DesertRat66 | 2004-12-12 18:29:24 |
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I suppose I have several | by inittab | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
