Are you old enough to do these things?

Inspeqtor wrote in post #18904745
I am 69 years young, and I am also giving you the blank look!

69 is not so old. Heck, I've got underwear older than you!

icopus wrote in post #18904956
Wasn't the Commodore Amiga 2000 capable of creating midi music files? There used to be a website where people uploaded their homemade midi music files. Many were actually quite good and listenable.

Pretty much any computer of that era could do MIDI files, the Amiga required an added MIDI interface, Atari ST computers came with MIDI built in. I have a MIDI interface for my modern computers but don’t really play around with music anymore, fingers don’t work that well anymore. Still have a cheap MIDI keyboard and a Yamaha tone generator.

OhLook wrote in post #18904949
Thanks! There sure are a lot of computer people here. Did you guys know that tech would become such a big thing when you went into it? My history was different. I majored in humanities and went to work editing and proofreading (also, less relevantly, illustrating). This work could have been called by a similar name: it was a language-control job.

For most of us, the computer is more of the tool use to get other work done, and all that stuff is behind the scenes. There's a few of us who straddle that line. If there is no tool that does the job, we'll make one, or modify an existing tool. I'm actually a chemist, but I work in lab equipment, so need to know enough about computers to know the equipment is running the experiment correctly.

Proofreaders are very important and have unique skills. I didn't know how poor a writer I was, until they edited my manuscript
Just published Friday. The supporting information has an MS Excel workbook so people can do the technique themselves.
https://pubs.acs.org …0.1021/acscombs​ci.8b00187

Actually, that looks cool. Sorry - another geeky chemist.

Jonzjob wrote in post #18904898
When I joined IBM in 1976 and got on my Basic Course, a graduation course of 3 solid months, we had to write a simple JCL of about 100 cards. Then run them through a card punch and run the programme. I can't remember what I did, but we had to choose a name for the job. I decided that the job was going to be mine and called it Jonzjob and I have stuck with that name on all of the forums I am on.

Lister Diesels in Dursley Gloucestershire have shut down now, but they used to some wonderfully l o n g lasting engines. Lots were shipped over to the African outbacks. Mainly because they lasted for about ever. They used fanfold punch cards during their construction. Similar to the fanfold printer paper. They weren't just punched but they had a mag strip on them too and every engine that was built had a card follow it through the factory and was sent with it when it was sold. It was a history of the build. When they got rid of that system I managed to get a couple of boxes of them to use for scrap notes/shopping lists/etc. I still have some of them left and still use them for my lists.

Who can do their maths in hexidecimal?

Yup, binary, octal, decimal or hexadecimal - none of them phase me....

aaaaaaagh!
I only said 'USB'

Capn Jack wrote in post #18905010
Proofreaders are very important and have unique skills. I didn't know how poor a writer I was, until they edited my manuscript
Just published Friday. . . .
https://pubs.acs.org …0.1021/acscombs​ci.8b00187

And at that, they missed something.

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OhLook wrote in post #18905115
And at that, they missed something.

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And so did I, several times
That must have been in the supplemental information.

Capn Jack wrote in post #18905119
That must have been in the supplemental information.

It's in big type at your link, not in the body of the article. Whatever its status is, it jumped out at me right away.

OhLook wrote in post #18905122
It's in big type at your link, not in the body of the article. Whatever its status is, it jumped out at me right away.

LoL, I'm sure it did.

Yes, that's the supplemental information. It's the raw data. Unfortunately, some very few people have manufactured or plagiarized data. There have also been occasions of honest mistakes. Providing the raw information allows the honest mistakes to be gracefully retracted, and the miscreants to be dealt with less gracefully. It should have been correct.

Thank you for looking at it.

Perfectly Frank wrote in post #18904962

Inspeqtor wrote in post #18904745
I am 69 years young, and I am also giving you the blank look!

69 is not so old. Heck, I've got underwear older than you!

If you read that correctly I never said I was OLD!!

Inspeqtor wrote in post #18905137
If you read that correctly I never said I was OLD!!

Uh oh, so sorry.

Don't tell people you are 69. Just say you are 18 with 51 years of experience.

Perfectly Frank wrote in post #18905251
Uh oh, so sorry.

Don't tell people you are 69. Just say you are 18 with 51 years of experience.

Charles is nearly 70, just saying

Perfectly Frank wrote in post #18905251
Uh oh, so sorry.

Don't tell people you are 69. Just say you are 18 with 51 years of experience.

Thank you Frank! LOL LOL LOL

I will try to remember at my old age to say that!

GibJock wrote in post #18905271

Perfectly Frank wrote in post #18905251
Uh oh, so sorry.

Don't tell people you are 69. Just say you are 18 with 51 years of experience.

Charles is nearly 70, just saying

Hey wait a bit here! Let's NOT push the age here!!!!!

I am trying to stay away from the next decade bracket that is heading my way