Message:Windows behind the scene will be the death of all technology. Why isn't the appliance written in machine code? Now you have another set of code to honk. You don't need a microprocessor for everything. Probably why my stove clock no longer shows comprehensible eight position red LED. How do I reboot my stove, hope for a citywide power failure?
NASA used a mod comp computer to reach the moon. It had a random number generator built into the code. It could show graphics as pixels. No games I could see, but I wondered how easy it would be for me to add Backgammon to the source code of the LOX ground monitoring software. The AI to run the Backgammon would have been longer than the code (perhaps). Also, would have been easier to make the game interactive between two techs.
Not sure as a twenty year old I wanted to get anyone fired. The tears and anger when Shuttle shut down at Vandenberg was rather life changing.
Yours,
IronRed
21-Apr-2021