davefischer
@davefischer@beehaw.org
Artist / hacker from Providence, USA.
- Comment on What is a film whose trailer alone presaged its success? 8 months ago:
A Clockwork Orange
- Comment on Making my own bubble memory? 8 months ago:
A lot of things that we assume can only be made by giant complexes of high-tech equipment were first prototyped by hand on a workbench. This sounds like a great project.
(I don’t know anything about the details of bubble memory. It’s entirely possible this is impossible. Certainly worth looking into though.)
- Comment on Films and shows which tell the story of how they themselves were produced 8 months ago:
Funeral Parade of Roses is intercut with interviews with the actors.
- Comment on Films and shows which tell the story of how they themselves were produced 9 months ago:
The entire Muppet Movie is about going to Hollywood to make The Muppet Movie.
And of course, the ending of Holy Mountain.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] What is the best movie you watched last week? 23 September 9 months ago:
That’s a weird one. Same director as Cafe Flesh.
- Comment on Painting Apple hardware - what colour? 9 months ago:
The only time I’ve done something like that, I had a friend paint my 3B2 with leopard spots. Looks great.
- Comment on [META] What are the demographics of this community? 9 months ago:
Heh. Presumably there’s some very old FORTRAN in there somewhere?
- Comment on What are your defining memories of computing in the old days? 9 months ago:
Booting from tape to do a clean install.
- Comment on [META] What are the demographics of this community? 9 months ago:
No, except for software that represented data in virtual punched cards under the covers, for communicating with remote systems. (None of which used punched cards anymore.)
- Comment on [META] What are the demographics of this community? 9 months ago:
Old. Just caught the tail end of the era of big machines.
Learnt Unix on a VAX 11/750. Used text terminals for a long time.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] What is the best movie you watched last week? 9 September 9 months ago:
Bigbug - robot uprising comedy. Killer.
- Comment on [Discussion] According to you, what was the most unnecessary and worst sequel of all time? 10 months ago:
Blues Brothers 2000
