rmm200 said:


Personal bias showing here:

If there is truly a Hell for programmers - it will run on Cobol.



I beg to differ...Hell for programmers would run on RPG.

*insert language here*, eh?

I've done full develompent work in COBOL on machines with a fraction of the memory and a fraction of the speed of an R-Pi.

Anyone know of a decent, free, COBOL compiler for Linux?

<t>Possibly....what we need is a dose of 'Zen and the Art of R-Pi Expectation.'<br/> <br/> What *I* know is that I don't have one in my hands yet and I'm willing to be patient.  IT will arrive when it arrives and no amount of anxiety on my part will make it happen any sooner.<br/> <br/> Or, as my wi...

<t>As regards RS-232…  20-odd years ago when I worked for PacBell, standard pracice was to connect serial devices by using "mod taps" at both ends.  The Mod taps were DB-25 or DE-9 (far too few people know that there is NO SUCH THING as a "DB-9" connector) on one side and an RJ-11 jack on the other....

<t>alexeames said: <br/> <br/> <br/> billio said: <br/> <br/> <br/> hzrnbgy said: <br/> <br/> <br/> if you fancy a bit of soldering, here are some good switchmode power supplies<br/> <br/> <br/> Is it practical to use switched mode power supplies from old PCs ?. The one I have, which must be at leas...

<r>There are these<br/> <br/> <URL url="http://www.newegg.com/Product/.....=BESTMATCH">http://www.newegg.com/Product/.....=BESTMATCH</URL><br/> <br/> from Newegg.  Looks like only one of them lacks DVI input.<br/> <br/> I picked them specifically for "normal" aspect ratio (so sue me...I'm old and us...

<t>Considering the larger issue here...<br/> <br/> If long usage off the grid is desired, there are two approaches that haven't been mentioned.  One would be a solar panel to run the system and/or charge batteries.<br/> <br/> The other alternative would be hydrogen fuel cells, e.g. http://www.horizo...

Re: Jordy...

Except that the US government doesn't *get* the sales tax.  It all goes to the relevant state (with--possibly--a cut to more local entities).

<t>Note that on both the hubs shown from Newegg, the *input* power is given, but not the *output* power--which is what will matter to the R-Pi.<br/> <br/> As I recall--from some years ago--a USB port is supposed to supply 500mA.  The spec for the R-Pi "b" input is 700mA, which would mean that trying...

<t>I have to say that much of this thread reminds me of  post years ago on comp.unix.questions, where the poster wrote:<br/> <br/> "Don't tell me to RFTM if you WTFM."<br/> <br/> Bear in mind that the new people that come to the forums are getting answers from people hip deep in the technical detail...

Typos'r'us...  s/s\/260//s\/360/

<t>I find this discussion kind of amusing...<br/> <br/> I learned to program on an IBM 1620 with a HUGE amount of memory--80K digits--in 1964.  My 40 years of making my living programming (mostly in COBOL) started on an IBM S/260 Model 30 with 32K bytes of memory and it really hurt (that is, we had ...