Arghblarg

Whoa.

A company I worked for did this years ago... said they expected 10, maaaaybe 20% to take it. 54% did and they panicked, losing most of their best people.

This is gonna be a clusterf*ck of epic proportions.

I actually had one of these, being a kid unable to afford even the CoCo at the time. Yeeks. A hobbled 'starter micro' for the time.

Tandy could've actually made it compatible with the CoCo for 1 or 2 dollars more per unit, but for some insane reason decided to use the 6803 instead of the 6809E, and make the BASIC use different token encodings from the CoCo (cause why be compatible at all?!) rendering it a silly dead-end machine. And all a mere 1 or 2 years before the 16-bit era began, putting all 8-bits on notice in general...

"Here is the feedback you requested, blah blah blah blah ...

As you have contracted my expertise for improving your HR process, and we both acknowledge that my time is valuable, my invoice is attached below for (x) hours charged at (y/hr), payable upon receipt of this feedback. Failure to respond in a timely manner to the negative constitutes legally-binding agreement of payment. Payment in full is due within 30 business days."

Yeah I know it wouldn't stick, but might be fun to make them at least waste some time to respond or refute.

IMO it should be called the Chicxulub Gulf, since the most significant thing to happen there, objectively speaking, was the end of the Cretaceous.

Damn. Good one. I just searched online but I can't find or recall the name... there was a short SF story by.. Robert Bloch? About someone (American) finding their radio could communicate back in time with their father or grandfather, who was a German U-boat crewman. They knew when the U-boat had been sunk, so they told their ancestor to avoid the situation... and woke up the next morning to a very different world.

Anyone know the name of that story?

Wish granted. Cats everywhere who were declawed regain their functional digits with a nice new claw.

Wherever more than a dozen protein molecules which used to be part of a once-living, declawed cat, happen to reside in a currently-living being, a new terminal cat digit, complete with new sharp claw, grows spontaneously.

People, plants and animals worldwide suffer as domestic cat claws spontaneously grow, teratoma-like, randomly within or protruding from their living forms. Hospitals are overwhelmed with patients suddenly complaining of painful bumps in various parts of their bodies; some particularly unfortunate individuals are rushed to hospital with ghastly eye disfigurations causing blindness, brain seizures and other maladies, X-rays and CT scans revealing the same cause; small bones and claws in random body locations.

I've considered getting a MISTer dev board of some sort for a while now, but this is a really slick package.

I wonder if the DIN10 port or the other parts are mapped such that the Atari ST/STe MISTer core could use a keyboard (or would it use one of the USB ports and translate those to the platform's IKBD controller for keyboard and mouse)? Apparently the MIDI for the Atari core should work over one of the hardware UARTs... hmm.

Good to know. That's worrying indeed.

So are any CDC staff working on ways to get word out on threats outside of the officially-gagged channels?

I would rather they don't lose their jobs by doing so, but civil disobedience is absolutely called for here.

Yes, but only if the EU doesn't immediately replace the vacuum with their own forces.

(Do any of the EU nations have nukes that aren't owned by the US? Sadly such a deterrent is probably a requirement.)

After the door hits them in the arse on their way out, be sure to repatriate all the land for those US bases. Make them pay 300% more for the land, after this term if they want to come back.

And use whatever money is saved to bolster one's own national military. We can't rely on the US any more for defence.