Dad said they weren't allowed to talk about it then, but when he was telling me, it was because my brother had a RC model plane that Dad said was about the same level of tech - in a model plane a little bigger than a notebook. Dad didn't figure that the stuff he worked on was secret anymore :)

Really? Cuz we couldn't see shows on time travel until 2147.

That's what Wild Weasels (piloted F4 phantoms) did in Viet Nam - they'd go in first to get the enemy to turn on their radars, which they would then shoot up with radar-seeking missiles.

My dad had a souvenir propeller - about 3 feet long. The drones he worked on had a 9 foot wingspan and were purpose built.

My father was in the Navy during WWII, and was stationed on an aircraft carrier. His job was maintaining the drones that the gunners used for target practice.

When the kamakazi attacks started, the Navy ordered the drone pilots to fly the drones into the ship if the gunners didn't shoot them down. The aircraft carrier's command crew was not happy about these orders, but it was from Washington, so they had to.

I've had a hard time the last ten years or so even convincing people that radio controlled drones were even a thing that far back. Thanks for finding this link.

This reads like an advertisement. Chick fil a is famous for its religiousity and forcing employees to obey their reigious rules as much as law allows.

I almost passed this by at first, thinking, oh just don't get it.

Then I noticed there was some very faint writing on it. Cmon really? White letters on pale blue?

Still not a Giraffe.

Odd, when you consider other (ie, mainframe) OSes had no problems with printers. Printer tech was already marching forward even before the PC revolution started because of the massive use mainframes made of printers.

>DOS was barely an operating system, in the true sense

Everything you said is correct, but perhaps you're underplaying just how limited the hardware was in the DOS days. DOS, and its forerunner CPM, were squeezed down into (sometimes) as little as 4 or 8 thousand bytes of RAM, plus about that much ROM (not kilobytes. ANd what's a megabyte?).

PS before I start a flame war: CPM was the conceptual forerunner of QDos, which was the actual code forerunner of MS Dos.

PPS before my PS starts a flame war:QDOS

>mostly just worked

Gotta train the troops anyway. Even pilots need practice. I consider it a plus, because in all likelihood, that's what they would have been doing anyway, just without a real target to really shoot at.

There isn't any way in hell that a bug like this got through even the simplest testing. Microsoft's just "trying the waters" for full-on-pay-every-day for computing access, despite not providing anything useful that isn't available elsewhere without "subscriptions".

I think his hand would be on his knee if it let it hang there. I suspect someone's played a little with the aspect ratio to make the gun look longer

I'm wondering where Lady Libertyis.

I've got a great idea! Attach the wheels to the bottom of the train.