Well yes, but... the whole thread is about sending messages!

It doesn't look level compared to the water in the bath.

I think that it's tilted and the jar is held at an angle to disguise that.

This has reminded me that I had a special "floppy disk pen". It was just a regular felt-tip but with a weak breakaway end, so that it would give way before damaging a disk if you pressed too hard.

I think it may have been free with a magazine. I hope I didn't actually pay money for it.

Don't forget to check that a script will eventually halt before executing it!

Fantastic description!

Z-80 was much the same: djnz uses C as the loop counter (like the 8086 LOOP used CX iirc), H and L combine to make a 16-bit pointer...

For just a few dollars more than the cost of adding a separate hard drive to an existing computer you could buy the Kaypro 10.

I'm hearing that I'm Hank's voice.

My first ISP (Demon Internet) had me use the ham radio software KA9Q in DOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KA9Q

Mail and Usenet programs would auto-run to download and upload when it connected via modem.

I found that the simpler, early BASIC dialects were a good primer for assembly language. You had to create all the structure from jumps to numeric values. Goto and gosub mapped on to jump and call instructions.

Using labels in assembly was a step up from line numbers!

I recognized that because the instance my account is on is named after it.

I recently saw a video about using the Atari BASIC keypads.

https://youtu.be/Pw97o4HvsHs

The most unusual keyboard I heard of was the microwriter, a chordic keyboard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter

I think that Palm Pilots (and so probably Treo phones) just ran the apps in-place (from the flash memory or ram). So if you pushed the "calendar" button it just switched to running it. No loading involved.