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Peter Camilleri
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By day: Caregiver to a senior. With the death of my life partner I am the only one left to do this task.

By night: A programmer exploring the wonderful world of free ruby coding. Hopefully creating something useful along the way.

In the past: An expert programmer, a computer science degree, specializing in "C" on embedded hardware for bill/coin validation systems. This also involved rather more assembly work (68HC11 and 8051) than I am comfortable to admitting too.

Overall: Forced retirement with rather poor prospects. I will eventually be forced to find some sort of work in order to survive once my no-pay care giving gig ends

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What early home computers have more than one CPU, where both could be used by the programmer?
Jan 21, 2017
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What happened to ZIP RAM?
Oct 5, 2018
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Did CP/M support custom hardware using device drivers?
Mar 14, 2019
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Commercially available computer with single-step feature?
Sep 10, 2017
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What made channel bleed so bad over coaxial cable?
Jul 23, 2018
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Z80 16-bit I/O port addresses
Sep 30, 2018
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What were the applications of 5/6-bit serial port formats?
Feb 11, 2017
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HD63B03R timer interrupt frequency
Jan 12, 2017
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Why did the Cray-1 have 8 parity bits per word?
Mar 7, 2019
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Patent barriers to IBM mainframe compatibility?
Dec 11, 2018
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What are applications of Coin Change problem?
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Why does the program counter increment before an instruction is completed?
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What happens if an LED is connected to a supply voltage greater than its voltage drop?
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How to get RUBY_PLATFORM value without Ruby?
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What's the purpose of clocked registers in pipelined processor