* Posts by McSounds

4 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Mar 2014

Record players make comeback with Ikea, others pitching tricked-out turntables

McSounds

Re: Digital transmission?

Some perhaps. I've got mid 70's Vinyl that is so light weight it's hardly more than a flexi disc. Was playing the Kate & Anna McGarrigle first album last night which falls into this category.

FreeDOS puts out first new version in six years

McSounds

Re: "It installs to a FAT32 partition"

There was a product called DoubleDOS that could run 2 copies of DOS on a PC.

Worked with a touchscreen hospitality POS system that used this. Had multiple CGA (from memory) cards with the video memory mapped to different addresses so could run multiple touchscreen monitors off one PC for a multi-user system.

Bloke sold cash register code to restaurants that deliberately hid sales from taxmen

McSounds

Been There.

In the days when I was writing POS software for pubs/restaurants we had an customer request something similar - run EOD reports then delete a definable % of transactions and run a new set of EOD reports. They got very upset when we refused to do it.

ICO decides against probe of Santander email spam scammers

McSounds

Had my first of these recently. Unique email address and has my surname so it wasn't just addresses that leaked.