"The 6809 saw some success, especially in arcade machines, but it did not steamroll the world the way the 6502 and Z80 did."
Could have mentioned the use of the 6809 in the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer and the Dragon in the UK. Using the TRS-80 tag on something not using a Z-80 never made sense.
Taught myself Java in 1997 and was able have it do the heavy lifting over the years. Have "kicked the tires" on a lot technologies over the years for side-projects evidenced by the menagerie of repositories on my GitHub.
Coleco known for the ColecoVision home video game system and the Coleco Adam home computer started out as the "Connecticut Leather Company" in 1932. The business supplied leather and "shoe findings" (the supplies and paraphernalia of a shoe repair shop) to shoe repairers.
A idea like this has been on the back of my mind but more like forming a taxonomy of embellishments and dramatic license. Figure out which ones are somewhat necessary and which ones are "bad". Particularly bad would be those that villainize a real person which role in the actual event was more benign. Coach Dan Devine in "Rudy" and boxer Max Baer Sr. in "Cinderella Man" come to mind.
I've internally thought of a similar metaphor. Previous generations didn't have to conscientious of food intake. Food options were more limited, there wasn't as much processed/calorie-dense food, work was more manual in nature and people likely walked greater distances. My dad who grew up during the Depression in the U.S. weighed 140 pounds in his '20s, but hit 280 in his '40s. That generation was kind of blindsided by the affect of this.
Likewise, my generation is dealing with an explosion of easy to consume streams of information and entertainment and we are kind of blindsided by that I have to conscientious of spending too much time consuming online information with Reddit being my biggest vice.
I was just thinking about something where I could design web based workflows that could use online services to perform transformations on items dragged into a dropped and perhaps the output would be downloadable.
Maybe this exists elsewhere, but is is free?. It is still a thought and I haven't dig deep to see what exists, but Flyde seems kind of close.
I did a tiny bit in the late '90s at Mastercard. Wrote my share of TACL macros before that.
When I first saw the "99 Bottles of Beer" site, I was working for a company the was using the POSIX-layer OSS and C. I was able to "drop down" into Guardian and re-learn enough to contribute: https://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-tandem-tal-437.html
Bad stuff has always happened, but when something bad happens now, more people are made aware of it.
For example, when I was in high school in the the early '80s there was a shooting at a high school in my Midwestern US city. A kid brought a gun to school and shot two kids who said something about his brother. The shooter then turned the gun on himself. One of the other kids died too.
This was big news locally, I don't remember national TV coverage of it. There was no internet so if someone was 500 miles away, they never knew about it. It didn't spur a national debate about gun control, kid's mental health or school safety.
The ironic thing with increase in GDP is that life becomes almost too easy. In the past the difficulty of life didn't require a person to have use as much willpower.
Easier life with things like plentiful food and entertainment options requires willpower to not over-indulge. A factory worker or subsistence farmer didn't have force themselves to exercise or worry about spending to much time watching TV. They had to work to not starve.
I wrote it to be able to extract exceptional plays from footage of my daughter's volleyball teams and be able to zoom in on each clip. Pretty much a minimal viable product.
Williams Electronics used the 6809 in Defender, Robotron, Joust and Sinistar. It was more expensive. Tandy chose it for the TRS-80 Color Computer and sacrificed dedicated sound generation hardware for it to keep costs down.
Could have mentioned the use of the 6809 in the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer and the Dragon in the UK. Using the TRS-80 tag on something not using a Z-80 never made sense.