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WiC64

wic64.de

The Wireless Interface for the Commodore 64 - aka WiC64 - is a parallel WLAN interface for Commodore computers with user port connection. In contrast to the previously known “modems”, the WiC64 works in parallel mode with 8 data lines, 2 handshake lines and one control line. That speeds up data transmission by a factor of 20: The WiC64 can load 202 blocks / 50kb in 2.5 seconds from the internet - via HTTP:// or TCP connection. It gives the computer full access to the internet and the possible applications are almost unlimited.

The Value of an Education That Never Ends

nytimes.com

That’s why it’s such a challenge to be a perpetual student — as our society becomes atomized and polarized, the informal educational spaces for adults to learn from people who have different points of view are fewer and farther between. And it gets harder to exercise the intellectual humility that being a student requires when one is supposed to have the authority, the certainty, of adulthood.

Every Type of Plastic Used By LEGO

bricknerd.com

Modern Technic bricks with pins, such as 42929, are dual-molded so the brick part is ABS and the pin is PA (this is why they show up in BrickSet as “multicombination”, even though it’s the same color throughout).

TIL some LEGOs, despite looking uniform, are made of multiple types of plastic.

Paul Reubens Never Got to Make the Comeback He Deserved

thedailybeast.com

But Reubens never went on the defensive, making the media rounds with talking points about his innocence. He didn’t let an early precursor to cancellation send him on the path to bitterness trod by so many afterward. It could’ve just been savvy PR management, but I suspect he withdrew from public life for months after the ’91 arrest for much the same reason that he kept the past six years of cancer to himself. A man so singly dedicated to spreading joy couldn’t bear the thought that he’d leave anyone feeling bad.

Maryland License Plates Now Inadvertently Advertising Filipino Online Casino

vice.com

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