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Programming the Convergent WorkSlate's spreadsheet microcassette future
In this particular future, we will all use handheld spreadsheets stored on microcassettes, talking to each other via speakerphone, and proba...
Along the way we'll examine the hardware, wire into its peripheral bus, figure out how to exchange data with today's future, create a simple game, draw rudimentary graphics and (with some help) even put it on the Internet with its very own Gopher client — after we tell of the WorkSlate's brief and sorrowful commercial existence, as this blog always must. The sucky-pseudo-pseudorandom number function I made up for this demonstration is excruciatingly bad, sufficient to give D. J. Bernstein a really nasty twitch and just enough to basically work for some four digit seeds (provable improvements solicited — be prepared to show distributions). The new age of the microcomputer inspired wild feats of fantasy about a pervasively connected future where we might read completely virtual articles on computer screens, transmitted on wires and hosted on distant servers (ha, like that would ever happen).
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