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If you'd like to have a look around, click any of the platform buttons below. If you'd like to have a look around, click any of the platform buttons below.
### What You're Looking At
This site is built primarily around the Apache2 Markdown module. It automatically renders markdown documents into HTML for display on your browser. The content you're looking at right now (not counting the header and footer) is nothing but pure markdown text. One of the nice features of the module, is that you can intermix HTML within the markdown, and it will "just work". What makes all this especially nice, is that it eliminates almost entirely, any need for PHP, Javascript, Typescript, or server-side perl or python to present the website to you. The only javascript this site uses (and it technically didn't need to) is highlight.js for code syntax colouring. This site is built primarily around the Apache2 Markdown module. It automatically renders markdown documents into HTML for display on your browser. The content you're looking at right now (not counting the header and footer) is nothing but pure markdown text. One of the nice features of the module, is that you can intermix HTML within the markdown, and it will "just work". What makes all this especially nice, is that it eliminates almost entirely, any need for PHP, Javascript, Typescript, or server-side perl or python to present the website to you. The only javascript this site uses (and it technically didn't need to) is highlight.js for code syntax colouring.
### Where Are The Pictures And Videos?
This site is designed to be readable from the least capable of hardware. While it does employ some modern HTML5 gimmicks to give it a little panache, you should still be able to load it up in LYNX or even CURL one of its URLs, and be able to make sense of it. As such, I'll be keeping images and videos to an absolute minimum. For those of you on a modern browser, there is syntax highlighting, and very occasionally I may include an image that is absolutely necessary for an entry I post. But, for the most part, I'll post links to any heavy multimedia content that might be relevant. So, you can head over to the appropriate provider for that.

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Take Odysseus and the Sirens as an example. In order to reconquer the tool, we need to learn to "lash ourselves to the mast", so to speak, in order to avoid the song of pleasure that every new technical innovation brings. And we need to teach our children how to recognize that siren song, and to heed it at their peril. If we can do that, then our children won't actually want to give themselves over to it as easily as they do now, and the time and effort required to shield them from it may be reducible by that effort. Take Odysseus and the Sirens as an example. In order to reconquer the tool, we need to learn to "lash ourselves to the mast", so to speak, in order to avoid the song of pleasure that every new technical innovation brings. And we need to teach our children how to recognize that siren song, and to heed it at their peril. If we can do that, then our children won't actually want to give themselves over to it as easily as they do now, and the time and effort required to shield them from it may be reducible by that effort.
<iframe class="rumble" width="640" height="360" src="https://rumble.com/embed/v43v2du/?pub=2vcrn" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen style="margin-left:20%"></iframe> *finis*

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## BASIC Programming on MVS ## BASIC Programming on MVS
There are many flavors of BASIC available for the IBM MVS operating system. The original port of Dartmouth BASIC, known as DTSS BASIC, is called BASIC/360, and is already implemented by the supplement tape for MVS 3.8j. So, everything I do on the emulator is based on that version of BASIC. There are many flavors of BASIC available for the IBM MVS operating system. The original port of Dartmouth BASIC, known as DTSS BASIC, is called BASIC/360, and is already implemented by the supplement tape for MVS 3.8j. So, everything I do on the emulator is based on that version of BASIC.
Here is my original video showing how to set it up:
<iframe class="rumble" width="640" height="360" src="https://rumble.com/embed/v2wv48o/?pub=2vcrn" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen style="margin-left:20%"></iframe>
Here is a follow-up video in which I port an actual DTSS BASIC program over to the BASIC/360 compiler, with minimal modifications to it:
<iframe class="rumble" width="640" height="360" src="https://rumble.com/embed/v4r7swt/?pub=2vcrn" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen style="margin-left:20%"></iframe>
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