Forever & Ever — too long to tweet
When I was 14 or so, in 1989, I worked at the Advanced Communications Lab of Kiev's Communications College, a 2-year "technical professional” training school, at the time known by its Russian-language...
Forever & Ever When I was 14 or so, in 1989, I worked at the Advanced Communications Lab of Kiev's Communications College, a 2-year "technical professional" training school, at the time known by its Russian-language acronym KPTS. "Worked" in the sense that I talked the guy who ran the lab into giving me after-hours access to the various Soviet Bloc-made computing equipment (built mostly on East German and Russian clones of Intel and Zilog chips) in exchange for on-demand utility coding. Despite having some fairly advanced hardware (especially for late-'80s Soviet Ukraine), the lab had no actua
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