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07-10-2019

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Yeah, I wrote all my own programs for the C64, in "Commodore Basic" or something like that, as I recall.

All the programs I wrote were related to land surveying, which were all based on geometry and trigonometry, calculating azimuths, distances, grids, grades, fill for construction sites, industrial sites, pipelines and highways (or customer billing / invoicing) and making morning print-outs on a dot-matrix computer.

I can still hear the sound of the dot matrix printer grinding out numbers for the days work as we drank our morning coffee and prepared to load equipment into the truck.

Those were the days ..... long hair down to the middle of our backs, notebooks and pen in hand, making big money as "modern day land surveyors" in a world where computers has not yet "made a splash".

For us, and our customers, the C64, the TRS80, the Amiga and more made us a pile of money, "back in the day".

It was the Dean of Students at Tulane University in New Orleans, many years later, who convinced me to "move on" from my career in land surveying (he said it was best not to work in the day to day weather, but become a EE / computer engineer), enroll in the engineering department and study EE.

At Tulane, we sat in the hall in lines and waited in long queues to use the first Apple IIs, then Mac 128Ks, then Macs 512Ks, the Mac Plus and then the Macintosh SE, for our lab reports and ran Fortran and COBAL programs on VAX.

What a great life and how lucky we were to experience the "dawn of the computer age" in every day life.

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setupcon

setupcon(1)							   User Manuals 						       setupcon(1)

NAME

       setupcon - sets up the font and the keyboard on Linux console

SYNOPSIS

       setupcon [ option ]... [ variant ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       setupcon is a program for fast and easy setup of the font and the keyboard on the Linux console.

OPTIONS

       -k, --keyboard-only
	      Setup the keyboard only, do not setup the font.

       -f, --font-only
	      Setup the font only, do not setup the keyboard.

       --force
	      Do  not  check  whether  we are on the console.  Notice that you can be forced to hard-reboot your computer if you run setupcon with
	      this option and you are on a X server.

       -v, --verbose
	      Be more verbose.	 Use this option if something goes wrong.

       --save If you want to use setupcon early in the boot process, it is possible that /usr is not yet mounted and the  required  data  are  not
	      available.   This  option  makes	setupcon copy the required data in /etc/console-setup in order to make it available before /usr is
	      mounted.	If you use setupcon early in the boot process, then use this option whenever you change the console configuration.

       --save-only
	      Same like --save, but do not setup the keyboard and the font.  This option can be useful if you run setupcon in a X server.

       -h, --help
	      Display usage information.

       variant
	      Specifies which configuration file to use.  By default the configuration file of setupcon is /etc/default/console-setup but  if  you
	      use  e.g. "chukchi" as variant then the configuration file will be /etc/default/console-setup.chukchi.  This allows you to have sev-
	      eral different configurations - for example one for the Chukchi language and another in /etc/default/console-setup for your  default
	      configuration.

BASIC USAGE

       Most of the time you invoke setupcon without arguments.	Please look at the README file for more information.

AUTHOR

       Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>, <zinoviev@debian.org>

console-setup							     APR 2007							       setupcon(1)