2:00PM Water Cooler 7/18/2022 | bare capitalism

By Lambert Strether of Corrente

Affected person readers, I needed to end up a publish on gig employees, and so it is a brief model of Water Cooler. However there’s an excessive amount of occurring for me to not publish, so please come again in a pair hours for a extra full model. In the meantime, discuss amongst yourselves! –lambert UPDATE Completed!

Chook Tune of the Day

Grey’s Lark, Naukluft Park, Namibia. “Calls earlier than daybreak with full moon.” I don’t know what that mushy whirring noise is. Courtship show?

Politics

“However what’s authorities itself, however the biggest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51

“They’d realized nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

“When the going will get bizarre, the bizarre flip professional.” –Hunter Thompson

Capitol Seizure

Hmm:

Look who did not testify:

1. Kevin McCarthy = GOP Chief
2. Ginni Thomas = Spouse of Clarence Thomas
3. Jim Jordan -GOP #2
4. Invoice Barr -Witness solely, no public hearings
5. Trump’s children -Witnesses solely, no public hearings
6. Not 1 Republican Senator

Each key Republican protected

— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) July 17, 2022

Biden Administration

“Prime Harris aide to go away administration subsequent month” [The Hill]. “Rohini Kosoglu, who serves as home coverage adviser to the vice chairman, is about to go away the job in August. Kosoglu was one of many few staffers Harris introduced along with her from the Senate to her unsuccessful presidential marketing campaign to the workplace of the vice chairman. ‘She knew her higher than anybody on employees,’ mentioned one supply in Harris World…. She instructed [WaPo] .” • BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! Kosoglu desires to spend extra time along with her household as a result of she doesn’t imagine Harris will ever be President.

2022

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“The Cavernous Money Hole in Senate Races” [Too Close to Call]. “[T]he putting aspect to the second quarter fundraising totals in marquee Senate races is the cavernous hole between Democrats and Republicans, even in second-tier contests like Ohio, the place J.D. Vance nonetheless needs to be barely favored over Tim Ryan…. And sure, I take significantly the current historical past of Democratic contenders — Cal Cunningham, Sara Gideon, Jaime Harrison — who blew the doorways off fundraising partitions solely to wilt on the poll field….. However put apart the Democratic hauls for a second. With names like Oz, former N.F.L. star Herschel Walker, best-selling creator Vance, Nevada legacy Adam Laxalt, Republicans must be seeing extra money dropped into their very own marketing campaign kettles. These should not no identify contenders. And these aren’t far-flung races in deep pink states like Kentucky or South Carolina. They’re the whole ballgame of the cycle. Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada — these are the states that can probably be determined by tens of hundreds of votes. If the GOP doesn’t recapture the Senate in a yr they need to, it’ll probably as a result of a number of of those candidates fell simply brief. Cash won’t have made the distinction, however it is going to certainly be cited as proof of their vanquishment. Alternatively, if these candidates succeed being outspent by tens of hundreds of thousands, they’ll have fortified a brand new marketing campaign mannequin.”

“Have you ever thought-about that the Democrats aren’t really doomed?” [The Hill]. “[T]right here is an rising counternarrative that isn’t making its means into written and TV commentary and deserves consideration. Plus, who doesn’t like somewhat recreation of satan’s advocate?… The generic congressional poll has been the centerpiece of the ‘Democrats are doomed’ narrative…. [T]right here have been 11 impartial polls of the generic congressional poll since Roe v. Wade ended, and the Democrats have led general. They now maintain a 2.2-point benefit within the post-Roe polling world. And if the election had been held at present, Republicans would achieve seven Home seats — sufficient to regain management of the Home however removed from a pink wave…. If the drop in [gas] costs continues, we’re on monitor to be beneath $4 a gallon by the center of August… In case you have a look at essential Senate races in states similar to Georgia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, Democratic candidates are outperforming Biden by large margins…. [Abortion] has jumped to the fourth-most vital subject general in FiveThirtyEight polling, and 19 % rank it as their main concern, up from 9 % in early June…. Biden’s rankings could also be horrible, however he nonetheless beats Trump in a head-to-head match-up, 44 % to 41 %.” • After which, after all, there’s Biden’s dealing with of Ukraine, to not point out the J6 — ugh, do I’ve to say that? — Committee.

PA: “Columbia College Medical Middle Cuts Ties with Dr. Oz” [WebMD]. “Columbia College Medical Middle has minimize public ties with Mehmet Oz, MD, the movie star physician who goes by “Dr. Oz” and is now a Senate candidate in Pennsylvania… What’s extra, the outgoing message on the workplace voicemail for the telephone quantity within the itemizing is outdated. It advertises viewers tickets to his former daytime TV present and tells callers about medical companies that he stopped offering 4 years in the past, the [Daily Beast] reported.” • Lol, elegant!

PA: No:

Congrats in your first go to to town

— Ryan (@ryrob97) July 15, 2022

The feedback are withering.

PA: Once you’ve gained Dante Atkins:

2/x he has taken one subject–the problem of Mehmet Oz’ residency–and crushed him with it throughout each attainable communications channel. From flyovers to trolling with Snooki, to extra conventional communications, he has taken one specific level and hammered it.

— 🕷Dante Atkins🕷 (@DanteAtkins) July 17, 2022

PA: “A Operating Listing of John Fetterman’s Very Greatest Burns of Dr. Oz” [Jezebel]. • I’m very blissful that is how the chattering lessons are occupying their minds (and I’m certain all of them have only a few Pennsylvania voters as readers). However sooner or later, Fetterman must hit the path. Doesn’t he?

Democrats en Déshabillé

I’ve moved my standing remarks on the Democrat Get together (“the Democrat Get together is a rotting corpse that may’t bury itself”) to a separate, back-dated publish, to which I’ll periodically add materials, summarizing the addition right here in a “reside” Water Cooler. (Hopefully, some Bourdieu.) It seems that defining the Democrat Get together is, in truth, a tough drawback. I do suppose the paragraph that follows is on level all the best way again to 2016, if not earlier than:

The Democrat Get together is the political expression of the category energy of PMC, their base (lucidly defined by Thomas Frank in Pay attention, Liberal!). ; if the Democrat Get together didn’t exist, the PMC must invent it. . (“PMC” modulo “class expatriates,” after all.) Second, all of the working elements of the Get together reinforce one another. Go away apart characterizing the relationships between parts of the Get together (ka-ching, however not totally) these parts comprise a community — a Flex Internet? An iron octagon? — of funders, distributors, apparatchiks, electeds, NGOs, and miscellaneous mercenaries, with property within the press and the intelligence group.

Notice, after all, that the category energy of the PMC each expresses and is proscribed by different lessons; oligarchs and American gentry (see ‘industrial mannequin’ of Ferguson, Jorgensen, and Jie) and the working class spring to thoughts. Suck up, kick down.

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“Democrats’ Issues Go Past Joe Manchin” [Ross Barkan, The Atlantic]. “[Manchin’s] clout, nonetheless, is a larger reminder of Democratic failure. It didn’t need to be this manner. The 50-50 Senate may have been a 51-49 Democratic Senate and even 52-48. Within the final two election cycles, Democrats misplaced winnable races with flawed candidates or struggled, within the case of Invoice Nelson of Florida, to defend an incumbent in a blue-wave yr. Manchin agita is healthier reserved for the disastrous marketing campaign of Sara Gideon, the Maine Democrat who spent greater than $63 million to lose to Susan Collins and nonetheless had nearly $15 million left in her account after the election. Gideon’s 2020 loss was galling as a result of Joe Biden ran strongly in Maine, beating Trump 53 to 44 %. Collins, a average Republican, was one of many few candidates anyplace to handle an efficient ticket-splitting bid, profitable over many Biden voters. Gideon’s uninspiring and overtly nationalized marketing campaign was an unwell match for Maine, emblematic of all of the methods Democrats in D.C. have failed to attach in rural America. Past Maine, Democrats’ missed alternatives in Florida and North Carolina will most likely hang-out them for years to come back. Whereas Florida has develop into, since 2020, a foreboding state for left-of-center candidates, 2018 was a uncommon alternative for Democrats to no less than defend their positive aspects. As Republican Ron DeSantis very narrowly defeated Andrew Gillum, Florida senator Invoice Nelson fell to Governor Rick Scott, a GOP arch-conservative. Nelson misplaced by simply 10,033 votes, an absurdly shut margin…. Not like Maine, North Carolina was not a Biden state in 2020: Trump gained it by only a single share level. A powerful Democratic contender, nonetheless, may have run forward of the presidential ticket and gained a slim victory. Roy Cooper, North Carolina’s Democratic governor, achieved this twice. However the nationwide Democrats’ selection of Cal Cunningham, a average former state senator, to tackle Republican Thom Tillis would backfire when information of an extramarital affair broke shortly earlier than Election Day. The affair, although, didn’t doom Tillis alone. The Cunningham marketing campaign was a milquetoast, insipid endeavor, providing little in the best way of a compelling coverage or imaginative and prescient. Had Schumer and the Democratic Senatorial Marketing campaign Committee been extra encouraging to a younger, energetic state senator named Jeff Jackson, it’s attainable Democrats could be holding the seat at present. None of this could spare Manchin criticism. Quite, it’s a reminder for activists and bizarre Democratic voters that one senator from West Virginia doesn’t embody all that’s incorrect with the celebration.” • Brutal.

“The Democrats’ Failure Is Full” [Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine]. “Democrats wanted to rise to the problem of proving that they had the capability to make use of their restricted powers in artistic and productive methods. It’s nearly inconceivable to think about now they’ll be capable to say they succeeded.” • To be honest, antitrust. Not a vote-getter, apparently.

The brand new Black Misleadership Class:

The Black cop is the right car.

The all go hat in hand across the nation gathering cash from oligarchs.

Then they go residence and, beneath the duvet of their Blackness, have cops beat the shit out of dissidents in order that city cores are playgrounds for the wealthy.

— Dr. Thrasher (@thrasherxy) July 16, 2022

Extra ice cream:

The Pelosi’s have collected 20,000 shares of $NVDA price $8M+

All whereas a $52B CHIPS act has been stalled in Congress.

Yesterday Pelosi states, “We’re decided that we’ll move a invoice” earlier than congress heads to August recess.$NVDA inventory jumps 4% on the information.

— Nancy Pelosi Inventory Tracker (@PelosiTracker_) July 15, 2022

Ouch:

Hate has no residence right here. However narcissistic frenzy resulting in pseudo-political hysteria does.

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) July 18, 2022

Realignment and Legitimacy

“Inflation and Political Instability Open Door to Unrest in U.S. and Round World” [Teen Vogue]. “It is smart that after a surge in common actions together with the George Floyd rebellions, Occupy Wall Avenue, the Standing Rock protests, and a struggle in opposition to fascism, we’re experiencing a robust backlash from these making an attempt to cling to energy. The hope lies in us. The hope is that we proceed to keep up a tradition of resistance. And that by way of direct actions and organizing we proceed to develop that resistance to cope with the troubling instances that lie earlier than us. If we want encouragement we want solely have a look at what’s occurring in different nations around the globe.” • Iskra this isn’t. But additionally, Tiger Beat this isn’t!

Sans culottes in DC?

Actively pursuing a state of non-bafflement:

Baffled by liberals who argue

1) Russia’s army is on the verge of catastrophic defeat, and
2) Russia’s army goes to march on all of Europe if we do not escalate our intervention any additional

— Carl Beijer (@CarlBeijer) July 17, 2022

The great factor about contradictory premises is which you could attain any conclusion you need from them.

#COVID19

• ”Covid Nasal Vaccine’s Section 3 Trials Accomplished, Says Bharat Biotech Chief” [NDTV]. “Dr Krishna Ella, Chairman and Managing Director of Bharat Biotech on Saturday mentioned that the scientific part III trials of the COVID-19 nasal vaccine have been accomplished and the corporate will submit its knowledge with Medication Controller Common of India (DCGI) subsequent month. In an unique interview with ANI, Dr Ella mentioned, ‘We simply accomplished a scientific trial, an information evaluation is occurring. Subsequent month, we’ll submit the info to the regulatory company. If the whole lot is okay, then we’ll get permission to launch and it is going to be the world’s first clinically confirmed nasal COVID-19 vaccine.’” • Properly, let’s transfer this alongside, please.

• Maskstravaganza: One other pure experiment in faculties, this one at scale in Alberta:

New sh*t has come to gentle:

• Maskstravaganza: Infecting one’s passengers is a novel enterprise technique, however depart it to the airways to give you it:

• Maskstravaganza: Extra airplane enjoyable:

Ewwwww! (Critically, although, I’d wish to see increasingly more Aranet4 utilization, made extremely seen; it’s the type of factor the Air Breathers Get together would suggest, no? Additionally, for example of commercial design, the Aranet4 is endearingly clunky; I just like the seen circuit board on the entrance. I believe this makes it much less threatening, much less, if you’ll, judge-y.)

• Extra metering enjoyable:

A hopeful signal. Any sightings within the wild from readers?

• The individuals who preserve saying “we now have the instruments” by no means middle the instruments that stop airborne transmission:

• This sorry state of affairs persists throughout the board:

Covid is just not the one illness the place “Vax solely” applies:

• Bear in mind when life was going to be easy, and we wouldn’t be seeing gibberish like BA.5 and BA.2.7.5 on our timelines? Properly, persons are taking issues into their very own arms:

(Truly, I don’t thoughts the gibberish an excessive amount of; the variant names remind me idol group names like 2NE1 or AKB48 (BNK48 (JKT48 (SNH48))). Or Chanel No. 5, I suppose.

In case you missed it, right here’s a publish on my queasiness with CDC numbers, particularly case depend, which I (nonetheless) take into account most vital, regardless of what Walensky’s psychos at CDC who invented “group ranges” suppose. However these are the numbers we now have.

Case Rely

Case depend for america:

The practice continues to be rolling. There was a bizarre, plateau-like “fiddling and diddling” stage earlier than the Omicron explosion, too. This conjuncture feels the identical. Underneath the hood the BA.4/BA.5 are making up a larger and larger proportion of circumstances. Do not forget that circumstances are undercounted, one supply saying by an element of six, Gottlieb considering we solely decide up one in seven or eight.) Therefore, I take the case depend and multiply it by six to approximate the actual degree of circumstances, and draw the DNC-blue “Biden Line” at that time. The earlier depend was ~125,200. At this time, it’s ~135,400 and 135,400 * 6 = a Biden line at 812,400 per day. That’s slightly loads of circumstances per day, when you consider it. At the least we now have affirmation that the extraordinary mass of case anecdotes we’ve seen have a foundation in actuality. (Bear in mind these knowledge factors are weekly averages, so day by day fluctuations are smoothed out.) The black “Fauci Line” is a counter to triumphalism, because it compares present ranges to previous crises.

Regional case depend for 4 weeks:

Now the South and West.

The South:

Florida and Texas, now neck and neck.

The West:

Whoa, Gavin!

Positivity

From the Walgreen’s check positivity tracker:

0.4%. Down! (I ponder if there’s a Keynesian Magnificence Contest impact, right here; that’s, if folks encounter a sympotomatic particular person, whether or not of their social circle or in regular exercise, they’re extra prone to get a check, as a result of they imagine, accurately, that it’s extra probably they are going to be contaminated.) What we’re seeing right here is the steepest and largest acceleration of positivity on Walgreen’s chart.

Transmission

NOTE: I shall most actually not be utilizing the CDC’s new “Community Level” metric. Because CDC has combined a leading indicator (cases) with a lagging one (hospitalization) their new metric is a poor warning sign of a surge, and a poor way to assess personal risk. In addition, Covid is a disease you don’t want to get. Even if you are not hospitalized, you can suffer from Long Covid, vascular issues, and neurological issues. For these reasons, case counts — known to be underestimated, due to home test kits — deserve to stand alone as a number to be tracked, no matter how much the political operatives in CDC leadership would like to obfuscate it. That the “green map” (which Topol calls a “capitulation” and a “deception”) is still up and being taken seriously verges on the criminal. Use the community transmission immediately below.

Here is CDC’s interactive map by county set to community transmission. This is the map CDC wants only hospitals to look at, not you. For June 30 – July 6:

Established order, i.e. it’s a not-over pandemic.

Lambert right here: After the transfer from the CDC to the laughingly named ‘https://healthdata.gov,” this discover appeared: “Efficient June 22, 2022, the Group Profile Report will solely be up to date twice per week, on Wednesdays and Fridays.” So now the administration has belatedly come to the conclusion that we’re in a BA.5 surge, and but important knowledge for making our private threat evaluation is barely accessible twice per week. What’s the over/beneath on whether or not they really ship tomorrow?

NOT UPDATED Speedy Riser knowledge, by county (CDC), July 14:

Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Alabama, Illinois all worse. California higher, oddlly. I don’t like these little pink speckles in New York, as a result of the Northeast has been quiet for a while (word slight rise in case knowledge). What’s that each one about

Earlier Speedy Riser knowledge:

NOT UPDATED Hospitalization knowledge, by state (CDC), July 14:

Very risky. Haven’t seen so little inexperienced (good) in fairly a while.

Variants

Lambert right here: It’s past irritating how sluggish the variant knowledge is. I appeared for extra charts: California doesn’t to a BA.4/BA.5 breakdown. New York does nevertheless it, too, is on a molasses-like two-week cycle. Does no one within the public well being institution get a promotion for monitoring variants? Are there no grants? Is there a single lab that does this work, and everyone will get the outcomes from them? Extra sources from readers welcome [grinds teeth, bangs head on desk].

NOT UPDATED Variant knowledge, nationwide (Walgreens), June 30:

NOT UPDATED Variant knowledge, nationwide (CDC), June 25:

BA.5 transferring alongside properly.

Wastewater

Wastewater knowledge (CDC), Jun 28, 2022 – Jul 12, 2022:

A number of orange, extra pink. Not good. This chart works a bit like fast riser counties: “This metric exhibits whether or not SARS-CoV-2 ranges at a web site are at the moment larger or decrease than previous historic ranges on the similar web site. 0% means ranges are the bottom they’ve been on the web site; 100% means ranges are the very best they’ve been on the web site.” So, there’s a bunch of pink dots on the West Coast. That’s 100%, so which means “ranges are the very best they’ve ever been.” Not damaged down by variant, CDC, good job.

Lambert right here: This web page was loading so slowly that I started to marvel if that is how CDC had chosen to sabotage wastewater efforts. Nonetheless, after some experimentation, I discover I have to flip off my VPN to get this web page to load. Good job, CDC.

Deaths

Demise charge (Our World in Information):

Complete: 1,048,843 1,048,232. I’ve added an anti-triumphalist Fauci Line. It’s good that for deaths I’ve a pleasant, easy, day by day chart that simply retains chugging alongside, not like the whole lot else CDC and the White Home are screwing up or letting go darkish, good job.

Stats Watch

There are not any official statistics of curiosity at present.

Commodities: “‘Dr Copper’ has a worrying message in regards to the vitality transition” [Financial Times]. “[Copper] can also be nicknamed ‘Dr Copper’. Owing to its widespread use and its sensitivity to enterprise cycles, its value has an uncanny potential to supply early warning of what’s forward for the financial system. The present fall within the value of copper is seen as a portent of slowdown or outright recession. However Dr Copper is now taking over a brand new function because the vital metallic for internet zero emissions. This “vitality transition demand” provides to the standard demand for the metallic in development, kitchen home equipment, computer systems and the innards of your cell phone. Many carmakers are pledging that each one their new autos might be electrical by the 2030s. The Biden administration within the US is concentrating on emissions-free electrical era by 2035, whereas the EU’s RePowerEU technique pledges an accelerated swap to renewable energy. The important thing level is that the applied sciences central to the vitality transition — similar to EVs, charging infrastructure, photo voltaic photovoltaics, wind generators and batteries — all require rather more copper than their typical hydrocarbon-based counterparts. As an example, a battery-powered electrical automobile requires no less than two and a half instances extra copper than a traditional automobile; a medium-sized truck 4 instances as a lot.”

The Bezzle: “Evaluation: Purchasers of crypto lender Celsius face lengthy wait over destiny of their funds” [Reuters]. “Clients of crypto lender Celsius face an extended and anxious wait to understand how, when and even when they’ll get their a refund after the corporate filed for chapter, changing into one of many greatest victims of the collapse in crypto markets this yr….. Whereas main crypto companies have failed earlier than, most notably the Japanese trade Mt. Gox in 2014, there may be little precedent for the remedy of consumers at stricken crypto lenders, the legal professionals mentioned. ‘It’s, at finest, unknown how the chapter code and chapter courts might be treating cryptocurrency corporations,’ mentioned James Van Horn, associate at Barnes & Thornburg in Washington… Whereas it isn’t clear how Celsius will classify its purchasers, it did warn clients it could deal with them as unsecured collectors – and clients are prone to litigate over such a standing, mentioned Max Dilendorf, a lawyer in New York specialising in crypto.” • It has gone the place the woodbine twineth….

The Bezzle: “Crypto collapse reverberates extensively amongst black American traders” [FInancial Times]. “1 / 4 of black American traders owned cryptocurrencies initially of the yr, in contrast with solely 15 per cent of white traders, in response to a survey by Ariel Investments and Charles Schwab. Black People had been greater than twice as prone to buy cryptocurrency as their first funding… Black People’ larger publicity to cryptocurrencies has left them extra weak to the monetary downturn, whilst their households on common maintain much less wealth….. The promise of cryptocurrencies as a wealth builder has been supercharged by movie star endorsements, sponsorships and promoting. Outstanding black People together with the musicians Jay-Z and Snoop Dogg, the boxer Floyd Mayweather, the actor Jamie Foxx and the film-maker Spike Lee have promoted crypto to their communities.”

Tech: “Report: Apple and Jony Ive will not work collectively” [Ars Technica]. “In 2019, Ive departed the corporate to discovered an impartial design agency, referred to as LoveFrom, and Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner introduced his intention to work with Ive “lengthy into the longer term” in a deal that was price greater than $100 million…. Now, ‘two folks with data of their contractual settlement” have instructed The New York Instances that the design agency and Apple will not be working collectively.’” • Good. The brand new MacBook Professional, which is a strong, to not say chonky machine to which — hallelujah! — the MagSafe connector has returned, exhibits that Ives’ “skinny in any respect prices” aesthetic was harmful of the {hardware} necessities that productive professionals have. His departure was, if something, overdue.

At this time’s Worry & Greed Index: 28 Worry (earlier shut: 26 Worry) [CNN]. One week in the past: 27 (Worry). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Jul 18 at 3:39 PM EDT.

Rapture Index: Closes down one on Oil Provide/Value. “Oil has dropped under $100 per barrel” [Rapture Ready]. Report Excessive, October 10, 2016: 189. Present: 187. (Do not forget that bringing on the Rapture is good.) I’ve been ready for the Rapture Index to hit the all time excessive once more. Now it has. UPDATE And now it retreats once more. Actually?!

Gardening

Butterfly counts:

Generally, I believe we must be counting extra pure issues (and fewer issues in spreadsheets). Butterflies, CO2…

The Conservatory

Reel-to-reel scratching (!):

Zeitgeist Watch

“Three straightforward methods to search out hidden cameras in resorts and rental houses” [CNBC]. “Practically 60% of People mentioned they had been frightened about hidden cameras in Airbnb houses in 2019. And 11% of trip residence renters mentioned that they had found a hidden digital camera throughout a keep, in response to a survey by the actual property funding firm IPX1031.” Many beneficial hints for recognizing the issues, together with: “Virtually all covert cameras are hid in family units, similar to lights, thermostats, and plugged clock radios, [Kenneth Bombace, CEO of intelligence firm Global Threat Solutions] mentioned…. He mentioned the very first thing he does in a bed room is unplug the clock radios and put them in a drawer.” • Who did this?

Class Warfare

“Boeing ‘dissatisfied’ union recommending rejection of contract supply” [Reuters]. • That’s a rattling disgrace.

Information of the Wired

“CP/M’s open-source standing clarified after 21 years’ [The Register]. “CP/M first appeared in 1974, just one yr after the primary model of UNIX written in C. The distinction is that even then, UNIX was slightly complicated, whereas CP/M is tiny…. Because of its tiny dimension and excessive simplicity, nowadays it’s pretty easy to hand-build your individual Z80 pc from elements – on a breadboard, or from a package, of which the RC2014 is a well-liked instance. The RC2014 can run a number of ROMs and OSes, together with RomWBW, which lets you boot a selection of CP/M kinfolk: CP/M 2.2, ZSDOS 1.1, NZCOM, CP/M 3, and ZPM3, amongst others.” • Jackpot-ready!

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