>> Return To Pirates Isle PHM 3189
>
>Nice. Scott Adams was my favorite programmer when I was 13. I had
>"Adventureland" and "Pirate's Island" in BASIC for the PET - still
>have the original tape. It gave me a life-long love for Interactive
>Fiction.
Humm... I have a bunch of his text adventures for the Apple II. Something
like 13 of them. I played them all, and won many. Spent many a rainy day
sitting playing them. I was always impressed with how good and unique
they each seemed to be.
They even encouraged me to try writing my own text adventure (never
finished it), and I suspect at some level, they are responsible for me
getting into writing fiction myself (IIRC, my first play was an
adaptation of one of his games)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
> 2 3 + .
>
> That's a total of 8 keys to press --
> <two><space><three><space><plus><space><period><return>
>
> You should get
> 5 OK
> on the terminal (or something like that, with a 5 in it).
Unfortunatly it results in:
2 3 + . .?
I just realized that there is documentation included, it's in the 'sol.sd',
so I'm going to have to pour through it. I get the distinct impression that
it's not working the way it should, so I need to see if I've installed it
incorrectly (the first look through makes it look like it's installed
correctly).
> > I suspect the TU58 option means that it's possible to run this on a PDP-11
> > that doesn't have any drives, but has two SLU's, just run a TU58 emulator on
> > a PC.
>
> Almost certainly yes. Of course eccentrics like me would probably _want_
> to try the real TU58 :-)
If it supported the 11/03 or Falcon, I'd consider trying it with real
TU58's. However, in looking at the docs now that I've finally found them I
suspect that TU58's are intended to only be for installing on a disk.
> Will an old version of Linux do? Or should I finally try to get Release 7
> running on the 11/45 (or BSD on the 11/44)? I don't have time to play
Unless you need a newer version of gcc than you have installed, an old
version of Linux should work (I assume by old you're talking 1.x). I don't
know if this is something that could be built on a PDP-11 running UNIX.
Zane
>From: "William Donzelli" <aw288(a)osfn.org>
>
>> I wonder if this might have something to do with
>> the NASA buys?
>> Dwight
>
>I think it is pure economics of a maturing collectable field. There is
>really nothing strange about some very rare chips fetching huge prices -
>the collectable (and I an not including the audio market) tube scene
>works just the same way. Some tubes, with only a tiny difference in
>contruction from the norm, are worth oodles.
>
>William Donzelli
>aw288(a)osfn.org
>
Ya, I know what you mean. I wish I had a box full of 450's and 2A3's.
a couple hundred WD11's would be nice as well. ( for the rest
of the group, that is tube talk ).
Dwight
Lest this degenerate into another anti-Microsoft panegyric, here's the MSNBC
gushy bit on Palladium, Microsoft's new hardware certification and
encryption device:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/770511.asp?cp1=1
Here's the Gurus (Register USA) article that got me thinking:
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25378.html
My question is this. It looks like, even by the bright soft sweetness in
the MSNBC article, that everything that comes in and out, as well as gets
executed and touched by, a Palladium-based system needs to be certified.
If that's so, since many classic servers or systems may not have the oomph or
capability to exchange data with a Palladium because they can't build the
certificate, or if a licensing fee were needed from MS, what would this mean
to us running old servers or OSes that won't speak in Microsoft's blessed
credentials? Even E-mail or web pages served up might have to be signed.
I'm not upgrading stockholm or my Solbourne just to speak in certificates.
(The other issues, such as everything you run on a Palladium system having
to be signed, even freeware at a potential cost to the author for a license
key, as well as the death of open source, are probably OT but definitely
scary.)
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I know this is mildly off topic but I've run out of places to look so I'll ask here. Recently I found a bunch of new HP microwave transitors in a pile of surplus scrap. I'd not sure what you call this package but the transistor is about 1/16" in size and it has four leads sticking out radially. Each lead is about 1/4" long. Their part number is TXVT-2101 and I can't find a number remotely like that on HP's or Agilent's websites. A Google search also failed to find anything. Each transistor is in an individual box and each is serial numbered and has the gain written on it. I think they date from about 1983 but I'm not positive about that. They're obviously expensive parts and I'd like to find out more about them. Can anyone help?
Joe
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2034993396
Unfortunately, I logged on about 20 minutes too late. It is a 1960's wang
programmable calculator with a printer, card reader, and an external core
memory expansion module. The exact model isn't listed. Supposedly all in
working order. The winning price: a low, low buy-it-now of $25.99.
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Rumor has it that David Woyciesjes may have mentioned these words:
> > From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk
>[snip]
> > > 20) If the space bar on your keyboard doesn't work, blame it on the mail
> > > upgrade. Keyboards are actually very happy with half a pound of muffin
> > > crumbs and nail clippings in them.
> >
> I'm reminded of one of my users who said her whole computer would
>"freak out" when she used her mouse. (BTW She's right handed...) So, once I
>get to her desk, everything is okay for me, and using the mouse (located to
>the right, and behind the keyboard.) was normal.
> So I ask her to show me. That's when I see her heavy, very loose &
>baggy sleeve, wool sweater push down just about every key on the numeric
>keypad. Especially the Enter key. When I pointed this out to her, she said
>"No it's not. It's the computer!"
>"Really? Okay. Well I'm gonna go downstairs and check the server for
>problems. In the meantime, watch your sleeve, just in case."
> And no, I didn't bother with the server. Just went to lunch. And
>never heard about that problem again...
I have one better - when I worked as a tech (way back when Winders 3.1 was
king...) one lady said she couldn't get her work done, because WordPerfect
for Winders kept crashing. (There were more memory leaks in that program
than a sieve...) She was not restarting winders every crash, so I told her
in the short term if it crashed she needed to restart winders every time,
that would help lower the hard crashes until I had a chance to troubleshoot
the problem.
She went ballistic. "How the hell do you expect me to get my work done if I
have to keep restarting windows?" (understandable...) Two hours later, I
made it to her cubicle, and after an hour (troubleshooting, testing,
double-checking, and fixing), figured out that it was the driver for her
3-button Logitech mouse (great mice, crappy drivers) was causing WPW to
crash so often, so I removed the driver, and everything seemed fine...
... an hour later, I got an even more ballistic call - "Where the hell did
my double-click go?" "'Scuse me?" "My middle button quit working! Where'd
my double-click go?" "I told you, that was the reason why your WP was
crashing. You wanted that fixed, I fixed it. "Well, how the HELL do you
expect me to get my work done without my double-click????" -- "You *might*
try double-clicking on the left mouse button..." "I can't be bothered with
doing THAT! Do you realize how much TIME having my double-click saves me! I
just can't be BOTHERED to do that on my own!!! Get your a$$ back here and
give me my double-click!!!" But ma'am, if I do that, your WP will start
crashing again, and you'll need to restart your windows every time that
happens. "I don't CARE! I just can't get my work done without my
double-click!!!!!"
It's times like those that make me wish I became a farmer instead...
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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At 09:58 AM 6/27/02 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> > 27) When you have a lock to pick on an old file cabinet, call IT
>> > Support. We love to hack.
>>
>> You mean there are computer people who _can't_ pick filing cabinet locks?
>> I am truely amazed....
>>
> Yeah, a DeWalt cordless and the proper bit work wonders. :)
Man! that's cheating! I used to work at Martin Marietta and they moved everyone around frequently. When they did we got other desks, file drawers etc. The problem was theat we now had to change keys and had to keep up with new ones. I became very popular when my co-workers found out that I could pick the locks on all the desks and cabinents, remove the lock cylinders then re-install them in their new furniture so that they could keep their old keys. Interestingly, the facilities people didn't mind. It saved them the trouble of replacing lost keys and what not.
Joe
> From: Joe
>
> At 09:58 AM 6/27/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >> > 27) When you have a lock to pick on an old file cabinet, call IT
> >> > Support. We love to hack.
> >>
> >> You mean there are computer people who _can't_ pick filing cabinet
> locks?
> >> I am truely amazed....
> >>
> > Yeah, a DeWalt cordless and the proper bit work wonders. :)
>
> Man! that's cheating! I used to work at Martin Marietta and they moved
> everyone around frequently. When they did we got other desks, file drawers
> etc. The problem was theat we now had to change keys and had to keep up
> with new ones. I became very popular when my co-workers found out that I
> could pick the locks on all the desks and cabinents, remove the lock
> cylinders then re-install them in their new furniture so that they could
> keep their old keys. Interestingly, the facilities people didn't mind. It
> saved them the trouble of replacing lost keys and what not.
>
> Joe
>
Not really, if you can't get the filing cabinet open, and needs it's
contents right now. And can't wait 2 weeks for facilities to do it...
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