Has anyone cached this yet? The bit rates are so low that it must be hosted
on his machine at home.
Heaven help him if this story gets posted to Slashdot :-)
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From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Vintage Computer
Festival
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 1:41 PM
To: Classic Computers Mailing List
Subject: Apollo Guidance Computer prototype replica
This is going to blow your mind. This guy built a replica of the Apollo
Guidance Computer prototype circa 1964 using 1960s era components.
http://starfish.osfn.org/AGCreplica/
Do I sense here a Best of Show award at the next VCF? :)
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Not trying to start any flames but I didn't think they had any 30/30
rifles in UK. I thought that's why the Bobbies carried batons and a
whistle.
Sellam says
>
>Maybe it was both: the 30/30 evoked the name of the rifle, which also
>happened to be the name of a nearby locale, and the naming was obvious
>thenceforth.
Mike
I think we've discussed this before. Sorry if we're re-treading old
ground.
I'm trying to read a disk an old double-density PC formatted disk on a
high-density drive. I can read the directory and certain small files just
fine, but any files that are larger than a few sectors (or perhaps that
span a track) return "Sector Not Found" errors. What is the deal with
that?
This is under DOS 6.22. Is there a way to get DOS to recognize that this
is a double-density disk and to perform whatever internal magic is
necessary to read the disk properly? Or is this an issue of hardware?
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Hi everyone,
This is VERY cool: Jeri Ellsworth and her C64 30-in-1 joystick are featured in
The New York Times. As I write this email (2:54AM, Monday), it's on the actual
nytimes.com homepage, with a color photo of her. The article itself is at
(http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/20/technology/20joystick.html?8dpc).
There is a product review of the 30-in-1, head-to-head against the new Atari
Flashback, at my own site (http://news.computercollector.com) -- click the
'reviews' link.
Happy vintage gaming!
- Evan K.
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The intellectual property issues would be key for me, too and could
have been dealt with in a few sentences. As far as the crappy-versus-good
title licenses, I would offer up that the final choice of games comes down
to (1) which IP owner you could locate and (2) successfully negotiate with.
There's the firm...Tulip I think...that from what I've read seems to
be ready to come down hard on anyone using abandoned Commodore properties
for commercial gain. It's been a long road of failed owners, but I believe
Tulip owns the Commodore trademarks and IP. I can't say for sure if they own
the designs for the 6510 but I would assume that they bought a "package" of
IP from Gateway, who bought it from Ascom AG, who bought it from the
Commodore bankruptcy estate for $5mm (IIRC). There might be another name in
there after Ascom, but I can't be sure.
I think that Tulip uses the Commodore name for things other than
computers but owns all of the goodies that's of particular interest to this
group.
Rich
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From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of John Foust
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 3:46 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Our hobby in The New York Times -- sort of
At 02:41 PM 12/20/2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>I can think of at least one more important issue to be concerned with :)
Judging by Slashdot's coverage of Ellsworth and the geek response,
at least 90% of this mailing list's bandwidth needs to be consumed
debating her "hotness."
Sated geek that I am, I'd love to read an in-depth article on the
intellection property issues: Did they get permission from the
CBM's heirs? Who got the 6510's IP rights? What about the software,
was that easy to license? Why do so many of these cheap emulators
license lousy titles, as opposed to the extinct top-sellers?
- John
> I was wondering whether anyone here with '70s
> issues of SciAm might be able to make a copy,
Likely I have the issue stored.
I'd have to leave it to you right
now to find out which issue it would be.
With that info I could make you a copy.
John A.
hope this can help you
Bill the cat: "ACK TBFfffttt!"
Deciphered the missing keyboard cable and the far, far too
complicated keyboard interface (I practically rewired a Cromemco
PRI board to be an interface for this lovely Microswitch parallel
keyboard -- very hardware-head), soaked & washed the mouse
poop off the floppy cable, repaired the section of conductor
#50 nibbled by said rodentia, picked a system floppy at random
(DSSD), typed "b" at the prompt... READ ERROR.
Pulled a SSSD system disk, booted fine! Some fiddling, I can't
read any sectors of side 2. That I will figure out. It does
figure out sidedness.
Found I have bunches of blank NOS DSDD floppies, not one SSSD
blank! So no formatting etc.
So I ran all the progs on the system disk (wordstar, sid, pmate,
stat, etc) OK. Since I've got a bunch of SSSD system disks,
I stuck another in the B drive (a sssd drive, since mice ruined
the orig. drive), and ran MBASIC 5.03 off it.
Man, the B drive spindle bearing is trashed; it's
conversation-level loud. The G and right-shift keys on the
keyboard don't work, and the RETURN key sends a garbage character
then CR (but Control-M works so I can do stuff).
I need to fix the "G" key, figure out the serial port stuff,
then I can export the SSSD diskette contents. Once I fix the DS
thing I'll do the other non 3740 format diskettes. I don't know
yet what order I'll do things in though I will probably get one
of the serial ports working to make sure. Luckily I have ZAPLOAD
(bin to hex) and telink (telecomm) progs on the system disk.
At 12:50 PM 12/20/2004, you wrote:
>Has anyone cached this yet? The bit rates are so low that it must be hosted
>on his machine at home.
>Heaven help him if this story gets posted to Slashdot :-)
Either there's a CCC Effect, or maybe whereever Sellam learned
about it, others learned too. I'm getting about 1-4K/sec, but
the first PDF is 8 meg. I can mirror when it's done.
If you look up one directory, you'll see he's mirroring
Carl Friend's site.
- John
> Tulip owns the Commodore trademarks and IP. I can't say for sure if they
> own the designs for the 6510
It doesn't really matter, as no one building a product today would use
any portion of the original 6510 design that is subject to intellectual
property protection. The DTV 64-in-a-joystick, for instance, uses a
new 6510-compatible HDL implementation.
AFAIK, the only part of the original 6510 design that would be subject
to intellectual property protection now would be the actual mask designs,
which might (or might not) be copyrighted. No one in their right mind
would try to make new 3 micron NMOS processors today, and the mask designs
are not relevant to new redesigns.
