28 Oct
2002
28 Oct
'02
11:17 a.m.
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Tom Uban wrote:
It was a great event, thanks to Sellam and his help. I
live in the Chicago
area, but happened to be in the San Jose area for VCF 5.0. The talks that
I went to were quite interesting and in talking to Bruce Damer, the founder
of http://www.digibarn.com , I was able to hook up with Howard Palmer,
the originator of mazewar on the Imlac. Druce has a nice story about the
history of mazewar on his site. Since I have a running Imlac (which I took
to VCF East 1.0, I was very interested in finding out if the source for mazewar
was still around, and I now have a copy. Hopefully, I will be able to make the
necessary additions to my Imlac assembler to allow me to assemble the
code and run it on my Imlac. If Bob Shannon were to build a long vector
board for his Imlac, then we might be able to play mazewar against each
other. When I finally finish my work on my Imlac emulator, others will
hopefully
be able to play it as well.
I have a long vector option that was kludged into my Imlac. I also met *
and found out that he lives just a few minutes away from me. He was the
guy who wrote most of Maze. He brought plenty of Imlac and Maze docs to
the VCF. I'm going to be getting together with him in the next couple
weeks to get copies and talk to him more about it.
So, for me, VCF 5.0 was wonderful! I got to meet a
number of interesting
people, etc.
I'm glad you were able to make it. As I said, it was a nice surprise to
see you there!
Sorry, but I didn't take any pics of significance
at the show. I'm sure
that some will show up on the http://www.vintage.org site in the not too
distant future.
I didn't get to take my pictures either, but many people did for me.
If you have pictures of the VCF, I would like copies to post to the VCF
5.0 Gallery. I would prefer you e-mail me a link as to where they can be
downloaded (please send to <sellam(a)vintage.org>rg>, not here) but if you
don't have a way of hosting them then you can just e-mail a ZIP of them to
the same address.
I will post a more formal VCF 5.0 wrap up soon, including names and
descriptions of the VCF Exhibit awardees.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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