31 Jul
2016
31 Jul
'16
8:11 a.m.
On 2016-Jul-31, at 12:12 AM, Kevin Parker wrote:
Just spotted this Brad clearing up email after a 4
week break. I can't answer your question but it reminded me of something that
other list users may be able to help with or it might just be of interest.
Quite some time ago a friend of mine bought a travel agent in a shopping mall, did a
refit of the shop and then later went bust.
Fortunately before the refit and going bust he gave me his old shop display which was run
on a modified Commodore.
I haven't opened it up or powered it up but if anyone knows what this is I'd be
grateful. I've posted some photos:
http://koken.advancedimaging.com.au/index.php?/albums/shop-mall-commodore-6…
Kevin Parker
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Subject: Mall directory computers
Been wondering about this for a while. Just one of those odd childhood
memories.
When I was a kid growing up in Oakville, Ontario, I remember Oakville Mall getting one of
those very early mall directory computers.
This would have been like, 1982-84, somewhere thereabouts. From what I remember, they
had kind of CGA-sh graphics and a chiclet
'keyboard' you used to browse the directory. I'm wondering, were they just
PCs, most likely? Or some kind of custom job?
A local town here has a large mechanical horse out front of city hall, built in the
80's and (originally) controlled by a C64.
http://roadsideattractions.ca/beast.html
http://wikimapia.org/872100/The-Beast
Somewhere around 15 years ago it had problems and 'no one' could be found to
maintain the C64 (as I recall the newspaper article).
The C64 has apparently been replaced.