16 Nov
2003
16 Nov
'03
3:25 p.m.
On Sunday, November 16, 2003, at 10:25 PM, Joe wrote:
I was a member too - but I have long forgotten my number.
I had the only (Nuclear) Weapon Effects ROM outside
of
the military
Pretty cool, it's not classified??
(see <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/we/> and a
pair of the
Military Engineering ROMs. Other than those, the coolest ROM that I
had
was the Astro ROM. It's a special surveying ROM that lets you take
extremely accurate readings and/or over extremely long distances. I
sold it
to a group that is re-surveying the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.
Believe
it or not there are no accurate surveys of the place and they've even
managed to lose a few tombs due to the poor maps of the area.
Has anyone a copy of my :Labrinth: program? I think it needed the PPC
rom
and the first prompt asked for the name of the "Dungeon?" (it used the
name to create some constants.. these were combined with the xyz
location
of the player to actually display doors/walls/arches All the stairs are
at 0,0 IIRC.
Is anyone here
a sometime member of PPC?
Yeap (#12114 IIRC) and it's short lived successor HPPC (IIRC). I was
Wasn't that CHUU? HPPC I think, is alive and well and meeting in the UK.
still active in the HP user's group up till a
couple of years ago.
They gave everyone there a free HP-49.
Nice..