7 Sep
2007
7 Sep
'07
10:23 p.m.
Curtis H. Wilbar Jr. wrote:
Josh Dersch wrote:
The former's basically what I was planning on doing. The "challenge"
I
spoke of is that I'm new to programming the Mac and new to Appletalk so
I need to dig into what it'll take to write client/server code for
"distributing" the time amongst the machines :). I've found all the
requisite documentation, it's just a matter of sitting down and digging
into it now...
- Josh
Liam Proven wrote:
time sync ? only one needs to tell time :-) ... the rest just need to
display
the remainder of the digits...
Either use messages over the appletalk of what to display... or treat
each
computer 'up' the chain like a dumb mechanical counter....
call the boxes H1, H2, M1, M2, S1, S2.... S2 tells the time... when it
rolls over to
zero it sends a 'tick' to S1... S1 knows its 'position', so when it
rolls over from 5
to 0, it sends a tick to M2.... and up the 'ticking' goes.
Either way would be 'fun' :-)
-- Curt
On 05/09/07, Josh Dersch <derschjo at
msu.edu> wrote:
Thanks for the vote of support :). I think most of the code should
be dead simple but I'm not sure how the time-sync networking
portion's going to go. I also need to pick up some serial Appletalk
cabling; the SEs and the SE/30s have ethernet cards, but the Classics
are unexpandable and thus do not. Maybe I can just find some more
SEs to use :). Hi all --
I'm looking to do a bit of (simple) development targeting a 68k Mac
(or
two, or three, or six...) and since I've never done any programming
on a
Mac before I'm curious if anyone out there has any recommendations
for a
development environment to use or to avoid. I'd prefer C/C++, but I'm
flexible :). I'd like to be able to run my code on a Mac
Classic/SE (so
I need to be able to compile to 68000 code) but I'll be doing the
development itself on a IIfx.
In case you're interested, I'm writing the software to build a
clock of
sorts out of a set of six "classic" form factor Macs I have lying
around
(two Classics, two SEs and two SE/30s). Each computer will display
one
digit of the time, and will be synchronized over an Appletalk
network to
keep the system times in sync. Or so goes the theory. Figure
it'll be
a fun display to have set up, and a somewhat interesting use for some
otherwise-idle Macintosh hardware :).
That is a really cool idea, which I like a lot.
I am sure you're aware of it, but it instantly brought to mind the
story of Jamie Zawinski's Dali clock and getting it running on various
elderly Macs...
http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/dali.html