25 Jul
2001
25 Jul
'01
3:20 a.m.
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, John Honniball wrote:
Not just any blue box, but Woz's very own,
original blue box.
Which I got to hold (and I had the whole world in my hands :) (brownie
points for anyone getting that reference ;)
Is it just me, or could you imagine Tony Duell's
team on a high-tech
version of Scrapheap Challenge/Junkyard Wars, building a PDP-11 out of
whatever they can find lying around? Then toggling in the
bootstrap...
I've actually been machinating such an event for the VCF. Not this year,
but for next year. A heap of old computers of all kinds in various states
of disassembly or completeness is thrown into a couple piles, and each
team has to assemble a working computer out of the parts.
Imagine a PDP 11/34 CPU with a TRS-80 keyboard, an Apple ][ disk drive and
a C64 motherboard with CRT for a terminal interface :)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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