ClassicCmp Reality Series ...

"Who Wants To Own A Meg Of RAM" - Answer 15 questions correctly, starting with "How many bits in an 8-bit word" and work your way up to reciting the last five license plates of cars owned by Seymour Cray. Winners get one megabyte of RAM (8 bit bytes), parity checked, at 120ns in discrete TTL logic. "Survivor: (Slashdor series)" 60 people (mostly men) are subscribed to a mailing list. Except instead of being free form, it has a group moderation feature a-la Slashdot. Instead of getting mod'ed down to -1, you get voted off the list. Who'll be the last poster standing? Immunity challenges are replaced with being marked "insightful" and mod'ed up to 5 on a post, while being able to bash Jon Katz. "Temptation Mailing List" 60 people (same group) are subscribed to a mailing list, and all other access to other computers is cut off. Can they stay on topic with the mailing list, or will they all succumb to their darkest fears? "MSN House" Ooops. This was done already. Too bad WebVan has gone out of business - now they are going to starve to death. "VAXyard Wars" Build a machine capable of running a SETI work unit in 15 hours. You are limited to vintage hardware (pre-1985) for this task. You can use anything you can find in the hardware, including water cooling equipment for overclocking the cranky of VAXes. Oh, and you have to pedal a bicycle that you build yourself to supply the electricity. Hard drives are made out of old tires. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/