On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Terry Stewart <terry at webweavers.co.nz> wrote:
I love the oldskool feel and appearance of my
Challenger Machines. At:
http://youtu.be/xQUhFoBDGT0 in HD this time if anyone wants to take a peek.
Nice! They made those a couple of miles from where I live, but even
growing up nearby, I only knew 2-3 people who owned OSI equipment.
One friend a little older than me replaced his 1802-based robot with a
better model equipped with a Superboard, and a friend of my parents
paid full tick for a Challenger III. I don't need to own a
Challlenger III (they weren't abundant in any case), but I'd love a
chance to use what I know now to noodle around on one. Back in the
day, I knew PETs forwards and backwards but only some of that
knowledge was useful to me on the C3, so when I would go over to our
friend's house, I never really got anything useful accomplished.
I used to have a bare C4P board I'd picked up somewhere (Dayton?) with
the intention of turning it into a system, but I never did and
eventually gave it to Hans Franke as a hosting present when I visited
him in 1999.
-ethan