18 Oct
2004
18 Oct
'04
12:28 p.m.
So I'll be appearing tomorrow on The Screen Savers on G4TechTV (just about
everyone in the US should be able to catch it since the merger opened up
both collective channels to most major cable/satellite systems).
The live show airs at 4pm PST (California) and usually repeats a couple
times after that every 3 hours or so. Check your local listings for exact
air times.
I'll be demoing a PDP-1 front panel replica hooked to a laptop running the
PDP-1 emulator on SIMH, further running Spacewar! with Phil Budne's XY
simulator code. I've also constructed some Spacewar! controllers modeled
after the original MIT controllers that will be used to play the game.
The front panel will be blinking and all that. It should be interesting
(somewhat) to watch.
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20 Oct
20 Oct
1:03 a.m.
At 07:28 PM 10/18/2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
So I'll be appearing tomorrow on The Screen Savers
on G4TechTV (just about
everyone in the US should be able to catch it since the merger opened up
both collective channels to most major cable/satellite systems).
Episodes 10/18 and 10/19 are now up on http://www.suprnova.org as
161 meg downloads, if you want them.
- John
1:31 a.m.
How do you open these files? I'm not familiar with this "torrent" thing...
tried renaming them to just .asf for Windows Media Player 10, but got some
error message about the wrong codec or whatever.
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At 07:28 PM 10/18/2004, Vintage Computer Festival
wrote:
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So I'll be appearing tomorrow on The Screen
Savers on G4TechTV (just about
everyone in the US should be able to catch it since the merger opened up
both collective channels to most major cable/satellite systems).
Episodes 10/18 and 10/19 are now up on http://www.suprnova.org as
161 meg downloads, if you want them.
- John
1:57 a.m.
At 08:31 AM 10/20/2004, Computer Collector E-Mail Newsletter wrote:
How do you open these files? I'm not familiar with
this "torrent" thing...
tried renaming them to just .asf for Windows Media Player 10, but got some
error message about the wrong codec or whatever.
First you need to install the BitTorrent client. It talks
to the peer-to-peer network. The .torrent file is just a link,
it's not the movie. Once the client is installed, if you open
a .torrent link, it'll connect to the network and download
the file. Then you'll be in WMP-land.
- John
4:28 a.m.
Yup, there he is, from 34:15 to 40:15 on the 10/19 show...
a great description of what classic collecting is about.
The twenty-something host says he paid $350 on eBay
for a shrinkwrapped Windows 1.0. (Gee, I knew my shrinkwrap
machine would come in handy someday.)
- John
7:15 a.m.
On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, John Foust wrote:
Yup, there he is, from 34:15 to 40:15 on the 10/19
show...
a great description of what classic collecting is about.
Thanks! I just wish the stage lights didn't wash out the activity on the
front panel (it really was blinking away...I swear it!)
The twenty-something host says he paid $350 on eBay
for a shrinkwrapped Windows 1.0. (Gee, I knew my shrinkwrap
machine would come in handy someday.)
I teased him about that :) But he was happy with it.
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10:53 a.m.
I watched as well, and saw the lights blinking away. The screensavers
set lighting seems to be much "hotter" since they moved to LA and it
really washes out most "white" things (such as the front panel
lamps...) I messed with my projector's brightness and contrast a bit
and it was MUCH clearer.
Beautiful panel work, by the way...
-Gary
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
Thanks! I just wish the stage lights didn't wash out the activity on the
front panel (it really was blinking away...I swear it!)
11 a.m.
does anyone happen to have a copy of it in avi or whatever, for us poor sods
over here that dont get the channel (I cant even get channel 5 here - or
satellite for that matter, unless I pay for a bloke to come out and put a
sky dish on a stupid pole on the other side of sum1 elses house).
regards
charles
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Subject: Re: Appearance on G4TechTV's The Screen Savers
I watched as well, and saw the lights blinking away.
The screensavers set
lighting seems to be much "hotter" since they moved to LA and it really
washes out most "white" things (such as the front panel lamps...) I messed
with my projector's brightness and contrast a bit and it was MUCH clearer.
Beautiful panel work, by the way...
-Gary
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Thanks! I just wish the stage lights didn't wash out the activity on the
front panel (it really was blinking away...I swear it!)
1:34 a.m.
Nevermind, figured it out.
--- John Foust <jfoust(a)threedee.com> wrote:
At 07:28 PM 10/18/2004, Vintage Computer Festival
wrote:
=====
Tell your friends about the Computer Collector Newsletter!
-- It's free and we'll never send spam or share your email address
-- Publishing every Monday(-ish), ask about writing for us
-- Mainframes to videogames, hardware and software, we cover it all
Visit the museums directory and read about past events
at our web site: http://news.computercollector.com
Contact us at news(a)computercollector.com
575 readers and counting!
So I'll be appearing tomorrow on The Screen
Savers on G4TechTV (just about
everyone in the US should be able to catch it since the merger opened up
both collective channels to most major cable/satellite systems).
Episodes 10/18 and 10/19 are now up on http://www.suprnova.org as
161 meg downloads, if you want them.
- John
1:43 a.m.
Rumor has it that John Foust may have mentioned these words:
At 07:28 PM 10/18/2004, Vintage Computer Festival
wrote:
Not to sound like a dork, but how does one access them? For example, the
filename it tries to save through Mozilla is:
G4TechTv_The_Scr_Savers_10_18_04[1].asf.torrent
[[ I'm not sure what the .torrent ending is... ]]
and methinks it thinks that it's a streaming file (or at least that's what
Mozilla thinks), as it's only a 12K file that is downloaded.
IE does the same thing... :-/
Apologies for being a moron, but beyond MPEGs, I don't know video from a
hole in the ground...
Thanks,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch(a)30below.com
What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????
So I'll be appearing tomorrow on The Screen
Savers on G4TechTV (just about
everyone in the US should be able to catch it since the merger opened up
both collective channels to most major cable/satellite systems).
Episodes 10/18 and 10/19 are now up on http://www.suprnova.org as
161 meg downloads, if you want them. 
12:22 p.m.
In message <5.1.0.14.2.20041020093713.03bcd8b0(a)mail.30below.com>
Roger Merchberger <zmerch(a)30below.com> wrote:
Not to sound like a dork, but how does one access
them? For example, the
filename it tries to save through Mozilla is:
G4TechTv_The_Scr_Savers_10_18_04[1].asf.torrent
[[ I'm not sure what the .torrent ending is... ]]
It means it's a Torrent file, i.e. a BitTorrent link.
You need either Bittorrent, ABC ("Another Bittorrent Client") or Shareaza to
download it.
The idea is, when you're downloading, your machine contributes parts of the
file to other people, thereby spreading the load. One machine (the "tracker")
keeps track of everyone who's downloading and uploading.
If you're on dialup, don't waste your time - you'll be there until Hell
freezes over trying to download - Bt is designed to give you roughly what you
upload back in terms of download. So if you upload at 50k/sec, you'll get
about the same (sometimes more) back. If you don't upload anything, you get a
2k/sec download. Usually when your maching gets around 5-10% of the file, the
transfer rate rockets. Also make sure that if you're behind a NAT, your NAT
is set to forward the relevant ports, or you'll get the dreaded Really Slow
Download...
Later.
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philpem(a)philpem.me.uk | ViewFinder, 10BaseT Ethernet, 2-slice,
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