15 Jan
2002
15 Jan
'02
2:07 a.m.
Y'all,
I am sure you will all be happy to know the following...
Dell fields Super Bowl deal
Dell Computer announced that it has signed on to be the National
Football League's official computer systems provider for the upcoming
Super Bowl XXXVI. Dell also signed a deal to be the NFL's hardware
supplier for the remainder of 2002.
As part of the Super Bowl agreement, the company will provide on-site
service and support for computer systems used in Super Bowl
operations, which will include some 200 Dell desktops imported to New
Orleans from league headquarters. And under the new Dell-NFL hardware
agreement, the league will purchase 120 or more PowerEdge 2500 servers
and a storage area network. Dell says it has had a sales relationship
with the NFL since 1998. --John G. Spooner, ZDNet News
And.... TRON Collectors Edition on DVD was released today!! :-D The coolest
computer animation of the 80's!
Cheers,
Bryan Pope
15 Jan
15 Jan
2:34 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Pope" <bpope(a)wordstock.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 11:37 PM
Subject: More DELLness & TRON! :D
And.... TRON Collectors Edition on DVD was released
today!! :-D The
coolest
computer animation of the 80's!
Wasn't the animation done on a 'one off' development of the PDP-11? Foonly?
Super Foonly?
Cheers
Geoff in Oz
3:18 a.m.
Geoff Roberts wrote:
>And.... TRON Collectors Edition on DVD was released
today!! :-D The
> coolest computer animation of the 80's!
Wasn't the animation done on a 'one off'
development of the PDP-11? Foonly?
Super Foonly?
PDP-10 not PDP-11, Foonly is the right name. Not long ago there was a
thread on alt.sys.pdp10 discussing the whereabouts of that particular
system. No difinitive answer emerged.
-- hbp
3:43 a.m.
At 03:18 PM 1/15/2002 +0100, Hans B Pufal wrote:
PDP-10 not PDP-11, Foonly is the right name. Not long
ago there was a thread on alt.sys.pdp10 discussing the whereabouts of that particular
system. No difinitive answer emerged.
And I always wanted to find the *data* behind Tron, as
in the 3D models. I seem to remember meeting a guy who
claimed to have worked on Tron at a SIGGRAPH, and I'm sure
I must've asked him about the whereabouts of the data,
and since I recall no answer, the answer must've been
"I have no idea."
3D models can be converted and re-rendered in contemporary
software, of course. Given the power of today's hardware,
you could make a real-time TRON game today using
the original data. :-)
Another nifty trick is using the "real" 3D data to make
"real" models. I know this was done with some of the
plastic models that were created for the seaQuest TV series
a while back. The Lightwave 3D models were converted to
other formats (using software I'd written and sold) and
then converted to molds for plastic models. Similarly,
3D models can be converted to plastic or other solids
using various stereolithography techniques.
- John
8:10 a.m.
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Hans B Pufal wrote:
PDP-10 not PDP-11, Foonly is the right name. Not long
ago there was a
thread on alt.sys.pdp10 discussing the whereabouts of that particular
system. No difinitive answer emerged.
I'm the person that started the thread in alt.sys.pdp10. I'm still
looking and have one unexplored lead at this point. In the process of
searching for the whereabouts (or demise) of the Foonly F1, I've
exchanged e-mail with a lot of interesting folks from that era of
computer generated visual effects.
-brian.
16 Jan
16 Jan
3:02 a.m.
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Brian Chase wrote:
I'm the person that started the thread in
alt.sys.pdp10. I'm still
looking and have one unexplored lead at this point. In the process of
searching for the whereabouts (or demise) of the Foonly F1, I've
exchanged e-mail with a lot of interesting folks from that era of
computer generated visual effects.
Now I'm curious. "Foonly" is used as a variable name in the
"tutorial"
portion of the "Finite State Fantasies" computer comic by Rich Didday.
(See my web site for a scanned copy.) Wonder if this was a reference to
the TRON computer, or vice-versa? Or was this a geek-term like "Foo, Bar,
and Blech" already?
4:46 a.m.
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Brian Chase wrote:
There was a Foonly F1 at Symbolics Inc in Cambridge MA years back around 1984.
It had been de-activated, and someone who worked at Symbolics took me in to
see the thing, as they were thinking of selling it at the time.
I beleive some other people who worked there got the thing, and took it home.
Its probably still sitting somewhere.
I'm the person that started the thread in
alt.sys.pdp10. I'm still
looking and have one unexplored lead at this point. In the process of
searching for the whereabouts (or demise) of the Foonly F1, I've
exchanged e-mail with a lot of interesting folks from that era of
computer generated visual effects.
5:10 a.m.
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Bob Shannon wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Brian Chase wrote:
> > I'm the person that started the thread
in alt.sys.pdp10. I'm still
> > looking and have one unexplored lead at this point. In the process of
> > searching for the whereabouts (or demise) of the Foonly F1, I've
> > exchanged e-mail with a lot of interesting folks from that era of
> > computer generated visual effects.
There was a Foonly F1 at Symbolics Inc in Cambridge MA
years back
around 1984.
Well... there was only one F1 ever made. Foonly did make a couple of
other models in quantities >1, so it may have been one of those. The
system was by no means portable.
It is possible that some of the Lisp gurus at Symbolics would want a
machine like F1, but trasporting it from SoCal to the Cambridge would've
been an expensive proposition. Still, there may be another lead to
pursue there.
-brian.
6:49 a.m.
At 10:46 AM 1/16/2002 -0500, Bob Shannon wrote:
There was a Foonly F1 at Symbolics Inc in Cambridge MA
years back around 1984.
At 09:50 AM 1/16/2002 -0500, John Allain wrote:
Information International Inc.
was indeed one of the companies and July-1982 was the movie
release.
I believe some of triple-I's 3D 90s era software was fairly LISPy,
I see a thread here.
- John
24 Jan
24 Jan
4:50 a.m.
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Brian Chase wrote:
I'm the person that started the thread in
alt.sys.pdp10. I'm still
looking and have one unexplored lead at this point. In the process of
searching for the whereabouts (or demise) of the Foonly F1, I've
exchanged e-mail with a lot of interesting folks from that era of
computer generated visual effects.
Please keep us posted on your progress. It would be HIGHLY cool if you
were to track this down.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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4:46 p.m.
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Brian Chase wrote:
Even if it has been chopped to bits, It would still be so amazingly cool
to have one of the bits.
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)subatomix.com
I'm the person that started the thread in
alt.sys.pdp10. I'm still
looking and have one unexplored lead at this point. In the process of
searching for the whereabouts (or demise) of the Foonly F1, I've
exchanged e-mail with a lot of interesting folks from that era of
computer generated visual effects.
Please keep us posted on your progress. It would be HIGHLY cool if you
were to track this down. 
6:03 p.m.
Even if it has been chopped to bits, It would
still be so amazingly cool to have one of the bits.
It's been said to be with Karol Brandt.
Anybody know who that is?
(He'll probably keep the bits BTW)
But here's a nice nameplate for ya:
http://64.2.61.71/sail/foonly-logo.jpg
John A.
15 Jan
15 Jan
8:51 a.m.
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5:30 a.m.
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Bryan Pope wrote:
Dell Computer announced that it has signed on to be
the National
Football League's official computer systems provider for the upcoming
Super Bowl XXXVI.
I can see what it means in this case, but I have always chuckled when I
hear:
"<product> is the official <product-class> of the
<sports-league>!"
because most times, it doesn't seem to have meaning. What does it mean if
Pepsi is the official soft drink of the NBA? Does it mean that all NBA
players drink nothing but Pepsi? I think not.
TRON Collectors Edition on DVD was released today!!
:-D The coolest
computer animation of the 80's!
For many of us in the younger crowd of computer geeks, Tron was also very
influential in getting our interests fixated on computers as children.
Tron and Wargames were two movies that influenced me substantially.
--
Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)subatomix.com
6:55 a.m.
For many of us in the younger crowd of computer geeks, Tron was also very
influential in getting our interests fixated on computers as children.
Tron and Wargames were two movies that influenced me substantially.
At my college programming class, we had to create a Tic-tac-toe game. I added
the "hidden" feature of being able to play with zero players.... ;-)
Bryan
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