23 Oct
2002
23 Oct
'02
6:59 p.m.
In the late 70s I remember seeing a tiny little ad in the back sections
of Byte for a program for Passover.
You plopped your Apple ][ down on the table next to the Charoses and
roast lamb and wine - and the damn thing stepped you thru the Seder,
songs and all.
"Daddy - why on this night do we have our computer on the dining room
table, instead of the desk? Daddy - why on this night are all our
relatives and guests dying from hunger because you can't get a disk to
read?" ;}
It was a stunning concept - and right then I began to formulate the
cynical observation that *some* people have way too much time on their
minds...
Cheers
John
23 Oct
23 Oct
7:17 p.m.
New subject: FREE: Sun equipment in Des Moines, Iowa
Greetings,
As I've long since left the hobby of collecting classic
computers to the folks here, who are much more consistent
about the whole thing, it is time to send some equipment
to a new home.
A couple years ago, I retrieved some Sun equipment from
Tom Uban in Indiana. Since I told him that I would not
ebay or sell the equipment, I am looking for a good home
for it and will give it free to someone who wants to come
to Des Moines, Iowa to retrieve it.
I do want it to go to a serious collector and would be
very upset to see it on ebay or parted out for sale.
The following is available:
Sun 3/60 w/ 16 megs ram - ready to netboot - working
Sun 3/110 w/ 16 megs ram - ready to boot off attached
200 meg scsi disk with Sunos 4.1.x
5 Sun 3/110 oem boards in 19 inch rack VME chassis
2 or 3 sets of keyboards, mice and optical mousepads
Lots of old style ethernet transceivers
2 19" Sun monochrome monitors - one tested good with
3/60
1 21" Apollo color monitor - converted to be compatible
with 3/110 - works
2 boxes of Sun manuals
Also free to a good home, I have an ISC 8001 terminal.
This is the 19" color terminal for which unix termcap
entries actually exist for some unknown reason.
It does power up, came from Microware and displays their
header information on boot and sends out data through it's
serial port. It doesn't seem to receive data however so
I suspect it needs a replacement 1488 or 1489 (can't
remember which is the receiver). In either case, the
price is right for something that is fairly rare. =-)
I may have some other fun goodies about like a couple
Apple laser printers in unknown condition and a weird old
Vector S-100 business sytem with an 8" winchester hard
disk but no software.
While I wouldn't mind selling some of this other stuff,
it's too heavy to ship so I'm just looking to lighten
the basement ballast.
Thanks,
Anthony Clifton
Des Moines, Iowa
9:13 p.m.
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, John Lawson wrote:
You plopped your Apple ][ down on the table next to
the Charoses and
roast lamb and wine - and the damn thing stepped you thru the Seder,
songs and all.
This has got to be the coolest thing I have ever heard of ;)
"Daddy - why on this night do we have our
computer on the dining room
table, instead of the desk? Daddy - why on this night are all our
relatives and guests dying from hunger because you can't get a disk to
read?" ;}
Now THAT is funny :)
It was a stunning concept - and right then I began
to formulate the
cynical observation that *some* people have way too much time on their
minds...
I wonder if anyone ever wrote a program on the Apple that wailed out the
Muslim call to prayer?
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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9:24 p.m.
At 07:14 AM 10/24/02, Sellam wrote:
I wonder if anyone ever wrote a program on the Apple
that wailed out the
Muslim call to prayer?
A friend of mine once worked in a factory in the UK where they made clocks
in the shape of minarets that not only did that 5 times a day but also had
an electro-magnetic compass on top which would light up a green LED showing
the direction of Mecca. As there were only 8 LEDs I guess the accuracy was
to within 45 degrees.
Rob
24 Oct
24 Oct
8:02 a.m.
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Rob Hamadi wrote:
A friend of mine once worked in a factory in the UK
where they made
clocks in the shape of minarets that not only did that 5 times a day but
also had an electro-magnetic compass on top which would light up a green
LED showing the direction of Mecca. As there were only 8 LEDs I guess
the accuracy was to within 45 degrees.
I've got one of those! Well, minus the digital compass. I was visiting a
very good friend a few years back and his dad had bought one, probably
because he thought it was as funny as I did. We got some serious chuckles
out of it. My friend insisted I take it with me. My parents got a kick
out of it too, so I left it at their house.
I haven't heard it in a while (it gets so annoying you just have to leave
the batteries out because it has no on/off switch), but everytime I hear
it belt out the call to prayers I have to bust out laughing.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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8:23 a.m.
I have a prayer clock that was an early product of one of the companies I
worked for. You entered your latitude and longitude and it displayed the
heading to Mecca. There were a number of pre-set alarms for each prayer
time. It had a removable floating needle compass in the top that could be
removed. They sold 10,000 or so of these I think. Pretty sophisticated, at
the time. I think it has an 8031 processor in it, although I've never taken
it apart. Has an LCD display, and Arabic writing on it (instructions, I
guess).
I informally collect clocks. If I see really neat or odd ones, I'll aquire
it. I've also built a number of clocks, all microprocessor based, but using
varying display technologies.
--John
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Subject: Re: Even stranger classic software
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Rob Hamadi wrote:
A friend of mine once worked in a factory in the UK
where they made
clocks in the shape of minarets that not only did that 5 times a day but
also had an electro-magnetic compass on top which would light up a green
LED showing the direction of Mecca. As there were only 8 LEDs I guess
the accuracy was to within 45 degrees.
I've got one of those! Well, minus the digital compass. I was visiting a
very good friend a few years back and his dad had bought one, probably
because he thought it was as funny as I did. We got some serious chuckles
out of it. My friend insisted I take it with me. My parents got a kick
out of it too, so I left it at their house.
I haven't heard it in a while (it gets so annoying you just have to leave
the batteries out because it has no on/off switch), but everytime I hear
it belt out the call to prayers I have to bust out laughing.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
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24 Oct
24 Oct
8:08 a.m.
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Doc Shipley wrote:
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
What's that?
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I wonder if anyone ever wrote a program on the Apple that wailed out the
Muslim call to prayer?
I have the Omm program somewhere, I'm sure. 
4:06 p.m.
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Doc Shipley wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> >
> > I wonder if anyone ever wrote a program on the Apple that wailed out the
> > Muslim call to prayer?
> >
>
> I have the Omm program somewhere, I'm sure.
Just a little executable that does the Buddhist Ommm. It's
ridiculuos, and very soothing. Neer tried it on anything earlier than
7.0.1
No clue where I got it.
Doc
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