Rocksolid Light

News from da outaworlds

mail  files  register  groups  login

Message-ID:  

BOFH excuse #297: Too many interrupts

comp / comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action / Re: Centre for Computing History museum.

SubjectAuthor
* Centre for Computing History museum.JAB
`* Re: Centre for Computing History museum.Spalls Hurgenson
 `* Re: Centre for Computing History museum.JAB
  `* Re: Centre for Computing History museum.Mandrake
   `- Re: Centre for Computing History museum.JAB

1
Subject: Centre for Computing History museum.
From: JAB
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 18:48 UTC
Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: noway@nochance.com (JAB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Centre for Computing History museum.
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2024 19:48:23 +0100
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 15
Message-ID: <v4291n$2o0f6$1@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 20:48:24 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b9cea81393dc787119f93f2bbb3d6abe";
logging-data="2884070"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18FvLHaShQi7Al3wI+Ns0Pt"
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:W43qN/rjT1nh3YFmuBAUUetffaI=
Content-Language: en-GB
View all headers

We spent the last week in Cambridge and I had to of course visit while
my better half went shopping. Relatively small but I still managed to
spend over three hours there, looking at the various computers (many of
which I'd never heard of) and playing some games. So Bomber Jack on the
Specky 48k, Drop Zone on the C64, Xenon on the Atari ST (I forgot how
much I loved this game), Pong on Binatone and Centipede on an arcade
machine plus some others.

The Megaprocessor is so cool, basically take what a CPU is and then
build it from more discrete parts. So some picture of various things and
a link to the museum.

https://imgur.com/a/computers-qgrXxWW

https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/

Subject: Re: Centre for Computing History museum.
From: Spalls Hurgenson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2024 23:42 UTC
References: 1
Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!border-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2024 23:42:44 +0000
From: spallshurgenson@gmail.com (Spalls Hurgenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: Centre for Computing History museum.
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2024 19:42:44 -0400
Message-ID: <9afc6j1ff19igiiaudtla1q0pd5ovi37vl@4ax.com>
References: <v4291n$2o0f6$1@dont-email.me>
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 23
X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com
X-Trace: sv3-cudItzdHTzWAUtPA3YS17RIsf8cJssrQ89rsRQ/6xLYDP/1LUCq3SCnXVS/xqJYS2VcMxUA2L9SomlY!i9hgNMiaymu/97I737qGIBHsgxbJhAFpD4RZYuanBPG0XQKTMpVvHKDlgv5PqtyvNqCRZHo=
X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com
X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly
X-Postfilter: 1.3.40
View all headers

On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 19:48:23 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

>We spent the last week in Cambridge and I had to of course visit while
>my better half went shopping. Relatively small but I still managed to
>spend over three hours there, looking at the various computers (many of
>which I'd never heard of) and playing some games. So Bomber Jack on the
>Specky 48k, Drop Zone on the C64, Xenon on the Atari ST (I forgot how
>much I loved this game), Pong on Binatone and Centipede on an arcade
>machine plus some others.

>https://imgur.com/a/computers-qgrXxWW

>https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/

If you want a more hands-on experience (albeit smaller and more
focused on home PCs and gaming devices) there's also the RMC Cave in
Chaldford.

https://www.rmcretro.com/

Subject: Re: Centre for Computing History museum.
From: JAB
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 06:59 UTC
References: 1 2
Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: noway@nochance.com (JAB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: Centre for Computing History museum.
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 07:59:03 +0100
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 36
Message-ID: <v4687o$83ba$1@dont-email.me>
References: <v4291n$2o0f6$1@dont-email.me>
<9afc6j1ff19igiiaudtla1q0pd5ovi37vl@4ax.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 08:59:04 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="989b9aed7885aae4b87581005c13f41c";
logging-data="265578"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+8nhGLl+764sKI3P6k6CrU"
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:R18aOL+473kb6cDH+wReT4WmJQw=
Content-Language: en-GB
In-Reply-To: <9afc6j1ff19igiiaudtla1q0pd5ovi37vl@4ax.com>
View all headers

On 10/06/2024 00:42, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 19:48:23 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
>
>> We spent the last week in Cambridge and I had to of course visit while
>> my better half went shopping. Relatively small but I still managed to
>> spend over three hours there, looking at the various computers (many of
>> which I'd never heard of) and playing some games. So Bomber Jack on the
>> Specky 48k, Drop Zone on the C64, Xenon on the Atari ST (I forgot how
>> much I loved this game), Pong on Binatone and Centipede on an arcade
>> machine plus some others.
>
>
>
>> https://imgur.com/a/computers-qgrXxWW
>
>> https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/
>
> If you want a more hands-on experience (albeit smaller and more
> focused on home PCs and gaming devices) there's also the RMC Cave in
> Chaldford.
>
> https://www.rmcretro.com/
>

This one does have a lot of hands on experience (playing games) and is a
mix of home computers, dedicated games machine (arcade and consoles) and
more historic content.

They also seem to have a focus on the educational side so they have a
small lab set-up where you can try you hand at programming on BBC
micros. The Megaprocessor is part of that as it helps explain what goes
into a computer. Oh and you can play Tetris on it as well.

Subject: Re: Centre for Computing History museum.
From: Mandrake
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 04:45 UTC
References: 1 2 3
Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: prmandrake@gmail.com (Mandrake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: Centre for Computing History museum.
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 23:45:22 -0500
Lines: 37
Message-ID: <lcq332F7eqgU1@mid.individual.net>
References: <v4291n$2o0f6$1@dont-email.me>
<9afc6j1ff19igiiaudtla1q0pd5ovi37vl@4ax.com> <v4687o$83ba$1@dont-email.me>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: individual.net 8xc12SG+K4WfWuAFeXkIowURTR3b10LovueY28f39WDfIW/JnJ
Cancel-Lock: sha1:pnONTJyeAK1fHqhZskw4FXduizQ= sha256:6/F9HUJsxr5VmV4fPadst8R9b5L3O/KHdj7VE7Trsw4=
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2
In-Reply-To: <v4687o$83ba$1@dont-email.me>
View all headers

JAB wrote:
> On 10/06/2024 00:42, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>> On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 19:48:23 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We spent the last week in Cambridge and I had to of course visit while
>>> my better half went shopping. Relatively small but I still managed to
>>> spend over three hours there, looking at the various computers (many of
>>> which I'd never heard of) and playing some games. So Bomber Jack on the
>>> Specky 48k, Drop Zone on the C64, Xenon on the Atari ST (I forgot how
>>> much I loved this game), Pong on Binatone and Centipede on an arcade
>>> machine plus some others.
>>
>>
>>
>>> https://imgur.com/a/computers-qgrXxWW
>>
>>> https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/
>>
>> If you want a more hands-on experience (albeit smaller and more
>> focused on home PCs and gaming devices) there's also the RMC Cave in
>> Chaldford.
>>
>> https://www.rmcretro.com/
>>
>
> This one does have a lot of hands on experience (playing games) and is a
> mix of home computers, dedicated games machine (arcade and consoles) and
> more historic content.
>
> They also seem to have a focus on the educational side so they have a
> small lab set-up where you can try you hand at programming on BBC
> micros. The Megaprocessor is part of that as it helps explain what goes
> into a computer. Oh and you can play Tetris on it as well.

Are any of the BBC micros attached to motors?

Subject: Re: Centre for Computing History museum.
From: JAB
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 07:29 UTC
References: 1 2 3 4
Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: noway@nochance.com (JAB)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject: Re: Centre for Computing History museum.
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 08:29:47 +0100
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 40
Message-ID: <v48udb$ulbc$1@dont-email.me>
References: <v4291n$2o0f6$1@dont-email.me>
<9afc6j1ff19igiiaudtla1q0pd5ovi37vl@4ax.com> <v4687o$83ba$1@dont-email.me>
<lcq332F7eqgU1@mid.individual.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 09:29:48 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="16fad5f69d497a7559ffb18af0524dc2";
logging-data="1004908"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19DjUKrmxg5fnbVkt6W6gMJ"
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:koq9MHdsPjbGb91SRoow0fNQ0nA=
Content-Language: en-GB
In-Reply-To: <lcq332F7eqgU1@mid.individual.net>
View all headers

On 11/06/2024 05:45, Mandrake wrote:
> JAB wrote:
>> On 10/06/2024 00:42, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>> On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 19:48:23 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> We spent the last week in Cambridge and I had to of course visit while
>>>> my better half went shopping. Relatively small but I still managed to
>>>> spend over three hours there, looking at the various computers (many of
>>>> which I'd never heard of) and playing some games. So Bomber Jack on the
>>>> Specky 48k, Drop Zone on the C64, Xenon on the Atari ST (I forgot how
>>>> much I loved this game), Pong on Binatone and Centipede on an arcade
>>>> machine plus some others.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> https://imgur.com/a/computers-qgrXxWW
>>>
>>>> https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/
>>>
>>> If you want a more hands-on experience (albeit smaller and more
>>> focused on home PCs and gaming devices) there's also the RMC Cave in
>>> Chaldford.
>>>
>>> https://www.rmcretro.com/
>>>
>>
>> This one does have a lot of hands on experience (playing games) and is
>> a mix of home computers, dedicated games machine (arcade and consoles)
>> and more historic content.
>>
>> They also seem to have a focus on the educational side so they have a
>> small lab set-up where you can try you hand at programming on BBC
>> micros. The Megaprocessor is part of that as it helps explain what
>> goes into a computer. Oh and you can play Tetris on it as well.
>
> Are any of the BBC micros attached to motors?
>

Not as far as I saw.

1

rocksolid light 0.9.8
clearnet tor