On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 9:41 PM David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I'm looking fixing the 3B1 at the next workshop. From the last workshop it seems like the hard drive has died. Since I likely will need do do a new installation Was there anything in particular on it that people liked for demos? Is their anything people like on Unix machines to use for demos? If not I'll go with standard OS & software that was on the machines and see what interesting stuff I see in the archives.
I like to show the Unix prompt and how it works because it is a command line based OS which is much different than modern GUI. I wonder though if there is something like Zork for this system or if it can be adapted. Personally I would like a better editor than the built in “ed”. Maybe there is the “vi” available? I would for some show a C program and how to compile from the command line. But is there a GUI version. And just for fun is there a BASIC interpreter or compiler available?
For the straight 8 has anyone tried to operarate it since the last workshop I was at (the one previous to the last workshop). If so was their any problems? If not would anyone doing the tours like to learn how to use it?
I had it working, but must be missing a step because I didn’t get the demo to work.
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