Festivus 2017 gifts to all and door prize
All those attending Festivus will receive a gift of a slide rule. We had tons of them donated so we want to say thank you to all who support us during the year. There will be a door prize of an Atari Flashback 2 machine. Evan will write a BASIC program to randomly determine the winner. He's gotten so good at writing BASIC on his Apple 2. If he is ambitious he might even write it in assembly.
Evan will write a BASIC program to randomly determine the winner.
Cue thr critics who'll say BASIC cannot do true randomness. :)
If he is ambitious he might even write it in assembly.
Fake news!! On Dec 3, 2017 6:04 PM, "Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic" < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
All those attending Festivus will receive a gift of a slide rule. We had tons of them donated so we want to say thank you to all who support us during the year.
There will be a door prize of an Atari Flashback 2 machine. Evan will write a BASIC program to randomly determine the winner. He's gotten so good at writing BASIC on his Apple 2. If he is ambitious he might even write it in assembly.
BASIC can't do true randomness! :) Hey, if you want more of a challenge, code up a wheel of fortune type thing where the program cycles through all the names, and whoever is running the contest hits a key to make the thing slow down and stop. Then the randomness comes from human interaction. On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 6:46 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Evan will write a BASIC program to randomly determine the winner.
Cue thr critics who'll say BASIC cannot do true randomness. :)
Hey, if you want more of a challenge, code up a wheel of fortune type thing where the program cycles through all the names, and whoever is running the contest hits a key to make the thing slow down and stop. Then the randomness comes from human interaction.
Depends how much free time I have this week.
All those attending Festivus will receive a gift of a slide rule. We had tons of them donated so we want to say thank you to all who support us during the year.
Adam and I have them ready: http://vcfed.org/evan/sr.jpg
How cool. Thanks! On 12/6/2017 11:52 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
All those attending Festivus will receive a gift of a slide rule. We had tons of them donated so we want to say thank you to all who support us during the year.
Adam and I have them ready: http://vcfed.org/evan/sr.jpg
I guess it's time I actually learned how to use them. On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
How cool. Thanks!
On 12/6/2017 11:52 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
All those attending Festivus will receive a gift of a slide rule. We had
tons of them donated so we want to say thank you to all who support us during the year.
Adam and I have them ready: http://vcfed.org/evan/sr.jpg
On 12/6/2017 11:52 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
All those attending Festivus will receive a gift of a slide rule. We had tons of them donated so we want to say thank you to all who support us during the year.
Adam and I have them ready: http://vcfed.org/evan/sr.jpg .
Wow, thats a large variety of different types, some of each model. I assume VCF wants to save one boxed version of each of the models? They're mostly all different, though I see a few duplicates in there. -- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu@gmail.com jgevaryahu@hotmail.com
Adam and I have them ready: http://vcfed.org/evan/sr.jpg
Wow, thats a large variety of different types, some of each model.
I assume VCF wants to save one boxed version of each of the models? They're mostly all different, though I see a few duplicates in there.
There are enough that we can give away these 50(ish) and not miss them. We don't need to save one of * each * model. For example, these 50 are all very common models from the same common manufacturer. If they were computers then it'd be different -- we save each model of Apple, Commodore, etc. -- but for sliderules it'll be fine as long as we keep a five or 10 generic common ones so we can show visitors, "This is what a typical slide rule looked like." The recently acquired collection also includes dozens/hundreds of obscure slide rules. Many of them are obscure not because they're particularly valuable or desired (among slide rule collectors...), but rather because they're slide rules designed for specific applications or are branded by companies as corporate swag. We will keep most of those if not all of them.
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Jonathan Gevaryahu