[vcf-midatlantic] PiDP8

[william degnan]

Finished skewering the switches tonight....

Bill Degnan
twitter: billdeg
vintagecomputer.net
On Dec 28, 2016 8:30 PM, "william degnan" <billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
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>> Oh?!  Crap! Going to look up why.
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>> On 12/28/2016 5:05 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
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>> sorry "bulb-effect" lighting mod.
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>> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 5:05 PM, william degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com> <billdegnan at gmail.com>
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>> the RPi Zero will not support the buld-effect lighting mod.
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>> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Joseph Oprysko via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
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>> I'm a fan of the RPi 3, since it has the wifi/Bluetooth built in
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>> On Wednesday, December 28, 2016, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
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>> On 12/28/2016 1:14 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
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>> I follow in your footsteps.  My plan was get the computer working
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>> first,
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>> so
>> I know for sure what holes I need to make in the box, before I get
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>> started
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>> on it.  I used Debian Jessie, which is the latest version of Debian and
>> then installed the special simH Oscar made on top of that.  It boots
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>> into
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>> simH but you can also get into the GUI mode, has WiFi networking.
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>> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic
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>> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
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>> I did the same software setup.  Though there was a turnkey light debian
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>> version that boasted a fast boot
>> talked about in the instructions, I wanted the whole Jessie distribution
>> so that things weren't
>> missing that I have come to expect...  to avoid those "you can't get
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>> there
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>> from here" scenarios.
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>> Don't neglect the PiDP8 forum, some good experience information is
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>> posted
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>> there.
>> Noteworthy is a mod to make the lights more realistic which I want to
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>> try
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>> soon.
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>> --
>> Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot.
>> Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do.
>> Normal Person: So you go surfing?
>> Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a
>> lot...
>> Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level.
>> Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?
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