[vcf-midatlantic] PiDP8

[Dean Notarnicola]

Congrats! Mine is coming next week. Prepare for questions :-)


On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:16 PM william degnan via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> Got it up and running g, need to clean up wires.
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> Cool!
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> Bill Degnan
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> twitter: billdeg
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> vintagecomputer.net
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> On Dec 28, 2016 11:00 PM, "william degnan" <billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Finished skewering the switches tonight....
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> > Bill Degnan
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> > 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 <
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> >> 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>
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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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> >>> 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
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> >>> then installed the special simH Oscar made on top of that.  It boots
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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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> >>> talked about in the instructions, I wanted the whole Jessie
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> >>> so that things weren't
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> >>> 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.
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> >>> 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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> >>> --
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> >>> Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot.
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> >>> Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do.
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> >>> Normal Person: So you go surfing?
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> >>> Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a
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> >>> lot...
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> >>> Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level.
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> >>> Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?
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